Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.

A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.

Old passions and painful memories resurface when three Holocaust survivors are reunited after more then thirty years apart.

In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.

After fourteen-year-old Ella is assigned to the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi concentration camp, she forms a friendship with Rose, as they struggle to survive in a world of desperation and fear.

Discusses the mass relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, profiling individuals such as Daniel Inouye, Yoshiko Uchida, and George Takei.

Detained in a filthy concentration camp during the second Boer War, 14-year-old Lettie, an Afrikaner settler, works to help her mother and brother survive while forging surprising friendships, dreaming of becoming a writer and remembering her stargazing activities with her soldier grandfather.

In Poland in the 1940s, twins Chaim and Gittel rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto, escape through forests, and the horrors of a concentration camp.