History - Holocaust

'The best short introduction to the study of Hitler's Germany.' - European History Quarterly The 40th-anniversary edition of Sir Ian Kershaw's ground-breaking study of the Third Reich. With a brand new foreword by Mary Fulbrook, The Nazi Dictatorship covers all the major themes and...

""China And The Missions At Amoy: With Notice Of The Opium Trade"" is a historical book written by George Freeland Barbour in 1855. The book provides a detailed account of the missionary work in China, specifically in the port city of Amoy, during the...

This incredible book has been called "a stirring chapter to documented Jewish resistance to the Holocaust." Wilhelm Bachner has been called "the Jewish Schindler" because of his heroics in saving hundreds of Jewish families from almost certain annihilation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1939....

The Loesener memoir offers a rare insider's view into the functioning of the Nazi system and Schleunes's essay provides an analysis of how Loesener's activities served to promote as well as hinder that functioning.Author: Karl SchleunesISBN-10: 0813337755ISBN-13: 9780813337753Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize:...

Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.The Holocaust presents an immense challenge to those who would represent it or teach it through fiction, film, or historical accounts. Even the testimonies of those who were there...

Witnessing the Disaster examines how histories, films, stories and novels, memorials and museums, and survivor testimonies involve problems of witnessing: how do those who survived, and those who lived long after the Holocaust, make clear to us what happened? How can we distinguish between...

Author: Joe DunthorneISBN-10: 1982180765ISBN-13: 9781982180768Publisher: Scribner Book CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.80d

In this compelling memoir, Itzhak Fisher pays tribute to the values of perseverance and family loyalty, inspired by his parents' and in-laws' generosity and courage as they rebuilt their lives after surviving the Holocaust.Author: Itzhak FisherISBN-13: 9798891882348Publisher: Advantage Media GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight:...

We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...

Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. The author explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse...

The memoirs of a man who saved thousands from the Nazi death camps. Although not as well-known as Raoul Wallenberg, Valdemar Langlet was the savior of thousands of Jews in Budapest in the last two years of World War II. Entirely without the permission...

Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust--a motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity. With that perspective the expert authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of...

When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, they wasted no time in implementing their radical policies, first by securing passage of the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. Among those designated by this law as "congenitally disabled" were deaf...

The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver...

Her subjects represent Holocaust survivors from seventeen countries - countries associated with the Holocaust, like Poland, Germany, and Lithuania, as well as such places as Libya, Tunisia, Greece, and Macedonia. The album contains twenty-nine black-and-white portraits of survivors accompanied by their autobiographies. It also...

"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...

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on how cataclysmic events, primarily within Central and Eastern...

We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it. The idea has now been part of global...

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it. The idea has now been part of global...

Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. As one of the victorious Allies, Britain had to help find a...

Nazi Germany's War Against The Jews by Seymour Krieger is a comprehensive account of the Holocaust, detailing the systematic persecution and extermination of millions of Jews during World War II. The book explores the origins of Nazi anti-Semitism, the policies and actions that led...

In this moving memoir, Miriam Landor shares her family's harrowing experiences of the Holocaust and the lasting impact this dark chapter of history had on the generations that followed.Miriam was inspired to write Stumbling Stones after she started uncovering her father's story. He was...

The definitive study of Hitler's role in the greatest act of genocide of the twentieth century. The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely...

In this book of poetry, Martin Herskovitz, the son of Holocaust survivors, manifests a language of remembrance that describes not the desolation and destruction, but rather the possibility of grieving, of finding compassion and healing. It is a language that evokes the trauma of...

In 1933, a ten-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three children in the Rozenblum family -- Rose, Felix, and Maria. Fela and Rose became best friends; five years later, Fela...

'Massive, groundbreaking new research that sheds more truth on the Holocaust.' - Helen Fry Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the...

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of...

Author: Leslie Varady, Robert G. VaradyISBN-13: 9798887472638Publisher: WheatmarkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

Author: Moishe KantorowitzISBN-10: 1998880249ISBN-13: 9781998880249Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs ProgramLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 632Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Historical consensus is largely unanimous in viewing the German nobility under the Weimar Republic as completely enthralled by fascism. In this enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein and his family, Hammerstein's Daughters provides an important counter example to this paradigm. A staunch opponent...

Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis--and where it might take us. We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. Historian Alec Ryrie explores why...

Author: Carol MacLeanISBN-10: 1804364878ISBN-13: 9781804364871Publisher: Hera EdicionesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2025Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.70d

André Trocmé is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis as pastor of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, a story celebrated in literature and film. But who was the man behind the legend, and the how did he...

Young Writers Respond to the Holocaust and Other Genocides In 1944, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, used the word "genocide" to describe the Nazi policy of systematic murder, the aim of which was to annihilate all European Jews. When the International Military Tribunal held...

When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby's Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. The case turned out to be full of fine dresses, furs, and lace, with boxes of postcard albums showing grand castles and churches in Austria,...

Sometimes hope can be pointless, a glimmering mirage in a desert of darkness. Sometimes it can be a mean hoax, an unreachable carrot at the end of a long cruel stick. But sometimes-like for Charles Schwarz, a Jewish boy separated from his parents and...

In this powerful and deeply introspective account, psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl shares his firsthand experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and a sub-camp of Dachau. Rather than dwelling on the horrors of the Holocaust in detail, *From Death-Camp to Existentialism* focuses on the psychological...

While imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, 13-year-old Ruth Krautwirth maintains a sense of dignity even as she struggles to stay alive. As a grandmother, Ruth realizes she must tell her story. Her words, captured in letters to her granddaughter, convey her life story. It...

Researching family history means stepping into the unknown; Nicola discovered that after an old passport (issued in 1935) unexpectedly fell into her life in 2004. The passport owner was her grandfather's sister, and it marked the start of a journey into the tragic past....

Researching family history means stepping into the unknown; Nicola discovered that after an old passport (issued in 1935) unexpectedly fell into her life in 2004. The passport owner was her grandfather's sister, and it marked the start of a journey into the tragic past....

Author: David ShtokfishISBN-10: 1962054241ISBN-13: 9781962054249Publisher: Jewishgen.IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2025Pages: 346Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.81d

Krasnystaw lies in southeast Poland a little over 30 miles from Lublin. The town was not large, compared with nearby "sister cities" like Chelm but it differed from them in the proportion of Jews in the population, which was smaller than the others. Krasnystaw...

This is the English translation of "Ayaratenu Swir".Svir was a small town in northwestern Belarus, about 50 miles from Vilnius, Lithuania. Like many parts of eastern Europe, it changed hands several times as far as national borders, having been part of the Russian empire...

Davyd-Haradok was a small town in southwestern Belarus in a swampy, sparsely populated area that stretched along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, just under 50 miles from Pinsk. The history of its Jewish community dates back to at least the seventeenth century and ended with the...

Dr. Hercberg-Grodecki - Gallant Physician of Polish Ghettos tells the fascinating true story of a young Jewish physician and an avid Polish patriot who during World War II saved the lives of hundreds of patients incarcerated in Polish Ghettos. The book describes how the...

Never before has a historical event become an article of unquestionable faith for all of humanity. Today, however, historians, scientists and researchers from all fields of knowledge are persecuted for questioning the Holocaust. Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Léon Poliakov, two Jewish historians, are the progenitors...

Never in the history of mankind has there been a circumstance such as the one we are going to study in this chapter: a historical fact has become a dogma of faith and cannot be questioned by historians, scientists or researchers in any branch...

In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. They had hoped to...

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the...