holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)

Tells Peter Feigl's story of running from the Nazis with his family and finally escaping to Switzerland.

Discusses the events surrounding the imprisonment and execution of millions of Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine following the war.

"A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the "banality of evil.""--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Germany during World War II, focusing on her family's efforts to hide from the Nazis by living in their neighbor's attic, and drawing on excerpts from Anne's journal to recount her family's experiences.

Tells the story of nearly one thousand young, unmarried Jewish women who boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia, on March 25, 1942, believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, but instead were sent to Auschwitz, becoming the first official Jewish transport to the Nazi concentration camp. Of those 999 innocent deportees sent to be used for slave labor, only a few would survive.

Contains 333 maps tracing each phrase of the Holocaust in chronological order.

A meditation on the significance and effects of the Holocaust for all humanity, Jews and non-Jews alike. Explores the universal moral obligation to respond to a horror of such magnitude.

Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she--and we--need to remember the past.