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On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women--many of them teenagers--were sent to Auschwitz. Their government...

Library bound edition distributed: Minneapolis : Rockbottom Books.

Describes some of the important events that happened in the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the birth of Israel, and the prosecution of the Nazis for war crimes.

My beautiful boy... Created in love... born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story - a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason...as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our...

"An entry in the Peter Decker-Rina Lazarus series, Rina learns the truth behind the death of her grandmother"--Provided by the publisher.

"Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish,...

During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.

Journey to Freedom is the inspiring sequel to author Stephen "Pista" Nasser's true Holocaust survival story, My Brother's Voice. Picking up where the first book ended, as he says farewell to the girl he hoped to spend his life with, Nasser is completely alone, trying to resume his life after his liberation from the Nazis. He does his best not to feel sorry for himself as he presses forward to rebuild everything that was taken from him. Battling...

Color photographs, maps, and historical documents trace the events of the Holocaust, from the roots of Jewish persecution in Europe and the rise of National Socialism to the Final Solution and lasting impact of the Holocaust.