These two books are true stories of the Holocaust: The Girl Who Survived by Bronia Brandman (Poland) and Elly by Elly Berkovits Gross (Hungary) and were published by Scholastic, Inc which is distributed through the school market. I always love finding a "Scholastic" at the thrift stores to purchase.
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin is the true story of a Jewish woman surviving the Holocaust by being the wife of a Nazi Party member. Her husband kept her identity secret. Her daughter is believed to be the only Jew born in a Reich hospital in 1944. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. These hundreds of documents are now part of the permanent collection of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D,C. It is an A & E Special Presentation which I would like to locate for viewing.
As always, Holocaust stories of World War II are troubling .... HOW? Just HOW?
The Great Escape by Kati Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Michael Curtiz, Alexander Korda, Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz, Arthur Koestler) who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and change the world. "Hungarians, those men from Mars, escaped west in the years before World War II and gave us great scientist, filmmakers, photographers and engineers. Kati Marton's lively, engaging group portrait recovers for us the lives and work of the extraordinary men who invented Hollywood and the atomic bomb." ---Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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