warsaw (poland)

Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

Examines the persecution of the Jewish people by German leader Adolph Hitler in the mid-twentieth century, discusses his attempts to exterminate the Jews in the death camps, and looks at what happened to the Nazis responsible for the Holocaust. Includes photographs, and a selection of primary source materials.

Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.

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.

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.

Tells a story of the horrors endured by Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ending with the rescue of forty who escape through the sewers.

Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan.

The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.

A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.

A survivor of the 1944 Warsaw uprising presents a day-by-day account and discusses the circumstances leading to the fight and Stalin's refusal to help the Polish.