Henry Carter Hull

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust-in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps-a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories. That is, until a single...

"Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Alice Nelson provides the introductory essay for After This, a powerful collection of narratives by fourteen Holocaust survivors. Alice worked closely with local survivors and their families to present each individual's record of those terrible years stories like that of Rosa Levy, whose tale of moving to Australia after the war is one of quiet triumph.".

The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust. According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world." Non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives during World War II are designated Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust archive in Jerusalem....

Attorney Tom Byrne is hired by the United Nations to placate the family of an old man shot by security staff who suspected he was a suicide bomber, but when Byrne meets the victim's daughter, he learns the man was not so innocent after all, and he soon finds himself caught up in the last great secret of World War II and running from people who do not want it revealed.

American journalist Julia Jarmond living in Paris with her French husband Bertrand is assigned to cover the anniversary of France's notorious Vel d'Hiv round up of Jews in World War II and is shocked to discover that Bertrand's family has been concealing a disturbing secret.

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously...

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."--Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg,1933. By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5...

Relates the story of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the planning and construction of the building; to the design of the exhibits; and finally, to the participation of the first visitors.

Presents a collection of embroidered panels depicting the childhood memories of the author's mother and her survival of the Holocaust in Poland during World War Two.