jewish children

Text and photographs present the lives of two boys, one Jewish and one Arab, who attend school in a unique community near Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs live together in peace.

Tells the story of Ruth Kapp, a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France in 1941, who, after being separated from her family, lived out the war hidden in a Catholic convent until being reunited with her parents in the final months of the conflict.

Presents memoirs and documents by survivors, witnesses, and historians of the Holocaust, recording in particular the horrendous burdens inflicted on the children.

Jewish sculptor Zeller tells of his childhood and adolescence in Nazi Germany.

Presents excerpts from the Holocaust diaries of fifteen young people, ranging in age from twelve to twenty-two, each with an introductory essay that looks at the writer, and the historical context of the diary, with a study of the text and its relevance in the context of Holocaust history or literature. Includes a list of over fifty additional known diaries written by young people during the period.

The author, a Jewish woman who left the Soviet Union for the U.S. with her family in 1979, recalls her childhood in Kiev during the 1960s and 1970s and describes the lives of her parents and grandparents.

A group of Jewish children escaped from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation and survived by selling cigarettes.

The author shares what she remembers as a very young Jewish child posing with her mother as Christians during the Holocaust in Poland, and discusses the impact of her early experiences on her later life.