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The art of gaman

arts and crafts from the Japanese American internment camps, 1942-1946
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.

Gulag

a history
2003
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.

Let the celebrations begin!

1996
A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp.

A child in prison camp

1983
An account of what it was like to spend three years as a child in a Canadian internment camp because her parents were of Japanese origin.

The sunflower

on the posibilities and limits of forgiveness
1997
Presents new responses to the ethical question posed by the author in the 1976 edition of "The Sunflower" in which he tells how he, as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was called upon to offer absolution to a dying member of the SS.

A child in prison camp

1989
An account of what it was like to spend three years as a child in a Canadian internment camp because her parents were of Japanese origin.

Lovely green eyes

a novel
2002
Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov?, a Jewish Auschwitz inmate with no family left, escapes certain death by acquiring a job in a brothel, passing for Aryan and servicing the SS officers she hates.

The survivor

an anatomy of life in the death camps
1976

Aleutian sparrow

2005
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.

Hear o Israel

a story of the Warsaw Ghetto
1990
A Jewish boy describes life in the Warsaw ghetto and his family's ultimate transference to and decimation in the camp of Treblinka.

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