Books in Understanding the Holocaust series

Presents information about the Jews who resisted and fought the Nazis and the heroic gentiles who provided them with false identities, hiding places, and documentation, allowing them to escape persecution.

Describes how children were impacted by the events of the Holocaust, discussing how some children were hidden or smuggled out of Nazi occupied countries and how others caught by the Nazi's faced persecution and annihilation.

Describes the crimes of Nazi perpetrators and their efforts to escape retribution, development of the Nuremberg Trials, and the subsequent hunt for and trials of Nazi leaders.

Describes the experiences of many Jews and other persecuted people following the end of World War II, discussing the impact of the Holocaust, their attempts to return home and find family members, their struggles for justice, and documenting the crimes against them.

Describes the development of ghettos, camps, and killing centers located in Western Europe, discussing some of the things that went on there and the people responsible.

Describes the efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted groups from the Nazis by sheltering or transporting them out of occupied countries to the discovery and liberation of concentration camps later in the war.

Examines the treatment of Jews and other groups persecuted by the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 40s, from the Nuremberg Race Laws and establishment of ghettos to mass transportation to concentration camps and the policy of extermination.