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Telling the rousing story of a Jewish boy who fled persecution and returned to prosecute the Nazi oppressors, Walter Wolff's daughter Nina has reconstructed these events from family lore and her father’s own cache of more than 700 wartime letters and 200 photographs, which he revealed to her shortly before he died.

Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year's conversion convinced him that killing was against God's will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer single-handedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured...

Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet and carried a secret in her heart.

In this gripping memoir, Jack and Rochelle Sutin recount their experiences as Jewish resistance fighters during World War II, a story that ranges from extreme horror to poignant triumph. Told through their son Lawrence, the book brings alive the reality of months spent hidden in a dank underground bunker infested with lice and disease.

Heróis da Igreja - Era Medieval reúne escritos de pessoas que viveram um período de formação extremamente crítico e conturbado da história da Igreja. Começando com o Concílio de Niceia e estendendo-se até as vésperas da Reforma, esses documentos exalam o profundo amor desses cristãos pelo povo de Deus e sua sincera fidelidade a Cristo.

In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on "Jewish space lasers" and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy theories about what they're "really doing" with it.

At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened - nor would it be the last. As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime, Virginia had spent her entire life searching for the truth.

April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.

Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life...

En rystende nyhed rammer verden i efteråret 1978. Omkring 900 medlemmer af sekten Folkets tempel har begået kollektiv selvmord. Sektmedlemmerne var over højtaleranlægget i den lille by i Guyanas jungle blevet beordret til at drikke Kool-Aid-saftevand med kalicumcyanid blandet i. De sektmedlemmer, der vovede at gøre modstand, var blevet tvunget til at drikke under trusler om vold. Dette er anden del ud af to om den berygtede sekt Folkets tempel og Jonestown-massakren. I serien "SEKTENS MAGT" kan du komme helt tæt på nogle af verdenshistoriens mest bizarre og brutale sekter.

Den højgravide skuespillerinde Sharon Tate findes myrdet i sit eget hjem i Hollywood, blot 26 år gammel. Rundt om hende ligger fire andre lig. Alle ofrene er dræbt med talrige knivstik. På væggen i huset er skrevet ordet SVIN med Tates blod. Dette er anden del af to om Manson-familien og de grusomme mord i 1960'ernes USA, som rystede verden. I serien "SEKTENS MAGT" kan du komme helt tæt på nogle af verdenshistoriens mest bizarre og brutale sekter. Du skal høre om alt fra UFO-religioner, dødelige giftgasangreb til okkulte ritualer.

Charles Manson er formentlig historiens mest berømte sektleder. Han forførte mange unge kvinder, som han udnyttede og fodrede med stoffer og brugte til at udføre sine brutale gerninger. Historien om Manson-familien er også en fortælling om hippiebevægelsen, som mistede sin uskyld, og om Hollywood og flere af tidens største stjerner. Dette er første del af to om Manson-familien og de grusomme mord i 1960'ernes USA, som rystede verden. I serien "SEKTENS MAGT" kan du komme helt tæt på nogle af verdenshistoriens mest bizarre og brutale sekter.