Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

From a twelve-year-old stablehand on a noble estate to a fifteen-year-old shivering in a foxhole on the Eastern Front, Adam's hunger for a bigger life led him into spine-tingling adventures, mind-numbing horror, heartbreaking tears, and terrifying brushes with death. Awakening in a makeshift hospital with a shattered left leg, Adam was catapulted into a series of captures and narrow escapes from enemy forces as Europe reeled from the final destruction and horror of WWII. Never standing still, he journeyed through war-torn landscapes to find and reunite his family, and began to build a life from the ashes, until the results of a medical examination at an American Embassy in Germany changed the course of his future forever

This is the true story of Italian cyclist Gino Giovanni Bartali. Born sickly and into poverty, he nonetheless was determined to race on a bicycle. After winning his first Tour de France in 1938, he was recruited for a secret and dangerous mission to save Jewish lives.

From the age of 5, little Marcel Marceau knew he wanted to be a silent actor, just like Charlie Chaplin; when World War II intervened, he joined the Resistance, helping to save Jewish children during this dangerous time, but Marcel never forgot his dream of being a mime artist and went on to become one of the most renowned entertainers of the 20th century

Tells the story of a family in America, who, after World War II, began helping families across Europe by sending them much needed supplies.

Before she leaves for America, Aunt Rachel gives David a box full of English words to learn and then, one day, an old rocking horse appears at his door.

Hospitalized, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that, by doing so, a sick person will become healthy.

A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.

Japanese American Donnie, whose playmates insist he be the "bad guy" in their war games, calls on his reluctant father and uncle to help him get away from that role.

When she and her family are released from the Japanese American internment camp where they have spent the last three years, Mariko plants a garden to raise their spirits.

While living in a relocation camp during World War II, a young Japanese American boy receives a message of hope from his grandfather.

Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.

Offers an inspiring story about a group of Mauthausen concentration camp survivors who made a U.S. flag as a token of gratitude for their liberators.