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. Based on the book by John Boyne.
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.
Combines a fictional narrative, in which Adam recounts his experiences and survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp, with excerpts of actual testimony from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963-65 made by Dr. Victor Capesius--who was assigned to be a "sorter" of new arrivals to the concentration camp--and historical research.
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.
The dead cannot speak for themselves, and so we can never know what they knew of the holocaust. This is a haunting series of tales, dialogues, and memories which center around the author's return to his boyhood village.
The author provides a fictional narrative based on his experiences in Nazi concentration camps while memorializing the Jews who died during World War II.
arts and crafts from the Japanese American internment camps, 1942-1946
Hirasuna, Delphine
2005
Presents over 150 artworks created in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, and describes the creation of the camps and daily life within them.
Chronicles the history of the Soviet concentration camp system--the Gulag--examining its creation, its purposes, the process of prisoner arrest and trial, daily life in the camps, and the reasons the Gulag is not a prominent topic in history.
