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In 1939, as the Nazi occupation grew from threat to reality, the Jewish population throughout Europe faced heart-wrenching decisions to flee and lose their homes or to go into hiding, hoping against all odds to avoid the fate of being discovered. Holocaust survivor Flory A. Van Beek faced this terrible choice, and in this poignant testament of hope she takes us on her personal journey into one of history's darkest hours.

In a memorable scene in the film Schindler's List, viewers the world over witnessed the clandestine marriage of two Jews in the Plaszow concentration camp. Those two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau. At once a tale of horror and beauty, the book is one man's memoir of a miracle: the bloom of love in the depths of a Nazi concentration camp. Full of stories and drawings depicting, among other scenes, the bombing of Krakow, Bau's brother's daring exploits...

As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.

The stories of righteous gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust are becoming better known with every passing year. Millions have seen the movie Schindler's List, about Oskar Schindler, the righteous German who saved hundreds of Jewish workers in his forced-labor factory under the noses of the Nazis. Many have heard of Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest at the end of World War Two. Here we find...

This book is the incredible tale of one girl's struggle for survival and her courageous move to America to begin life anew.

In 1958, in Linz, Austria, demonstrators interrupted a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, claiming that Anne Frank never existed. Determined to prove otherwise, Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, set out to find the Gestapo officer who arrested the Franks years before.