When the Schonberger family were deported from Hungary by the Nazis in 1944 and taken to Strasshoff concentration camp near Vienna, the sight that greeted them on their arrival was that of Ukrainian guards stacking up piles of corpses. Shortly afterwards, Austrian civilians came to the camp asking for labourers - unusully specifying a group of 25 family members and friends. Imre, his family and friends were picked by the guards and taken to Mistelbach-ander-Zaya to work in an experimental horticultural centre. They expected the worst, but were proved wrong, as the townspeople brought gifts of...

From the Edge of the World is an anthology of largely unpublished work written by Jewish refugees who came to the UK in the 1930s, fleeing from the threat of Nazism. The idea for this collection was inspired by the story that the author's grandmother, herself a refugee, had written entitled, 'The Portrait'. The anthology is of a highly personal nature. It brings together writings by ordinary people who describe their day-to-day experiences of living under the Nazi regime, or recount their impressions of their 'new life' in England. They describe the trauma of living in Nazi-occupied Germany...

Life Strictly Forbidden is the memoirs of the well-known Polish writer, Antoni Marianowicz, told partly through interviews with journalist Hanna Baltyn, and partly through personal recollections of his family before the War and during the Occupation. The honest, in-depth conversations with Baltyn create a unique picture of the formative life of this influential author and the reality of living in Europe under Hitler. The Marianowicz family was wealthy bourgeoisie but at the age of 16, Antoni was forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto. After 18 months, he fled from the ghetto and managed to...