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Kristallnacht

prelude to destruction
2007
Chronicles the events surrounding Kristallnacht, in which Nazi troops and Hitler Youth destroyed Jewish shops and neighborhoods across Germany, and examines how the rest of the world reacted to the act of terror and destruction.

The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

1999
Study of the plight of the Jews in France during World War II.

The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)

a play
1995
A play in which three itinerant actors arrive in a town that has been ravaged by a brutal Cossack raid in 1649, and the only surviving residents demand they stage a mock trial of God, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil.

Schindler's legacy

true stories of the list survivors
1994
Thirty individuals saved by Oskar Schindler tell of their personal experiences during World War II and what their lives are like today as survivors of the Holocaust.

Resistance

the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
1994
A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto tells the story of the uprising when Nazi troops came to move the Jews to Treblinka and Auschwitz.

A Cup of tears

a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
1988
On November 16, 1940, the Nazis sealed off a large section of central Warsaw and created the Jewish Ghetto for Polish Jews. Over 400,000 people were sealed off from the outside world and forced to live under terrible conditions which included a severe shortage of food. Among them was a 47-year-old Jewish teacher who kept a record of events. Part of Abraham Lewin's diary, covering the period from April 1942 to January 1943, was found hidden in a milk churn after the war and published. This book is that partial diary.

I am a star

child of the Holocaust
1993
The author shares memories of her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp, and includes several of her original poems.

The Moses of Rovno

the stirring story of Fritz Graebe, a German Christian who risked his life to lead hundreds of Jews to safety during the Holocaust
1985
On t.p.: A German Christian who risked his life to lead hundreds of Jews to safety during the Holocaust.

Never to forget

the Jews of the Holocaust
1992
An account of the Nazi destruction of six million Jews during World War II, with personal experiences of life in the ghettos and concentration camps recorded in letters, diaries, memoirs, poems, and songs.

The boys who saved the children

1981
Ben Edelbaum describes the courage and strength which held his family together during the terror of the years in the ??d? ghetto until they were separated in Auschwitz.

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