the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay .
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The following nonfiction e-books can be found in EBSCO's High School E-book Collection by searching for the book's title. Others can be found in the EBSCO E-book Collection by typing in keywords such as Holocaust, genocide, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, and other keywords listed under the Keyword Development Page of this pathfinder.
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The author looks at the Holocaust through the lens of the American experience, drawing connections with the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and the women's movement.
The author examines what life would be like living as a Jew in Nazi Germany by looking at anti-Semitism, the rise Hitler, Nazi party ideology, and the persecution of Jews and other groups.
The author chronicles the experiences of Polish experiences and bravery of Holocaust survivors and their rescuers.
The authors are a father who writes his memoir in 1941 and his son who writes in 1980 to fill in gaps of the story while providing historical research and context.
The following nonfiction books can be found in the library online catalog by searching by title or by browsing the shelves in the nonfiction call number areas of 364, 811, 813, and 940 as well as the biography section, and reference section call number area 940. Others can be found searching by typing in keywords such as Holocaust, genocide, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, and other keywords listed under the Keyword Development Page of this pathfinder.
Holocaust is a 8-volume series of books published by Blackbirch Press in 2008 that provides a social and economic history of the Jews and a description of and commentary on the increasing anti-Semitism and restrictions upon the Jews. The series continues with Germany's invasion of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and ends with the forming of the Axis partners, including Russia, Japan, and Italy, whose fascist dictator had once scorned Hitler and who had good relations with Jews. The series looks at the Holocaust as Germany implemented the genocide of the Jews and chronicles resistance movements, rescues, and the final liberation. The series concludes with the Nuremberg Trials and the fate of many Nazis after the war and looks at other instances of other genocide.
Reference Call Number 940
This book by Ann Byers is part of a 2015 series called Remembering the Holocaust. The author of this book analyzes the factors that led to the persecution of Jews as well as the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.
Nonfiction Call Number 940
Beyond Courage by Donna Rappaport is a 2012 book that examines various Jewish resistance movements to Nazi rule and prisoner rescue operations that brought many Jews to safety.
Nonfiction Call Number 940
Every Man Dies Alone is a 2010 novel by Hans Fallada that is based on the true story of a working-class husband and wife who, acting alone, became part of the German Resistance.
Nonfiction Call Number 813
This book is part of a 2015 series called Remembering the Holocaust. The author of this book explores the roots of hatred and the men behind the hatred that led to the Holocaust.
Nonfiction Call Number 940
A collection of poetry published in 1995 is written by survivors of the Holocaust that documents their experiences, horrors, thoughts, emotions, and survival.
Nonfiction Call Number 811
In his memoir published in 2009, Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal tells of his experiences as a young boy arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and one work camp and being separated from his parents.
Biography BUR
Published in 2013, this is the story of how Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, was captured 16 years after the end of World War II by an elite team of spies and tried for war crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Nonfiction Call Number 364
Published in 2008, Rutka's Notebook is the dairy of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl from Poland who died in 1943 at Auschwitz. The diary offers a glimpse of the lives of Polish Jews during the Holocaust.
Biography RUT
A collection of poems published in 2011 written by survivors about resistance during the Holocaust.
Nonfiction Call Number 811