Product Description: Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapes―several years' worth―with his spectacular life, triumphs, and tragedies told one last time in his baritone voice...read more

Product Description: Anne Frank's youthful optimism was a stark contrast to the terrible monstrosities of World War II. While Anne and her family hid from the world in a secret annex, she confided in her diary, nicknamed Kitty, providing the world with an inside view of what it was like to grow up fearing the wrath of Nazi Germany...read more

Product Description: Continues: A ship in the harbor. Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009.

In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America Line’s MS St. Louis, which carried more than 900 hopeful Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany. The passengers subsequently sought safe haven in the United States, but were rejected once again, and the St. Louis had to embark on an uncertain return voyage to Europe. Finally, the St. Louis passengers found refuge in four western European countries, but only the 288 passengers sent to England evaded the Nazi grip that closed upon continental Europe a year later. Over the years, the fateful voyage of the St. Louis has come to symbolize U.S. indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of World War II. Although the episode of the St. Louis is well known, the actual fates of the passengers, once they disembarked, slipped into historical obscurity. Prompted by a former passenger’s curiosity, Sarah Ogilvie and Scott Miller of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum set out in 1996 to discover what happened to each of the 937 passengers. Their investigation, spanning nine years and half the globe, took them to unexpected places and produced surprising results. Refuge Denied chronicles the unraveling of the mystery, from Los Angeles to Havana and from New York to Jerusalem. Some of the most memorable stories include the fate of a young toolmaker who survived initial selection at Auschwitz because his glasses had gone flying moments before and a Jewish child whose apprenticeship with a baker in wartime France later translated into the establishment of a successful business in the United States. Unfolding like a compelling detective thriller, Refuge Denied is a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its impact on the lives of ordinary people.

Product Description: In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans...read more

A collection of personal accounts conveys the experiences of Europeans during the Second World War, from the story of a young Jewish woman who strove to protect her baby sister to a Nazi's son who discovered a lifelong passion for the theater. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Caught in the crossfire of Nazi oppression, two people triumph in this story of courage, luck and passion during one of the darkest moments of the 20th Century. After surviving a perilous escape from the infamous death camps of Auschwitz, William Herskovic miraculously made his way across Nazi-occupied Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'This encyclopedia presents the lives and works of 128 writers whose contributions lend significant first-generation understanding to the Holocaust. Arranged by author, entries provide a biographical, bibliographical, and critical profile with emphasis on each author's experience with or response to the Holocaust and contributions to the literature. All entries offer a short list of selected works. Included are appendixes listing authors by date, country of birth, and birth name. Two useful bibliographies -- one of primary works arranged by genre and another of book-length studies of Holocaust literature -- are also included. Highly recommended for all academic and public libraries, this encyclopedia brings together representative primary and critical works of Holocaust literature.'--'The Best of the Best Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2003.Arranged by author, presents the lives and works of 128 writers whose contributions lend significant first-generation understanding to the Holocaust. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Rich Cohen, author of the acclaimed Tough Jews, again narrates a little-known episode of Jewish history, this time altering what we thought we knew about the Holocaust.Abba Kovner, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak-comrades, lovers, friends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the World War II accomplishments of a daring team of Jewish guerrillas, led by Abba Kovner and his chief lieutenants, two teenage girls, Vitka Kempner and Ruzka Korczak, their struggle in the ghetto and in the Baltic forests, their plan for revenge against the Nazis, and their efforts to build new lives for themselves as part of the new state of Israel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An account of two Jewish musicians who fell in love while playing for Frankfort's Kulturbund orchestra, which served as a haven for persecuted Jews and as a Nazi propoganda tool, describes how love maintained through the horrors of the Third Reich.

Surveys the rise of the movements in Europe and Japan that led to World War II, recounts the course of the war and the main features of the Holocaust, offers selections from primary sources, and profiles individuals and groups. (view table of contents)

Sixteen stories of survival against staggering odds revisit Auschwitz, where the women featured in this stirring book faced their darkest days and endured. Original. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Profiles 166 men and women who struggled to save Jews from German aggression during World War II, and includes brief biographies of major Nazi figures

Tells the stories of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust through the help of brave adults

Providing a look at the pain and horror of the Holocaust, an illustrated book presents the story of two Jewish children--a German girl and Czechoslovakian boy--who were victims of Nazi rule.

A sweeping narrative of the Nazis' destruction of European Jewry in this century discusses the victims, the killers, and those who saw but did nothing

Gathers drawings and sculptures by those in the Jewish ghettos and Nazi concentration camps and includes interviews with surviving artists