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"J?zef joins an underground movement smuggling weapons and kerosene into the Jewish ghetto in central Poland. When Germans march in, the resistance strikes, but the Germans capture J?zef making him lose more than just his freedom"--Amazon.

"The US Air Force sends Russ Eckhart, a reconnaissance pilot, on a mission over German-occupied Poland to verify rumors of a German death camp. After his plane crashes, Russ is discovered by partisans who recruit him to help with sabotage, demolition, and an assassination"--Amazon.

"A student in France, Eric unwittingly joins the French Resistance movement, printing counterpropaganda, sabotaging German vehicles, and supplying explosives to other Resistance fighters. Betrayed, Eric is arrested by the Gestapo who place him on a train bound for the infamous Himmelweg"--Amazon.

"Himmelweg burns, grenades explode, and machine guns fire as Julia, Eric, J?zef, and Russ escape. While Julia and Eric are hidden and then denounced by a Polish priest, Russ and Eric join the Red Army to fight the Nazis"--Amazon.

Barbara Cherish's upbringing under the Nazi regime was one of wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi party meant that she and her siblings lived under stress. The year she was born, 1943, her father, Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel, became commandant of Auschwitz. In researching her father's story, she found that he kept his relationship with his family and the demands of his job separate. He was found guilty of war crimes at the end of the war and executed in January 1948. At the age of six, she and her siblings were placed into foster care and she was adopted when she was thirteen She arrived in America in December 1956. Forty years later she publicly acknowledged who her birth father was and began her search for her identity.

It is a shame of America. In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives. Amazingly, the government hired famed photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others to document the expulsion--from assembling Japanese Americans at racetracks to confining them in ten camps spread across the country. Their photographs, exactly seventy-five years after the evacuation began, give an emotional, unflinching portrait of a nation concerned more about security than human rights. These photographs are more important than ever. Authors Richard Cahan and Michael Williams--noted photo historians--took a slow, careful look at each of these images as they put together a powerful history of one of America's defining moments. Their book consists of photographs that have never been seen, many of them impounded by the U.S. Army. It also uses primary source government documents to explain and place the pictures in context. And it relies on firsthand recollections of Japanese Americans survivors to offer a complete perspective. The result is one of the first visual looks at the Japanese-American internment. The story is told with brilliant pictures that help us better understand this important chapter in U.S. history.

Looks at the history of the United States during World War II, focusing on the Peart Harbor attacks, President Roosevelts executive order, and the Japanese internment camps.

Combination of personal narratives and official documents describing deportation, incarceration, death, and survival in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

A look at the causes and global effects of the World War II Nazi campaign against Jews and other groups of people, which led to millions of deaths and the creation of a Jewish homeland.

"This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II"--.