by Bill Halamandaris (2007)
Tells the story of Henri Landwirth, who survived five concentration camps to live out a successful career in the hotel business in the United States.
Marian Domanski
In Nazi-occupied Poland in 1941, thirteen-year-old orphan Moshe Finkielman -- who later adopted the name Marian Domanski -- found himself forced to fend for himself, on the run from the Jewish ghetto in Otwock in a desperate search for safety, food and shelter.
photographs by Mark Seliger
Captured here with clarity and truth are fifty images of survival, portraits of the men and women who lives through the brutality to triumph over oppression: survivors truly. Their wrenching first-person accounts accompany intimate photographs and tell of experiences with an immediacy that is both mesmerising and appalling.
Lala Fishman and Steven Weingartner
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1922, Lala Weintraub grew up in Lvov, Poland. Her parents were assimilated Jews, and the family lived in a religiously and ethnically mixed neighborhood. When the Nazis came, Lala - who had blond hair and blue eyes - survived by convincing them she was a Christian. This book tells her remarkable story. Lala's Story begins with the 1945 liberation of Katowice, the Polish town where she was living. In the days that followed, Lala's mood swung between euphoria and despair. Believing her entire family to be dead, and having lived under an assumed identity for so long, she had no idea who she was or what to do next. Lala recalls preparing for the Nazi arrival by obtaining forged papers and memorizing Catholic prayers and rituals; she relates how, fiercely determined and greatly aided by her Aryan looks, she managed to convince everyone - German soldiers, interrogators, fellow Poles - that she was a Polish Gentile girl named Urszula Krzyanowska. Within a year after Lvov was captured by the German forces, many of Lala's family members were missing and presumed dead; Lala's Story follows Fishman as she moves from town to town in an effort to avoid the same fate, driven by her fear of being discovered. The book ends by bringing her story up to the present day.
Nahum Kohn and Howard Roiter
Nahum Kohn was a small-town watchmaker from a religious family who made his way from his native Sieradz in Western Poland to the forests of Volhynia where, after many adventures and narrow escapes, he joined the detachment of the famous Soviet partisan, Medvedev. Medvedev created near Rovno an intelligence network for espionage and subversive activities. Kohn was a close collaborator and comrade-in-arms of the legendary Soviet partisan Nikolay Kuznetsov, who used his unusual talent for languages to infiltrate Nazi headquarters.