prisoners and prisons, german

Karolina Lanckoronska recounts her experiences teaching art history to her fellow prisoners at the notorious Ravensbr?ck concentration camp during World War II.

Records the history of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943, and tells the stories of the people who operated the camps, as well as the inmates, most of whom were gassed in what was known as Operation Reinhard.

Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a prisoner at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria in 1942, faces a moral dilemma when he is called upon to defend African-American Tuskegee airman Lincoln Scott, who has been accused of the brutal murder of a fellow prisoner.

A memoir in which Genevieve de Gaulle, the niece of General Charles de Gaulle, discusses her experiences after joining the French Underground in 1940 at the age of nineteen where she spent three years before being arrested and shipped to the Nazi death camp, Ravensbruck.

Not realizing the probable length of World War II, her English parents left Antonia Lyon-Smith behind in Brittany in 1939 at age 14.

A first-person account of a turbulent journey through war-torn Europe and Nazi concentration camps.

Provides background on the Holocaust and tells the stories of individuals who escaped from Auschwitz, Sobibor, Colditz, and occupied territories to survive the war. Includes an annotated bibliography and further reading list.