personal narratives

Describes an 11-day ordeal faced by the 17-year old sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle in 1971.

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. This book is based on the testimonies of sixty female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff.

The tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is an occasion sure to be observed around the world. But among the memorials, political speeches, and news editorials, the most pressing consideration--and often the most overlooked--is the lives and well-being of the 9/11 first responders, their families, and the victims' families over the past decade.

Henry Orenstein, a member of a Jewish family living in Poland during World War II, managed to save himself and his brothers. When they end up in a series of concentration camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking prevent them from being executed by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command, including Henrich Himmler.

Chil Rajchman survived the Holocaust working as a "barber" and "dentist" and provides the only survivor's record of Treblinka. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945 only to bear witness, his story confirms that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember.

Tells the story of how Schindler's List came into being. Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, spent his personal fortune to save 1,200 Jewish prisoners from certain death during the Holocaust. His list was made possible by a secret strategy designed by a young Polish Jew, Mietek Pemper, at the Plaszow concentration camp. Pemper's knowledge of the German language was put to use by the camp commandant and Pemper became his personal stenographer. Once Pemper gained access to classified documents he was able to pass on secret information for Schindler to compile his list. After the war, Pemper was the key witness for the prosecution of his camp commandant in 1946.