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A study of how and why the Holocaust occurred, presenting the author's conclusions about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, German antisemitism, and the nature of German society during the Nazi period, arguing that the German people were willing participants in the brutalization and murder of Jews.

Including a timeline and a "Words to Know" section, this volume discusses Germany and the Jewish people before the Holocaust, the rise of the Nazi Party, the Nazi government and the road to war, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the beginning of genocide.

Beginning with a timeline and a "Words to Know" section, this volume, covering "A-J," presents biographies of women and men who participated in or were affected by the Holocaust.

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

This book offers a profoundly realistic view of the Holocaust through fiction and nonfiction stories, memoirs, poems, and an excerpt from the comic book Maus II. The text contains themes that may be more appropriate for mature MG readers.

A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.

During World War II, the Germans move into Vichy, France to establish an outpost. Only young Jo knows of another outpost where a Jewish man and his Christian mother-in-law are gathering Jewish children for an escape across the border. Opposed by some of his family, watched by soldiers and collaborators, Jo intends to help in this movement.

In the dark fall of 1939, the hopes of the Polish people fade as Nazi bombers strafe the beloved city of Warsaw. Politicians debate while hundreds stand in lines at the British Embassy, desperate to flee the country before Hitler's ground forces arrive. Mac McGrath, a veteran American photographer, recorded the landslide toward war with dedication, believing that if he told the truth, the world would rise up and put a stop to Hitler's plans. Now his...

Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soliders in 1945.

"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had...