prisoners and prisons

The author recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.

Discusses life in a Nazi concentration camp, including typical conditions in the camps, daily life, organization and implementation, extermination through labor, and surviving against all odds.

Describes the events leading to the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II, life in the camps, world war and their release.

Records the history of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943, and tells the stories of the people who operated the camps, as well as the inmates, most of whom were gassed in what was known as Operation Reinhard.

Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a prisoner at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria in 1942, faces a moral dilemma when he is called upon to defend African-American Tuskegee airman Lincoln Scott, who has been accused of the brutal murder of a fellow prisoner.

A memoir in which Genevieve de Gaulle, the niece of General Charles de Gaulle, discusses her experiences after joining the French Underground in 1940 at the age of nineteen where she spent three years before being arrested and shipped to the Nazi death camp, Ravensbruck.

Documents the experiences of prisoners of war of all nationalities during the Second World War.

Six million human beings, murdered in the name of racial purity. The Holocaust is the grisly story of how six million Jews, along with millions of other innocent people, were systematically brutalized and butchered by the Nazis.

Contains source documents and illustrations that provide information about the Japanese-American internment during World War II, covering Pearl Harbor and anti-Japanese bias, evacuation and internment, life in the camps, legal battles, and remembrance and redress. Includes critical-thinking questions.