Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish "coming of age" ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl her own age who was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Sara never had the chance to celebrate her coming of age, so Laura is to learn about Sara's life and then share her Bat Mitzvah with her "twin" by speaking of her at the...

"Eva Schloss -- the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank -- recounts her experiences as Jewish refugee from persecution, a teenage prisoner of Auschwitz and Birkenau, and a resilient survivor of the horrors of the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher.

Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.

The Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Centre recently acquired a small suitcase belonging to one Hana Brady. She was born in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia in 1931 and deported to Theriesenstadt in 1942 and died in Auschwitz in 1944. She was 13. The suitcase came with no further information about Hana. Since then the Centre's director, Fumiko Ishioka made it her mission to find out more about Hana's story and has scoured the world for it. In the end,...

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...

As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.