occupation, 1939-1945

"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's family only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has he accused the right man? Once We Were Brothers is the compelling tale of two boys and a family who struggle to survive in war-torn Poland and a young love that incredibly endures through the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for an enthralling tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit"--.

Relates how Adolf Hitler's determination to succeed helped him to overcome such obstacles as a poor education and become dictator of Germany.

In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.

Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

A group of Polish children risk their lives and narrowly escape detection by the Nazis while publishing an underground newspaper in occupied Poland.

Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Hannah, a typical American teenager, resents stories of her Jewish heritage, until a mystical Passover Seder results in her being magically transported to Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why it is important to remember the past.

Describes how three children of the Balicki family survived World War II and were reunited with their parents in the international children's village in Switzerland.