persecutions

Examines the crusading movement of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and discusses the political, social, economic, and military reasons why efforts to take back the Holy Land for Christendom ultimately failed.

Alicia tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.

Recounts true stories of the Italians who risked everything to shelter and save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.

Describes how three brothers, Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski, fought back against the Nazis, saving more than one thousand Jews and establishing a hidden base deep in the forest.

The author shares the story of his father's struggle to stay alive during the Holocaust, telling of how Joseph Skakun, a yeshiva student in Poland in 1941, thwarted the Nazis by assuming a series of false identities, first as a Christian, then as a Muslim, and finally as a recruit of the Waffen SS.

Gotfryd recounts his Holocaust experiences before, during, and after World War II.