Item category 2: Holocaust Memorial Day Collection

This moving story is told in the form of a diary, kept by Angelika, the sister-in-law and friend of Klara, who, after her release from Auschwitz, wandered through war-ravaged Europe for two months before returning to Paris in August 1945. Gradually Klara reveals the full horror of what she experi...

This is a story about a family separated by the Holocaust and their harrowing journey back to each other. My brother's tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it's really you. Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both...

At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were selected to design, cut and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - cal...

When World War II broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowitz. This is his account of the years which followed - recalling the long journey south at the end of the war, to Italy and then to Israel, where he has to remake a...

'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz' is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.

'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz' is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp.

Set in Nazi Germany, London, Cambridge and the internment camps on, of all places, the Isle of Man, this novel begins in the 1930s, in the ghetto of Konigsberg in Germany, as the Nazi presence becomes ever more perilous. Baddiel explores themes of immigration, race and love.

What exactly constitutes 'genocide'? How prevalent have instances of genocide been throughout history? How successful have efforts to prevent genocide been? These, and other questions, are addressed in this book, a concise introduction to the study of the phenomenon of genocide. Case studies of g...

Halima Bashir was born in Sudan. She left to study medicine, & returned as her tribe's first qualified doctor. Janjaweed Arab militias began savagely assaulting her people. She treated the traumatised victims. After speaking to a Sudanese newspaper & to the UN charities, the secret police came fo...

This story takes place largely in the garden of a wealthy Jewish family in Ferrara where young Jews meet to play tennis after being forced out of the local club by Fascists. The garden becomes an island of civilization in a brutal world.