These are first-person stories of survival, most of them written by people who lived through the Holocaust or by their children. They are for readers who want history told through one life at a time.
In Who by Fire, Who by Water, Michael Goldmann-Gilead writes from a military hospital after escaping a death march and joining the Red Army. Fanya Gottesfeld Heller's Love in a World of Sorrow tells of a young girl whose family was hidden by a non-Jew who loved her. We Dared to Live follows Abrashe Szabrinski, a partisan leader in the forests of Lithuania, and Rabbi Eli Fishman's On Wings of Faith preserves the memory of his hometown of Rachov.
Tunnel of Hope recounts the escape of about 240 Jewish prisoners from the Novogrudok labor camp, and I Shall Not Die! follows Hart Hasten from a Polish shtetl to a new life in America.
