concentration camps

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When the emperor was divine

a novel
2002
A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.

Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment

2006
Contains a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms related to prisoners of war and interned civilians from ancient times to the present.

I am a star

child of the Holocaust
1993
The author shares memories of her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp, and includes several of her original poems.

The survivor

1976
David's father refuses to believe that Hitler's rise will affect their life in Amsterdam.

The harmonica

2008
Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.

The survivor

an anatomy of life in the death camps
1980
Illustrates the will to maintain human dignity and preserve the spark of life under the most despairing conditions.

The death camps

2001
Text and photos present an overview of the six death camps used by the Nazis during the Holocaust, covering camp buildings, furnaces, daily life of prisoners and commandants, and the liberation of the camps.

The final journey

1998
During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.

Remembering Manzanar

life in a Japanese relocation camp
2002
Uses firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks to tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government-run internments camps during World War II.

The number on my grandfather's arm

1987
A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

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