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Explores how the Nazi and Vichy regimes made use of freelance Jew hunters to track down and round up Jews in Southern France.

This book is an attempt by Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, to understand and explain the phenomenon of Auschwitz. In his quest, Levi tries to answer unanswerable questions about power, disgrace and conspiracy.

Levi's haunting memories of his ten months in Auschwitz. The author gives an unforgettable description of the systematic cruelty and his miraculous survival.

Levine explores why a little-known Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara risked his career during World War II by issuing transit visas to thousands of Jews fleeing Hitler's troops and concludes that mercy, like evil, often has no visible roots.

Explores the myths surrounding Raoul Wallenberg and argues that his rescue efforts must be examined and understood within the historical context of that time.

This is a biography of Janusz Korczak, an advocate of children's rights who saved hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. Korczak had an opportunity to escape but chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the orphans in his care.