History - Holocaust

Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory and the moral force of survival. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner - a fiercely intelligent young woman who endured...

Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory and the moral force of survival. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner - a fiercely intelligent young woman who endured...

Eleven African American settlements consisting of a church, school, and cemetery in McLennan County, Texas, continued the work begun originally by the Freedmen's Bureau that would enable thousands of ex-slaves in Texas to adapt to freedom.Author: Charles L. Sr. PerkinsISBN-13: 9798385060221Publisher: WestBow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger. In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is hidden. Her name is Elli....

This colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people. It was a summer like no one had ever experienced: in the four months from May to September 1945, the...

These stories offer a profound exploration of the human condition when subjected to adversity, discrimination, and injustice. Within the pages of this collection, readers will discover tales of resilience, courage, and hope, as well as the enduring spirit that drives individuals to survive, resist,...

Wie gestaltet sich der familiale Dialog über die Familienvergangenheit in der Nazizeit in Familien von Verfolgten des Naziregimes wie auch in Familien von Nazi-Tätern und Mitläufern? Welchen Einfluss hat die Vergangenheit der Gro eltern auf das Leben ihrer Kinder und Enkel? Wie unterscheidet sich...

Are you drawn to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity? Intrigued by the stories of courage that emerge from the darkest chapters of history? Wondering how a young girl's diary became a beacon of hope and a symbol...

A powerful work of moral and political philosophy.The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some five years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley and I...

Author: Robert J. Hanyok,Center for Cryptologic HistoryISBN-10: 1780393040ISBN-13: 9781780393049Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.37d

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and...

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews. It brings together a range of internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work. It includes...

Mona seems to have it all: youth, beauty, intelligence, and a privileged place in Germany's elite Aryan society. At fifteen, she lives a life where power and wealth seem to affirm her family's deeply ingrained beliefs. But as she uncovers the disturbing truths lurking...

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work.Author: Jan BorowiczISBN-10: 1032360518ISBN-13:...

The first part of the book describes how the author himself was saved. Fleeing the ghetto in 1942 he hid in occupied Poland using forged papers. He survived agonizing wanderings and was able to rescue his little family through his determination and adaptability to...

"Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland." -- Central European History"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well." --...

Heidegger's connection with Nazism is well known and has been exhaustively debated. But we need to understand better why Heidegger believed National Socialism to be the best cure for the ills of modern society. In this book Christopher Rickey examines the internal logic of...

Author: Deborah (Devora) Ross-GraymanISBN-10: 9493418618ISBN-13: 9789493418615Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Helen FryISBN-10: 0300303564ISBN-13: 9780300303568Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2026Pages: 208Format: Paperback

One moonless night in 1942, a handsome 20-year-old British SOE lieutenant, Maurice Pertschuk, rowed ashore on the Cote d'Azur with orders to report to the French resistance. Three years later he'd be hanged at Buchenwald, just 13 days before its liberation, within earshot of...

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is often debated in Germany today, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its...

Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this volume explores how post-Holocaust memorial books help to reshape our understanding of Jewish life and death in Eastern Europe In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Eastern European survivors created yizker bikher--Yiddish for "memorial...

Revenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators as well as revenge fantasies expressed in diaries, letters, last wills, wall inscriptions, songs,...

The book reveals the many facets of the forced labor system and the specific conditions at Siemens in Ravensbrück. For the first time, the volume brings together texts by female forced laborers from Ravensbrück, translated from various languages, as well as contemporary illustrations and...

Offers a critical assessment of seven decades of Holocaust research and identifies the tasks ahead. The first comprehensive assessment of Raul Hilberg's work, the most important Holocaust historian of his generation. A line-up of some of the most prominent Holocaust historians in the world...

Holocaust educators and museums face an urgent challenge: preserving the memory of genocide while protecting the psychological well-being of those who learn about it. How can they teach about historical atrocities without traumatizing the very students they aim to educate?This groundbreaking book examines the...

Winner of the 2025 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian StudiesFinalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book AwardHonorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in...

Author: Barth Hoogstraten,M. D. Barth HoogstratenISBN-10: 0738853186ISBN-13: 9780738853185Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2005Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.80d

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a Jewish doctor, 1933-1949When Yakov Adler fled his hometown of Nuremberg in 1933, he left behind a Germany that was rapidly closing its doors to Jews. In Amsterdam he found safety, a new purpose, and eventually love....

The path of young Stanley's life takes an abrupt turn when Germany invades Poland and soldiers arrive in Jaslo with their new rules for the town's Jews. Forced to live crammed into a ghetto, Stanley is left bewildered at what his life has become....

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.While the first three parts of the book...

Revenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators as well as revenge fantasies expressed in diaries, letters, last wills, wall inscriptions, songs,...

Two small boys are playing wargames as boys have done since time immemorial. They run towards the camera clutching guns made of wood, their knees grubby beneath the type of clothing in which small boys across Europe were commonly dressed for most of the...

Throughout the Holocaust, letters were sent in their millions, in a variety of different contexts and for a range of differing purposes. Holocaust Letters marks the first volume of its kind to examine collectively letter writing during this period. The book presents different methodological...

DG: Most people who met you mentioned the strength of your eyes. They were "shining", "blank" and "cruel", Kubizek's mother recalled.Kubizek: "Never in my life have I seen any other person whose appearance was so completely dominated by the eyes ... In fact, Adolf...

The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust--a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory--and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. Gideon Reuveni illuminates the swift transition and...

The Jewish Communities of Dubienka, Skryhiczyn and DorohuskThere has been a Jewish community along the Bug River in the Dubienka area since King Sigismund III granted permission for Jews to reside and operate businesses there in the late 16th century. The community's growth in...

An unforgettable collection of recipes inspired by ten diverse, moving stories of Holocaust survivors and WWII heroes, from James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya with author June Hersh. Memories of a Good Meal is a culinary journey that celebrates the tenacity of the human...

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Author: Charlie ScheidtISBN-10: 1978846746ISBN-13: 9781978846746Publisher: Rutgers University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsReview Citation(s): Foreword 01/28/2026

Covering Western and Eastern Europe, this book looks at the Holocaust on the local level. It compares and contrasts the behaviour and attitude of neighbours in the face of the Holocaust. Topics covered include deportation programmes, relations between Jews and Gentiles, violence against Jews,...

Hitler: And when they next asked him about my personality, just like you are doing throughout these conversations, seeking to hear abnormalities in my mind, Dr. Bloch again rebuked them saying, and I quote his words: Dr. Bloch: While Hitler was not a mother's...

In Volume III, questions and themes such as the following are asked and studied - Can Germans Be Defined as Insane and Evil Because of Their Ardent Support of Hitler? Hitler - "You Know, I Was Not Born an Anti-Semite. I Learned to Be...

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did...

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and...

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and...

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and...

Founded in 2011, The Research Journal of Germanic Antiquity is an independent scholarly journal devoted to preserving, translating, and circulating all early modern German religious texts (12th - 20th century). The underlying goal of this journal is to reprint rare German publications to introduce...

[A] memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis ...[full of] ingenuity and determinationAuthor: Ida Piller-Greenspan,Susan M. BrantingISBN-10: 159451254XISBN-13: 9781594512544Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2006Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.78h x 7.36w x 0.54d

More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: How is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answer those questions? Who owns the...