Religion, theology, and the Holocaust

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Harry Haft

Auschwitz survivor, challenger of Rocky Marciano
2006
Chronicles the life of Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to fight other Jews in the concentration camps during World War II for the perverse entertainment of SS officers and managed to escape the camps and find freedom in America.

Second generation voices

reflections by children of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators
2001
Presents the memoirs and poetry of several men and women whose parents were Holocaust survivors or perpetrators, covering such topics as visits to parents' birthplaces and death camps, faith and religion, identity and the Yiddish language, repression, and dialogue between children of survivors and children of Nazis.

Nightmares

memoirs of the years of horror under Nazi rule in Europe, 1939-1945
2003
Konrad Charmatz provides a personal account of his experiences in Poland during the Holocaust, discussing the Warsaw ghetto, the death camps, and liberation, and describing how the Holocaust was carried out not only by governments, but by individuals.

New dawn

the triumph of life after the Holocaust
2002
Traces the experiences of three young Polish Jewish women attempting to resurrect their lives in the aftermath of World War II.

War in the shadow of Auschwitz

memoirs of a Polish resistance fighter and survivor of the death camps
2001
John Wiernicki chronicles the experiences he had after he was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz.
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