personal narratives

Draws from journals, diaries, photographs, poetry, and personal testimonies of Holocaust victims, as well as documents of the Nazi regime, to provide information about the day-to-day lives of Jews and others who were persecuted by the Nazis.

On t.p.: The complete text of the film. Presents an oral history of the Holocaust.

Jacobsen's memoir focusing on the series of families that helped to hide her family from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The illustrations are collages that include the author's family photos taken during her childhood.

Includes personal accounts to describe the period in American history when Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps; also, discusses the issues and controversy surrounding the decision.

Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

Provides firsthand accounts of the war from memoirs, speeches, letters, and newspapers.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

A thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Chronicles Jason Dunham's experiences fighting in Iraq, culminating in Dunham's heroic actions when an Iraqi soldier threw a grenade at Dunham's troops.

Atul Gawande discusses the complexity of daily living in the early twenty-first century, and advocates the benefits of using checklists to prevent avoidable failures.