History - Holocaust

Süssen Is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from Süssen-a village in the District of Göppingen, which is located in the state of Baden Württemberg in southern Germany. The author, Gilya Gerda Schmidt, looks...

This collection of fourteen essays by renowned scholars in the field of Holocaust studies seeks to reflect on the experience of teaching and researching this complicated and emotional topic. Contained within are the pioneering stories of those presently engaged in the work of Holocaust...

A gripping true story of childhood mischief and deprivations in Nazi-infested Berlin, a mother's courageous choices, and a young girl's ultimate resilience to survive alone. A Child in Berlin is the true story of a mother, a daughter, and their courage in the face...

One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "I only survived because of my mother's love." When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a...

A powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto in Nazi-occupied LithuaniaAuthor: Levi ShalitISBN-10: 0817322140ISBN-13: 9780817322144Publisher: University Alabama PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing...

English translation of Gilbert Michlin's Holocaust memoir detailing his family's life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944. Gilbert Michlin's sober text thoroughly documents the story of a Jewish immigrant family in France during the war years. Known...

An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival. In May 1933, a young man named Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi Germany. His departure allegedly came at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the...

Read the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this "captivating book rooted in first-rate research" (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time,...

This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe. It explores the Jewish...

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Drawing on a wide range of fields, including psychoanalysis, Holocaust studies, journal and memoir writing, hermeneutics,...

This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi...

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust...

The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II. Its members were drawn from both the regular German police, including detectives, and various Nazi security organizations. The goals of the GFP were numerous and...

Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, this book tells the story of the camp's construction and its evolution into the largest mass murder factory of all time. Using hundreds of captured German documents and architectural plans, the book is a unique historical...

When Soviet troops were liberating Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945 among the piles of half burnt corpses and emaciated prisoners left behind, they were amazed to find nesting boxes for birds. The same boxes were found in the walled garden at the house...

After over half a century of secrecy, a Swiss bank safe was opened, it contained the long-lost research notes of Josef Mengele, as well as those of his chief assistant in Auschwitz. They had been deposited there by the assistant who himself had been...

From one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global response The postwar global order was in many ways shaped in response to the...

Author: Kenneth D. WaldISBN-10: 949332284XISBN-13: 9789493322844Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Discover the chilling untold story of sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration camps In his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel, Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the SS camp system, a subject long overshadowed and seldom acknowledged in...

Discover the chilling untold story of sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration camps In his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel, Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the SS camp system, a subject long overshadowed and seldom acknowledged in...

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites.Author: Diana I. PopescuISBN-10: 1032115912ISBN-13: 9781032115917Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2024Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man's Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair."This is a book I reread a lot ... it gives me hope ... it gives me...

A collection of poetry from the Holocaust leads the author to uncover the remarkable story of Else Dormitzer. The book traces her life from pre-war Nuremberg to war-torn Amsterdam, from the confines of the Theresienstadt ghetto to post-war life in London. The result is...

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on the...

As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen...

This book details clandestine efforts to provide education to beleaguered Jewish children under Nazi occupied areas of Europe and North Africa between 1933-1945. Included are efforts made in Germany during the rise of Nazism, in ghettos, concentration camps, orphanages, convents and monasteries, and even...

This in-depth study of a Jewish man's diary from Nazi-occupied Poland provides an unfiltered view of the struggles of Samuel Golfard, who tried to make sense of and resist the Holocaust that ultimately destroyed him. The diary is complemented by an array of wartime...

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural...

Author: Gottfried FederISBN-10: 1913176525ISBN-13: 9781913176525Publisher: Sanctuary Press LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2019Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

Author: Willie HandlerISBN-10: 9493322882ISBN-13: 9789493322882Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Author: Kenneth D. WaldISBN-10: 9493322823ISBN-13: 9789493322820Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Author: Vickie Boyle, Jessica DiazISBN-13: 9798330473274Publisher: Kdp PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2024Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "I only survived because of my mother's love." When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a...

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 powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto in Nazi-occupied LithuaniaSo We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is a powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania....

Author: Willie HandlerISBN-10: 9493322890ISBN-13: 9789493322899Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent 'Thousand-Year Reich'? Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazi imperial Utopia started to take shape in the conquered areas of Eastern Europe, brutally emptied of their inhabitants, who were displaced, reduced to slavery and, in...

In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of...

At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold, Genin recreates the lives of the Zwerling family in the Jewish quarter of Lvov: Shulim, her strict and deeply...

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also...

Author: Vickie Boyle, Jessica DiazISBN-13: 9798330473342Publisher: Kdp PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2024Pages: 140Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Lidia MaksymowiczISBN-10: 1529094402ISBN-13: 9781529094404Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2025Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Kielce is a town in southeast Poland sitting roughly between Warsaw in the north and Krakow to the south. It had been a holy place for Christians and until 1863 Jews had been banned from living in it by the Bishop of Krakow. But...

The 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, remains one of Nazi Germany's most significant military campaigns. Executed by Hitler's Wehrmacht army, this event saw troops from all over Europe defeat the Red Army and temporarily colonize large swathes of Eastern Europe,...

Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors. In so doing, she demonstrates that the Holocaust...

The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth...

Heroes or Villains? is the true story of the Holocaust in France that started when France surrendered to the Germans and Marshal Henri Philippe P tain arrived to form, under the German watch, a petty French dictatorship--the Vichy government--with these Vichy villains intent on...

""Four Years of Nazi Torture"" is a memoir written by Ernst Winkler, detailing his experiences during the four years he spent as a prisoner of the Nazi regime during World War II. Winkler was a German citizen who was imprisoned for his political beliefs...

Author: Gottfried FederISBN-10: 1913176398ISBN-13: 9781913176396Publisher: Sanctuary Press LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2019Pages: 86Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d