personal narratives

Eleven survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary recollect their childhood experiences during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution. Includes photographs of the narrators.

The author describes her experiences in Nazi concentration camps after she and her family were sent to Auschwitz when she was thirteen years old.

The author describes his childhood experiences during the massacres of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War.

Twelve at the outbreak of World War II, the author recounts her struggle to survive in Auschwitz.

What it was like to be in Vietnam, told mostly in excerpts from letters by soldiers.

Presents memoirs of soldiers, nurses, chaplains, and civilians who witnessed at first-hand both the ravages--and the rare, unexpected flashes of human compassion and even humor--of World War I.

A collection of the memoirs of sixteen Jewish Holocaust survivors.

Contains the correspondence between two girls, one an Israeli and the other a Palestinian, from August 1988 until their meeting in October 1991. Includes a brief history of their two peoples.

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.

Contains photographs and brief profiles of ninety-two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.