jewish refugees

Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.

The courageous account of various Europeans who helped the Jews during World War II.

American nurse Kitty Fremont is forced to take sides in the struggle for Israeli independence when she becomes involved in the lives of Ari Ben Canaan, a freedom fighter trying to keep the British from returning the orphaned Jewish children aboard the "Exodus" to the displaced persons camp, and two of the ship's young passengers, Karen and Dov Landau.

Journalist Leslie Maitland tracks down her mother Janine's first love, a Frenchman who was separated from Janine when her German-Jewish family fled Europe from Marseille in 1942.

Karl and his sister Rosa escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Northern Ireland, where they must adapt to a very different way of life at a camp for Jewish refugees.

World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.

Recounts the voyage of 500 Jews aboard the Pentcho, a decrepit paddle steamer, from Bratislava in May 1940.

Presents the correspondence of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann and her rescuer and later husband, American soldier Kurt Klein, sent between May 16, 1945 and May 27, 1946, in which they shared stories of their childhoods, their families, their wartime experiences and emotions, and their growing love for each other.

Based on a true Second World War story, aging couple Bubbe and Zayde Mendel escape the war and help fellow refugees by feeding them porridge and teaching the Torah.