Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

A survivor of Auschwitz and a member of the Hitler Youth recount their war experiences and describe how they met forty years later.

"Examines Auschwitz...and how more than 1 million people were murdered there."--Publisher

This book elucidates how the prewar ordinary town of Auschwitz became Germany's most lethal killing site step by step and in stages: a transformation wrought by human beings, mostly German and mostly male.

Twelve at the outbreak of World War II, the author recounts her struggle to survive in Auschwitz

The three documents within this book were written by SS-men from the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Liberated from Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.

"Luba," a nurse and inmate in the German concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, helped protect and care for 54 Dutch Jewish children who lost their parents to the camps.
Run Time: 50 minutes

The Nazis allow the talented young conductor, Raphael Schacter, to assemble an orchestra. Like a man
possessed, he organizes the shattered ghetto prisoners to perform Verdi's Requiem, magnificent music of death and hope, because it captures the fate of his people.

It is almost incomprehensible that music could be performed, let alone composed, in a Nazi concentration
camp. In November 1941, the Nazis converted the small Czech garrison town of Terezin into the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp.

This book is about a group of artists, creative and talented men, who fought the political brute with pens
and brushes.

A mother wrote her son a farewell letter just days before she died in Thereseinstadt concentration camp in
1942 and it mysteriously reached him in 1985 when he was seventy-nine years old.

This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.

With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end.

Within the ghettos, a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized Jews.

Here are the stories of eighteen great rabbis who, in the las century and a half, played distinguished roles in
their religion and in American society.

This brief account of my life in the Warsaw Ghetto is an extract from a larger, more definitive study of the socio-psychological forces prevalent in Jewish life during two thousand years of diaspora. It will attempt to throw some light on the causes and effects of the behavior of the Jewish masses, their leaders and their persecutors, which culminated in the holocaust of our generation.

Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairytale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her dreams apart. Sera and William rush to marry and are thrust into a world of doubt and fear as they defend charges that could separate them for life. June 1942. After surviving the Blitz bombings that left many Londoners with shattered lives, Kája Makovsky prayed for the war to end so she could return home to Prague. But despite the horrors of war, the gifted journalist never expected to see a headline screaming the extermination of Jews in work camps. Half-Jewish with her family in danger, Kája has no choice but to risk everything to get her family out of Prague. But with the clutches of evil all around, her escape plan crumbles into deportation, and Kája finds herself in a new reality as the art teacher to the children of Terezin. Bound by a story of hope and the survival of one little girl, both Sera and Kája will fight to protect all they hold dear

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing.
While this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty-three countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück, including political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, "asocials" (including Gypsies, prostitutes, and lesbians), criminals, and Jewish women (who made up about 20 percent of the population). Only 15,000 survived.