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La Nuit La Nuit Elie Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie… OL14856842W
The Warsaw ghetto uprising The Warsaw ghetto uprising Elaine Landau Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis in the early 1940s, focusing on the final days of fighting prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943. OL15040398W
Angel girl Angel girl Laurie B. Friedman Herman lives in a labor camp. It is World War II, and the Nazis have made him a prisoner. He is forced to work long hours. His only food is soup made of water. Soon he loses the will to go on. Then s… OL15053572W
The holocaust The holocaust Donald L. Niewyk This volume brings together some ... important and stimulating contributions to our understanding of Nazi genocide. These readings have been selected for the purpose of acquainting students with a va… OL15443150W
Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann Ruth Sachs Biographical account of Adolf Eichmann, known as the engineer of death for his involvement with Hitler's regime during World War II. Also documents his escape, capture and punishment. OL15853924W
The Holocaust The Holocaust Marty Gitlin An examination of the Holocaust from its inception to the liberation of the concentration camps and the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere. OL15883292W
Harvest of a decade Harvest of a decade Walter Laqueur xiii, 255p OL15921545W
Children during the Holocaust Children during the Holocaust Patricia Heberer **Hard-hitting nonfiction and biographical study of the experiences of Jewish children from all walks of life. A deeply moving and insightful look into their experiences, struggles, displacement and … OL16212033W
The girl who survived The girl who survived Bronia Brandman Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with … OL16527595W
Escape Escape Allan Zullo Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates … OL16560428W
A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) Yehuda Bauer Recent history has rendered the word holocaust -- strictly defined as wholesale destruction and loss of life, especially by fire -- much more specific and horrifying: the willful devastation of the J… OL16793689W
The hidden girl The hidden girl Lola Rein Kaufman After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences. OL17735494W
E/96 E/96 Paul-Henri Rips The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood: forever. OL17915531W
The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando Rebecca Fromer Daniel Bennahmias is one of the few persons in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau to have survived the war, and the recounting of his experiences reveals details heretofore unknown about the "i… OL1810383W
Perspectives on Kristallnacht Perspectives on Kristallnacht Wil Mara "Provides comprehensive information on the persecution of Jews in Europe commencing in 1938 and its legacy"--Provided by publisher. OL1854038W
Rescuers defying the Nazis Rescuers defying the Nazis Toby Axelrod Relates the stories of courageous non-Jewish teenagers who rescued Jews from the Nazis. OL1934642W
Courageous teen resisters Courageous teen resisters Ann Byers "Examines the stories of children and teen resisters in Europe during the Holocaust, including resistance groups, unarmed resistance, armed resistance in the ghettos and camps, and partisan units"--P… OL1978646W
Life and death in the Third Reich Life and death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche "[...] Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft -- a "people's community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great projec… OL19884002W
The girl from Human Street The girl from Human Street Roger Cohen An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Tim… OL19992671W
Denial Denial Deborah E. Lipstadt This book recounts the libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt by David Irving, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier. OL20045142W
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