Washoe County Library System

"In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even the camps at large-so called Blockalteste and Lageralteste...

"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...

A tale of the bond between Jewish upholsterer Gustav Kleinmann and his son Fritz that proved stronger than the Nazi concentration camps that sought to break them both, drawn from the entries of Gustav's diary and other eyewitness testimony. "This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who...

"Las poderosas y emotivas memorias de Dita Kraus, la bibliotecaria de Auschwitz. La verdadera historia que ha conmovido a más de 5 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Nacida en Praga en 1929, hija de familia judía, Dita Kraus ha vivido las décadas más turbulentas de los siglos XX y XXI. En estas, sus memorias, Dita escribe con sorprendente claridad sobre los horrores y las alegrías de una vida interrumpida por el Holocausto. Desde sus primeros...