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Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to
supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact
quarantine, and perform triage.

This is a chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness-a
court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors.

Discusses the several medical advances that were achieved through unethical medical experimentation of
humans.

"Discusses Kristallnacht and includes stories from the victims, witnesses and perpetrators of the attack and
how it marked the beginning of the Holocaust."--Provided by publisher. Includes Teacher Resource.

A visual compendium of all forms of propaganda used by the Allied and Axis powers in World War II.

Recounts the Nuremburg Trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after World War II.

"Discusses the Kindertransport...and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust."--Publisher

Presents the early life of the cartoon artist and her work as a pioneering cartoon artist.

In 1938, seven-year-old Eva Schlesinger is put aboard a train filled with other Jewish children and carried
away from Nazi Germany in a little-known rescue operation called "Kindertransport."

At the end of World War II in 1945, fourteen-year-old Sophie, a German Jew who has lived with a guardian in London for seven years, wonders what will happen when she is reunited with her parents.

Traces Hitler's life from his childhood in Austria to his final days in Berlin, exploring how his promises of
prosperity and power along with anti-Semitic rhetoric allowed him to lead the nation of Germany into
World War II.

Spanning the period from 1907 to 1933, it offers a unique perspective on the rise of Hitler and the growing
influence of Nazism, and anticipates much of what was to unfold in the ensuing years.

Presents essays and primary and secondary documents that examine aspects of life in Nazi Germany.

This book is the full-length biography of the Jewish German trial lawyer Hans Litten. During a trial in 1931 of four Nazi Stormtroopers, Hans Litten grilled Adolf Hitler in a merciless three-hour cross examination forcing him into multiple contradictions and left him in a humiliating rage.

Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill-and as much deception-as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space
travel, he had a closer full of secrets that would have shocked his colleagues and millions of admirers if
they had been told during his lifetime.

A compilation of articles about Hitler's personality, the reasons for the Nazi rise to power, and Nazism in theory and practice.

A photographic record of the Nazis reflecting every aspect of the rise of their short-lived empire and its
final, cataclysmic downfall.

In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hèubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets,
recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the
German people.

This is an authentic personal report about the activities of the Halutz underground movement
during the German occupation in 1944. It describes the activities and the struggle of the Zionist
resistance

Memoir, in prose and poetry, of Murray Motke and Frances Fruma Gulkowich Berger's story of survival.

A World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many.

Examines the stories of children and teen resisters in Europe during the Holocaust.

In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis.

How occupied Denmark rose as a nation to save the Danish Jew from Nazi extermination.

An account of a Jewish family in Holand during World War II as one by one it dwindles away during the
Nazi Holocaust.

Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to
Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime.

An undercover agent during World War II describes how he sneaked into Vichy France and rescued
thousands of men and women slated to be sent to concentration camps. Includes a Teacher Resource.

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithunia, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews
during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.

In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous
assignments in the resistance movement.

Safe in Palestine during World War II, Hannah Senesh volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. She was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and
torture, and was finally executed as a spy at the age of twenty-three.

In this memoir, Margolis describes how she escaped the Vilna ghetto and her wartime activity as a member
of the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania.

In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, had one goal: to save as many Jews as possible from Nazi execution.

Traveling to France in the midst of World War II, an American journalist worked to get a select group of
artists and intellectuals out of Europe and was soon involved in helping many others.

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.

Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish nurse, hid and saved Jews during the
Holocaust.

After her grandfather commits suicide, Tamar inherits a box with a series of clues and coded messages
which leads her to another Tamar, a World War II British spy, involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland some fifty years before.

Presents an overview of non-Jews throughout Europe who tried to save Jews from persecution and
extermination by the Nazis.

As a teenager in Poland when the Nazis arrived, the author fled into the forest and joined the Bielski
Partisans, a group of disparate people all of whom had one thing in common --they were Jews trying to
survive. With tenacity, camaraderie, and a determination to staying alive and true to their Jewish values,
Essie tells us how she and her fellow partisans waged their own war against evil.

As millions were caught up in the conflict of World War II, soccer emerged as both a response to domination and a means of manipulation of those in power. Soccer under the Swastika reveals this little-known part of history, rescuing from obscurity many poignant survivor testimonies, old accounts of wartime players and the diaries of survivors and perpetrators.

Far from submitting helplessly to their horrific fate, many Jews did fight back. And far from defending
only themselves and their families, they made a substantial contribution to the European Resistance
movements which prepared the ground for the defeat of Nazism.

A book on the Jewish resistance movement

Explores the life and deeds of Oskar Schindler through introductory material on the Holocaust, and
through a collection of articles, survivor stories, and reviews of the motion picture "Schindler's List."

These and other Jewish young people took on incredible risks to fight back against the Nazis in World War
II.

Like the other boys at his school, Michael O’Shaunessey is a member of the Hitler Youth. But he has a secret. He and his parents are spies, and when they learn about a secret Nazi war mission, things get very complicated. Michael must prove his loyalty to the Nazis, even if it means losing everything that he cares about…including his own life!

This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule

In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. Based on Magda's own personal account and completed by her daughter's extensive research, this awe-inspiring story offers us incredible insight into human nature under the pressure to survive, the power of resilience, and the goodness that can shine through even in the most horrific of conditions

In making sense of the disparity between Island and mainland, Inclusion unravels the deep history of the U.S. "sabotage psychosis," dissecting why many continental Americans still believe Japan succeeded at Pearl Harbor because of the unseen hand of Japanese saboteurs. Contrary to the explanation of hysteria as the cause of the internment, Inclusion documents how a high-level plan of mass removal actually was pitched to Hawaiʻi prior to December 7, only to be rejected

The inspiring story of a little girl caught in the vortex of one of history’s great horrors. Plucked from deep rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her family’s eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport—one of the few routes to safety and survival for many children who were to lose their parents in the Holocaust.

The project of memory and the study of the Holocaust -- Genocide and the ethics of feminist scholarship -- Gender and collective memory: women and representation at Auschwitz -- Ravensbrück: the memorialization of women's suffering and survival -- Jewish memory and the emasculation of the sacred: Kristallnacht in the German landscape -- Gender and remembrance: pre-nineteenth-century Jews in European memory -- Relational narratives in survivor memory and the future of Holocaust memorialization

Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his mother took him to Budapest, Hungary, and enrolled him in a Jewish school for deaf children, where he thrived. Soon, however, the Nazi regime in Germany and the Arrow Cross fascists in Hungary destroyed Izrael's world forever. Izrael realized that by being both Jewish and deaf, he faced a double threat of being exported to the gas chambers in Poland. But at every lethal junction, he found a way to survive, first by buying and reselling pastries for extra money that later saved his life in the Budapest ghetto. Still, Izrael was close to death from starvation when he was liberated by Russian soldiers on January 18, 1945.

An "account of the courage and resourcefulness of 100 children who hid from the Nazis in occupied France, and how many of them remarkably escaped - told by one of their teachers, Sebastian Steiger

Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage. Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escape--as his mentor suspected he could--to spread word about the atrocities?

The book contains articles by some of the most prominent scholars in the field who tell the stories of women who were humiliated, tortured and murdered; their eternally etched-in-the-memory stories of struggle and survival. This collection of articles is based on two international conferences on women in the Holocaust, held in recent years at Beit Berl Academic College, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel. The editor, Esther Hertzog, is a daughter of Holocaust survivors, who never spoke about the subject at home. She discovered a feminist perspective on the Holocaust at a conference at Oxford she attended, almost by chance, seven years ago. That experience motivated her to speak with her mother and document their conversations in the article that appears herein.