History - Holocaust

Part of a system of concentration camps founded by the Nazi regime, Auschwitz is remembered as one of the deadliest, killing between one- and one-and-a-half million prisoners, 90 percent of whom were Jewish. This necessary edition discusses the political and social factors that enabled...

Leah Peska Kabel was born in Aussig, Czechoslovakia, in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the German Reich. Leah's immediate family went into hiding during World War II at a remote farm owned by a cousin. After the war, surviving family...

No detailed description available for "The Origins of the Holocaust".Author: Michael Robert MarrusISBN-10: 3598215525ISBN-13: 9783598215520Publisher: K.G. Saur VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1989Pages: 737Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.68lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.56d

It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust. However, the realities of disintegrating physical and psychological conditions, and the efforts of ghetto undergrounds to counter collaborationist judenrat policies and the despair, could not but lead...

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of World War II remembrance and memory politics in East-Central and Eastern Europe this volume uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of cultural memory in a pan-European overview. Ranging in scope from various post-Soviet states such...

Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, an instrument of government, but also as the...

Author: Donny Gluckstein, Janey StoneISBN-10: 0648641619ISBN-13: 9780648641612Publisher: Interventions IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2024Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.80d

Oskar Dirlewanger is one of the most reviled war criminals in history. A tall, gaunt, ghoulish-looking man, he commanded a penal unit of the Waffen-SS. The Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger" grew from a company of men previously jailed for poaching into a formation of thousands, the...

The great names of the past, which we often associate with sophistication, innovation, and glamour, often have stories hidden behind their shining facades. What do Coco Chanel, whose perfumes became a symbol of luxury; Ferdinand Porsche, whose cars remain the pinnacle of engineering excellence;...

This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty-first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those...

Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on self-understandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and...

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis...

The Last Goodbye is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War 2 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. Dedicated...

Remaining human in the face of life's greatest threat.This book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantments. It unfolds in a succession of reminiscences that weave together a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world. The setting is...

The inspiring stories of courageous non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, people have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst...

My parents were German Jews who arrived in Australia in 1939-1940, but not by choice. They never really talked about their lives in Germany, and I didn't even know the names of half my grandparents.Combining genealogical and family history research, I discovered ancestors from...

But There Was Love--Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today's cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute led by Michal...

Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it is now possible to speak of a New German Jewish...

"I was born a Jew, and among Jews I want to live" This book describes the lengthy, audacious and tumultuous journey of a Jewish boy, born in Poland, whose life was riven by love and war. From a partisan unit and the city of...

This is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen.Author: Peter LantosISBN-10: 1905147201ISBN-13: 9781905147205Publisher: Arcadia BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2006Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.90d

""The Truth About Bolshevik And Nazi Atrocities In Latvia"" by Ludvigs Ekis is a comprehensive account of the atrocities committed by both the Bolsheviks and Nazis in Latvia during World War II. The author provides a detailed analysis of the events that took place...

Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi racial crimes. The survivors' decision to engage and...

The Warsaw weekly Polityka issued the following appeal to its readers on the 50th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: "We are asking those of you who still remember the circumstances of the Time of Humiliation to summon up scenes and images from...

In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters...

A research guide on how to investigate the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections grounded in deep awareness of the historical background and contemporary policy context. This book equips those confronting the legacies of the Nazi past in museum collections with the necessary knowledge for...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...

Slutsk is a town in central Belarus about 60 miles south of Minsk. It was noted for its pleasant forests, vegetable gardens, and splendid fruit orchards and its produce was renowned throughout Russia. About 10,000 Jews lived there at the turn of the 20th...

Slutsk is a town in central Belarus about 60 miles south of Minsk. It was noted for its pleasant forests, vegetable gardens, and splendid fruit orchards and its produce was renowned throughout Russia. About 10,000 Jews lived there at the turn of the 20th...

Kamyanets Podilskyy is a town in southwestern Ukraine that was the historic center of the Podolia region which was ruled in turns by Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Turkey until it returned to the hands of the Russian empire in 1793. Like many towns in...

Mizoch lies in the heart of today's western Ukraine, with Jews first arriving there in the 18th century. By 1897, while under the rule of the Russian Empire, the Jewish community numbered 1,175 and comprised 44 percent of the population, and operated factories to...

An urgent, poetic exploration of power, memory, belief, and the dangers and possibilities of language. PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world's most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language....

The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar - a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits - became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust....

"A deeply revealing, intimate account of a family's Polish history... As a six-year-old boy, Charns came across a book named 'I Survived Hitler's Hell' by A.P. Gwiazdowski and became curious about his family's Polish history. As he grows older, he begins to wonder about...

The Holocaust was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. As survivors of that tragedy continue to leave us, it is more important than ever to preserve their testimony and experiences. Through a wide range of primary source documents, this book...

Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world. Including contributions from an international...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...

"At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document" SIMONE WEILFrom April 1942 to March 1944, H?l?ne Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal...

Renée Poznanski's magisterial history of the French Resistance during World War II offers a comprehensive exploration of the most significant issue in that period's social imaginary: the "Jewish question." With extraordinary nuance, she analyzes the discourse around Jews and Judaism that pervaded the Resistance's...

Author: Leon Dwolatzky DuvalISBN-10: 9655971147ISBN-13: 9789655971149Publisher: Nikkanor GateLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.96d

Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews...

A Holocaust survivor recounts his memories from pre-war Poland to liberation, honoring lost family and culture.These are the memories of a man who had been a young Jewish boy in Central Poland. His 9th birthday came in mid July 1939. Less than two months...

Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it is now possible to speak of a New German Jewish...

The Israel-Palestine conflict has captured global attention and stirred passionate debates for decades. "Unraveling the Knot" offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the conflict's historical roots, evolution, and the intricate web of factors contributing to its intractability. Whether you are a newcomer seeking...

The contributors to this collection of essays take an innovative approach to the ways in which various French, German, Jewish, American, and Basque individuals experienced and negotiated the Occupation at a grassroots level.Author: Sandra OttISBN-10: 1949805522ISBN-13: 9781949805529Publisher: Center for Basque Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2022Pages:...

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its...

The twentieth century left humanity in despair. Two World Wars caused the death of more than seventy million people. The Holocaust of the Jews and genocide against other groups left us the images of factories of death and names of unimagined cruelty. Humanity learned...

Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published in that country in the post-Soviet era. In the first chapters, the book examines...

In the name of humanity. That was the explanation of Dr. Claus Karl Schilling for the execution of malaria experiments upon 1,200 inmates of the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War. The reputable Schilling had come to Dachau with the personal permission...

Margit Kassai uses her quick thinking and wit to survive the Nazi occupation of Budapest in 1944, the terror of the extremist Arrow Cross regime and the Soviet siege of the city until the early months of 1945. Jewish by birth but a convert...

The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples of human rights and ethics breaches the world has so far seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as "other" or irrelevant. The greatest good that can...