Product Description: Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money...read more

Product Description: “Family History of Fear has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was.” Every family has its own history. Many families carry a tragic past. Like the author’s mother, many Poles did not tell their children a complete story of their wartime exploits—of the underground Home Army, the tragedy of the Warsaw Uprising, the civil war against the Communists...read more

Product Description: My father's personality was shaped by his struggle to survive, and his soul was tortured because he could have tried to save his family, but he did not. But there were ways to avenge their deaths. As a partisan and member of the UB, he followed his drive to pay back the Nazis and their collaborators...read more

Product Description: In this gripping memoir, Lederman tells her story of survival during one of the most horrific episodes in history. Beginning with Lederman as a young girl in Poland in 1941, Sheva's Promise traces her experience in a Nazi ghetto with her mother and sister...read more

Product Description: I was brave, but without Mama I would die alone. She in turn was afraid that I would die of cold an....

Product Description: Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the extraordinary story of how he survived the HolocaustSam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength, and his determination not to die all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary story...read more

Product Description: Józef Hen's memoir is about growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw during the 1920s and 1930s, up through the first few months of the German occupation. Nowolipie Street, where Hen lived as a child and young adult, is both the happy background and the source material for his narration...read more

Product Description: This book describes the surprising, lifelong relationship between Pope John Paul II and his Jewish friend, Jerzy Kluger. Their friendship played a role in shaping Karol Wojtyla s early views toward the Jewish people, and his later efforts, as pope, to overcome the legacy of anti-Semitism...read more

Product Description: Think of it as a game, Jack.Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis.Caught up in Hitlers Final Solution to annihilate Europes Jews, fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps...read more

Luna Kaufman and her mother were the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. Today, she is a tireless champion of Jewish-Christian understanding, having been inspired by Sister Rose Thering, a Catholic nun who led the fight to eliminate anti-Semitism from school textbooks. Luna Kaufman teaches the truest and most profound meaning of forgiveness and reconciliation despite experiencing circumstances unimaginable to most people. The key to Luna's Life is, indeed, life!

This is the compelling story of a young girl from Poland who escaped to Russia by retreating with the Soviet Army ahead of the German invasion during World War II and spent the war years in Central Asia in the Soviet Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Her experiences growing up as a teenager in these difficult circumstances are vividly described. The story continues with her immigration to the United States and her perseverance to assimilate, learn to speak English, complete her education and become a Registered Nurse. The author goes on with a delightful account of how she met and married her husband while both were in school and relates amusing details on raising a family while following her husband, a Regular Army Medical Officer, from one assignment to another. The memoir concludes with the author eventually going back to school to obtain a Master's degree and develop her own career.

Product Description: This book is a chronicle of vanishing worlds, yet worlds comprising a story worth telling. It conveys the impact of the most burning European and American issues of the twentieth century. This book encompasses the world of pre-war Polish Jewry, particularly the socialist and Yiddishist world of the Bund, the Jewish socialist party born in Tsarist Russia, and then striking firm roots in independent post- World-War Poland...read more

Product Description: Born in Warsaw in 1917, Sol entered his family's fur business. During the war, trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, he met his childhood sweetheart Gittel. Their lives were intertwined throughout the war as both went from concentration camp to concentration camp...read more

Product Description: An extremely moving drama of the Holocaust years.