holocaust, 1939-1945

Memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. The first volume takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz.

Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust.

Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews.

A biography of the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary, published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp, made her famous all over the world.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

Explains why the Holocaust occurred in Germany during World War II, features excerpts from speeches, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials that provide insights into events, and includes photographs and opinions from historians.

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, risked her life as she helped more than four hundred Jewish children escape from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.