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Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1944. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "a dying hell"-the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Inseparable is the vivid account of one family's struggle to survive the Holocaust. When caught in childish mischief, Stefan and Marion ran from SS soldiers, making a game of seeing who could get closest...

"The Nazis set up concentration and death camps in order to isolate, torture, and murder millions of men, women, and children. In AUSCHWITZ, BERGEN-BELSEN, TREBLINKA: THE HOLOCAUST CAMPS, author Ann Byers details the system of camps in Europe during the Holocaust. Byers recounts the horrifying conditions suffered by camp inmates as well as their struggles for life and hope in a world gone mad. The remains of many camps still stand today to serve as...

A documentary filmmaker draws on Allied records, diary excerpts, and the testimony of survivors to describe the 1945 liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British, exploring the humanitarian and medical issues surrounding the camp's liberation.

"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...