Holocaust Memory Project: Survivors & Victims

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. **LOG IN WITH YOUR NETWORK USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO READ ON FOLLETTSHELF**

The Nazis set up concentration and death camps in order to isolate, torture, and murder millions of men, women, and children. In AUSCHWITZ, BERGEN-BELSEN, TREBLINKA: the HOLOCAUST CAMPS, author Ann Byers details the system of camps in Europe during the Holocaust. Byers recounts the horrifying conditions suffered by camp inmates as well as their struggles for life and hope in a world gone mad. the remains of many camps still stand today to serve as a chilling reminder of the Holocaust. This book is developed from the HOLOCAUST CAMPS to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.

An easy-to-read introduction to Anne Frank's short life, authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation This is the moving life story of the young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis during World War II. Readers can follow her day-to-day life in hiding with her family, and discover the hopes and fears of a young teenager as she writes to her best friend Kitty, the name she gives to her diary. This book contains quotes from the original diary along with many original photographs and newspaper articles from that period. It is ideal for prompting class discussions and raising awareness of the Holocaust.

Anne Frank lived a life filled with the enthusiasms and hopes shared by many young women coming into adulthood.  But the times Anne lived in and wrote of in her diary made her simple life extraordinary.  In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings to life the harrowing story of one young Jewish woman's struggle to survive during a period of history which must never be forgotten.  "All libraries will want this: for classroom units studying the Holocaust, for kids reading the diary, for everyone who remembers it."  - Booklist

Meet Elie Wiesel, who after surviving Nazi concentration camp as a youth, told the stories of what happened there is his memoir, Night.
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World-renowned writer, teacher, activist, and Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. According to the Nobel Committee, ""Elie Wiesel, with his message and through his practical work in the cause of peace, is a convincing spokesman for the view of mankind and for the unlimited humanitarianism which are at all times necessary for a lasting and just peace."" This compelling ""Modern Peacemakers"" profile will help students learn why Wiesel "swore never to be silent whenever, human beings endure suffering and humiliation." **LOG IN WITH YOUR NETWORK USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO READ THIS EBOOK ON FOLLETTSHELF**

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. **LOG IN WITH YOUR NETWORK USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO READ THIS EBOOK ON FOLLETTSHELF**

For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350 letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them. Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann wished to ask. When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty. Sala's Gift is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival and love amidst history's worst nightmare.

The intimate and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps Thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann's life was changed forever when the Nazis invaded her homeland of Hungary. In excruciating and immediate detail, the author describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz and recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenaged camp inmates. Through a series of tiny but miraculous twists of fate, Elli managed to come out of the camp alive, together with her mother and her brother. Although her story is heartbreaking, Elli's enduring hope, perseverance, strength, and love throughout her ordeal make it an inspiring one as well. Readers will be moved by the intensity of Elli's spirit and will rejoice in her ability to overcome the nightmare that was her daily reality. **LOG IN WITH YOUR NETWORK USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO READ ON FOLLETTSHELF.**

"Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live . . . " Éva Heyman, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, wrote these words in her last diary entry in the spring of 1944. Soon after, she was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered more than one million people at Auschwitz. The largest of all the Nazi camps, Auschwitz was both a death camp and a forced labor camp. Author James M. Deem examines this place of unspeakable horror from the perspective of those who experienced it, from the construction of the camp to its final days.

Discusses the liberation of Europe and the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the displaced persons camps, primary source accounts from Holocaust survivors, and how those survivors started new lives in new countries.

Jews who survived the Holocaust, Hitler¿s murderous campaign to annihilate Jewry in Europe, faced many challenges as they tried to resume their lives after World War II. Some had been liberated from death camps, some had survived by going into hiding or posing as non-Jews, and some had fought in the resistance. Whatever their situation, Holocaust survivors displayed remarkable endurance and determination as they searched for loved ones, worked to establish new homes and new lives, and fought for justice against Nazi perpetrators.

Two out of every three Jews in Europe died in the Holocaust. for those who survived, life continued to be bleak after the war since they had neither homes nor families to which they could return. Author Tabatha Yeatts tells the harsh stories of those who lived through the Holocaust concentrating on the aftermath's effect on survivors. the fate of many Nazi war criminals is described as well.

Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis took it over after their invasion of Belgium in 1940. Never designated an official concentration camp by the SS and instead labeled a "reception" camp where prisoners were held until they were either released or transported, Breendonk was no less brutal. About 3,600 prisoners were held there--just over half of them survived. As one prisoner put it, "I would prefer to spend nineteen months at Buchenwald than nineteen days at Breendonk." With access to the camp and its archives and with rare photos and artwork, James M. Deem pieces together the story of the camp by telling the stories of its victims--Jews, communists, resistance fighters, and common criminals--for the first time in an English-language publication. Leon Nolis's haunting photography of the camp today accompanies the wide range of archival images. The story of Breendonk is one you will never forget.

Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trails of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and the efforts of the survivors to begin new lives.

A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

When he was a teenager in Austria, Viktor Frankl began developing logotherapy, a revolutionary form of psychotherapy based on the belief that humanity’s primary motivational force is the search for meaning. Unlike most forms of psychotherapy, logotherapy encourages patients to look to the future and live their lives fully, rather than relive the past. Then something happened that put Frankl’s philosophies to the test: He and his wife and parents were sent to a concentration camp. Frankl survived; his family did not. In his grief, Viktor turned to his work. The outcome was his magnum opus: Man’s Search for Meaning, an account of life in the camps from the point of view not only of a survivor but a psychologist. The writing of this book saved Viktor in his darkest hour and was the beginning of a new start in what was to be a long and rewarding life. Man's Search for Meaning went on to become one of the most influential books of our time. This thoroughly researched biography is a compelling account of one man’s struggles and, ultimately, his triumphant success in forging a life worth living. Author’s note, bibliography, end notes.

