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Escape

children of the holocaust
2009
Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates and places, these stories are factual versions of their recollections.

Historical atlas of the Holocaust

1995
The history of the Holocaust as it occurred geographically.

The war within these walls

2013
Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.

Oskar Schindler

righteous gentile
2000
Presents volume three of an eight-volume series on Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Oskar Schindler played and provides information on his youth, his membership in the Nazi Party, and his role in providing jobs for Jews and the ultimate survival of over one thousand Jews he kept from the death camps.

I have lived a thousand years

growing up in the Holocaust
1998
The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Mordechai Anielewicz

hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2001
Examines the life of Mordechai Anielewicz, an activist in Poland's Jewish community who organized and led the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis during World War II as commander of the Jewish Combat Organization.

Heinrich M?ller

Gestapo chief
2001
Chronicles the life of Heinrich M?ller, head of the Nazi police organization the Gestapo, describing his activities in the Third Reich and his life after the war, and providing historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

The Holocaust

death camps
2002
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.

Nazi Germany

the face of tyranny
2000
Describes the Nazis' rise to power in Germany and their efforts to conquer Europe, as well as their full-scale war against Jews and others.

Masquerade

dancing around death in Nazi-occupied Hungary
2001
The author recounts his years lived under a fake Christian identity during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in the Second World War, including the efforts he put forth to protect his family as well as many other Jews.

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