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¹Richard Lukas. Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children . New York: Hippocrene Books,

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² "The Valor of the Young." Dimensions 7/

³ Brana Gurewitsch (Editor). Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama,

⁴ Yitzhak Zuckerman. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Berkeley: University of California,

⁵ The Polish Underground was the only European resistance movement to have a specifically designated branch for Jewish aid.

⁶ Israel Gutman. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, xi. Gutman's books contain more descriptions of women's actions than in most others, perhaps because he, and Zuckerman who also includes women, were actual participants in

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Mr. Seeborg’s collection includes memoirs that are generally of two categories: those written during the Holocaust, or those written by survivors, after liberation. The collection consists mainly of first-hand accounts,  such as Anna Eilenberg’sBreaking my Silence and Harry Posmantier’sThe Last of the Numbered Men.  It also includes several anthologized collections of testimony and remembrance, such as We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaustand Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust. Marietta Moskin’sI am Rosemarie, is one title in which the author, a Holocaust survivor, relates her experiences through fictionalized characters.

With a shared Jewish heritage, the authors come from various backgrounds and locales. Many of the works describe the brutality of ghetto or camp life, in detail. Others illuminate the act of hiding under extreme duress, whether in a farm building, an underground bunker, or a hand-made s

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Voices of Holocaust Survivors: Oral Histories and Personal Narratives

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Vladka Meed (Feigele Pelte Miedzyrzecki) was a teenager when the Nazis occupied Poland. Active in the underground ungdom movement, she lived as a Polish non-Jew in Warsaw, outside of the ghetto, and worked as a courier, carrying out illegal missions such as hiding people, smuggling documents, and organizing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She was the only one in her family to survive and came to the United States in , writing a memoir about her experiences. Read her interview in our Digital Collections.

Egon Loebner was an accomplished lärling in Czechoslovakia, who dreamed of becoming a diplomat but chose engineering because he knew he would have to emigrate due to antisemitism. He survived the ghettos, the camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and lost nearly his entire family. His engineering skills saved his life many times during the war. He later came to the U.S. where he met Albert Einstein and g