A book of biographies giving accounts of the experiences of eight children from different parts of occupied Europe during World War II, who were either forced to hide, to flee, to assume a new identity or were taken prisoner in a concentration camp.

This book combines the thoughts, memories, and voices of people who in one way or another were affected by the Holocaust. It presents original accounts from nine people, most of whom experienced concentration camps and survived Hitler's regime.

The atrocities of the Holocaust and its millions of Jewish victims are discussed with detail and sensitivity by author Linda Jacobs Altman. The ghettos of Eastern Europe, Hitler's plan for organized murder, life and death in the camps, and the Final Solution are addressed. The additional horrors that resulted when the Nazis realized they were losing the war, and the landing of the Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy, further demonstrate the Holocaust's significance in history.

Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on "Religion and the Terror of History." The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers. This book should "jolt us into remembrance, warning, and action."

Actual letters from a concentration camp by survivors who later settled in Eastchester, NY.

As the story of the Holocaust unfolds, author Linda Jacobs Altman focuses on the millions of non-Jewish victims and how they fit into Hitler's plans for domination. The Poles, Russians, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and other victims are discussed and their story is brought to the forefront. The history of the time and the continuation of World War II provide a backdrop.

Examines the causes, events, and legacies of the Holocaust which resulted in the extermination of six million Jews.

This book presents a wealth of firsthand accounts from survivors of all kinds--those who lived through the war in hiding, in ghettos, in camps, by escaping, or in active resistance to Nazi rule. Also covered is how many Holocaust survivors found their way through unimaginable hardship and suffering to find new lives of purpose and dignity.

"The sick lie on straw bags and are left there, with no care, until they are dead." This is part of an account by Erwin Gostner, a prisoner who survived Mauthausen concentration camp. He was one of very few survivors, because nearly six million other people died as a result of the Nazis' "Final Solution"--the mass murder of Jews and other "undesirables" that we now call the Holocaust. This book shows what happened in the labor, concentration, and death camps, including the processing of arrivals, living and working conditions, and the methods used to kill the prisoners. This book explains how some people managed to survive the appalling conditions, and why millions of others did not. Each book includes: first-hand accounts from people involved in the Holocaust; an in-depth study of a key topic mentioned in the book; detailed timeline to help place important events; and a further reading and sources section.

An account of what life was like in Europe for both Jews and non-Jews while Adolf Hitler was in power.

Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.

Escaping from one of history's most menacing empires was no easy task, yet many brave groups undertook the effort. Prisoners of war, targeted citizens, refugees, and those in concentration camps all sought their freedom from Nazi persecution.

Describes the conditions of Holocaust survivors when they were liberated as well as their struggle as they attempt to rebuild their lives.

The World Almanac Library of the Holocaust tells the story of the horrific mass murder of millions of people at the hands of the Nazis, with special emphasis on the attempted genocide against the Jewish people. Written in clear, narrative style and complemented by primary source documents and period photography, this series gives a realistic and sensitive account of the Holocaust. From the rise of Nazi anti-Semitism in Germany to the shocking atrocities committed in the concentration camps, this series attempts to explain the unexplainable-how an event as terrible as the Holocaust ever could have occurred.

This book explores the repercussions of Hitler's downfall and the world's horror at the extent of the Nazis' "Final Solution"--the mass murder of nearly six million Jews and so-called "undesirables." This book explains the ways in which the guilty were brought to justice and shows how those who survived have worked to make sure the world never forgets what happened.

Tells the story behind the diary. It begins with a portrait of the Frank family, then chronicles the events that would shatter their lives: Germany's Great Depression, Hitler's rise to power and the myriad repressive actions taken against Jewish citizens.

The anti-Semitism that had allowed the Holocaust to happen in the first place did not end with the war. Indeed, it manifested itself in more violence toward Jewish survivors, who had already endured unspeakable conditions; in restrictive immigration laws, including those of the United States, that created an enormous, desperate population of refugees; and in wide-spread resistance to the establishment of a Jewish homeland.

Take students on a tour of key places that define human history. Readers examine each site as it appears today as well as how it would have appeared at its peak. Photographs, site maps, reconstruction artwork, and comprehensive text combine to breathe life into a place, a people, and an era.

Through startling first-person narratives, a rare collection of photographs, and expert storytelling, a renowned authority traces the history of Auschwitz from World War II to the present day. In less than ten minutes all the fit men had been selected. . . . Of the more than 500 others, not one was living two days later. - Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor When they told us to undress, they made us feel like animals. The men were walking around and laughing and looking at us. I wanted the ground to open up and for me to be swallowed by it. - Lily Malnick, Auschwitz survivor By the time they took us back to the barracks at night we could barely crawl. But we needed to show that we could still walk, that we were strong enough to give one more day. - Fritzie Fritshall, Auschwitz survivor Between March 1942 and January 1945, at least 1.5 million people were systematically murdered at Auschwitz. Some were sent to their death immediately upon arrival, some were sentenced to the slower, living death of slave labor, and some were the victims of gruesome medical experiments. In the middle of Europe and in the middle of the twentieth century, ordinary people, living ordinary lives, helped to do this. How did it happen? In this extraordinary resource for young readers, Clive A. Lawton provides a look at those who helped transform an abandoned army barracks into the notorious Nazi death camp known as Auschwitz, and of the countless men, women, and children who lost their lives there. Included are many photographs from what may be the only surviving photo album from Auschwitz, an album found, in a strange twist of fate, by a prisoner escaping from another camp - who discovered within the album's pages the faces of loved ones who had perished at Auschwitz.