History - Holocaust

Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn't Experience delves into the intergenerational transmission of trauma to the granddaughters of Holocaust survivors. Although members of this generation did not endure the horrors of the Holocaust directly, they absorbed the experiences of both their...

Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations. This was no coincidence. Popular anti-Semitism was so powerful in Austria that once...

This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland, and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films,...

For many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found the echo heartbeat of my twin brother Adam. Each of our questioning and searching finally came to...

A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in "a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history" (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) "Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a...

Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was...

Spaces of Treblinka utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical misconception that Treblinka was an isolated Nazi extermination camp with few...

From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust is the first in-depth study of the second largest Auschwitz subcamp, Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska), and its lesser known yet significant prehistory as a so-called Schmelt camp, a forced labor camp for Jews operating...

The first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka, an Austrian Roma writer, painter, activist, musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. What Should I Be Afraid of? presents the work of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), an Austrian Romni writer, painter, activist, musician, and survivor of...

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of...

This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the beit midrash) and the academy.Author: Ethan B. KatzISBN-10: 103242740XISBN-13: 9781032427409Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2023Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

An Excerpted section on the Shoah in the Jewish thought of Emil Fackenheim and Hannah Arendt and the Kantsequential Kantian Kant(text) extracted from a longer more comprehensive systematic study on theodicy across Jewish History in a 3 volume Bildungs-GeschichteAuthor: David B. LevyISBN-10: 1667159658ISBN-13: 9781667159652Publisher:...

A widely celebrated intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and the after-effects of...

The only artifact from my family's world before the onset of World War II is a pair of "raveled, stained, scored, and torn" napkins. These frayed "white napkins with blue borders" were "given to my mother by her mother on the platform of a...

Nazi flags were flying all over Paris, these were the darkest days in France. For thousands of Jews the only thing that differentiated life and death was a piece of paper with a Turkish stamp on it. Ambassador Behic Erkin had to make a...

Swastika: The Nazi Terror is a book written by James Waterman Wise that explores the rise of Nazi Germany and the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. The book delves into the history of the Nazi Party, from its origins in the aftermath of...

The Red Cross and the Holocaust presents a new assessment of the role of the world's most famous charity in World War II. Was the Red Cross aware of the appalling sufferings of the victims of the concentration camps? How much did its International...

Through an examination of children's and youth plays and performances about the Holocaust from Germany, Israel, and the United States, this bookoffers an entirely new way of looking at the vital role of youth performance in coping with the legacy of historical tragedy. As...

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...

Some people face extraordinary and daunting challenges. Ted Blum's grandparents were forced to embark on a journey that would shape them and their future generations' lives. With the backdrop of Europe and World War II on their doorstep, Blum's family became outstanding examples of...

Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations. Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, Yoder identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime anniversaries, such as the bombing of Dresden and ceremonies...

An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi F?rer--Adolf Hitler. In a...

Mercedes N橾ez Targa was born in Barcelona in 1911. She served as secretary of the poet Pablo Neruda and fought in the Civil War with the Catalan socialists. Following the collapse of the Spanish Republic, she was imprisoned under the Franco dictatorship in Madrid....

La odisea de Heinz Salinger en los campos de concentración de la Alemania nazi Casi un siglo después de los acontecimientos, el autor recupera la historia de su abuelo en los centros de exterminio, una experiencia tan traumática de la que nunca quiso hablar...

The discovery of rich oil and mineral wax deposits in the Drohobycz-Boryslaw area in the 1850s turned it into an industrial and economic powerhouse-"the California of Galicia." Jewish-owned industries started up: refineries, mining, spinning, weaving, and factories producing candles and soap. Bythe early 1900s,...

Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break.Stefanie Fischer combines approaches from social...

An innovative mix of history and psychological research, this book tells the story of one family of Holocaust survivors and reveals how each generation has passed on memories of the War and the Shoah to the next.Author: C. RothISBN-10: 0230606075ISBN-13: 9780230606074Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

New in paperback - The story of the world's largest ever invasion through the voices of the men - and women - who witnessed it first-hand. Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of...

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 secret war-torn history. From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw to the vermin-infested prison where an SS...

Hitler's attack on Russia in the spring of 1941 and the Nazi eastward blitzkrieg form a dramatic backdrop to this true story. On the first day of Operation Barbarossa, in the midst of battle, Esther Parnes leads her family east, away from the Polish...

Born in 1940 in Rotterdam, Clara van Thijn was separated from her parents on July 29, 1942 when they reported for the first Jewish transport headed for Auschwitz, where they were murdered shortly after their arrival. Entrusted into the arms of family friend Dolf...

Mother's Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times is the "bio-history" of Margarete Sobel Hermann, the author's mother and role model, who lived 101 tumultuous and productive years. Her life spanned 95 percent of the twentieth century, during which she and her family...

Emil, a Jewish man in 1930s Germany, loves Deta, a Lutheran, but Nazi racial purity laws forbid their marriage. Desperate to find a place where their love can survive, they must separate to get away. Deta leaves for England, but Emil has to overcome...

How do survivors of genocide come to terms with the horrors they witnessed and experienced? Do they become shells of what they had been, or do they find meaningful ways of re-establishing their lives and move forward productively?In this book, part memoir and part...

After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by...

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.Author: Jennifer CazenaveISBN-10: 1438474768ISBN-13: 9781438474762Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2019Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

The Truth About Bolshevik And Nazi Atrocities In Latvia is a historical book written by Ludvigs Ekis. The book provides a comprehensive account of the atrocities committed by both the Bolsheviks and the Nazis in Latvia during World War II. The author presents a...

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: 103236050XISBN-13:...

Embark on a chilling exploration of Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, the enigmatic architect of horror in Nazi Germany, in this gripping biography. Born on October 7, 1900, Himmler's journey unfolds from his uneventful service in a reserve battalion during World War I to becoming the...

From February 1942 to July 1944, Oskar Rosenfeld served in the statistics department of the Lodz ghetto. A playwright and journalist, he kept his own notes on life and conditions in the ghetto for a fictionalized account he hoped to write one day. Though...

Containing an almost entirely new selection of texts, this second edition of The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Many of the pieces challenge conventional analyses and preconceived notions about the Holocaust, whether regarding genocidal precedents and...

When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma.During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German...

Author: Esther JilovskyISBN-10: 1912676605ISBN-13: 9781912676606Publisher: Vallentine MitchellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2020Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those...

Author: Irene Stern FrielichISBN-10: 8218320555ISBN-13: 9798218320553Publisher: Prince Dome Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2023Pages: 364Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

For half a century, my grandfather, Yehuda Feldman had been quietly on a mission. Since the 1960's, he sought a person to compile and publish his memoire. I think it was a sense of obligation, to repay those who came to his aid, by...

Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest. Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in rural Poland...

This is the story of Chciny, my hometown in southern Poland, and of the people who lived there between the two world wars of the 20th Century. The Nazi invasion of Poland in October 1939 started World War II. Millions of Polish Jews died...

Hal Lindsey's bestselling expose of a dangerous movement in the church which is striving for exclusive worldwide Christian leadership of church and state. By the author of The Late Great Planet Earth.Author: Hal LindseyISBN-10: 055334899XISBN-13: 9780553348996Publisher: Random House Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1990Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight:...

America's Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued from the horrors of the Holocaust. The community of Oswego answered the call...