Provides firsthand accounts and artwork from the Jewish people who were forced to live in Terezin, the Czechoslovakian town that was turned into a ghetto and later a transit camp by the Nazis during World War II.
In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.
Hanna, a young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, agrees to play piano for the commandant and his guests in order to keep her family alive, but she falls in love with the commandant's son in the process.
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Contains thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Holocaust, followed by two opposing opinions, arranged alphabetically by topic, with a chronology of events from January 1933 to May 1962.
the origins, events, and remarkable tales of survival
Steele, Philip
2016
Explores the history behind what led to the Holocaust, discussing the realities of life in the concentrations camps and includes eyewitness accounts of courage and survival.
Traces the history of the Holocaust, describing how the Jewish people were targeted by the Third Reich, and discussing the gas chambers, extermination camps, and other atrocities. Presented in Spanish.
A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.
