holocaust, 1939-1945

A behind-the-scenes account of the debates, struggles, and emotions that went into the building of the United States Holocaust Museum which opened in Washington D.C. in 1993.

The author recalls her experiences coming of age in Fascist Italy during World War II as she, along with her sisters, hid in a convent where she tried to come to terms with her new life while longing to be "just a girl.".

"Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable--together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times"--Provided by publisher.

"A memoir of a young girl's childhood in wartime Romania, unlikely survival as a 'Mengele twin' subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz, and postwar journey to forgiveness"--Provided by publisher.

"Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and informthem they have one hour. One hour before the train will takethem to Auschwitz"--Provided by the publisher.

Provides a memoir of the author describing her experiences as a Polish Jew surviving the atrocities of the Holocaust. At fifteen, Mala was forced to flee to the surrounding forests of her village with her cat Malach after learning her family had been rounded up for deportation. Malach--the Hebrew name for angel--becomes Mala's family and a guardian of sorts who helps her survive near starvation, threats of capture, emigration to Germany, and the death of her family.

"[Relates] Austrian Jewish writer ... [Moriz Scheyer's] flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France ... With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an ... account of the events and experience of persecution"--Provided by publisher.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Provides a biography of Jewish Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus who became known as the Librarian of Auschwitz. Discusses her upbringing, incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her adulthood.