History - Holocaust

The writing is clever and impressive... A mesmerizing, nightmarish story that has, for once, a happy ending. -Kirkus ReviewsIn the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris, one Jewish family is protected by their working-class community.It's 1937, the eve of World War II, and young Bernard lives...

On September 11, 1939, Max Liebster, a young German Jew, learned firsthand what it meant to be an enemy of the Nazi state. After his arrest, followed by four months of solitary confinement in a Nazi prison, Liebster plummets headlong into the nightmare of...

Centuries Will Not Suffice explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many...

Author: Lynn H. NicholasISBN-10: 067977663XISBN-13: 9780679776635Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2006Pages: 656Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.20w x 1.17dReview Citation(s): Kliatt 09/01/2006 pg. 42

In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. The publication, which presents heretofore largely unknown materials, seeks responses from diverse perspectives to the question...

Rabbi Fishman has resurrected painful memories to soberly evaluate for history the barbaric acts that resulted in the near annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe. The story of his extraordinary tenacity and faith in the face of stark suffering while still a teen...

In Whitewash, Jan Grabowski brings to light the dangerous practice of Holocaust distortion through the lens of the Polish political landscape. Of the three million Polish Jews who found themselves under German occupation during World War Two, no more than 1 per cent survived...

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Höss's memoirs into English.These...

Author: Stella Maria FreiISBN-10: 3111210251ISBN-13: 9783111210254Publisher: de Gruyter OldenbourgLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 360Format: Hardcover

Here I am human. Here I can dare to be.Goethe's Faust, quoted by Inge to her younger sister Kitty on their arrival in Southampton, August 1939.Born into privilege as the daughters of internationally acclaimed Berlin ophthalmologist Professor Oscar Fehr, Inge and Kitty's world was...

'In Times of Strife' explores the pursuit of humanitarian objectives in the face of perilous conditions of war, exile and extreme social dislocation from 1600 to 1945. Each section reconstructs the endeavours of a pair of associated intellectuals or artists within a multi-cultural European...

This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization - Matzpen (compass) - that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from the recently...

In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals...

Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust. Holocaust studies is at a paradox: while historians of the Holocaust defend...

Can lessons of history develop our orientation in time? Few scholars have responded positively to this challenge. In this theoretically innovative book, prominent scholarly works on the Holocaust and Soviet terror from the 1960s to the present are analyzed to demonstrate the qualities of...

Ruta's Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery of their rescuers....

Author: Jonathan FreedlandISBN-10: 0063373203ISBN-13: 9780063373204Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2025Pages: 400Format: Hardcover

The war was over, but one of Hitler's most dangerous men was still on the run--and capturing him would take courage, cunning, and relentless pursuit. Three days after the official end of World War II, U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps Special Agent Robert E. Matteson...

Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.The binary is defined in terms of "incompatibility" between the Holocaust and Popular Culture on the one hand and the "universalization"...

The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research in Holocaust studies but also reflect multiple approaches to the necessary work of expanding the canon of research in the field and of adopting varied disciplinary perspectives, engaging...

This book shows how much city of Warsaw and its residents suffered under German Nazi occupation. It also shows that all of the destruction was planned before the war and that there were no accidents. The city of Warsaw was to disappear to be...

" In a chance meeting in the 1980's, I had a discussion with Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust author, historian, and teacher. I told him that I had not been able to tell my story. He said that it was my obligation to speak...

It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In...

The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand...

Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published in that country in the post-Soviet era. In the first chapters, the book examines...

Ruta's Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery of their rescuers....

An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.Finalist for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category Most educators keep their teaching...

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the broader impact the organization had made during World War II. Then, through years of research, Subak uncovered the...

Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration discusses the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar is one of the largest Holocaust sites in the Soviet Union and modern Ukraine, where the Nazis and their collaborators killed virtually...

Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration discusses the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar is one of the largest Holocaust sites in the Soviet Union and modern Ukraine, where the Nazis and their collaborators killed virtually...

How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of Holocaust monuments and museums,...

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers...

As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper and in the Emmy-award-winning New York Times documentary, the gripping true story of a Jewish teenager who became "The Forger of Paris" for the French Resistance. At seventeen, Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz...

A personal account of twentieth-century Jewish history, Balaam's Prophecy tells the story of Naphtali Lau-Lavie, a fourteen-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald who went on to become one of Israel's leading diplomats.Author: Naphtali Lau-LavieISBN-10: 1592644236ISBN-13: 9781592644230Publisher: Toby PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2015Pages: 489Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.10h...

Teaching the Holocaust is an important but often challenging task for those involved in modern Holocaust education. What content should be included and what should be left out? How can film and literature be integrated into the curriculum? What is the best way to...

During World War II, approximately 10,000 Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine. Unlike the areas under German control where Jews faced systematic extermination, survival rates were marginally higher under Romanian occupation, as soldiers there did...

During World War II, approximately 10,000 Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine. Unlike the areas under German control where Jews faced systematic extermination, survival rates were marginally higher under Romanian occupation, as soldiers there did...

This book brings together international scholars to examine and share new approaches in the history of women's rescue and resistance during the Holocaust and the Armenian and Rwandan genocide.The activities of women during the Holocaust have often been forgotten, erased, misunderstood, or intentionally distorted....

Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations.This largely hidden aspect of the...

In the waning months of World War II, a Soviet regiment entered Auschwitz-Birkenau, Adolph Hitler's infamous concentration camp, and found seven thousand prisoners on the brink of death from illness and starvation. Among them were three young girls from a town in central Poland...

The events described in the book are largely based on the facts told to the author's father by eyewitnesses after the liberation of the Belarusian city of Bobruisk. A significant part of the Bobruisk population before the German occupation was the Jews. In the...

Interviews with eighteen Jewish "hidden children" of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.The history of France's "hidden children" and of the French citizens who saved six out of seven Jewish children and three-fourths of the Jewish adult...

A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in the Polish Ukraine to a Nazi ghetto to liberation. It...

A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in the Polish Ukraine to a Nazi ghetto to liberation. It...

"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBA This is a story of a young boy's journey from a...

Author: Edward McGlynn GaffneyISBN-13: 9798887197395Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 970Format: Paperback

Author: Susan Meier Moss KatzISBN-10: 1956381600ISBN-13: 9781956381603Publisher: Mazo PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2025Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d

Author: Susan Meier Moss KatzISBN-10: 1956381597ISBN-13: 9781956381597Publisher: Mazo PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2025Pages: 290Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

The tall foreigner living on Port Said Street in a Cairo hotel lived a simple life, reading books and writing letters, known as Uncle Tarek to neighborhood children. They did not know that he was actually Aribert Heim--the concentration camp doctor and fugitive from...

Everyday Silence and the Holocaust examines Irene Levin's experiences of her family's unspoken history of the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded their war experiences as non-topics.A central example of what C. Wright Mills considered the core of sociology - the intersection of biography...