History - Holocaust

At just thirteen years old, Lilly was taken from her family and forced into a world of hunger, fear, cruelty, and loss during World War II.She endured hardships no young girl should ever have to face. She witnessed suffering up close and lived through...

From the age of 26 until his death in 1945, Joseph Goebbels kept a near-daily diary. In it, he recorded significant events of the day along with his thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics, most notably the Jewish policy of the Third...

Hitler and the Concentration Camp CommandantsIn March 1933, a disused factory enclosed by barbed wire housed 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the close of 1945, the SS concentration camp network had evolved into a vast realm of fear. Twenty-two major camps...

A major challenge for critical historical researchers is access to archival materials in European countries that dictate by penal law the results of research into the history of the Third Reich. If a well-known critical historian were to show up in such an archive...

Before the Second World War, Eastern Europe was the demographic center of World Jewry. After the war, however, only a fraction of it was left behind. What happened?The "Holocaust," of course, most will say.The author of this book did not stop there, though, but...

Shumsk (also known as Shums'k, Szumsk, Shimsk, or Shumskoye) was a small town in what is now western Ukraine that had a Jewish population of 1,962 in 1897, a number that dipped in the years between the two world wars. Although the community was...

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....

From the New York Times bestselling author, a profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary...

A touching personal diary of a young artist retuning to life after the Holocaust.These notebooks tell the story of a young survivor exploring his emotional and physical challenges after intense suffering, while discovering his strengths and abilities as he builds a life after the...

In "The Last Ride: A Journey Through Auschwitz," the author takes readers on a profound journey into one of history's darkest chapters. This compelling narrative combines historical insight with personal reflection, offering a deeply moving account of the atrocities committed within the walls of...

Young Ingrid was born in 1927 in the Village of Amel in the country of Belgium. She has a story to tell of great historical importance and magnitude. Born into a world of love and serenity, war and evil devastated her life. Love with...

Three Books by Tamara Tracz surveys generations of a Jewish family through emigration, loss, memory gaps, and personal fear, revealing how storytelling itself shapes identity across time and space.Three Books by Tamara Tracz is a very special three-hardback-volume slipcased book. It is, first and...

"Holocaust Duet" tells the story of two youths caught up in the horror that was Auschwitz-Birkenau. The two characters are depicted both as aging adults looking back on their survival and as their youthful personas living the horrors first-hand. Also included is the original...

This book takes place during the Holocaust, about a young girl named Adine. Living through this horrible time Adine fights through and stay strong and persistent. She isn't only strong and persistent though, she is brave, kind hearted, encouraging, and caring young girl.Author: Camryn...

Prague, spring 1942. The German soldiers have marched in; the people are being violently oppressed. Seven young men are in hiding, after a heroic act of resistance. They die in their allegedly safe hideout. Who has betrayed them? Vienna, summer, more than half a...

""The Historical Thought of the Vicomte de Bonald: Catholic University of America"" by Mary Hall Quinlan is a comprehensive study of the historical ideas of the French philosopher and statesman, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald. Bonald was a leading figure in the Catholic...

The Devil's Diary: The Record of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression is a historical book written by John L. Stipp. The book documents the Nazi regime's rise to power and their aggressive actions leading up to and during World War II. The author draws on...

""I Survived Hitler's Hell"" is a memoir written by Alexander Peter Gwiazdowski, in which he recounts his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Born in Poland, Gwiazdowski was only 14 years old when he was arrested by the...

Eichmann: Technician Of Death is a non-fiction book written by Philip Paneth. It is a detailed and comprehensive account of the life and career of Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust. The book provides a thorough examination of Eichmann's role...

This collection of twenty essays analyzes the encounters of the Yishuv (the Hebrew community in pre-state Israel) and Israeli society with the Holocaust while it occurred, and with its survivors. Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, this is still a...

Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed in Europe during World War II continues to cast a shadow over humankind. Man's inhumanity to man is not a thing of the past; genocidal action is still commonplace around the globe. Has humankind learned...

Jesuit Kaddish is a long overdue study that examines Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Shoah and the development of a new understanding of the Catholic Church's relation to Judaism that culminated with Vatican II's landmark decree Nostra aetate.While much has been written about...

Author: Germar RudolfISBN-10: 1971021962ISBN-13: 9781971021966Publisher: Flodur Ramreg ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2026Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

One spring morning in the ghetto, my mother, sisters, and I went down the steps into the cellar. Mother was holding a long tube, which she had filled with the few pieces of jewelry she still had from her wedding. She looked at us,...

The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows...

