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One generation after

1978
The dead cannot speak for themselves, and so we can never know what they knew of the holocaust. This is a haunting series of tales, dialogues, and memories which center around the author's return to his boyhood village.

The Jews of silence

a personal report on Soviet Jewry
1987

The Warsaw ghetto

a Christian's testimony
1987

Stolen years

1981
Presents a personal account of the author's experiences as a young Jewish girl living in Poland at the beginning of its occupation by Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Warsaw ghetto in photographs

206 views made in 1941
1984
A collection of 206 photographs that help document what life was like for the European Jews who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.

Elvina's mirror

2009
In 1097 Troyes, France, fourteen-year-old Elvina reaches out to a shunned family of German Jews, eventually drawing her grandfather, Bible and Talmud scholar Solomon ben Isaac, into helping her new friend's cousin Ephraim, whose memories of the Crusaders' cruelty have driven him mad.

Hitler's shadow war

the Holocaust and World War II
2002
Argues that World War II was the direct result of Hitler's racial hatred and was eventually used as a veil behind which Hitler implemented and masked his genocidal ambitions.

Bad faith

a forgotten history of family, fatherland and Vichy France
2006
Chronicles the life of Louis Draquier de Pellepoix, a Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner of Jewish Affairs", focusing on his efforts to eliminate the Jews during World War II, with information on his background, public persona, acts of violence, and the reason he was never charged for his crimes.

Hope is the last to die

a coming of age under Nazi terror
1996
Halina Birenbaum recounts the experiences she had while coming of age as a young Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto and concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Me, you

2011
A sixteen-year-old boy, on summer holiday on an island off Naples in the 1950s, becomes obsessed with a mysterious, slightly older girl who teaches him what it meant to be a Jew under German domination, and sparks him to take action against the Germans who have once against invaded the Bay of Naples--this time as tourists.

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