concentration camps

Readers will learn of the horrors of the gas chambers, which could kill hundreds at once, the countless crematoria for burning dead bodies, and the horrific experiments of the infamous Joseph Mengele.

"Reveals the history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to China and North Korea during the Cold War, discussing thei r use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives"--OCLC.

"Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this... diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system. At the back of these exercise books there is a blurred snapshot and a note, "Chistyakov, Ivan Petrovich, repressed in 1937-38"--Jacket flap.

Learning about the history of refugees increases readers' sense of empathy for those who have been left with no choice but to flee their homes.

Set in the near-future United States, Muslim Americans are being taken to internment camps which followed book burnings, curfews, and mandatory viewing of the new president's national security addresses. Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin watches with contempt at the complicity of the community and her own parents who accept their current plight. She makes friends both within and outside the camp intent on starting a revolution that will end the violence and Islamophobia.

A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terez?Ưn Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

In Poland in the 1940s, twins Chaim and Gittel rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto, escape through forests, and the horrors of a concentration camp.

In near-future America, the US-Mexico border is closed, and all Muslims are being sent to internment camps. This environment doesn't bother sixteen-year-old Sarah-Mary who has real problems with her strict aunt and Baptist high school. One day, her younger brother Caleb comes across a Muslim fugitive named Sadaf trying escape to Canada, which prompts a journey where Sarah-Mary is forced to confront her own prejudices and intolerance.

During World War II the Allies who were a group of countries that cooperated together to oppose the Axis powers, had the mission to stop German, Japanese, and Italian aggression.

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.