personal narratives

Personal wartime rememberances by fifteen European children--sons and daughters of Jews, Nazis, collaborators, and resistance fighters.

Recounts Troller's two years in Hitler's "model" ghetto and includes many of his drawings revealing the horrors of life there.

A chronicle of the German battleship's history until it was sunk in 1941.

A variety of people who lived through the Great Depression describe their memories of that time.

Gertrud Schakat Tammen, 10 years old in 1941, recounts her memories of World War II as a German national living near Russia when the fighting between Germany and Russia began.

As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.

Recounts his experiences as a young man working in Africa for Shell Oil through his time as a pilot with the RAF.

The diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp during World War II.