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Biographies about persecution and escape

Jan Phillip Reemtsma In the cellar

A German kidnap victim's day-to-day account of 33 days imprisoned in a cellar

Richard Newman Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz

In the 1930s, Alma Rose founded a women's orchestra, and when, after courageously assisting her family to flee, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she set up an orchestra there too. She saved the lives of some four dozen members of the orchestra

Stephen Brookes Through the jungle of death: a boy's escape from wartime Burma

Michael Smith Foley, the spy who saved 10,000 Jews

Sheila Isenberg A hero of our own: The story of Varian Fry

How one American in Marseille saved Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt and more than 1000 others from the Nazis

Theo Tschuy Dangerous Diplomacy: The story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews

Mary McKay Maynard My faraway home: an American family's WWII tale of adventure and survival in the jungles of Philippines

Andrew S Grove Swimming across: A memoir

Explores the way in which persecution and struggle against first the Nazis and then the Communists, as well as kinship and courage, shaped Hungarian Andri Grof's life

Joseph Hurka Fields of light: a son remembers his heroic father

The author recalls the life and adventures of his father, a Czech freedom fighter who struggled for years against the Communist authorities in his country

Hermann H Field Trapped in the Cold War: the ordeal of an American family

Abducted in Poland while searching for his brother, Hermann Field spent five years in a Polish prison while his wife searched for him

Sue McCauley Escape from Bosnia: Aza's story

When Brent King, a young New Zealand pilot, was sent as a UN observer to Bosnia, he fell in love with Aza Mehmedovic, whose escape from Zepa he then had to orchestrate

Barbara Victor The lady: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Laureate and Burma's prisoner

An account of Aung San Kyi's struggle against Burma's brutal military junta

Loung Ung First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers

An unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions from a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime