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Thanks to my mother

1998
After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.

We're alive and life goes on

a Theresienstadt diary
1998
Presents the diary entries of a young woman living in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, a model concentration camp designed by the Nazis to show to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.

Oskar Schindler

1996
Examines the life of the German who saved more than 1,000 Jews from death during World War II.

The diary of a young girl

the definitive editon
2010
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. Includes entries previously omitted.

Encounters with darkness

Christian victims of violence tell their stories
2001
This book tackles testimonies of the encounters of Christians with violence of various kinds. These include rape, robbery, domestic violence, ethnic violence, violence in the form of religious persecution and violence with no apparent motive.

My German question

growing up in Nazi Berlin
1998
The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Defiance

the Bielski partisans
1993

The lost childhood

a memoir
2006
The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.

The banality of goodness

the story of Giorgio Perlasca
1998
Tells the story of how Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman working in Budapest, saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II by posing as the city's official Spanish consul.

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