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Playing for time

1997
The author relates her experiences as a member of a women's orchestra in 1944, while a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Ravensbr?ck

everyday life in a women's concentration camp, 1939-45
2000
Describes life at Ravensbr?ck, the only all-female Nazi concentration camp, including the camp's structure, categories of inmates, and such aspects as sickness, punishment, cultural activities, children's experiences, and extermination. Includes illustrations by prisoners.

Inside the Vicious Heart

1985
This text tells by first hand accounts through diar- ies, letters, and photographs of the atrocities foundduring the Liberation of Concentration Camps. High- lighted topics: Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Displaced Persons, Concentration Camps.

The order of terror

the concentration camp
1997
Presents a sociological examination into the nature and structure of German concentration camps with a discussion of the uses of terror, violence, and absolute power.

The man who broke into Auschwitz

a true story of World War II
2011
Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.

Treblinka

1994
An account of the death camp built by the Nazis in Poland in 1942 and of the revolt by six hundred Jews who destroyed the camp.

A code to keep

the true story of America's longest-held civilian prisoner of war in Vietnam
1988

The boy in the striped pajamas

2009
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

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