jewish refugees

The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.

Lisa and Sol board the luxury ship St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years.

The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.

A companion volume to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, chronicling the experiences of more than two thousand Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Eleven-year-old Margit and her mother fled 1944 Czechoslovakia and the Nazis for Toronto and found freedom, kindness and friends in the Kensington Market neighborhood, but worry about intolerance and whether she'll ever see her father again.

Presents a novel based on the premise that Peter Van Pels, who lived in the annex with Anne Frank during World War II, survived the Holocaust and moved to America.

Eva, a nine-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to Manchester during the Holocaust, like almost ten thousand children also sent from Germany by their parents, and it is not until her daughter discovers some old letters in the attic that Eva is forced to confront her past.