personal narratives

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personal narratives

Letters from a World War II G.I.

1995
A collection of letters from Keith Wilson to his wife, describing what it was like to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II.

The last seven months of Anne Frank

1991
An account of what happened to Anne from the moment she was picked up until she died seven months later by six Jewish women who survived.

Night

1982
A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.

Zlata's diary

a child's life in Sarajevo
1994
Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.

Anne Frank remembered

the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family
1988
An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.

My secret camera

life in the Lodz ghetto
2000
Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.

The big lie

a true story
1992
The author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II.

I am a star--child of the Holocaust

1986
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

My Hiroshima

1987
Junko's story, with photographic illustrations, of her childhood in Hiroshima, growing up in a society at war, witnessing the first nuclear attack when her known world was hideously destroyed by an atomic bomb, and finding solace in the survival of her family.

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