I am a student at Melbourne Girls Grammer school wanting to find some information on this topic above for a school assigment

Welcome to the forum. You will find several accounts from:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERholocaust.htm


See the accounts of:

Moshe Flinker
Primo Levi
Anne Frank
Janine Phillips
Hugo Gryn
Macha Rolnikas
Eva Heyman
Yitskhok Rudashevsk
Victor Klemperer
Rudolf Vrba

See also the biographies of Jews who joined the resistance:

Mordechai Anielewicz
Adolf Liebeskind
Masha Bruskina
Gole Mire
Justyna Draenger
Witold Pilecki
Shimshon Draenger
Rozo Robota
Haika Grosman
Hannah Senesh
Mendel Grossman
Rudolf Vrba
Josef Kaplan
Yitzhak Zuckerman

You might also want to consider the Jews who remained undercover throughout the war in Nazi Germany. These people were often referred to as 'submarines' and there are various accounts to draw upon. One of the best known (and the subject of a recent TV documentary) is found in the book 'The Nazi Officer's Wife' by Edith Hahn (published by Abacus).

Another good source is 'The Past in Hiding' by Mark Roseman (published by Penquin) telling the story of Marianne Strauss.