concentration camps

Provides information about the concentration camps organized by the Nazis for Jews and other "undesirables," discussing the types of camps, discipline, and related topics, and includes accounts from people involved in the Holocaust, a time line, and a glossary.

Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews.

Presents twenty-two eyewitness accounts of events in the Nazi death camps, covering arrivals at the camps, work detail, survival and daily life, confrontation of death, the perspectives of Germans, and liberation.

Provides an account of the World War II mission undertaken by 121 select troops from the U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion in January 1945 to rescue 513 American and British prisoners, including survivors of the Bataan Death March, being held in a camp in the Philippines.

A collection of concentration camp stories originally written in Poland in the 1940s by author Tadeusz Borowski, a member of the Polish People's Army during World War II, and a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.

A study of the art of the Holocaust, featuring discussions and reproductions of sketches created by prisoners in the death camps, as well as contemporary depictions from survivors.

Presents new responses to the ethical question posed by the author in the 1976 edition of "The Sunflower" in which he tells how he, as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was called upon to offer absolution to a dying member of the SS.

A group of philosophers, critics, and writers weigh the moral issues involved in a young Jews' response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder.

A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi's during World War II.

Describes the brutal treatment of American prisoners of war who were worked as slave labor at the Berga concentration camp in eastern Germany because they were Jewish or resembled Jews, and examines why the commandants of the camp escaped justice after the war.