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We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
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Include books by the same authorI Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Victor Klemperer · 544 pages
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
Nonna Bannister · 299 pages
Clara's War
Clara Kramer · 339 pages
*Clara's War* is a memoir by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz which tells Kramer's story of her life in Nazi occupied Poland, where she and several other Polish Jews spent 20 months hiding in a bunker beneath a house in the town of Zhovkva. The book was first published by Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) in 2008, in the United Kingdon. The first USA edition was published by Harper/Ecco on 2009.
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Helga Weiss · 248 pages
Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
Journal
Helene Berr · 303 pages
From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is an intensely moving, intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recorded words are 'Horror, horror, horror' - she and the rest of her Jewish family were sent to Auschwitz.
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
Etty Hillesum · 281 pages
Escape from Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic · 359 pages
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklos Nyiszli · 160 pages
See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15671648W
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
Michael Korenblit · 310 pages
Tells the story of two Polish teenagers, whose love survived the Nazi occupation and imprisonment at Auschwitz.
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
Willy Lindwer · 204 pages
The "unwritten" final chapter of "Anne Frank: Diary Of A Young Girl" tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never returned.
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Hidden Child Survivors of the Holocaust
R.D. Rosen · 351 pages
From the Introduction... I drafted the text of a children's story called Refugee: The True Story of a Girl, a Bear, and the Holocaust, and kept meeting periodically with Sophie to clarify events and chronology. When we got together, sometimes at a café near her apartment, I tried not to overstay my welcome, since I continued to feel that I had subtly pressured her into sharing the details of a
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt · 312 pages
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Tilar J. Mazzeo · 317 pages
A New York Post Best Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1942
Anne Frank: The Biography
Melissa Muller · 330 pages
Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Muller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Doreen Rappaport · 228 pages
"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.
Treblinka
Jean-Francois Steiner · 415 pages
"Nearly a million Jews were consumed by the ovens of Treblinka before August 2, 1943. On that day 600 prisoners armed with stolen guns and grenades attacked the Nazi guards, burned the camp, and fled into the nearby Polish forests. Of these, forty survived to bear witness to man's courage in the face of the greatest evil human history has produced."
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Richard Rhodes · 343 pages
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces," organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by sho
Born Survivors
Wendy Holden · 385 pages
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have
IBM and the Holocaust
Edwin Black · 528 pages
IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing throughout World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Hannelore Brenner · 322 pages
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children--mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies--tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all over Europe were aware of the fate that a
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen · 628 pages
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of