History - Holocaust

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

Author: Gena TurgelISBN-10: 0853033153ISBN-13: 9780853033158Publisher: Vallentine MitchellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/1995Pages: 160Format: Paperback

No Past Tense is the biography of Katarina (Kati) Kellner and William (Willi) Salcer, two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen, respectively. Covering their entire lives, weaving in first person "real time"...

This chronologically-arranged collection of articles demonstrates the complex and multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. From January 1933 and the ascent to office of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, through to October 1945 and the opening of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg,...

We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...

During the Holocaust, amid death and violence, Jewish men were not mere powerless victims. Linking gender studies with a history of sexuality and emotions will highlight intimate agency, power struggles, negotiations of relationships, social dynamics, and representations of masculinities. Considering the agency and vulnerability...

The World Wide Web (WWW) and digitisation have become important sites and tools for the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration. Today, some memory institutions use the Internet at a high professional level as a venue for self-presentation and as a forum for...

This wide-ranging and profoundly insightful memoir picks up where The Eyes Are The Same, Susan Gold's searing Holocaust chronicle, left off. She considers the years she spent in America, her education, her marriage and family, and her career in the precious-metals division of a...

The Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood is torn apart-replaced by two harrowing years spent in a hole...

Ruth's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Ruth Lachs began life in Hamburg in 1936 and went on to live in Manchester and work...

Sonja Sternberg was born in Berlin in June 1926. Her father was taken away by Germans and deported to Poland in 1938 and after Kristallnacht, Sonja's family were ordered to leave their apartment. To flee Germany, Sonja's mother arranged for the family to travel...

Leonard Kaufman was born in Germany in April 1935. With the threat of war looming, his uncle Arthur managed to secure sponsorship for Leonard to escape to England on the Kindertransport. Alice and Ronald Argles sponsored 30 children in total, and Leonard lived in...

Werner Conn, born in 1928, has fond memories of his early childhood in Berlin. Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Werner's father was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but his mother managed to get him released after six months. Life became very difficult, and Werner was...

Peter Adler was born in April 1933 in Berlin. When Hitler came to power, his father lost his job for being Jewish, and in 1936 he moved to England, where he had to requalify as a doctor. By June 1938, Peter, his mother and...

Danny Herman was born in 1935 in K?nigsberg in East Prussia. As the Nazis were rounding up Jews, Danny's father managed to escape to England in July 1939. He travelled to the Kitchener Camp in Kent, which helped refugees secure visas for safer places....

Elena Grosskopf was born in June 1924 and grew up in Merano on the Austrian-Italian border. Following a happy childhood in the Italian Tyrol and later on in Milan, the rise of antisemitism in Mussolini's regime in the late 1930s caused Elena's parents to...

Chaim Ferster was born in Sosnowiec, Poland. He lived with his parents and three sisters above the brush factory owned by his father. They were religious Jews and only spoke Yiddish. He was 17 when war broke out and German soldiers arrived in his...