holocaust survivors

The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Fourteen-year-old Slava, having miraculously survived the Holocaust, moves to Canada with her parents and sister where she struggles to adjust to the challenges of being an immigrant, a Jew, and a teenager, while at the same time dealing with her memories of the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto.

A memoir by Roma Ligocka focusing on her childhood, surviving World War II, encountering postwar anti-Semitism and communist repression, and struggling for artistic freedom.

When wealthy Chicago philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, he hires attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, and to her he reveals his Polish families history involving an abandoned child named Otto Piatek.

Holocaust child-survivor Miriam Brysk describes how she was interned in the Lida Ghetto in Belarus, then escaped with her parents and joined the Partisans in the Lipiczany Forest.

"A memoir by a young woman who travels to France to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious and irrevocable estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences"--Provided by publisher.

"Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and efforts of the survivors to begin new lives"--Provided by publisher.

"An allegorical tale about Nazi occupied Poland in which a town's residents are forced to turn over their musical instruments. A young student rescues the hurdy-gurdy of her teacher, who has presumably befallen a terrible fate, and later, a young boy finds the instrument and intends to pass it--and the importance of remembering--on to his future grandchildren"--Provided by publisher.

A portrait of a mother and child who miraculously survive two concentration camps, then, after the war, battle demons of the past including societal rejection, disbelief, and invalidation as they struggle to reenter the world of the living. It is the story of the child who decides, upon growing up, that the only career that makes sense for him in light of these years of horror is to become a rabbi.