"Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in secret classes and joine…
"Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in secret classes and joine…
Memoirs of a Jewish woman born in Szemere, Hungary in 1921. Pp. 24-57 focus on the period of the Nazi occupation. She was deported along with her mother, father, and daughter to Auschwitz. Only she survived. From Auschwitz she was sent to forced labor in a munitions factory in t…
""It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We h…
Describes the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Zone of occupation and in the GDR, commenting that the number of actual war criminals was small in proportion to those suspected of opposing the communist regime. Soon the GDR declared that it had completed the purge …
A biography of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, who sent thousands to the gas chambers and tortured hundreds more with experiments. Mengele went missing until his remains were discovered in 1985.
Filip Müller blev i 1942 deporteret til Auschwitz, hvor han som fange arbejdede i gaskamrene og krematorierne frem til 1945
Filip Muller's firsthand account of three years in the gas chambers. One of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it, Muller has written one of the key documents of the Holocaust. A very detailed description of day-to-day life, if we can call it…
"What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michael Fleming's important new book offers a definitive account of just how much the …
