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The seamstress

a memoir of survival
1997
Recounts the author's experiences as a Jew in Nazi occupied Europe, her survival in a concentration camp, and post-war life in America speaking out as a Holocaust survivor.

Night

1986
A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.

Hitler's willing executioners

ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
1997
A study of how and why the Holocaust occurred, presenting the author's conclusions about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, German antisemitism, and the nature of German society during the Nazi period, arguing that the German people were willing participants in the brutalization and murder of Jews.

Mark it with a stone

1996
The author recounts his experiences as a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in Radom, Poland who survived the Holocaust, spending the years between 1939 and 1945 in the ghetto, as a slave-labor worker, and at the Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

Who was the woman who wore the hat?

2003
The author, having seen an unlabeled, solitary women's hat displayed in Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum, ponders the joys and sufferings its unknown owner might have experienced.

Kanada

2006
Jutka, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, survives the brutality of Auschwitz by dreaming of a life in Canada, but after the liberation, Jutka must decide whether she wants to follow her dreams and move to Canada to live with her last remaining relatives or start a new life with Sandor, the man she has fallen in love with, in Israel.

If I should die before I wake

1996
As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.

Edith's story

2001
Dutch Jew Edith Velmans recounts her experiences during World War II, focusing on the time she spent in hiding with a Dutch family.

Hidden history of the Kovno Ghetto

1997
Contains reproductions of photographs, paintings and drawings, diaries, reports, letters, poems, and songs that document the lives of Lithuanian Jews who were forced by the Nazis into the Kovno Ghetto during World War II, and includes essays that discuss the experiences of the people of Kovno.

The island on Bird Street

1984
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

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