El diario íntimo de la adolescente judía, publicado por su padre Otto después de la guerra, recuerda los horrores del Holocausto y sigue siendo más actual que nunca. El diario de Ana Frank es una de las obras más leídas en el mundo, se han vendido unos 30 millones de ejemplares y se ha traducido a más de 70 idiomas. En su diario, Ana Frank describe sus pensamientos y sentimientos en el aislamiento forzado con su padre, su madre y su hermana,...

"From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust--one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--

Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions--yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the...

The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This remarkable diary has become a world classic, which: . Is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war. . Offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive...

City officials and others feel threatened when a young theater director tries to stage an accurate re-enactment of the 1941 Odessa massacre, in which Romanian soldiers slaughtered thousands of Ukrainian Jews.

"Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs"--

"An unflinching look at the horrors inflicted by the Nazis upon the Romanian Jews during the Holocaust, and one brave woman's ability to rise above her suffering and escape to freedom. Daniela, 15, is living in Yedinitz, Romania in 1940. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but as a Jew, she is barred from higher education. Her mother, who is the dressmaker to a local countess, hires her a tutor, the rebellious and precocious Mihail, age 18. The two soon...