History - Holocaust

Prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe. It is estimated that almost one million Jews were murdered in the Ukraine between 1941 - 1944. Many of those...

Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943-1946 challenges the notion of joyous liberation of Holocaust survivors by the Red Army, which is often embedded in popular imagination and collective memory. This is one of the first volumes to shine light on the sexualized...

Trauma Beyond Time: Temporal Constructs in Holocaust Testimonies challenges our understanding of what it means to be a Holocaust survivor, arguing that the term "post-Holocaust" fundamentally misrepresents survivors' experiences. Through careful analysis of Holocaust literature and testimony, this book reveals how trauma persists across...

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom,...

Author: Sarah HelmISBN-10: 034912003XISBN-13: 9780349120034Publisher: Abacus (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2016Pages: 864Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.71d

The Auschwitz Goalkeeper is a prisoner of war's true story. It is the story of a man who endured the horrors of the most notorious death camp of them all, before being brutally forced to march across Europe as the SS retreated before the...

As one of the best-known survivors of the concentration camps, Primo Levi's testimony to his experiences in Auschwitz is internationally recognised as one of the most significant works of the last century. This new book is an original and fascinating insight into the works...

'I was on the street and I was free - but what now?'This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of wartime Amsterdam, the only survivor of his large family. He was just 11...

Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art-the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance...

An in-depth analysis of the memories and experiences of the British second generation of refugees from Nazism before the Holocaust. This oral history project investigates the impact of their parents' trauma, dislocation and pattern of silence on ordinary members of this second generation in...

The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and...

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media. Focusing on the five most popular digital platforms in use today: Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, it examines how social technology affects the way history is made and...

Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize...

Embedded in the images of an old photograph was a family history waiting to be revealed to Ann Helen Wainer. Family Portrait documents Ann's journey of discovery that led her to learn more about the people in the photograph, and ultimately, about herself. Ann's...

I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work... in a forgotten well of ghostly sighsThis astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the...

A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts...

The research presented in this book is an innovating attempt to examine Holocaust Learning Programs and their influence on the formation of moral attitudes among Jewish-Israeli high school students. It aspires to fill a gap in knowledge relating to two major questions: the first...

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,...

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust considers the gendered dimension of the phenomenon of writing as a means of speaking to or for others and for oneself in life-affirming identity. Rather than reading testimony as an internalization of death, this book demonstrates that testimony involves...

Set within the context of the political and ideological developments of the time, History vs. Apologetics examines the role played by the Catholic Church in the rise and consolidation of the Third Reich and in particular with regard to the Nazi persecution of the...

Author: Jack MontgomeryISBN-13: 9798999810717Publisher: Holocaust and Human Rights Center of MaineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2025Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

In 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with most of the Jews from his village in Poland. His mother's last words to him exhorted Phillip to "be somebody" because "the...

Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish people living in Nazi-occupied territories. By examining...

The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Despite the immense, ever-increasing body of Holocaust literature and representation, no single interpretation can provide definitive answers. Shaped by different historical...

The Holocaust is a subject of enormous historical importance. The murder of approximately 6 million Jews stands apart as a perhaps the most horrendous episode in world history. In this fresh introduction, McDonough examines the racial war-within-a-war, outlining controversies and examining how it has...

A compelling examination of Nazi women's perpetration of war crimes, and how--or whether--courts held them accountable To date, our understanding of women's participation in Nazi war crimes has been shaped by political decisions made by men, which reflect entrenched gender norms that diminish both...

Author: Janet Bond BrillISBN-10: 9493418642ISBN-13: 9789493418646Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 366Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Zol Zayn Shulem - May there be Peace - is Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski's attempt to reconstruct and reflect upon the lives of his mother's and his father's families before and during the Holocaust, in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. While the Munich-based side of his...

On September 29 and 30, 1941, in one of the largest mass murders of the Holocaust, German troops massacred 33,771 Jews at the vast gorge located near Kyiv known as Babi Yar (Babij Jar). During and after the war, the territory was modified, redesigned,...

"There are secrets I will take to my grave," Martha Ash told her daughters."I don't want you to think I am a hero," declared their father Feliks.The past in Poland was to be left behind. Martha and Feliks were determined they would create a...

