holocaust survivors

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Surviving in silence

a deaf boy in the Holocaust : the Harry I. Dunai story
2002
Chronicles the experiences of Izr?el Zachariah Deutsch, a deaf boy living in Czechoslovakia during World War II, focusing on the years he spent in the Nazi concentration camps.

Harry Haft

Auschwitz survivor, challenger of Rocky Marciano
2006
Chronicles the life of Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to fight other Jews in the concentration camps during World War II for the perverse entertainment of SS officers and managed to escape the camps and find freedom in America.

Echoes from the Holocaust

a memoir
1997
Personal account of the Holocaust by a woman who managed to survive at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, relating the horror of the camps at the hands of the Nazis and discusses her liberation, eventual immigration to America, and ability to find peace and happiness.

Castles burning

a child's life in war
1997

Appel is forever

a child's memoir
1999
The author describes her experiences during the Holocaust between the ages of five and nine, in Amsterdam, as a prisoner in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and eventually in the United States.

The last survivor

in search of Martin Zaidenstadt
1999
The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

Invisible walls

a German family under the Nuremberg laws
1999
The daughter of a titled German woman and a Jewish attorney describes her life as a "half-breed" in Nazi Germany.

Maus I

a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history
1986
A memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Now

2013
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.

Prisoner B-3087

2013
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

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