holocaust survivors

Contains the letters of a twenty-two year correspondence between a young girl from California, Wilson, and the father of Anne Frank, Otto.

From 1943 onwards, the SS fulfilled its fantasy of bringing together over forty female musicians from all over Europe to perform in the Auschwitz Orchestra. They were directed by the brilliant violinist Alma Ros?, who owes her own survival to her close blood ties to Gustav Mahler. Eleven of the "Orchestra" are still living, and on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz they met to recall their story and to confront their unique and terrifying position in the history of the Holocaust.

A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace with her own family.

Chronicles Eva and Heinz Schloss' struggles to survive Nazi persecution during World War II, and describes how they fled with their family from Vienna to Amsterdam.

Fifteen-year-old New Yorkers Lauren and David--brought together by Lauren's art teacher, who is also David's grandmother, a former Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter, and a survivor of Auschwitz--stumble into an adventure involving an old diary in code, paintings smuggled during World War II, two kidnappings, and the Russian mafia.

In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.