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Primary Sources: The Holocaust

Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War

Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War

Online Sources: Personal Narratives

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Book Sources: Personal Narratives

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Abiding Hope by Benjamin A. Samuelson; Greta Savage Memorial Foundation (Produced by); Jeff Shevlowitz (As told to); Steven B. Jacobs (Foreword by); Pine Orchard Inc. (Designed by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R73 S24 2003
ISBN: 1930580495
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
And We Are Not Saved by David Wdowinski; Chaim Lazar; Morris Chariton (Introduction by)
Call Number: Online - HathiTrust
ISBN: 0802224865
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen by Abel J. Herzberg; Jack Santcross (Translator)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection DS135.N6 H4
ISBN: 1860641210
Publication Date: 1997-04-15
Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.3 .C45 1995
ISBN: 0671520547
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
The Death Brigade = The Janowska road by Leon Weliczker Wells
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R93 L898 1978
The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Otto H. Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.N6 F73313 1995
ISBN: 0385473788
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Diary of Bergen-Belsen by Hanna Levy-Hass; Amira Hass (Introduction by)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection D805.G3 L4213 2009
ISBN: 9781931859486
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
The diary of Dawid Sierakowiak : five notebooks from the Łódź ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak; Alan Adelson (Editor); Kamil Turowski (Translator)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.P62 L64434 1996
ISBN: 0195104501
Publication Date: 1996-11-07
The diary of Mary Berg : growing up in the Warsaw ghetto by Mary Berg; Susan Lee Pentlin
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.G4 B38 2006
ISBN: 9781851684724
Publication Date: 2007-04-15
A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer; Martin Chalmers (Translator, Preface by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection PC2064.K5 A3 1998 Holdings: v.1-v.2
ISBN: 0679456961
Publication Date: 1998-11-03
Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 K6713
ISBN: 0300097425
Publication Date: 2003-05-11
Hannah Senesh : her life and diary by Hannah Senesh; Marge Piercy (Foreword by); Eitan Senesh (Preface by); Roberta Grossman (Afterword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection CT1919.P38 S3668 2004
ISBN: 1580232124
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando by Rebecca Fromer; Steven B. Bowman (Introduction by)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780817305987
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
In her father's eyes : a childhood extinguished by the Holocaust by Béla Weichherz; Daniel H. Magilow (Editor); Daniel Magilow (Editor)
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection DS135.S553 W459 2008
ISBN: 9780813545561
Publication Date: 2008-09-03
Journal 1935-1944 by Mihail Sebastian
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.R73 S38713 2000
ISBN: 1442220244
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr; David Bellos (Translator, Introduction by, Afterword by); Mariette Job (Afterword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.F9 B498413 2008
ISBN: 9781602860643
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
The journey back from hell : an oral history : conversations with concentration camp survivors by Artor Gill
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.A2 G49 1988
ISBN: 0688088473
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
Justyna's Narrative by Justyna; Eli Pfefferkorn; David H. Hirsch; Roslyn Hirsch
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 0585279926
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer; Susan Dworkin
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.A93 B44 1999
ISBN: 0062378082
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jürgen Matthäus; Frank Bajohr; Jürgen Matthäus
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD247.R58 M38 2015
ISBN: 9781442251670
Publication Date: 2015-09-28
Ponary diary, 1941-1943 : a bystander's account of a mass murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz; Yitzhak Arad (Editor); Laurence Weinbaum (Translator)
Call Number: upiter General Collection DS135.L52 V5569413 2005
ISBN: 9780300129175
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Prisoner 88 : the man in stripes by Roy D. Tanenbaum
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 1895176743
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
The Quality of Witness by Emil Dorian; Marguerite Dorian (Editor); Mara S. Vamos (Translator); Michael Stanislawski (Introduction by)
Call Number: DS135.R73 D67313 1982
ISBN: 0827602111
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
The Rescue of the Danish Jews : moral courage under stress by Leo Goldberger
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS135.D4 R47 1987
ISBN: 0814730116
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
The society of terror : inside the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps by Paul Neurath; Nico Stehr; Christian Fleck
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.5.D33 N49 2005
ISBN: 9781317251811
Publication Date: 2015-12-22
A thousand kisses a grandmother's Holocaust letters by Renata Polt (Editor)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780817309305
Publication Date: 1998-12-08
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945 : foreign authors report from Germany by Oliver Lubrich (Editor); Kenneth J. Northcott (Translator); Sonia Wichmann (Translator); Krouk Dean (Translator)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD253.A1 R4513 2010
ISBN: 9780226496290
Publication Date: 2010-05-31
Triumph of hope : from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias; Margot B. Dembo (Translator)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780471163657
Publication Date: 1998-04-17
Two rings : a story of love and war by Millie Werber; Eve Keller
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DS134.72.W44 A3 2012
ISBN: 9781610391238
Publication Date: 2012-03-27
A Voice from the Holocaust by Eve Nussbaum Soumerai; Carol D. Schulz
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 0313323585
Publication Date: 2003-10-30
The witch doctor : memoirs of a partisan by Michael Temchin
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection D811 .T45
ISBN: 9780896040441
Publication Date: 1983-05-01
Witness to the Holocaust by Michael Berenbaum
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.19 .W58 1997
ISBN: 9780062701084
Publication Date: 1997-04-03

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