In Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler records a personal account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. She documents a series of jolts to her thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and habits-an internal seismograph of living...
Personal narratives
- Auteur:Kaler, AmySommaire:
- Auteur:Elias, RuthSommaire:
Ruth Elias, a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, recounts her challenging and unthinkable story of confronting perhaps the most agonizing choice so that she and her newborn infant would not die. Taken...
- Auteur:Stahl Listort, DarilynSommaire:
Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A...
- Auteur:Roosevelt, TheodoreSommaire:
Presents Roosevelt's firsthand narrative of the Spanish-American War.
- Auteur:Grant, Ulysses S.Sommaire:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Auteur:Grant, Ulysses S.Sommaire:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Auteur:Grant, Ulysses S.Sommaire:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Auteur:Rocco, FiammettaSommaire:
Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. It turned back travelers exploring West...
- Auteur:Batalion, JudySommaire:
This young readers' edition tells the remarkable story, largely forgotten until now, of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.
- Auteur:Rajchman, ChilSommaire:
Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.
- Auteur:Dronfield, JeremySommaire:
The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent...
- Auteur:Battery RadioSommaire:
This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings. More than a reconstruction of history, it is also a personal...
- Auteur:Livaneli, ZülfüSommaire:
Based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor leaves America to revisit the city where he last glimpsed his beloved wife.
- Auteur:Frankl, Viktor E.Sommaire:
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including...
- Auteur:ANTHONY, Hubert LawrenceSommaire:
"An extraordinary insight into the war experiences of a very young man, and the relationship between a son and his mother, during the horrors of Galipoli and its aftermath ... Sapper Hubert Anthony was seventeen when he enlisted in...
- Auteur:Herriot, JamesSommaire:
A collection of dog stories by James Herriot.
- Auteur:Auerbacher, IngeSommaire:
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
- Auteur:Opatowski, FelixSommaire:
Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family. It is a skill that will serve him well as he tries to stay alive in Nazi...
- Auteur:Rosenfarb, Chava, Morgentaler, GoldieSommaire:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Auteur:Knighton, RyanSommaire:
On his eighteenth birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Follow his story from absolute denial to acceptance of a life without vision and reliance on a cane. An irreverent memoir.