"Forgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity. On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with cultural and historical meaning, she begins the slow work of grieving for her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, and starts to unravel the ways that his experience continues to reverberate across generations. The journey, both inward and outward, simple...

Color photographs, maps, and historical documents trace the events of the Holocaust, from the roots of Jewish persecution in Europe and the rise of National Socialism to the Final Solution and lasting impact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

Stealing food is the only way for 16-year-old Mira to keep her little sister, Hanna, alive in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto. Mira and her sister must fight for their lives as they spend 28 dire days fighting against those hoping to send them to the concentration camps. David Safier nos sorprende con una emocionante novela sobre el levantamiento del gueto de Varsovia protagonizada por una caris̀mtica adolescente. Varsovia 1943: Mira, una chica de 16 ąos,...

From the bestselling author of Irena's War comes a gripping novel of historical fiction based on one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II-an uprising behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp. October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting...

Presents an overview of the Holocaust, in simple text with illustrations and photographs, describing how Adolf Hitler killed an estimated six million Jews during World War II.

An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own family, most notably his mother's, in order to understand more profoundly the nature of modern Jewish experience. Through his emotionally lucid...