This book brings together the work of 33 experts from all over the world to shed new light on life, works, inspiration and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), one of the victims of the Nazi regime.Author: Klaas a. D. SmelikISBN-10:...

This book examines fiction and film narratives that show the active collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis in the deportation and murder of the Jews of France. It also explains how these fiction and film narratives affected the official and dominant historical...

Ruth Ravina's story is one of childhood under duress. She survived hunger, cold, solitude, existential boredom, and life-threatening situations. Born on April 7, 1937 in Warsaw, Poland, she was raised in Kozienice. In 1940, about a year after the German invasion, a ghetto was...

This thorough account of the postwar search for 150 suspected Nazi collaborators in the United States explains how they immigrated into the United States, why it took so long to locate and apprehend them, and the eventual founding in the 1970s of the investigative...

As World War II (in 1939) overtook Poland, Chaim Silberstrom began a nightmarish flight and fight for survival. The Polish Army refused to allow Jews to join the battle, so Chaim became an easy target. First arrested and force-marched to Germany, he escaped the...

Boxer and member of the French Resistance Kessel recounts the horrifying time he spent in Nazi captivity-almost three years-including an execution that he narrowly survived.Author: Sam KesselISBN-10: 0815411626ISBN-13: 9780815411628Publisher: Cooper Square PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2001Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.52w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Library...

Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity is a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.Robert McAfee Brown was a friend of Wiesel and wrote Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity to process his own thoughts,...

Lenin was a small shtetl now located in southern Belarus about 50 miles east of Pinsk and close to Ukraine's northern border. At various times it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian empire, the reconstituted Polish republic between the world wars and...

Gorodets (present day Horodzets, Belarus) was a small but commercially busy town in southwest Belarus situated along a major railway line about halfway between Brisk and Pinsk. It was home to 254 Jews in 1766, a number that grew to 648 (among 1761 non-Jews)...

Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in today's Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultural memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust. The first Holocaust...

Since 1880, ORT's mission has been focused on empowerment through education, a pragmatic education enabling the recipient to obtain meaningful employment. ORT originated in Russia, the catalyst being the abolishment of serfdom. A few visionary leaders created ORT for the sole purpose of 'helping...

Beautifully written...grittily honest...delightfully charming... Readers have spoken. They wanted more from this masterpiece. So 10 new chapters have been added in what many cite as among the finest coming-of-age memoir ever written. Legendary novelist Jack Engelhard (Indecent Proposal) recovers the past with fresh gems...

A moving true story of a Jewish family's flight from Nazi persecution, and the courage of ordinary people who helped them along the way.This is a story of 'ordinary' people - ordinary people who were caught up in the cataclysm of events in Europe...

David Patterson examines Emil Fackenheim's central philosophical challenge: how to respond to the Nazi annihilation of European Jewry without surrendering to despair or granting Hitler a posthumous victory. He traces Fackenheim's development of the "614th commandment"--a moral imperative not to abandon Jewish faith or...

Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. Central to Bellamy's study is her questioning of whether...

The Posen Library's groundbreaking anthology series--called "a feast of Jewish culture, in ten volumes" by the Chronicle of Higher Education--explores in Volume 9 global Jewish responses to the years 1939 to 1973, a time of unprecedented destruction, dislocation, agency, and creativity "An extensive look...

The creation of the state of Israel was deeply intertwined with the use of militant tactics and terrorism, a legacy that continues to shape the region today. From 1917 to 1949, Zionist groups like Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah engaged in violent resistance against British...

The inspiring story of Joe Sacco and his part in the greatest battles of World War II, from Omaha Beach to the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.In his riveting debut, Where the Birds Never Sing, Jack Sacco recounts the realistic, harrowing,...

The inspiring story of Joe Sacco and his part in the greatest battles of World War II, from Omaha Beach to the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.In his riveting debut, Where the Birds Never Sing, Jack Sacco recounts the realistic, harrowing,...

The book traces within a broad historical context the actions of the approximately 800 brave Jewish physicians, nurses, and other practitioners who strived to maintain the health of the Jewish population while risking their lives fighting two wars--against the Nazis and the death sentence...