"The Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and her feelings in her diary for the next two years. Cut off from the outside world, she and her family faced hunger, boredom, claustrophobia at living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat...

When the Holocaust descended on Poland, two young Jews fought back-and fell in love   Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle's shoes. She was unimpressed. When the Nazis invaded eastern Poland in 1941, both Jack (in the town of Mir) and Rochelle (in the town of Stolpce) witnessed the horrors of ghettoization, forced labor, and mass killings that decimated their families....

Examines the political and social forces that fueled anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s. Includes an historical recreation of the conference at Wannsee in Berlin January 2, 1942, where Nazi leaders formulated their plans for the world-wide eradication of the Jewish people. Includes interviews with scholars Yehuda Bauer, Eberhard J�ackel, Joseph Michman, and Gabri�el Bach.

The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

"A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of...