holocaust, 1939-1945

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holocaust, 1939-1945

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

1999
An English translation of a 1988 French text which examines the International Committee of the Red Cross and its work during World War II on behalf of deportees and concentration camp detainees.

What we knew

terror, mass murder and everyday life in Nazi Germany : an oral history
2005
Analyzes the Nazi regime, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust through the personal testimonies of German Jews and non-Jewish Germans who maintain that much of the population were not only aware of the mass murders and the torture by the Gestapo but that intimidation and terror by the SS was rarely needed to enforce loyalty.

These I do remember

fragments from the Holocaust
1982

Simon's escape

a story of the Holocaust
2011
Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto then, when his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Includes facts about the Holocaust.

The boy in the striped pajamas

a fable
2008
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.

Rena's promise

a story of sisters in Auschwitz
1995
Tells of two sisters who survived the inhumane conditions of the Third Reich's concentration camps during World War II.

Childhood

1983
Recreates the Holocaust through the eyes of a small child experiencing the discrimination that sends his family to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp.

Eva's story

1999
Eva, her husband conscripted into the army and her children caught up in Hitler's youth movement, makes the dangerous decision to offer shelter to a young Jewish student, and their situation becomes even more perilous when they fall in love.

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