History - Holocaust

Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it is now possible to speak of a New German Jewish...

"I was born a Jew, and among Jews I want to live" This book describes the lengthy, audacious and tumultuous journey of a Jewish boy, born in Poland, whose life was riven by love and war. From a partisan unit and the city of...

""The Truth About Bolshevik And Nazi Atrocities In Latvia"" by Ludvigs Ekis is a comprehensive account of the atrocities committed by both the Bolsheviks and Nazis in Latvia during World War II. The author provides a detailed analysis of the events that took place...

Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi racial crimes. The survivors' decision to engage and...

The Warsaw weekly Polityka issued the following appeal to its readers on the 50th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: "We are asking those of you who still remember the circumstances of the Time of Humiliation to summon up scenes and images from...

In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters...

A research guide on how to investigate the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections grounded in deep awareness of the historical background and contemporary policy context. This book equips those confronting the legacies of the Nazi past in museum collections with the necessary knowledge for...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...

Slutsk is a town in central Belarus about 60 miles south of Minsk. It was noted for its pleasant forests, vegetable gardens, and splendid fruit orchards and its produce was renowned throughout Russia. About 10,000 Jews lived there at the turn of the 20th...

Slutsk is a town in central Belarus about 60 miles south of Minsk. It was noted for its pleasant forests, vegetable gardens, and splendid fruit orchards and its produce was renowned throughout Russia. About 10,000 Jews lived there at the turn of the 20th...

Kamyanets Podilskyy is a town in southwestern Ukraine that was the historic center of the Podolia region which was ruled in turns by Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Turkey until it returned to the hands of the Russian empire in 1793. Like many towns in...

Mizoch lies in the heart of today's western Ukraine, with Jews first arriving there in the 18th century. By 1897, while under the rule of the Russian Empire, the Jewish community numbered 1,175 and comprised 44 percent of the population, and operated factories to...

An urgent, poetic exploration of power, memory, belief, and the dangers and possibilities of language. PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world's most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language....

The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar - a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits - became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust....

"A deeply revealing, intimate account of a family's Polish history... As a six-year-old boy, Charns came across a book named 'I Survived Hitler's Hell' by A.P. Gwiazdowski and became curious about his family's Polish history. As he grows older, he begins to wonder about...

Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world. Including contributions from an international...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...

"At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document" SIMONE WEILFrom April 1942 to March 1944, H?l?ne Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal...

Renée Poznanski's magisterial history of the French Resistance during World War II offers a comprehensive exploration of the most significant issue in that period's social imaginary: the "Jewish question." With extraordinary nuance, she analyzes the discourse around Jews and Judaism that pervaded the Resistance's...

Author: Leon Dwolatzky DuvalISBN-10: 9655971147ISBN-13: 9789655971149Publisher: Nikkanor GateLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.96d

Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews...

A Holocaust survivor recounts his memories from pre-war Poland to liberation, honoring lost family and culture.These are the memories of a man who had been a young Jewish boy in Central Poland. His 9th birthday came in mid July 1939. Less than two months...

Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it is now possible to speak of a New German Jewish...

The contributors to this collection of essays take an innovative approach to the ways in which various French, German, Jewish, American, and Basque individuals experienced and negotiated the Occupation at a grassroots level.Author: Sandra OttISBN-10: 1949805522ISBN-13: 9781949805529Publisher: Center for Basque Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2022Pages:...

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its...

The twentieth century left humanity in despair. Two World Wars caused the death of more than seventy million people. The Holocaust of the Jews and genocide against other groups left us the images of factories of death and names of unimagined cruelty. Humanity learned...

Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published in that country in the post-Soviet era. In the first chapters, the book examines...

Margit Kassai uses her quick thinking and wit to survive the Nazi occupation of Budapest in 1944, the terror of the extremist Arrow Cross regime and the Soviet siege of the city until the early months of 1945. Jewish by birth but a convert...

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under...

As the last Holocaust survivors die, their testimonies make the transition from memory to history. In this compelling volume, Yehudi Lindeman, Director of the Living Testimonies Video Archive in Montreal, shares compelling stories of survival and triumph collected from years of interviews with those...

The awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe's Jews left an indelible mark on history. In the years before World War II, thousands of young...

This book describes and analyzes theater productions performed in Israel, America, Poland, France, Italy and Germany that deal with the Holocaust. The collected essays trace the development of the realistic/documentary stagings of the 1950s-1970s through to today's very controversial avant-garde shows. This is the...

Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich - Danzig-West Prussia, the Wartheland, District Bialystok, Zichenau...

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...

"A beautiful, honest portrayal not only of survival, but of a friendship built from the telling of such a devastating experience." -Kim Klett, Regional Education Corps, United States Holocaust MemorialHelen Handler was just fifteen years old when she found herself alone in Auschwitz. The...

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diaryIn this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of...

"By Pure Luck" tells the remarkable story of how Fela Igielnik survived life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brutality of World War II. But more than that, it reveals the possibility of transforming even the darkest of experiences - starvation, forced labor and...

The destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pools together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays and letters by Yisrael Bider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis...

The destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pools together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays and letters by Yisrael Bider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis...

This compelling family history spans from the 1890s to the 21st century, weaving personal stories into the broader fabric of German history to reveal a deeply moving account of survival, courage, and resilience. At the heart of this narrative is Paul Bernstein, a Jewish...

Author: Richard HurowitzISBN-10: 0063037246ISBN-13: 9780063037243Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 496Format: Paperback

""We Survived: The Stories Of Fourteen Of The Hidden And The Hunted Of Nazi Germany"" is a non-fiction book written by Eric H. Boehm. The book is a collection of fourteen personal accounts of individuals who survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. These individuals...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...

At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...

Poland, September 1939. The author's grandfather, then eighteen-year-old Kalman Sztajer, witnesses a group of Nazi soldiers drag his partially dressed neighbors into the street and shoot them in broad daylight. From that moment forward, Kalman does whatever he can to protect his family. He...

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, A.A. Castor draws striking parallels between the actions of Israel in the Palestinian territories and the historical atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Through a meticulous examination of war crimes, illegal occupations, and human rights violations,...

"Anti-Semitism revisited in a wholly original way" Philippe Sands "Rippling with ideas on every page" Jewish Chronicle"Tackles the issue [of anti-semitism] from the perspective of a country where its manifestations have been more vicious and deadly" Financial Times Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur analyses the phenomenon...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbr?ck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism....

At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...