This book is the real story of one Ukrainian family and at the same time a written testimony and testimony of the cruel treatment of Ukrainian civilians by Russian military personnel for the Hague Court . There is no fiction in the book, every word is our blood, which we paid for the right to talk about the real events that we had to go through. I must immediately warn you that the book contains scenes of torture and violence committed by the Russian military against this family, as well as other Ukrainian captured civilians. These events, these words, this pain, and all these deaths cannot simply be crossed out or brushed over like in a painting, so that everything on the white canvas is “beautiful and orderly.” This is a real story with a detailed description of the real events experienced by the author of the book, this is a true story of life, which has no right to be embellished, a means of removing and not fully describing human actions , so that the book looks more “clean” and without cruelty. But by doing this with text, we simultaneously change reality and make the crimes committed by Russian military personnel look less cruel, and not what they really were. This is the real life story of my family, from which it is impossible to take and erase all these terrible scenes. Because you understand, these events from the lives of the tortured victims will never be erased. All surviving victims of the Russians will remain with scars on their bodies and souls. Peaceful Ukrainian people , who have never done anything bad to anyone, will never again be able to sleep peacefully, plunging every day into the nightmare of memories of the torture they experienced, which will emerge in every dream , and traces of the inhuman cruelty of the Russians will remain on their skin forever . Also, these atrocities cannot be erased from the history of Russia’s war against Ukraine, from the abuses of Russians against Ukrainian civilians. This book is yet another piece of evidence to convict Russia, Putin and all the guilty criminals in the Hague Court. I couldn't delete a single line from this book. I was unable to distort the real truth and soften reality. After all, this is all true. And who needs lies? Only Russians need softened facts of crimes committed. And people all over the planet should know what the Russians did in Ukraine, and understand what a real war is.

The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of men from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of Tatowierer - the tattooist - to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young woman, Gita, who steals his heart at first glance. His life given new purpose, Lale does his best through the struggle and suffering to use his position for good. This story, full of beauty and hope, is based on years of interviews author Heather Morris conducted with real-life Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov. It is heart-wrenching, illuminating, and unforgettable. 'Morris climbs into the dark miasma of war and emerges with an extraordinary tale of the power of love' - Leah Kaminsky

In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.

Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.