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Night

 

 

 

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’s wife and frequent translator, presents this memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’ s capacity for inhumanity to man.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

 

 A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

The Boy on the Wooden Box

The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson is a powerful memoir of one of the youngest boys on Schindler’s list, and it deserves to be shared. Leon Leyson grew up in Poland as the youngest of five children. As WWII breaks out, Leyson’s ingenuity and bravery, combined with the kindness of strangers and a bit of serendipity, save his life, time and again. Leyson’s experiences and memories make for compelling reading about what it was like to suffer through the Holocaust.

After the Holocaust

After the Holocaust by Howard Greenfield tells the stories of eight young survivors of the Holocaust, focusing on their experiences after the war, and includes excerpts from interviews, and personal and archival photographs.

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany by Alex Woolf examines the principal causes and events of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime in Germany between 1918 and 1945 and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before and during this period.

Auschwitz: A History

Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher presents a concise history of Auschwitz, and describes how it became a center of the mass killing of thousands of Jews during World War Two.

Tell Them We Remember

Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach presents the story of the Holocaust and shows how it affected the lives of innocent people throughout Europe, using artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories from the collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Auschwitz Explainted to My Child

Auschwitz Explained to My Child by Annette Wieviorka. A French historian whose grandparents died in the Holocaust answers her thirteen-year-old daughter’s questions about that historic event, including Hitler’s rise to power, the establishment of ghettos and concentration camps, and the genocide of the Jews.

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust

 

In Witness: Voices from the Holocaust, Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar weave a single and compelling narrative from the first-person accounts of twenty-seven witnesses, including Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters, and child survivors. They tell stories of life under the Nazis, in the ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps, and they recount the mixed emotions that accompanied liberation and persisted in the years following the Holocaust. Their experiences reveal what it is like to live in a world where there were no clear moral options, and most choices were between bad and worse; even for those who survived, there were no happy endings. The vivid and detailed memories of these witnesses testify to the continuing impact of this human catastrophe, and their impassioned words lend immediacy to events that resonate to this day.

Life in the Hitler Youth

Life in the Hitler Youth by Jennifer Keeley discusses life among the Hitler Youth, including their ideology and activities, school and home life, and involvement in World War II.