holocaust survivors

Alicia tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.

A memoir of the life of Czech pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, a centenarian Holocauset survivor, and niece of author Franz Kafka.

The author presents the story of his father, who, when he was five years old, witnessed the massacre of his mother and siblings by a Nazi death squad in 1941, and who was eventually discovered by a Nazi-led Latvian police brigade who took him in as their mascot and described his life-long struggle to reconnect with his Jewish roots.

Presents thirty-six stories of courage, hope, faith, and family from survivors of the Holocaust, each linked with an artifact from the Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York, including a child's Torah scroll, a false passport, and a striped cap from one of the death camps.

Presents the diaries of Victor Klemperer in which he recorded the details of his life as a Jew in Hitler's Germany between 1941 and 1945, providing an account of the escalation of Nazi tyranny, some of which he was spared due to his marriage to a full-blooded Aryan.

Tells the story of Ruth Gold, whose mother, father, and brother died in a Romanian concentration camp in 1941, leaving her an orphan who was liberated three years later to wander the world, settling in Israel, then moving to Columbia with her husband, then on to America, and finally back to Transnistria where she attempted to come to terms with the tragedies of her life.

Contains twenty-eight true stories about people who were willing to risk their lives to save Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

An oral history of the Holocaust constructed from interviews with over one hundred survivors, spanning from the start of persecution in 1933 to the struggle to rebuild lives after liberation, which covers the ghettos, the camps, hiding, resistance, the death marches, and other topics.

Liberated from a German concentration camp at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.

The lives of three families, Jewish Holocaust survivors Joseph and Ester Gale, Palestinian refugees George and Mary Antoun, and former S.S. officer Friedrich Kleist and his wife Eva, become irrevocably entwined when their children, not hindered by the hatreds formed in World War II, meet and fall in love.