Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller

Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup.

Based on a true story, and set in wartime Denmark, this tells of Annemarie Johansen, whose best friend, Ellen, is a Jew. To save them from relocation , she helps to move Ellen's family to the country. By the author of the Anastasia Krupnik books, this won the 1989 Newbery Award.

A brilliant picture of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before its destruction.

For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturnfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the

Fourteen-year-old Gyuri's father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assigned to a permanent workplace , but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus.