History - Holocaust

On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the Lévitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (Lévitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943...

Family mysteries often remain tangled for decades, just waiting for someone to pick up the thread and begin to unravel the web. Filled with questions, the author puzzles over her family history. What was life like for her father growing up in the Galician...

A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about the Holocaust. The discussion has tended to be theoretical or to concentrate on exposing the "distorted" translations of texts by important witnesses such...

Raised by parents unable to recover from the traumas, pain, and losses of WWII, Ruth Klein had a tumultuous and unusual childhood in a dysfunctional family. Living among other Holocaust survivors in a new country was profoundly difficult for Ruth, and coming through it...

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again. Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this...

This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death-one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era....

The Holocaust is an international event, its the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of...

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic exploration. What exactly is...

Pure Soldiers traces the 14th Waffen-SS Division's fortunes from its formation in April 1943 until its surrender to the British in May 1946, their subsequent stay as prisoners-of-war in Italy, and their eventual transfer as agricultural workers in Britain. In 1950 they began their...

Writing in lively tones with a wit that reveals his indomitable spirit, the author paints a vivid picture of the resistance movement in Denmark, with detailed descriptions of many of the Holger Danske group's daring sabotage operations.Author: Jorgen KielerISBN-10: 1530780926ISBN-13: 9781530780921Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

"Shaland takes you by the hand and delivers a Jewish heart." (HaLapid Magazine)"This book is a collection of Jewish survival stories and fascinating tales. This is not a conventional travel guide: this book will shine a light on the history of 10 Jewish communities...

Reprinted from the 1900 revised and expanded edition of a work originally published in 1882. Haggard is best known for his adventure novels, predominantly set in Africa, and as a founder of the Lost World literary genre.Author: H. Rider HaggardISBN-10: 150285614XISBN-13: 9781502856142Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch's twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Lucien WolfISBN-10: 1499107358ISBN-13: 9781499107357Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation--the children of survivors--to a contemporary generation...

Author: Thuraya Haddad, Henry Heinz FrankISBN-10: 1497493544ISBN-13: 9781497493544Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2014Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

From the Editor / In Memoriam: - Vitka Kempner Kovner - Eli Zborowski / Graciela Ben-Dror --- Introduction/ Prof. Yehuda Bauer --- "The Warsaw Ghetto in Testimonies and Research," from Yalkut Moreshet, 2003 / Yisrael Gutman z"l --- "We, the Jews of the Ghetto,...

The memoir of Helen Weinberg depicts the plight of a young woman who hailed from Kremenitz, Poland. Separated from her family during World War Two, she was imprisoned, beaten, starved and tortured. This story is told using her own words from stories, essays and...

Author: Carl FreedmanISBN-10: 1441517170ISBN-13: 9781441517173Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2009Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

"Possibly the most important task a survivor of the Nazi horrors can face is also the hardest: To write a memoir that causes later generations not to look away but to know and feel the truth of what happened to one person. Helen Studley...

The villagers all felt sorry for fourteen-year-old Henri and little Sylvain: with their mother "in an asylum" and a "philandering" father, back in Antwerp, the two brothers had come to Belsele, in the Flemish countryside, "for a much needed fresh-air break." In fact, the...

""The Fate Of Small Business In Nazi Germany"" is a historical book written by A. R. L. Gurland that explores the impact of the Nazi regime on small businesses in Germany. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the policies and practices of the...

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust...

Against a backdrop of rival empires and shifting borders, the Buchbaum and Heller families lived in the foothills of the Carpathians mountains for centuries.Follow Steve Buchsbaum as he visits the Polish and Hungarian villages and towns where his ancestors lived and traces the details...

The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. M疵ia M. Kov當s convincingly argues that Hungary's numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary's institutions of higher learning,...

Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the...

This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its role as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics. Author: Rachel BlumenthalISBN-10: 179363789XISBN-13: 9781793637895Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2023Pages: 224Format:...

"Music transcends war trauma in this important, aching, artful Holocaust novel." - The Toronto StarOtto, a young cello student in Vienna, is snatched from hishome and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau.Marched from the camp to the Nazi Adjutant's house, he is forcedto...

When the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands began in 1942, the occupying forces used the refugee camp near Westerbork in the east as a transit camp, without modifications. The Westerbork camp was established and paid for by the Dutch-Jewish community in the 1930s...

"Literature of the Holocaust" courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books...

Przedecz, located in central Poland, had a vibrant Jewish communityfor some 600 years, starting at the end of the 14th century. InYiddish, the city was known as Pshaytsh; in Hebrew, Pshedetz.Most Jews worked as tradesmen, artisans, merchants and small traders.The community supported a synagogue,...

In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel's central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account. Following the development of Yad Vashem since 1942, when the idea to commemorate the Holocaust in Eretz-Israel was...

The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has gradually regained popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in...

'In Times of Strife' explores the pursuit of humanitarian objectives in the face of perilous conditions of war, exile and extreme social dislocation from 1600 to 1945. Each section reconstructs the endeavours of a pair of associated intellectuals or artists within a multi-cultural European...

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust-and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which modern society has not yet recoveredOne of the most acclaimed books of the year: "Outstanding" (Times Literary Supplement); "Remarkable" (Guardian); "Important and challenging"...

On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in...

The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith. Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient...

The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied...

This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term "ghetto" in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both...

'...From out of a world of death and destruction, extermination camps, ghettos, starvation and disease, there rises the figure of the woman in the Holocaust... the core of the fascinating studies in this collection. The importance of these research essays is, above all, their...

How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to...

A searing memoir about the cultural life of Salonika's Ladino Jews from the Great Fire of 1917 through the 1943 mass deportation of the entire community to Nazi death camps.Author: Bryan Kirschen, William a. Meis Jr, Semaya Abraham LevyISBN-10: 099767282XISBN-13: 9780997672824Publisher: Fallen Bros PressLanguage:...

In 1996, Ukrainian-born Stepan Fedenko's fifty year wait to tell his WWII survival story came to an end when he first published his memoir Rozluka (Separation). Any sooner and Stepan feared that the Soviets would torture his family for speaking out. The Ukrainian version...

'The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember' is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who survived Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945. In book 3, 'Witnessing the Holocaust' sixteen writers tell us...

The Lemberg Mosaic by Jakob Weiss brings to light the little-known story of the total and tragic destruction of Jewish Lemberg. In pre-war days, the city once known as Lw w was the third largest in Poland with the third largest Jewish population (after...

Rochelle Dreeben's moving memoir retells her holocaust experiences: her escape with her mother from the Warsaw Ghetto, where her father stayed to fight in the Uprising; her mother Leonia's resourcefulness as they harrowingly avoided the death camps; Rochelle's exodus through war torn Poland with...

Of Endings and Beginnings: A memoir of Discovery and Transformation, by Robert Speigel, is a ground breaking journey from pain to health, from places of darkness to places of light. Using his life's story...and the story of his family...Speigel in a very personal and...

Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance is the powerful, poignant, at times funny story of Bernard Mednicki, a working-class, activist member of his socialist union in pre-Nazi Belgium who flees with his family to the mountainous region of southern France...

This book goes beyond historical and psychological explanations of the Holocaust to directly address the moral responsibility of individuals involved in it. While defending the view that individuals caught up in large-scale historical events like the Holocaust are still responsible for their choices, he...

Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati...