The Road to Auschwitz is the autobiography of Hedi Fried, a fifteen-year-old living in Sighet, Romania, when war breaks out in 1939. In March 1944, Hedi’s family, along with ...

While there are estimates of the number of people killed by Soviet authorities during particular episodes or campaigns, until now, no one has tried to calculate the complete ...

The authors provide two very different stories of life in Siemiatcyze, a small town located forty miles from the Treblinka death camp.

But Werber did more than survive; he helped others survive. In what is truly one of the most amazing stories to come out of the Holocaust, Jack Werber helped to save the lives ...

An American Jew's fervent sojourn to Eastern Europe in search of family history

Examines the key role of local police units in the genocide of the Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine under German occupation.

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel ...

The memoir of a survivor, "The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours" binds history and poetry together to provide a moving account of family, survival, and a young woman's adolescence ...