History - Holocaust

In this compelling "autobiographical" account of life and death, Rabbi David Forman takes the reader on an intensely challenging journey of self-discovery. Dramatic and comic, intellectual and emotional, Over My Dead Body: Some GraveQuestions for God addresses primary concerns about God that occupy all...

From an unlikely Technical College in internment, run by the dubious character Ludwig Warschauer or the unusual female electrical engineer Ira Rischowski, to the unprecedented and creative initiative that was the trading estates where many refugees set up their businesses, this book is full...

Professor Hans Mommsen, one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, has gathered together a group of historians who are engaged in pioneering research into national socialism. This book covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career;...

The first study to focus directly on the issue of how 'privileged' Jews are judged and represented. Offers a multi-disciplinary examination of Holocaust representation across different media/genres. Explores seminal Holocaust texts (the writings of Primo Levi and Raul Hilberg, along with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah...

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...

Soundless Roar introduces a distinctive new voice to Holocaust literature. Ava Kadishson Schieber, author, poet, and artist, spent her teenage years hiding from the Nazis on a Serbian farm. Her cultured speech and city-bred body language could have betrayed her, so she was forced...

The Nazi Holocaust is often said to dominate the study of modern Jewish history. Engel demonstrates that, to the contrary, historians of the Jews have often insisted that the Holocaust be sequestered from their field, assigning it instead to historians of Europe, Germany, or...

Erwin Biener had a comfortable middle-class life as a child in Hungary until the Nazis arrived. He and his mother had to go through terrible times, first under the Nazis and then under the Soviets before they were able to escape and reach Canada....

We were probably the most despised members of the armed forces, but our assignment had never been a matter of choice, and we did not, in the beginning, have any clue as to why we should be so disliked. In due time, all this...

The "thrilling and deeply moving" (Valentine Low) true story of a remarkable group of women who risked everything to rescue 15,000 refugees from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War.October, 1938. Germany is poised to take over part of Czechoslovakia and thousands...

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...

Executive editors: Katja Happe, Michael Mayer, and Maja Peers, with Jean-Marc Dreyfus; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, and Dorothy Mas In April-May 1940 the German Wehrmacht invaded Northern and Western Europe. The subsequent occupation of Norway, Denmark, the...

Executive editor: Andrea Löw; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce, Georg Felix Harsch, and Dorothy Mas This volume chronicles the situation of the Jews in the German Reich and in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between the start of the Second World...

This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents' kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noah's grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tales of rebellion and death camps...

Holocaust Restitution is the first volume to present the Holocaust restitution movement directly from the viewpoints of the various parties involved in the campaigns and settlements. Now that the Holocaust restitution claims are closed, this work enjoys the benefits of hindsight to provide a...

My youngest brother asked me to help him remember.He had no one else to ask.So begins this extraordinary memoir, handwritten by Maria Gluck at the age of 93 and completed - by herself using IBM's ViaVoice dictation software - at 97.What started as a...

Holocaust education comprises diverse methods to teach about the tragic events of World War II. It includes survivor testimonies, films, books and museum exhibits that engage students in learning about the experiences of those affected. By exploring these narratives, students develop empathy, critical thinking...

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. The Forger of Paris presents Adolfo Kaminsky's biography in its...

The Holocaust that occurred during World War II remains one of the deadliest genocides in human history, with an estimated two-thirds of the 9 million Jews in Europe at the time being killed as a result of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi...

The Sports Palace speech was the climax of a campaign for 'total war'; the prime example of Nazi 'mass suggestion', a barrage of propaganda, seduction, and manipulation. On the 18th of February 1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made a speech in the Berlin...

A surgeon at Columbia University was in his office preparing for an operation the following day. The year was 1994 and his routine remained unchanged for twenty years: his treasured anatomy atlas opened to an illustration revealing tissue layers to be dissected and writing...

Insight into the lives of older Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust. Elderly Jews were among the most vulnerable groups during the Holocaust, yet little scholarly and literary work has focused on their experiences. Not only were they often the first to be...

Insight into the lives of older Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust. Elderly Jews were among the most vulnerable groups during the Holocaust, yet little scholarly and literary work has focused on their experiences. Not only were they often the first to be...

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man's Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair."This is a book I reread a lot ... it gives me hope ... it gives me...

A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and...

"What drives an ordinary man to orchestrate extraordinary evil?"From Alexander Reich, a master of historical storytelling, comes an unflinching exploration of Rudolf Höss-the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz and one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. This book dives deep into the duality of...

How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped...

In the modern age, post-Holocaust studies should embrace the variety of media and cultural channels available to enable the comprehension of the current population. When implementing these channels, individuals have to take into account a holistic approach to ensure all aspects of this area...

The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook...

For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible - if not,...

Focussing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust traces the process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung ('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasions and popular mythologies with regards to the Nazi era, and cultural representations of the Holocaust up to...

Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the...

This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland. Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memory, and interpretation, through focused readings of Holocaust fiction by Kosinski, Wiesel, Tournier, Ida Fink, and others.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThrough new close readings of Holocaust fiction, this book takes the field...

The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America.Author: Laszlo Berkowits,Robert W. Kenny,Jody I. FranklinISBN-10: 0761840664ISBN-13:...

This in-depth study of a Jewish man's diary from Nazi-occupied Poland provides an unfiltered view of the struggles of Samuel Golfard, who tried to make sense of and resist the Holocaust that ultimately destroyed him. The diary is complemented by an array of wartime...

Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruistic toward outsiders than those who are less religious? In this book Pearl M. Oliner examines data on Christian rescuers and nonrescuers of Jews...

In Mamaleh: A Legacy of Loss and Love, Elaine Culbertson has created a new kind of Holocaust survivor story. It is a memoir that combines both her mother, Dora Freilich's, personal recollections of her life as a survivor as well as her own reflections...

The story of Riwka (Bep) Schaap-Bedak follows unexpected twists and turns during the Nazi occupation of Holland and the annihilation of Dutch Jewry. Bep graduated with a law degree from Leiden University in 1940. Being Jewish herself, and supported by her classmates, she was...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women--champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid...

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to...

In "PERSEVERANCE," Iris unfolds a compelling memoir that spans a decade of challenges and triumphs, weaving a narrative of growth, resilience, and unwavering determination. Growing up in the projects of the South Bronx, Iris, a Latina teen mom, and HS dropout, navigates the complexities...

In The Death Camps of Croatia, Raphael Israeli shows that throughout Yugoslavia during World War II, anti-semitism was both deeply rooted and widespreadAuthor: Raphael IsraeliISBN-10: 1412849756ISBN-13: 9781412849753Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2013Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.70d

Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and...

Questions shape the Holocaust's legacy. 'What happened to ethics during the Holocaust? What should ethics be, and what can it do after the Holocaust?' loom large among them. Absent the overriding or moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the...

A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost worldBy the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and...

Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies...

Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and...

From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the...