Explores the background of the Holocaust, including the events leading up to it, the aftermath and casualties, and the key people involved.

Presents stories of a selection of people who experienced the Holocaust.

Discusses Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews, life in the camps, resistance of the prisoners, and the topics of freedom, justice, and the remembrance of those who died.

Provides a history of the Holocaust, from the roots of anti-Semitism in Europe and the rise of the Nazi Party to the Final Solution and the legacy of the Holocaust.

This instructive volume offers readers insight into the background of Adolf Hitler, and sets the stage for the appalling fates of so many minorities, including Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other allegedly inferior groups of people in Germany, who were tortured, held captive, and slaughtered.

Describes the atrocities committed against Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and other minorities in the German concentration camps, and the many trials which brought to justice some of those who were responsible.

"Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children and young people who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors courage. These...

"Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts-- some chronicled in book form for the first time-- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II."--Amazon.com.

Biography of a devout member of the Nazi party and the SS who directed the construction of concentration camps to eliminate Jews but betrayed Hitler in 1945 so he committed suicide on May 23, 1945.