concentration camps

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.

Presents a dramatic account by one of the few survivors born in North Korea's infamous political prison camps, describings the brutal conditions he was forced to endure as a child, his witnessing of his family's executions, and his final, harrowing escape.

A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.

A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terez?n Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.

Presents the true story of French composer Oliver Messiaen, who was permitted to write and perform his music while a prisoner in a German POW camp during World War Two.

Describes the living conditions endured by the people taken to concentration camps during the Holocaust, as well as their chances of survival.

Provides background information on the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II, and also presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the event.

Chronicles the history of the Soviet concentration camp system--the Gulag--examining its creation, its purposes, the process of prisoner arrest and trial, daily life in the camps, and the reasons the Gulag is not a prominent topic in history.

A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.