A thirteen-year-old black girl from Pittsburgh describes what it is like to grow up in a tough inner-city neighborhood.

Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totall

Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghett

Between November 1940 and May 1943 the ghetto was "home" to more than a half million people imprisoned here by the Nazis. The Nazis planned to execute most of t

In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so