books about: concentrations     books:     Concentrations      The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) Simon Wiesenthal Schocken, 1998 The Sunflower, Pain and Forgiveness, Past and Present Summoned to the bedside of a dying Nazi who had willingly participated in the systematic annihilation of Europe's Jews, concentration camp inmate Simon Wiesenthal found himself the captive, solitary witness to this 21-year-old SS man's confession of responsibility for ...             Obasan Joy Kogawa Anchor, 1993 Amazing! I just finished this book and I've got to say it was the most sincere and vivid book I have read in a long time. Readers with open mind will greatly enjoy "Obasan" and will be glad that they bought it. I strongly recommend this book. PS I, just like others, read ...             Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne David Fickling Books, 2007 wow. I literally just finished reading this novel about ten minutes ago. I found myself just staring at the last page, waiting for some grand explanation to pop out and make it all better, but, of course, that did not happen. This book is deep, and it really makes you ...             The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth and John Sherrill Chosen, 2006 INCREDIBLY MOVING SAGA OF HEROIC DUTCH FAMILY DURING WW II... This is an absolutely extraordinary book. Never have I read a book in which the spiritual beauty of the author so resonated throughout the story. The purity of heart that manifests itself in this inspiring saga of a heroic, Dutch family in Nazi occupied Holland during ...             The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener. For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a ...             Night (Oprah's Book Club) Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 A new day for Night I was happy to see that this book was added to Oprah's book club, this ment that millions who never knew of this book would read it or at least hear it's story. I read this in college as part of the debates on wither the US should have entered WW2 before 1941. When I ...             Survival In Auschwitz Primo Levi Touchstone, 1996 The Experiences and Reflections of an Italian Jew at Auschwitz My review of this classic emphasizes matters not raised by previous reviewers, and is based upon the 1986 edition which combines SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ, THE REAWAKENING, and AFTERWORD... Levi wasn't sent to or near the gas chambers and crematoria. Instead, he was ...             The Thyroid Solution: A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program That Will Help You Arem Ridha Ballantine Books, 2000 thyroid solution After 11 years with hypothyroidism, this book finally answered all of my questions. If your lab tests say you're normal, but you don't feel normal, this book explains it ALL. Highly recommend!             This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics) Tadeusz Borowski Penguin Classics, 1992 A remembrance of things past Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. ...             The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) Jane Yolen Puffin, 2004 Courtesy of Teens Read Too THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC by Jane Yolen is required reading at my school, as it is in many middle/junior high schools across the country. I've been meaning to read it for several years but never did, until my son read it this year as an eighth grader. He insisted I read ...             The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi Vintage, 1989 As important as a book gets It is redundant to praise this book or describe its background, which has been done very well by other reviewers. This was Levi's final wrestling with the implications of what he called the Lager (he didn't use the term 'Holocaust'), not only as he experienced it, but ...             Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau Jean Bernard Zaccheus Press, 2007 A Must Read for Students of WWII This book brings the reader into the daily life of a priest who was imprisoned for speaking out against the Nazis. The cruelty and drudgery of camp life is vividly detailed in this diary and one cannot help but feel the reality of the events documented so well by Fr. ...             I Never Saw Another Butterfly Hana Volavkova Schocken, 1994 Butterfly wings Only three of the poets and authors whose work is represented in this volume survived the Nazi Holocaust. These works, however, are no more dead than the wings of butterflies mounted in a natural history museum. They fly: They give the children voices for all ...             The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002 The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State "A stone is not a human being, and even stones get crushed." This was an absolutely brutal, yet enlightening read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a young, decorated Red Army officer who served bravely during the war, only to be arrested, tortured, and sent to the Gulag ...             I Am David Anne Holm Harcourt Paperbacks, 2004 A beautiful read This story is about David, a boy who has spent most of his life in concentration camps of Eastern Europe. When he is given a chance to escape, he does so with the expectation that he will be caught and returned to the camps at any moment. Eventually, he accepts that he ...          products you might be interested in search for books archipelago, forgiveness, investigation, possibilities, priestblock, revolutionary      toavi.com    web we recommend A new day for Night randomly chosen book: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that ...