History - Holocaust

Martha's story left a profound mark on my soul. When we met her, she was a gentle, radiant woman, her broad smile and optimistic spirit shining through despite the weight of her past. At well over 90 years old, she carried herself with an...

Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory.In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred...

Heidelberg, 1938Doctor Sárkány's career is crumbling. The once eminent pathologist begins to lose everything that he holds dear - his reputation, position and pride. But what of his wife, Éva? What of his twin daughters and unborn son? Surely his family are more important...

Holocaust and Hope shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts...

Holocaust and Hope shows one of our preeminent critics grappling with a subject to which he had returned for decades: literary, cultural, political, and historiographical implications of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Europe and America. In his last planned book, Geoffrey Hartman confronts...

Comments on books by Herman Taube: "His vision roams over many continents, countless diverse subjects, and a variety of characters. Everywhere he finds a word, an expression, a sound, a thought, a proper noun and together they start singing and form a poem. These...

Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and...

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from engaging country girl...

Martin Greenfield, the middle-aged professor in "A Teacher of the Holocaust," enters into a romantic relationship with Rachel Klein, a therapist with children and a Holocaust survivor. Gradually, Greenfield confronts the unhealed wounds of the survivor and-more disturbing-the limits of his own compassion. In...

Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the...

Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory.In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred...

In early 1943, Mirjam Levie, a young Jewish woman from Amsterdam, began to write letters to her fiance, Leo Bolle, who had immigrated to the Land of Israel a few years earlier. Her letters, which were never sent, were written during the deportations of...

PASS THE TRAUMA, PLEASE is a comedy-drama memoir that presents the most brutal moment of Jewish history in an unorthodox manner. It honors the life lessons of a Holocaust survivor who reveals long-buried truths about surviving as an orphan and soldier who fought for...

The extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. "Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache, an Olympic athlete who was forced to swim for his guards' entertainment at Auschwitz......

Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years...

Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts - including a never-before-published survivor...

Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the...

Eugene Heimler, in his captivatingly poetic style, takes you with him on a life-transforming journey through seas of imagination and rivers of tears; from storms of pain to pools of individual and communal wisdom as well as deep inside his self and yours.His universal...

"[Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust."—Choice "Especially recommended for college-level students of Jewish history and culture."--The Bookwatch This is a critical exploration of the most repercussive topics in modern Jewish history and thought. A...

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...

Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their...

This ambitious pan-European overview explores the most significant causal factors, political developments, and societal forces that contributed to the perpetration of the Holocaust. Drawing on wide-ranging current scholarly expertise, this volume seeks to explain the genocidal scope and European dimensions of the crimes committed...

Ordinary victims' voices from the Holocaust are still far less recognized than those of the perpetrators, Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust centers upon victims' perspectives, examining their experiences, responses, and fates. Chapters encompass the ordeals of a range of persecuted...

Imagine finding twenty-six pages that you knew nothing about from someone close to you, who has passed away!!Now, imagine these pages are the key to unlocking your family's past you knew nothing about! The Pages is a portal to the life of a Jewish...

On 3 July 1944, a train of cattle wagons set out from Toulouse, heading for Germany. Crammed inside eventually were 724 souls of various nationalities and backgrounds, all of whom the German occupiers had held captive in concentration camps and prisons across south-western France....

The aftermath of the Holocaust has been long and wide-reaching. Any act of mass murder and genocide leaves powerful traces: the trauma of the survivors, the challenge of punishment for the perpetrators and justice for the victims, and questions of how to properly commemorate...

Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and...

Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have changed, she reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust...

In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance,...

Author: Aviezer BurstinISBN-10: 1962054233ISBN-13: 9781962054232Publisher: Jewishgen.IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2025Pages: 526Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.29lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.13d

Throughout World War II, four orphaned Jewish teenagers faced critical, life-altering decisions almost daily. In awe of the miracles that led to his existence, Shaya & Feigele and Romek & Sala's grandson describes the extraordinary paths that helped them survive, ultimately converge, and rebuild...

From the fantasy worlds of childhood games, to merry singing with friends by the River Váh, The Mulberry Tree is a powerful account of how an idyllic life in Northern Czechoslovakia is shattered as the Third Reich sweeps across Europe. Iboja Wandall-Holm writes with...

From the fantasy worlds of childhood games, to merry singing with friends by the River Váh, The Mulberry Tree is a powerful account of how an idyllic life in Northern Czechoslovakia is shattered as the Third Reich sweeps across Europe. Iboja Wandall-Holm writes with...

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers a comprehensive and innovative overview of the complex field of Holocaust history from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The first volume begins with essays outlining the evolution of Holocaust historiography and the central conceptual and methodological questions...

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempest.Author: Caroline Wiesenthal LionISBN-10: 1032121394ISBN-13: 9781032121390Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The essential new edition of one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, On Both Sides of the Wall, which recounts one woman's harrowing experiences as a courier for the Jewish underground, is a testament to the ordinary...

Author: Elie WieselISBN-10: 0394740572ISBN-13: 9780394740577Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/1979Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.62w x 0.60d

Throughout World War II, four orphaned Jewish teenagers faced critical, life-altering decisions almost daily. In awe of the miracles that led to his existence, Shaya & Feigele and Romek & Sala's grandson describes the extraordinary paths that helped them survive, ultimately converge, and rebuild...

A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in...

BETWEEN INNOCENCE AND AUSCHWITZ STOOD A CHILD WHO REFUSED TO SURRENDER HER SOULReturn to Life offers an intimate window into history's darkest chapter through the eyes of one young survivor.When 13-year-old Dina Davidovich was torn from her Hungarian village and thrust into Auschwitz-Birkenau, she...

Fragile letters, crammed into red manila folders, had stories to tell. Hidden for decades in the hall closet of the one-bedroom New York apartment where Pat Haim grew up, the letters found their voices again after Pat inherited them from her parents. The folders...

"Marked by the aching articulation, scathing wit and deep convictions of a mature artist with a complete vision."--Frank Rich, The New York Times "If Arthur Miller had married Noel Coward, their son would have been Robbie Baitz." --André Bishop, from the Preface Jon Robin...

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist, an extraordinary true story of resistance, heroism and betrayal.When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.Berlin, 1943: A group of high society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one...

This book is dedicated to a consideration of genocide in the context of political sociology. It demonstrates that the underlining predicates of sociology give scant consideration to basic issues of life and death in favor of distinctly derivative issues of social structure and social...

Lessons and Legacies XIII: New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust is an edited collection of thirteen original essays that reflect current research on the Holocaust in a range of disciplines. Author: Alexandra GarbariniISBN-10: 0810137666ISBN-13: 9780810137660Publisher: Northwestern University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2018Pages: 352Format:...

Author: Henry Hank GreenspanISBN-10: 0814352634ISBN-13: 9780814352632Publisher: Wayne State University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 128Format: Paperback

A critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust.Author: S. Lilian KremerISBN-10: 0814343937ISBN-13: 9780814343937Publisher: Wayne State University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2018Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly...

'The best short introduction to the study of Hitler's Germany.' - European History Quarterly The 40th-anniversary edition of Sir Ian Kershaw's ground-breaking study of the Third Reich. With a brand new foreword by Mary Fulbrook, The Nazi Dictatorship covers all the major themes and...