concentration camp inmates

Theresienstadt became the "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich so the world would think that the Nazis were treating the Jews humanely. It was controlled by the SS but run by a council of Jewish elders and presented to the Red Cross as an idyllic utopia. In reality it was a holding post for Jews being shipped to Treblinka and Auschwitz. Philipp Manes was a middle-class Berlin merchant who considered himself a German first, and then a Jew. He wrote his firsthand account of his life in Theresienstadt before his deportation to Auschwitz where he and his wife were killed.

Presents a biography of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and describes how he and his family were forced from their town in Romania and brought to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the death of his father, and how he was able to survive.

"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the event known as the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

The author reveals a first-hand account of her and her family's experiences when they and other Dutch residents on the island of Java, were captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp where they spent over three years.