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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The diary of a World War II youth describes his recruitment into the Underground Army, his internment in Auschwitz, his escape and participation in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and his second escape to freedom aboard an American truck. Includes afterword by Captain Mieczyslaw Morawski, Commander, Ninth Company Commandos, 1941 Warsaw Uprising.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave.".
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
It remains one of the most haunting and emotionally devastating photographic images to emerge from World War II. A child, seemingly terrified, raises his hands as SS soldiers raise their weapons while carrying out the "liquidation" of the Warsaw Ghetto. But who was the boy, who was the young girl next to him, and who was the Nazi soldier?
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