holocaust, 1933-1945

Presents a concise history of Auschwitz, and describes how it became a center of the mass killing of thousands of Jews during World War Two.

Two girls who are friends become separated in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

Jack McCall is an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after his wife's suicide. He tells of the dark memories that haunt his family and friends, spanning Rome and South Carolina, reaching back to the terrors of the Holocaust.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews during World War II.

Henry Oertelt chronicles the experiences he had while being held in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

The young daughter of a Holocaust survivor tells of the efforts she and her brothers make to try to bridge the gulf between themselves and their father that has been formed by his camp experiences.

A continuation of the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the author relates, in cartoon form, his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II. Illustrations portray Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.

After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.