Holocaust biographies

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Hermann G?oring

Hitler's second-in-command
2000
Chronicles the life of the powerful member of the Nazi party who was second in command to Adolf Hitler and leader of the German Air Force during World War II.

Elie Wiesel

spokesman for remembrance
2000
Presents volume four in an eight-volume series on Holocaust Biographies and examines the role that Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, played and provides information on his youth in Romania, anti-Semitism, his survival from the concentration camps, and his work after the war as an educator and speaker on behalf of human rights around the world.

Hermann G?ring

Hitler's second-in-command
2000
Presents volume five of an eight-volume series on Holocaust Biographies and examines the role of Hermann Goring in Hitler's "final solution" and provides information on Goring's early life, his rise within the Nazi Party to become Hitler's second-in-command and head of the Luftwaffe, his capture at the end of the war, and suicide before his execution.

Joseph Goebbels

Nazi propaganda minister
2000
Relates the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his role in formulating Hitler's policy of exterminating the Jewish people.

Hans and Sophie Scholl

German resisters of the White Rose
2001
Presents volume six of an eight-volume series on Holocaust Biographies and examines the lives of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the roles they played as members of the White Rose Society, a student group that opposed Hitler and his regime.

Oskar Schindler

righteous gentile
2000
Presents volume three of an eight-volume series on Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Oskar Schindler played and provides information on his youth, his membership in the Nazi Party, and his role in providing jobs for Jews and the ultimate survival of over one thousand Jews he kept from the death camps.

Emmanuel Ringelblum

historian of the Warsaw ghetto
2001
Chronicles the life of Emmanuel Ringelblum, a Jewish historian who kept a documented history of life in the Warsaw Ghetto; covers his life from his childhood to his execution in 1944, and provides historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

Mordechai Anielewicz

hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2001
Examines the life of Mordechai Anielewicz, an activist in Poland's Jewish community who organized and led the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis during World War II as commander of the Jewish Combat Organization.

Heinrich M?ller

Gestapo chief
2001
Chronicles the life of Heinrich M?ller, head of the Nazi police organization the Gestapo, describing his activities in the Third Reich and his life after the war, and providing historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

Albert Speer

Hitler's architect
2001
Chronicles the life of Albert Speer, who acted as Adolf Hitler's architect and filled other key roles in the Nazi Party during the Second World War, describing his activities in the Third Reich and his fate after the war, and providing historical context on Germany, a time line, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

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