Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland, leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book, which was published under a different man's name.
Discusses the history of Poland, focusing on the rise of Communism; the formation of Solidarity, a collection of local unions; and the response of the Soviets and the Communist leaders in Warsaw to Solidarity.
Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto then, when his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Includes facts about the Holocaust.
A collection of concentration camp stories originally written in Poland in the 1940s by author Tadeusz Borowski, a member of the Polish People's Army during World War II, and a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.
A young Jewish girl living in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948 is given a diary by her foster father so she can write down what happen to her in Poland during the Holocaust.
