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A translation of the diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a 14 year-old Jewish girl, that describes her life in Poland's Lodz ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944.

The author uses forensic evidence, eyewitness accounts, and archival materials to describe the stories of the Jewish Holocaust victims that suffered deathly fates and were discovered buried in mass graves throughout the Ukraine.

Presents the complete text of the film "Shoah" in which the Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear fifty years after World War II.

When the tolerant culture of Spain is shattered by the Inquisition, Isabel feels safe because of her Catholic upbringing and father's position as a respected doctor, until he is arrested for the family's secret Jewish heritage.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Holocaust, discussing how it affected every country in Europe, how it was rooted in events which date back to the Middle Ages, why it was allowed to go on for so long, and other related topics.

Tells the story of the World War II incident in which nearly eight hundred Romanian Jews were killed when the decrepit cattle barge on which the refugees were traveling was destroyed by a Soviet submarine after being denied entry into British-controlled Palestine and expelled from Turkish waters, and discusses attempts in 2000 to locate the "Struma" at the bottom of the Black Sea.

An army of malcontents and right-wing extremists is growing in Germany. Signs of party abuses are re-occuring today. Will history be allowed to repeat itself?.

Steeped in rivers of Jewish blood and tears, this book is a triumph of the spirit for it reveals that the tortured and murdered Jews were not passive, inert and resigned victims of fate, but rather men, women and children full of the verve and courage of life. In their lives and in their deaths they rose to a transcendent level of heroism and supreme self-sacrifice.

Discusses how the Jews of Denmark escaped the Nazis.