personal narratives

Presents the true stories of fifteen Marines who fought in the Pacific during World War II. Describes the front lines of the war, the men's return home after V-J Day, and the war's impact on their lives. Features three of the men from the HBO miniseries "The Pacific.".

Follows the real stories of twenty people through their journals and letters about their experiences in World War I, men and women from countries like Belgium, France, Great Britain, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the United States.

Presents a collection of letters, diary entries, and journals of the people who lived through World War Two in Britain.

An autobiographical journal written in 1946. Descibes her struggle to survive during World War II in the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto.

A group of Jewish children escaped from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation and survived by selling cigarettes.

The author shares what she remembers as a very young Jewish child posing with her mother as Christians during the Holocaust in Poland, and discusses the impact of her early experiences on her later life.

John Wiernicki chronicles the experiences he had after he was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz.

A collection of autobiographical essays in which men and women from China, the United States, Japan, Germany, India, Poland, and eighteen other countries recall what it was like growing up during World War II.

Recounts the childhoods of two men who were adolescents during the Second World War and became friends as adults in California: Frederic Tubach, a German, and Bernat Rosner, a Hungarian Jew whose family was murdered at Auschwitz.