Category:Holocaust Children (subject)
- Le mémorial des enfants juifs déportés de France (French children of the Holocaust / 1995, 1996
- The last witness : the child survivor of the Holocaust / (1996)
- The boys : the untold story of 732 young concentration camp survivors (1997)
- Into the arms of strangers: stories of the Kindertransport
Chronicles the events and people involved in the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi territories, and what happened after the war. Official tie-in to the Warner Brothers documentary. First hand account of the extraordinary rescue mission of 10,000 children before the outbreak of World War II. For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children, 90 percent of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. Most of the children never saw their families again. Into the Arms of Strangers recounts the remarkable story of this rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, and its dramatic impact on the lives of the children who were saved. The book is the companion to the feature-length documentary which was released in the theatres by Warner Bros. in Fall 2000. It contains stories in their own words from the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents. They recount, in harrowing detail, the effects of the Nazi's reign of terror, the horror of Kristallnacht, the agonizing decision by the parents to send their children away, the journey, the difficulties of adjustment in Britain, the outbreak of war, and the children's tragic discovery afterward that most of their parents had perished in concentration camps. The stories are heartbreaking, but also inspiring. These are the stories of those who survived with the help of others; they are stories about the strength and resolve of children; and most astonishing, these are stories not yet heard about the Holocaust.
Contents: When the bough breaks -- The 9th of November -- A light in the darkness -- Last goodbyes -- Into the arms of strangers -- A thousand kisses -- On the shoulders of children -- War and deportation -- Somewhere to belong -- None to comfort them -- Living with the past -- In memory of Sylva Avramovici Oppenheimer, 1928-1993.
- Flares of memory :
stories of childhood during the Holocaust (New York : Oxford University Press, 2001)
A collection of "over one hundred brief stories written by survivors from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and the Balkan countries ... along with "poignant recollections of American liberators who were devastated by the horrors they discovered after the fall of the Nazis."--Jacket.
Contents: Snapshots: Jewish life before the Holocaust -- The destruction of a society -- Ruthlessness as a system -- The lottery of death and life -- Disguise as a way of hiding -- The sustaining power of family love -- The virtuous and the vicious -- Desperate heroism -- Emergence into light -- The aftermath: remembering.
- [[50 children : one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
- [[Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- [[Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris
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- [[The girls of Room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt /
Author: Brenner-Wonschick, Hannelore, 1951-
- [[The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood (2007 Kurzem), biography
A survival story, a grim fairy-tale, and a psychological drama, this memoir asks provocative questions about identity, complicity, and forgiveness. When a Nazi death squad raided his Latvian village, Jewish five-year-old Alex escaped. After surviving the winter by foraging for food and stealing clothes off dead soldiers, he was discovered by a Latvian SS unit. Not knowing he was Jewish, they made him their mascot, dressing the little "corporal" in uniform and toting him from massacre to massacre. When the war ended he was sent to Australia with a family of Latvian refugees. Fearful of discovery--as either a Jew or a Nazi--Alex kept the secret of his childhood, even from his family. But he grew tormented and determined to uncover the story of his past. Shunned by a local Holocaust organization, he reached out to his son Mark for help in reclaiming his identity.--
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