concentration camps

"Wachsmann offers an ... integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945"--Amazon.com.

Full-color photographs, a detailed timeline, and excerpts from primary sources offer an in-depth look at the Nazis rise to power, allowing readers to think critically about the warning signs of a society on the brink of crisis.

Examines Hitler's plan to isolate European Jews in city ghettos and describes the bleak living conditions of the inhabitants.

From 1942 to 1945, secret government trains regularly delivered civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp, the only one during World War II. Crystal City was the center of a government exchange program. During the war, hundreds of prisoners, including their children, were exchanged for ostensibly more important Americans---diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries that were behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.

On August 2, 1947, a young man got off the train in a small Swedish town to begin his life a second time. He survived the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps, and the transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now, his final challenge is to survive the survival. His story is told by his son, who tried to get close to him, using a child's joy and optimism, but who found that his father's world was darkened by the long shadows of the past.

Hitler implemented ordered the construction of thousands of camps that removed Jews from society, worked them to death, and murdered them in gas chambers.

Anatolian lovers Ali and Zeynep are separated when Ali makes his way to Canada only to be put in an internment camp when World War I starts. Meanwhile, Zeynep tries to survive the Armenien Genocide and find Ali.

Describes the experiences of inmates in the Jerome and Rohwer internment camps in Arkansas, where U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent were held during World War II.

Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.

Hailed as one of the world's greatest documentaries, this has been called the definitive film on Nazi concentration camps and a devasting record of man's humanity to man. Brings the horror of the Holocaust to the present.