Diese universelle, wahre Geschichte über innere Stärke, Einfallsreichtum und Optimismus wurde von Alexanders Enkel, Oren Schneider, dokumentiert und niedergeschrieben. Sie ist den mutigen Menschen gewidmet, die nicht aufgeben wollen.

Luba’s story begins in the small village of Ciechanowiec, rural Poland. The author takes us on an emotional journey through her childhood in a tightly knit Jewish community. She goes on to describe the Nazi invasion of Poland and her harrowing years in hiding from the Nazis.

Winter Light is about a sequence of serendipitous rescues—an emotional rags-to-riches story spanning decades through the milestones of an unexpectedly fortuitous life. At its core stands a little girl buffeted by huge historical events which she didn’t live through personally but which marked her forever.

A memoir shedding light on the silence that kept generations apart.

Growing up with an angry father and a distant mother, the author knew they had survived the Holocaust, but without a full understanding of what this really meant, or what it had truly cost them.

At age twelve, Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew living in Yugoslavia during World War II, escapes transport to a Croatian death camp, only to be found in the mountains of Bosnia joining Tito’s Partisan resistance movement fighting the Nazis.

When a young Jewish family goes into hiding in Nazi-occupied Paris, their neighbors band together to protect them.

Discover little-known Holocaust history and a daughter’s quest to know how her father survived. Julie Brill unearths her family’s lost Serbian past, learns secrets, and returns to her dad a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

A triumph of strong will over evil.

When Manny Hoffman and Rudi Klein are arrested and sent to Dachau’s notorious concentration camp, neither expect to find in each other something worth living for. Thrown together by chance, a tender and unforeseen relationship blossoms against a background of unspeakable evil. As they attempt to hold on to their humanity and each other, we also see glimpses into the lives and deaths of other camp inmates, showing that there is more that connects us, than that which divides us.

In this poignant memoir, the author uncovers her family’s hidden Holocaust history while navigating Austria’s reparation citizenship process, transforming a legal pursuit into a profound reflection on memory, identity, and what it means to both reclaim a lost heritage and gain a new place in today’s world.

When research reveals hushed WWII trauma embedded in a British family of Czech-Jewish ancestry.

An important Holocaust memoir written by one of Latvia's most prominent authors and survivors, Valentīna Freimane.

This novel vividly brings to life the day to day emotional challenges faced by three Jewish-American girls who just want their Holocaust survivor mother to be happy.

A loving family life belies harrowing wartime experiences and extraordinary courage, and ultimately fails to hide Martha’s biggest secret.

Lilo und Ernst haben den Holocaust versteckt in Berlin überlebt.  Zum Glück gab es Menschen, die ihnen dabei halfen. Eine unglaubliche Geschichte, in der Überlebenswille und menschliche Güte sich treffen.

Przez ciemność Zagłady:
 Niewiarygodna historia przetrwania żydowskiej rodziny.
 Wspomnienia, które dojrzewały przez 80 lat.

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The grandson of four Holocaust survivors shares the raw truth he learned of his grandparents’ harrowing journeys which still resonates and inspires.

The Mulberry Tree is testimony to how democracy can inconspicuously turn into totalitarianism – fascist, national-socialist or communist.

A moving account of courage and loss, this book tells how one Dutch-Jewish woman risked everything to resist Nazi persecution, as revealed through intimate letters and her son’s reflections.

A haunting story beautifully told, The Boy in the Back is a stunning testimony to the power of the human spirit—essential reading for anyone who values life.

Cursing the Darkness is a compelling tale of fracture and family, set against the backdrop of 1989 London and Berlin.

Buried beneath a city at war – hope flickers in the dark.

This true story begins when war breaks out. Hetty and  Fritz have not yet met. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the German occupation of the Netherlands, armed soldiers appear on every street in Amsterdam.

They tried to erase her. Instead, she became a legend.

Raised on a Catskills chicken farm and now a Manhattan psychiatrist, Michelle Friedman confronts the legacy of Holocaust trauma and family violence, seeking to understand what makes one person break, and another survive.

Esta historia universal de fuerza interior, ingenio y optimismo fue documentada y escrita por el nieto de Alexander. Está dedicada a las personas valientes de todo el mundo que deciden no rendirse.

Intimate and historically sweeping, this is a testament to the endurance of memory and the resilience of a single family who refused to be erased. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner – a fiercely intelligent girl, who survived four years in the Łódź ghetto, slave labor, and near death in Bergen-Belsen – Dr. Charles Kaner reconstructs her shattering experience during the Holocaust, the power of sisterhood, and the extraordinary life that followed. Interwoven with his own journey as a second-generation survivor, Kaner traces how Ray transformed her trauma into action, helping establish one of the first Holocaust testimony projects in America and laying groundwork for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a German-Jewish doctor who survived WWII in the Netherlands.

Drawn from an unpublished memoir and long-buried journals, Dreaming of the River tells the harrowing true story of a mother secretly saving lives with smuggled medicine – knowing a firing squad awaits if she’s caught, and her 13-year-old daughter kilometers away – forced into bomb-making amid prisoners dying from TNT – whose survival hangs on whether her mother can reach her in time.

Born in the shadow of the Holocaust, twelve writers illuminate how resilience, creativity, love, and hope emerge from  a legacy of trauma.