personal narratives

Diary of Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps survivor Ana Novac written in 1944 from June to November.

Twelve true stories of young men and women, both Jews and non-Jews, who endured the horrors of the Holocaust.

Text and black and white photographs describe the experiences of those Jewish children who were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust and survived to tell about it.

Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

U.S. Army pilot Michael J. Durant describes his harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war after his Blackhawk helicopter was shot down in Somalia in 1993.

Presents a time line and historical overview of the Vietnam War, followed by firsthand accounts of the war from American and Vietnamese soldiers. Includes a further reading list and Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence.

John McGrath, a Navy pilot who was held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi from 1967 to 1973, chronicles the experiences he had in the prison camps.

The true story of First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex, who, along with his unit, Dragon Company, helped to save a young Iraqi boy from certain death after the boy revealed valuable information concerning insurgents to the army.

The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground.

Contains interviews with 28 French men and women who lost one or both parents in the Holocaust.