What did Hollywood know and do about growing Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as America and the rest of the world waited to respond? This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and...

The voyage of the SS St. Louis in May 1939 was more than just a maritime journey; it was a stark and heart-wrenching microcosm of a world teetering on the brink of global conflict, a world grappling with rampant antisemitism and the escalating persecution...

That Adolf Hitler spoke out against the Jews is banal in the extreme. But that this is the first book ever to compile his remarks on the Jews is nothing short of astonishing. Of the thousands of books and articles written on Hitler, World...

Born in Dresden as Nazism tightened its grip, Irmgard (Irma) Conradi witnessed the rapid dismantling of Jewish life in Germany. As discriminatory laws escalated into violence, Irma's world collapsed during the terror of Kristallnacht. She navigated her own survival in a regime built on...

Aleksandr Bergman was born in Riga, Latvia in 1925. The son of a teacher, his youth was filled with the promise of a vibrant European future - until the world caught fire.At 15, Aleksandr watched as the Red Army shuttered his country's borders. But...

The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings contains the proceedings of the third international Etty Hillesum Conference, held in Middelburg in September 2018. It brings together the work of 33 experts from all over the world to shed new light on life, works, inspiration...

Summary:2020 marked a new era in the United States with what some consider a revival of the Civil Rights Movement, sparked by the shocking and unjust murder of George Floyd. However, systemic racism against the Black community has survived even after the emancipation of...

Present day Florida. In the sun-soaked landscape of Orlando, retired William Wingort's peaceful vacation shatters when a familiar face from his haunted past emerges. When William mysteriously goes missing, the burden of unraveling his concealed history falls on his son, Matt. In a tumultuous...

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent...

This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events - a shadow of war.Author: Claudia TheuneISBN-10: 9088904545ISBN-13: 9789088904547Publisher: Sidestone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

It All Began in Nuremberg is a translation of Rita Thalmann's moving memoir, Tout Commença à Nuremberg, originally published in France in 2004. Thalmann's memoir represents one of the last voices to witness personally the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. The author, a...

Author: Kaitlin BrownISBN-13: 9798385083572Publisher: WestBow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2026Pages: 114Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

Author: Julia WolbrookISBN-13: 9798235585133Publisher: Serena CapuozzoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2026Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d

According to the Honorable Winston Churchill, the first casualty of war is the truth. It is difficult to dispute the accuracy of this statement by the "Old Lion" of Britain. Since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and throughout the armed conflicts of our century,...

What really shaped modern Britain-and why does it still matter today?Most people have heard of communism. Fewer understand how deeply it influenced British politics, culture, and identity. And almost no one sees the full picture-until now.British Communism: Origins, Appeal, Jewish Membership, Legacy, and Why...

An urgent history--intimate in its telling, epic in its scope--of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust. In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the attempted extermination of the Jewish people....

A National Jewish Book Awards Finalist WINNER, ZIBBY AWARDS FOR BEST FAMILY DRAMA & BEST STORY OF OVERCOMING Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena's Gift is the captivating account of one woman's personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family's...

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally...

Natural Selection is the volume of The Protocols series, which chronicles the rise and consequences of authoritarianism from the Industrial Revolution through the end of the Second World War. It's title is drawn from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, a scientific framework later...

This book is a story based on personal experience and historical facts. Kingsley Iheme lived through the Nigeria-Biafra war, which lasted between 1967 and 1970. He was only two years when the war started, but he was a witness to some of the horrors...

This is the tragic story of the genocide of the aboriginal "Indian" population in California. This was the first book written and researched by this author in 2017-2018 and includes personal stories and information related thereto. This book also explores racial designations, eugenics, and...

This book counters the widely-held view that, unlike the French, the German people did not resist the Nazis. The fact is that many, many Germans did just that, and almost none were successful. What is more, their resistance may be seen today, in the...

When the author published "Child of the Diaspora" in 2015, he thought his mother's line was lost. His mother had escaped from the Nazis occupying Vienna in 1938, leaving her mother and brother to their ultimate fate in 1942. He was unaware at the...

Dr. Hercberg-Grodecki - Gallant Physician of Polish Ghettos tells the fascinating true story of a young Jewish physician and an avid Polish patriot who during World War II saved the lives of hundreds of patients incarcerated in Polish Ghettos. The book describes how the...

"Shaland takes you by the hand and delivers a Jewish heart." (HaLapid Magazine)"This book is a collection of Jewish survival stories and fascinating tales. This is not a conventional travel guide: this book will shine a light on the history of 10 Jewish communities...