Poland, 1941. Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, are the only surviving Jews in their town. They spend day and night hidden in a neighbour's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother's stories can sing the melodies Shira composes in her head. Roza does all she can to take care of Shira and shield her from the horrors of the outside world. They play silent games and invent their own sign language. But then the...

Narrow Escapes defines Samuel's Oliner's life in more ways than one. Not only is he a Holocaust survivor who barely eluded the genocidal 'final solution', he is also a scholar who has focused attention on the rescuers.

Poland, 1944. Alfred Mendl counts down his final days within the confines of a hell on earth. His family was torn away from him on arrival, his life's work was burned before his eyes. Now his only joy comes from watching the occasional game of chess. To the guards he is unassuming, but in fact Mendl - a leading physicist - holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. The other person is working hard for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand...

The basis for the Oscar-winning Spielberg movie, this novel recreates the story of Oskar Schindler, an Aryan who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who managed to stay alive throughout WW2. Immediately afterwards he wrote this moving account. Today, Szpilman is an internationally renowned classical pianist

The horrifying true story of one of the first eight men to enter Auschwitz. Marilyn Shimon resurrects her uncle's stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Polish Jew was one of the first eight men to enter Auschwitz, as a political prisoner in 1940, and one of the last to escape Dachau.

Frank Blaichman was 16 when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. He escaped deportation to a concentration camp by hiding in the forest, where he later formed a resistance movement & fought a guerilla campaign against the German army until the end of the war.

Using a wealth of personal letters, memoirs, testimonies, interviews and other sources, Mary Fulbrook pieces together the role of a civilian official in the unfolding stigmatization and degradation of the Jews under his authority, as well as the heroic attempts at resistance on the part of some of his victims.

An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, 'Lovers in Auschwitz' is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis' creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history's darkest hour.