Schindler’s List
by Thomas Keneally In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser and heavy drinker who enjoyed the good life, yet to...
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by John Boyne When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to...
View ArticleThe Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart (Translation) Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a...
View ArticleBreckinridge Long bio based on Long’s personal dairies
By Neil Rolde With the Holocaust now having embedded itself deeply into the world’s conscience, interest in that period from the early 1930s when Hitler took power through to World War II and its...
View ArticleHolocaust history, as told to students by a survivor
Schwartz endured in a concentration camp a few other teens evaded capture, like Hurbert Kurterer who wrote My Tainted Blood. Many tried to flee to the USA but were stopped by Breckenridge Long. This...
View ArticleMemoir: All But My Life author talks about the holocaust
“I love this country. I love it with the love that only one who has been hungry and homeless for as long as I have been.” – Gerda Weissmann Klein From a PBS interview: GERDA WEISSMANN KLEIN, Holocaust...
View ArticleBotso – WWII prisoner persecuted under the Soviets and Germans survives with...
From Maine Insights: Botso: The Teacher From Tbilisi had its worldwide premiere during the 16th Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) and was overwhelming voted the winner of the Audience Choice for...
View ArticleMarie Jalowicz Simon: the Jewish woman who hid from Nazis in Berlin
The following article in the Guardian is here. Marie Jalowicz Simon was one of 1,700 ‘U-boats’, German Jews who survived the war submerged below the surface of daily life. Now she has told all in a...
View ArticleSurvivors return to Auschwitz to celebrate 70 year liberation anniversary
Hundreds of survivors returned to the Holocaust’s infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz, to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. World leaders, including the presidents of Germany and...
View ArticleSurvival in Auschwitz
Survival In AuschwitzPrimo Levi’s Survival In Auschwtz is a classic piece of Holocaust survivor literature. Survival In Auschwitz is Primo Levi’s memoir which chronicles his time as a member of the...
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