holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)

A brief biography in graphics of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazi's in a secret room in Amsterdam during World War II, and who had kept track of her very short life in a diary before she and her family were discovered.

"[Relates] Austrian Jewish writer ... [Moriz Scheyer's] flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France ... With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an ... account of the events and experience of persecution"--Provided by publisher.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Relates the experiences of photographer Wilhelm Brasse who was sent to Auschwitz to record the camp's atrocities, faked documents for prisoners, smuggled photos to the outside world, and, when the war ended, refused to destroy his records.

Presents the personal narratives of Gustav Kleinmann and his son Fritz, two Holocaust survivors. The authors' primary source is Gustavs' concentration camp diary written between October 1939 and July 1945, and supplemented by a memoir written by Fritz in 1997 and interviews with surviving members of the family.

Presents facts about the Holocaust, covering such topics as Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, and modern instances of genocide.

"Miep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family"-- Provided by publisher.