History - Holocaust

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of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document" SIMONE WEILFrom April 1942 to March 1944, H?l?ne Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal...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

The German film industry transformed from a collection of independent studios into a division of the Nazi Party between 1933 and 1945. German film became a crucial component of the Nazi campaign to ideologically indoctrinate the German populace as part of the Ministry for...

Over a million Auschwitz dead were Jews, and more than half of them were women. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the most horrific places ever conceived of by man, a place of constant torture. The experience was uniquely terrible for women, who...

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under...

As the last Holocaust survivors die, their testimonies make the transition from memory to history. In this compelling volume, Yehudi Lindeman, Director of the Living Testimonies Video Archive in Montreal, shares compelling stories of survival and triumph collected from years of interviews with those...

The awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe's Jews left an indelible mark on history. In the years before World War II, thousands of young...

"Dark Destinations: A Journey through Dark Tourism and Death Adventures" explores the world's most intriguing and morbid travel experiences. In this thought-provoking book, readers embark on a chilling journey to destinations associated with death, tragedy, and the macabre. From haunted locations and infamous crime...

The Nazi regime of Germany during World War II is known for its atrocities, including the systematic persecution and extermination of millions of Jews and other minorities. However, the unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on prisoners are less widely known, which were...

German women played an essential role in the Nazi movement that outweighed the Nazi Party's propaganda that a woman's position was solely in the home as mothers and child-bearers. Thirteen million of the projected forty million German women in the Reich were active in...

This book describes and analyzes theater productions performed in Israel, America, Poland, France, Italy and Germany that deal with the Holocaust. The collected essays trace the development of the realistic/documentary stagings of the 1950s-1970s through to today's very controversial avant-garde shows. This is the...

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution...

Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich - Danzig-West Prussia, the Wartheland, District Bialystok, Zichenau...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women--champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid...

"A beautiful, honest portrayal not only of survival, but of a friendship built from the telling of such a devastating experience." -Kim Klett, Regional Education Corps, United States Holocaust MemorialHelen Handler was just fifteen years old when she found herself alone in Auschwitz. The...

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diaryIn this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of...

"By Pure Luck" tells the remarkable story of how Fela Igielnik survived life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brutality of World War II. But more than that, it reveals the possibility of transforming even the darkest of experiences - starvation, forced labor and...

The destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pools together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays and letters by Yisrael Bider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis...

The destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pools together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays and letters by Yisrael Bider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis...

This compelling family history spans from the 1890s to the 21st century, weaving personal stories into the broader fabric of German history to reveal a deeply moving account of survival, courage, and resilience. At the heart of this narrative is Paul Bernstein, a Jewish...

Author: Richard HurowitzISBN-10: 0063037246ISBN-13: 9780063037243Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 496Format: Paperback

""We Survived: The Stories Of Fourteen Of The Hidden And The Hunted Of Nazi Germany"" is a non-fiction book written by Eric H. Boehm. The book is a collection of fourteen personal accounts of individuals who survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. These individuals...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...

Author: Armreg LtdISBN-10: 1911733087ISBN-13: 9781911733089Publisher: Academic Research Media Review Education GrouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 644Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.04lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.88d

Author: Armreg LtdISBN-10: 1911733095ISBN-13: 9781911733096Publisher: Academic Research Media Review Education GrouLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 644Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.89lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.38d

Author: Anne FrankISBN-10: 9815266888ISBN-13: 9789815266887Publisher: Select ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 260Format: Paperback

At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...

Poland, September 1939. The author's grandfather, then eighteen-year-old Kalman Sztajer, witnesses a group of Nazi soldiers drag his partially dressed neighbors into the street and shoot them in broad daylight. From that moment forward, Kalman does whatever he can to protect his family. He...

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, A.A. Castor draws striking parallels between the actions of Israel in the Palestinian territories and the historical atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Through a meticulous examination of war crimes, illegal occupations, and human rights violations,...

"Anti-Semitism revisited in a wholly original way" Philippe Sands "Rippling with ideas on every page" Jewish Chronicle"Tackles the issue [of anti-semitism] from the perspective of a country where its manifestations have been more vicious and deadly" Financial Times Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur analyses the phenomenon...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbr?ck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism....

At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...

"In Denaturalized, Claire Zalc combines the precision of the scholar with the passion of a storyteller...This is a deftly written book. Zalc combines in an accessible style (smoothly translated by Catherine Porter) the stories of people trapped within a bureaucracy that was as obsessed,...

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust atrocities. This book offers an important look at Hollywood's ongoing representations of the Holocaust aimed at a general readership not usually addressed by volumes on...

A young boy who spent the first fourteen years of his life wealthy and protected suddenly faced five years of fighting to stay alive in Japanese concentration camps. Author Pieter R. Wiederhold wonders how he managed to survive at all during that difficult and...

Stranded in Germany after the Second World War, 300,000 Holocaust survivors began to rebuild their lives while awaiting emigration. Brought together by their shared persecution, Jewish displaced persons forged a vibrant community, redefining Jewish identity after Auschwitz. Asserting their dignity as Jews, they practiced...

Author: Carlo GreppiISBN-10: 1908906618ISBN-13: 9781908906618Publisher: Telegram BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 256Format: Hardcover