concentration camps

Ten-year-old Lazorek Hershenfi survived the Nazis and the death camps. Eventually he began a new life in Palestine, taking the name of Eliezer Ayalon. Like other survivors, he shares his story so that the events of the Holocaust may never be repeated.

Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.

Set in Poland during World War II. Inoocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets and young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.

The Holocaust's atrocities and losses are foremost in most people's minds, but this volume highlights the Jews who summoned the courage to stand up and fight. This compelling volume gives a history leading up to Holocaust and the terror inflicted by the Nazis during World War II.

Aleksandr Shozhenitsyn recounts four decades of oppression in the Soviet Union, describing how the government tried to control every aspect of Russian society.

The primary-source images, firsthand accounts, meticulous timeline, and transcripts of speeches and testimony associated with the Nuremberg Trials and the Nazi crimes they prosecuted are found here, grounding the horror in undeniable, irrefutable reality. Taken together, they help ensure for a new generation that the Holocaust will never be forgotten.

"This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II"--.

"Wachsmann offers an ... integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945"--Amazon.com.

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.

Focuses on discrimination against Japanese Americans, relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II, and camp conditions.