personal narratives

The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.

Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Presents the memoirs of a Dutch woman in which she tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her family's activities in the anti-Nazi underground.

An account of the Polish resistance partisans who attacked German outposts, derailed trains, etc.

Presents the accounts of six American security operators who fought against terrorists who attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and CIA station in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Uses a detailed letter written by Union lieutenant Frank A. Haskell to his brother in July 1863 and further eyewitness accounts by Union and Confederate soldiers to frame several of the engagements in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Discusses the disasters that struck Japan in 2011, including a major earthquake followed by a tsunami that caused an accident in a nuclear power plant, and recounts stories of some of the survivors.

Reveals Monika Herwig's attempt to cope with the legacy of her father, Amon Goeth, who was the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp during World War II and details her meeting with Helen Jonas, a woman who was Goeth's prisoner and servant.

Provides firsthand accounts and artwork from the Jewish people who were forced to live in Terezin, the Czechoslovakian town that was turned into a ghetto and later a transit camp by the Nazis during World War II.