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Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Examines Auschwitz, a death camp during the Holocaust, including its construction and daily workings, true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators, and how more than 1 million people were murdered there.

A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944, when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews.

Full-color photographs, a detailed timeline, and excerpts from primary sources offer an in-depth look at the Nazis rise to power, allowing readers to think critically about the warning signs of a society on the brink of crisis.

Shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, this narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939.

"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire.

The author, an Italian citizen of the Jewish race, provides an account of his ten months at Auschwitz, where he was sent in 1943 after being deported from his native Turin.

After being liberated from Josef Mengele's Zoo and having endured experiments performed on them in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, Stasha Zamorski and Feliks, each having lost their twin, set out on a journey through Poland's devastation.

"Based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia.

Tells the true story of how sisters Rachel and Toby survived the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Text and photographs present the true accounts of children who lived during the Holocaust.

The author shares her childhood growing up in Poland through the Holocaust, and surviving thanks to Oskar Schindler.

"Early in the morning of November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion.