History - Holocaust

On April 27, 1944, Polish-born Israel Cappell was awakened by the dreadful knock on the door that he and his family had feared since they began to hide from the Nazis in their adopted city of Brussels two years earlier. Israel's sister Fanny managed...

Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confined to one place and one...

This is the amazing and inspiring true story of a Polish Jewish Partisan leader and Soviet captive during World War II. Joseph L. Zygielbaum fought the Nazis under the Polish and Soviet flags and alongside the American Office of Strategic Services. These memoirs reveal...

Sarah, nine years old, endures yet another air-raid in the street shelter in Blitz-torn England. At the same time nine-year old Claude is practising an escape should their house in occupied France be raided by the Gestapo. Sarah and Claude, Jews, and their families...

""Doctors of Infamy: The Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes"" is a historical account of the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors during World War II. Written by Alexander Mitscherlich, a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the book delves into the horrific experiments and medical procedures...

George Moshe Stein was a Jewish young man growing up with his family in the village of Oradea in Romania. In 1942 the scourge of Nazisim came to them and upturned their lives and aspirations forever. Initially forced into an unbearable ghetto, the family...

Paris. The Somme. The Italian Campaign. The Russian Front. And inside Hitler's bunker during The Battle of Berlin . . . World War II through the eyes of a solider of the Reich. Siegfried Knappe fought, was wounded, and survived battles in nearly every...

On June 24, 1941, Michael, 16, and his sister, 19, leave their home in Dubno in Ukraine, just ahead of the advancing German armies. Fleeing by foot and train, deep into Ukraine and beyond, the teens spend a brutal winter in a town near...

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,...

The book titled ""The Jews In Nazi Germany: A Handbook Of Facts Regarding Their Present Situation"" is a comprehensive guide written by the American Jewish Committee. The book is aimed at providing a detailed account of the Jewish community's plight in Nazi Germany during...

Victor Klemperer was a German-Jewish Professor who somehow survived the Nazi regime, only to find himself under post-war Soviet domination. His diaries (1933-1959) contain the life of Klemperer, his views on Hitler and Germany through to the Soviet era, and contain a window on...

Through the darkness of the Holocaust: A Jewish family's incredible survival storyA memoir 80 years in the makingHow did two Polish-Jewish engineers defy the horrors of the Holocaust? Henry Reiss meticulously describes their decisions and their journey as the threats shifted with the progress...

Avinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. While there may be no direct causal connection between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state...

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. Unlike many of his Nazi colleagues who denied either knowing about or participating in the Holocaust, Hoss...

Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years 1942 and 1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in the Janowska...

Before Pep Guardiola and before Jos Mourinho, there was B la Guttmann: the first superstar football coach. Remarkably, Guttmann was also a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the...

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the...

Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical...

Kurenets and nearby Vileika are situated at a road junction and a railway that leads deep into Russia. Because of this significant location on a noteworthy geographic artery, the area has suffered from many foreign army invasions. According to local testimony, the Jewish community...

Tarnow had a rich and vibrant history during its best years, but like many Polish towns, a tragic end. Its Yizkor book vividly describes both: the era of prosperity and the cultural and intellectual contributions of its people, and its destruction at the hands...

From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is an invaluable, firsthand account of a child's survival in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II. When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years...

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...

The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a shattered world. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the lives of Polish Jews were marked by violence and emigration. But...

A powerful portrayal of individual dissolution in the face of political catastrophe, by the award-winning playwright of Angels in America.Author: Tony KushnerISBN-10: 155936078XISBN-13: 9781559360784Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1994Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.39w x 0.53dReview Citation(s): Booklist 01/01/1995 pg. 795

During the Second World War, six million Jews - as well as other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped and homosexuals - were systematically murdered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis and their collaborators. The incomprehensible number - six million - becomes all the...

In this provocative and insightful book, Joanna Beata Michlic interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal "threatening other," harmful to Poland, its people, and to all aspects of its national life. This is the first attempt to chart new theoretical directions...

Designed for middle and high school students, Holocaust: A Q & A Guide to Help Young Adults Really Understand the Holocaust is an approachable guide and useful tool for educators and students alike. M. Guyle Crispin's work offers answers to 94 student-generated questions about...

"Otto Friedrich's powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr."I know of no work which brings the reality of this evil...

A multitude of books have been written about both the horrors and the heroes of World War II. Legacy of Hope: Hidden Heroes from Generation to Generation, though similar in general topic as some of those other World War II books, is also uniquely...

A cache of poignant lettersA narrow escape from Nazi-occupied EuropeA family scattered and forever changed by warIn 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately scrambling to acquire visas to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Among them were Elsa and Saly Levi, a young...

The holocaust will remain a stain on the history of mankind in perpetuity, long after the recollection of many of the perpetrators has faded. Some names will remain, however, indelibly printed in the records and the memories of future generations. Adolf Hitler's political protestations...

In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of...

Oskar Schindler was a naive optimist, a chronic alcoholic, a lover of women outside his marriage to Emily Pelzl. The Jews he saved used to say, "Thank God he was more faithful to us than to his wife." Will the enigma ever be solved?...

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take...

'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and...

Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that "shatters many myths about the Nazis' genocide" (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation."A stunning, original, concise analysis. ... Masterful." --Wendy Lower, author of Hitler's...

Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the Nazis. At last comes the first full account of the kapo trials, based on records newly declassified after forty...

Written by the grandson of two Holocaust survivors, From Poland to Brooklyn provides a new and insightful analysis of the Holocaust. The book includes thought-provoking quotations from law professors, historians, civil libertarians, and Holocaust survivors. My grandparents, Leon and Cecilie Matzner, are two of...

Author: Helga SchneiderISBN-10: 0143035177ISBN-13: 9780143035176Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/TrLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2005Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 7.06h x 5.08w x 0.53dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.6Point Value: 6Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 79570 / Let Me GoReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 40

Alfred J. Lakritz's inspiring and moving memoir chronicling his painful separation from his parents, who relied on the kindness of strangers to save Alfred and his brother Herbert from the Nazis.For years, the boys were hidden in occupied France in homes, secluded farms, and...

Alfred J. Lakritz's inspiring and moving memoir chronicling his painful separation from his parents, who relied on the kindness of strangers to save Alfred and his brother Herbert from the Nazis.For years, the boys were hidden in occupied France in homes, secluded farms, and...

Author: Nikolaus WachsmannISBN-10: 1665154624ISBN-13: 9781665154628Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs

The Second World War was caused by one man--Adolph Hitler. This tormented personality brought death and destruction over most of the world. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin were called on by history to stop this menace.In this book, which includes new...

"A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one." --The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz's brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence--the long echo of the...

In December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Sķēde, near Liepāja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme distress, sometimes without clothing. Some capture the very moments when...

This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other,...

""From A Historian's Notebook: European Jewry Before And After Hitler"" is a book written by Salo Wittmayer Baron, a historian who was born in 1895 in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The book is a collection of essays and articles written by...

This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other,...

A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by...

The ghetto in Kovno has its own tragic place in history because of the cruelty of conditions there and the revolt of Jews towards the end of its days. The dire circumstances of the ghetto became more widely known after World War II with...