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1	The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness more books like this by Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas (Editor), Bonny V Fetterman (Editor) add to wishlist Can evil be forgiven? The famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked this question of people from many walks of life--including authors, political leaders, and scholars--and collected their responses in this book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| SVS
2	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen more books like this by Tadeusz Borowski add to wishlist Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gulag: A History more books like this by Anne Applebaum add to wishlist The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience more books like this by Gitta Sereny add to wishlist This biography details the life of Franz Stangl, a sentenced war criminal. During World War II, Stangl served as commandant of the Treblinka death camp where an estimated 870,000 prisoners were murdered. Gitty Sereny--famous for her controversial true crime books--claimed that she wrote this book "to penetrate the personality of at least one of ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz more books like this by Olga Lengyel add to wishlist Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. ... see all copies from $5.53! new only from $7.91! \| SVS
7	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by), Vaclav Havel (Afterword by) add to wishlist Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from $7.67! new only from $10.56! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Magic of Ordinary Days more books like this by Ann Howard Creel add to wishlist In the mid-1940s, with the war raging, a Colorado woman finds herself in a situation she hates. Forced to live on an isolated farm, married to a man she doesn't know, she gives structure and meaning to her new life through friendship with two Japanese-Americans interned in a nearby camp. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Man's search for meaning; an introduction to logotherapy. more books like this by Viktor Emil Frankl add to wishlist In his struggle to hold on to hope during his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl developed a remarkable new perspective on the psychology of survival. see all copies from $2.12! new only from $12.84! \| SVS
10	Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator) add to wishlist The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $16.23! \| SVS
11 view cover	Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps more books like this by Robert H Abzug add to wishlist This book describes the dreadful impact of the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps by allied troops in 1945 in the words of eye-witnesses, in photogreaphs and in the author's own narrative. see all copies from $2.71! new only from $9.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps more books like this by Heinz Heger, David Fernback (Translator), Kalus Muller (Introduction by) add to wishlist Heger's account of surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust, when he was persecuted for being homosexual. see all copies from $4.89! new only from $10.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	Facing the extreme : moral life in the concentration camps more books like this by Tzvetan Todorov add to wishlist `Graceful and gigantic...a fascinating tour through the subtlety, integrity and brave honesty of Todorov's thought.' New York Times Book Review. In Facing the Extreme, the internationally renowned writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov focuses on the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag to examine our capacity for moral behaviour. Drawing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.88! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment more books like this by Jerry Stanley add to wishlist An account of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through historical facts and a portrait of Shi Nomura, one of the nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were imprisoned, readers will learn about this dark facet of American history. Black-and-white photographs accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist A classic bestseller--this monumental work from a Nobel Prize-winning writer documents Soviet political repression. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	I Am Rosemarie more books like this by Marietta D Moskin add to wishlist A Jewish girl from the Netherlands manages to live through the horrors that befall her family following the Nazi occupation in 1940. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.24! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Infiltration more books like this by Albert Speer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.47! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Farewell to Manzanar W/Conn more books like this by Rheinhart And Winston Holt, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| SVS
19 view cover	The theory and practice of hell the German concentration camps and the system behind them more books like this by Eugen Kogon add to wishlist The classic portrait of life at Buchenwald, written by an inmate of the camp who served as medical assistant to the camp physician and witnessed the experiments he performed on other patients. see all copies from $4.66! new only from $12.31! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Spark of life more books like this by Erich Maria Remarque add to wishlist SPARK OF LIFE509 is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. For ten years, he has persevered in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation--or force their own--then their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps more books like this by Terrence Des Pres add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.61! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor more books like this by William B Breuer add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian," here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of prisoners had been tortured and ... see all copies from $4.51! new only from $21.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Childrn's Drawings & Poems Fr Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by) add to wishlist Published to coincide with the opening in April 1993 of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this collection of drawings and poetry documents the terrible daily misery endured by these children. Of the 15,000 children under the age of 15 who passed through this camp, fewer than 100 survived. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from $11.01! new only from $90.90!
24 view cover	Dance with the Devil more books like this by Douglas add to wishlist First novel by the film star whose autobiography, "The Ragman's Son", was published in 1988. The book tells the story of Danny Dennison, the only survivor of a Jewish family murdered by the Nazis. When the turmoil of his personal life threatens to crush him he must confront the secrets of his past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags Western Style more books like this by Nils Christie add to wishlist This text argues that crime control, rather than crime itself, is the real danger for our future. Since the second edition was published in 1994, prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate. This third edition is published to take account of these changes and draw attention to the scale of an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.23! \| SVS

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