personal narratives

On t.p.: The Vietnam War and its aftermath in the words of Americans and Southeast Asians.

The author relates her experiences as a member of a women's orchestra in 1944, while a prisoner at Birkenau concentration camp.

Recounts the author's refusal to serve in the armed forces in World War I and the price he paid for that noncompliance.

The real diary of Nadja Halilbegovich, a twelve-year-old in Sarajevo, written during the siege of her city from 1992 to 1995. Discusses the everyday struggle of her community as they tried to live normal lives while forced to scrounge for basic necessities and safety. The diary includes her childhood journal, her artwork, photographs from the war, as well as comments from the author looking back as a young woman.

Presents the words of young people between the ages of eleven and eighteen in which they share what it is like to live in the midst of the upheaval and violence of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Dutch Jew Edith Velmans recounts her experiences during World War II, focusing on the time she spent in hiding with a Dutch family.

Perel recounts his experiences as a young Jewish boy who joins the Hitler Youth under an assumed name in order to escape the Holocaust of World War II.

The author tells about her life after she and her parents were liberated from the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and emigrated to the United States.

The story of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village from 1930-1949 is supplemented with paintings and drawings.

An anthology of twenty-three diaries written during the Holocaust by children, some of whom were later murdered by the Nazis.