atrocities

Memoir of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide" and successfully got it recognized in international law, about his youth growing up a Polish Jew, evading the Nazis in World War II, and his education and peace-keeping work in America.

While balancing between life and death, an elderly woman remembers the terrors she faced during World War II, and the events that changed her life after the liberation. Scott lives in Brighton, NY, and teaches at UR.

Discusses the Turkish government's, and the international community's, reluctance to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide that began in 1915, and chronicles the history of the denial of the massacres and battles between Turkey's lobbyists and Armenian-American activists over congressional genocide resolutions.

Examines what factors led to the drastic shift in the treatment Japanese soldiers gave to Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians during World War II, explaining what caused Japanese soldiers, who had treated their prisoners with respect and civility, to begin engaging in mass murder, rape, and cannibalization of their enemies.

Discusses life in a Nazi concentration camp, including typical conditions in the camps, daily life, organization and implementation, extermination through labor, and surviving against all odds.

The senior U.S. senator from Connecticut provides an insider's glimpse of the Nuremberg trials, based on the letters of his father, a prosecutor at the trials, to his mother, offering important insights into the daily events in the courtroom.

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. This book is based on the testimonies of sixty female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff.