personal narratives

A collection of diaries written by Jewish young people during the Holocaust.

Explores the reasons behind the Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s, looking at the impact of Stalin's forced collectivization and seizure of food, which resulted in the starvation of nearly seven million people.

Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War II.

Based upon the notes, journals, letters, photographs, and interviews of veterans and survivors of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division of World War II, the author reveals the untold stories about the real Band of Brothers.

Twenty-two Vietnam veterans from America, Asia, and Russia share their experiences and discuss how the war affected their lives and communities.

Ryan Conklin recounts his experiences serving as a turret gunner with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles in Tikrit, Iraq, revealing what day-to-day life is like for soldiers in the Middle East.

Dana Canedy shares the story of her relationship with her husband, Charles Monroe King, who was killed in Iraq on October 14, 2006, and includes selections from the two-hundred-page journal he wrote for his infant son after learning he was going to be deployed to Iraq.

Chronicles the events of an April 2004 surprise attack on American troops in Sadr City, Iraq; and provides personal accounts of soldiers in battle and their families and friends waiting for news at home.

Jurgen Herbst offers an account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948.

Presents the notebooks of Dawid Sierakowiak, kept between June 28, 1939, shortly before his fifteenth birthday, and April 15, 1943, a few months before his death, telling what life was like for the Jews who were forced to live in the sealed Lodz Ghetto in Poland during World War II.