personal narratives, jewish

Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

Laura Blumenfeld chronicles her own desire for revenge against the terrorist who shot her father more than ten years ago and recounts the stories and methods of avengers worldwide.

Presents new responses to the ethical question posed by the author in the 1976 edition of "The Sunflower" in which he tells how he, as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was called upon to offer absolution to a dying member of the SS.

A group of philosophers, critics, and writers weigh the moral issues involved in a young Jews' response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder.

Contains three works of Holocaust literature, including "Night," an account of the author's experiences as a boy at Auschwitz; "Dawn," a short novel about a young Palestinian terrorist who spends the night waiting to execute a British prisoner; and "The Accident," the story of a Holocaust survivor who must choose whether to live or die after being hit by a car.

Tells the story of a Jewish man who, as a prisoner, was called to the bedside of a dying German soldier who wanted to confess a horrible crime he committed against the Jews and receive forgiveness from one of their race. The prisoner's refusal to absolve the young soldier sets the stage for a series of essays in which a variety of eminent people give their opinions on the moral dilemma posed by the story.

Theresienstadt became the "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich so the world would think that the Nazis were treating the Jews humanely. It was controlled by the SS but run by a council of Jewish elders and presented to the Red Cross as an idyllic utopia. In reality it was a holding post for Jews being shipped to Treblinka and Auschwitz. Philipp Manes was a middle-class Berlin merchant who considered himself a German first, and then a Jew. He wrote his firsthand account of his life in Theresienstadt before his deportation to Auschwitz where he and his wife were killed.

A first person, terrifying, true account of the Holocaust, narrated by the author who experienced this tragedy as a young adolescent and who went on to have a long and distinguished career as a novelist, playwright, essayist and human-rights activist.