A narrator grapples with the experience of being a Holocaust survivor in a world still fraught with tragedy and naïveté. When he is struck by a taxicab in Times Square, he faces weeks of hospitalization. Having narrowly escaped death once again, he begins to reflect on the most significant relationships of his life, including his current love affair with a woman who shares many of his fears. Unfolding in vivid flashbacks, Day illuminates the prism...

Screen favorite Meryl Streep received an Academy Award® for her portrayal of Sophie Zawistowska in this penetrating drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn. Kevin Kline plays her all-consuming lover, Nathan. The story revolves around Sophie's struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the United States who had survived a Nazi concentration camp. The lovers' drama unfolds through the observations of a friend and would-be writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol)....

1968, rural Australia. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah Babel is passionate, brilliant, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Tom Hope has only ever read one book in his life when Hannah hires him to install shelving for the shop, but the two discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife, Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy. But Hannah is haunted by memories: twenty-four years...

Sol Nazerman is a WWII Nazi deathcamp survivor. Now, he runs a pawnshop and takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity.

In 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany.

In Paris at the onset of WWII, wealthy Jewish doctor Michele marries Stanislaus, a penniless yet cunning Polish chess master. She is later hauled off to Dachau and is assumed dead after her failure to return at the war's end. But Michele is not dead after all and returns to Paris under a new identity to find Stanislaus romancing her beautiful young stepdaughter. Murderous twists and turns abound in this stylish Hitchcockian chiller.

When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice -- ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past -- she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition...

Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.