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Comfort woman

a Filipina's story of prostitution and slavery under the Japanese military
1999
Maria Rosa Henson tells the story of her experiences as a teenager who was forced into service as a "comfort woman"--a sexual slave for Japanese troops employed in the Philippines during World War II.

By trust betrayed

patients, physicians, and the license to kill in the Third Reich
1995
A study of the systematic murder of physically and mentally disabled people in the Third Reich based on captured Nazi documents, transcripts of testimony of the doctors and other participants in the killing program, and personal interviews.

Surrender and survival

the experience of American POWs in the Pacific, 1941-1945
1985

The Holocaust

in memory of millions
1994
Originating from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Cronkite examines the history of the Jewish Holocaust in World War II. (90 min.).

The diary of Mary Berg

growing up in the Warsaw ghetto
2007
Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

Occupation, Nazi-hunter

the continuing search for the perpetrators of the Holocaust
1994
The story of Efraim Zuroff who found information on over 1700 suspected Nazi war criminals during his career as a researcher for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations and as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The rape of Kuwait

the true story of Iraqi atrocities against a civilian population
1991

Remembering

voices of the Holocaust : a new history in the words of the men and women who survived
2007
Over one hundred contributors provide an oral history of the Holocaust. Describes how life changed, including the rise of emigration and the creation of the ghettos. Also discusses how individuals tried to rebuild their lives after the fall of the Nazi regime.

The reader

a novel
1997

Treblinka

1994
An account of the death camp built by the Nazis in Poland in 1942 and of the revolt by six hundred Jews who destroyed the camp.

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