History - Holocaust

In the darkest corners of human history, where names were replaced by numbers, and silence was enforced at gunpoint, language did not disappear. It adapted. It hid. It survived.Voices Behind the Wire is a gripping and deeply original exploration of the unseen world inside...

They wore white coats. They took oaths to heal. They believed in reason, progress, and the promise of science. And yet, in the shadowed corridors of the Third Reich, medicine became something else entirely, a weapon sharpened by ideology, wielded with clinical precision, and...

Many of the first Holocaust testimonies involved music. Yet despite the central role that music played in the traumatic aftermath of the Third Reich, it was not perceived as testimonial. Audible Testimonies: Surviving the Third Reich in Music and Media explores the early postwar...

Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) learned of the mass killing of the Jews during World War II itself, from his grandparents, experiencing shame and guilt for the atrocities committed behind the Vilijampole ghetto gates and the Ninth Fort. In 1988 Sutkus began photographing...

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, holds millions of documents that enrich our understanding of the many forms of persecution during the Nazi era and its...

July 1941, Zagreb, German occupied Yugoslavia. Men in trench coats and fedoras came to our apartment and summoned us to report to the police station in the morning. The men were Ustase, the Croatian equivalent of the Gestapo who were implementing the plan to...

Author: O'Connor SiobhánISBN-10: 1443851930ISBN-13: 9781443851930Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2017Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their detailed and original work, summarize the nature of the controversies,...

This is the story of a young boy and of his parents caught up in World War II and in the Holocaust. It describes the events that impressed themselves upon the boy's memory, as remembered by him as much as 75 years later. It...

Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims. The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis...

Through the collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1923 and 1942, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated trauma, and the impact on future generations of the same family.This book charts a...

Author: Arthur Robert ButzISBN-10: 1971021768ISBN-13: 9781971021768Publisher: Flodur Ramreg ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2026Pages: 600Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.21d

Author: Jürgen GrafISBN-10: 1971021695ISBN-13: 9781971021690Publisher: Flodur Ramreg ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2026Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Author: Germar RudolfISBN-10: 197102130XISBN-13: 9781971021300Publisher: Flodur Ramreg ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2026Pages: 630Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.27d

Author: Nicholas KollerstromISBN-10: 1971021164ISBN-13: 9781971021164Publisher: Flodur Ramreg ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2026Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Shura tells the true story of a Jewish woman born in Lithuania at the beginning of the Great War. As a teenager she uncovers a secret that sets her on a life-altering course.Already a wife and mother when World War II arrives, she struggles...

In the past decades, commemorative volumes with contributions from esteemed scholars have been published at each decade anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust (the ghettoization and deportation of 1944). While these volumes have become milestones in Hungarian research, they rarely contained the research results of...

A searing account of the French Catholic Church's complicity in the Holocaust, revealing how the nation's most influential bishops shaped the course of Nazi persecution through closed-door negotiations and hollow promises. When German occupiers rolled into Paris in June 1940, they arrived wary of...

Examines the final years of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the varied, nuanced ways Jewish people resisted Nazi rule. The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942-June 1943 sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences of the tens...

This is the story of Corrie's life with her mother, her father, her siblings, and her aunts before World War II began. This book is a testament to how God prepared one family through a father's faithfulness to his Savior and the Word of...

A woman's diaries from age 16, before her last minute escape from Hitler's Germany, until she died in Oxford, England aged 50 - and the letters her big brother sent over those years from his refuge first in Ecuador then Pittsburgh USA. Together they...

Primo Levi-chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz-was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of the most widely read books on the Holocaust today. Echoes of a Lost Voice is the fruit...

In August 1944, 800 Jewish women from Hungary and Poland were moved from Auschwitz to Bremen to undertake forced labour. This important book presents unique research on a forgotten camp and its forgotten forced workers. Hartmut Müller writes from the point of view of...

Kurt Pick was born in 1912, the only child of Austrian Jewish parents. In 1938, he had to leave his home in Vienna, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews. He was captured but escaped and succeeded in being smuggled into Brussels, where he...

This second volume covers the persecution of the Romanies and Sinti in some of the countries occupied by Germany or ruled by its fascist allies including France, Italy, Austria and the present Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, the Soviet Union and the Baltic States.Author: Karola...

Now available in paperback, this book is a uniquely comparative analysis of the role of cinema in the development of collective memories of the Shoah in France and Italy. The work follows a chronological structure of which three French documentaries - Night and Fog,...

Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp built for women. Its history constitutes a crossroads in the various stages of the Third Reich's persecution of women accused of offending the Nazi state and of those ethnically and racially persecuted. Women from different social...

Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. The horror which first confronts him is overwhelming, and something other than...

Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. The horror which first confronts him is overwhelming, and something other than...

This is a personal account of a young boy's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Transnistria. The descriptions are presented against the background of unfolding events, combining personal recollections with a historic overview, before, during and after the Holocaust. The author was ten when...

Bergen-Belsen was the only major Nazi concentration camp to be liberated on the British front, some three weeks before the end of the war in Europe in 1945. This book contains accounts which should ensure that the horrors of the camp are on the...

From the Edge of the World is an anthology of largely unpublished work written by Jewish refugees who came to the UK in the 1930s, fleeing from the threat of Nazism. The idea for this collection was inspired by the story that the author's...

Life Strictly Forbidden is the memoirs of the well-known Polish writer, Antoni Marianowicz, told partly through interviews with journalist Hanna Baltyn, and partly through personal recollections of his family before the War and during the Occupation. The honest, in-depth conversations with Baltyn create a...

The story of Willy Berler's 'Journey through Darkness' opens with the attack on the 20th Belgian convoy from Mechelen to Auschwitz, an extraordinary act of resistance. His tale then relates the arrival at Monowitz, his fortuitous transfer to the main camp of Auschwitz, and...

The story of a wealthy Jewish family living in Cracow whose idyllic life is shattered in the midst of invasion by the Nazi army in Poland. Experiencing, on one hand, immense adversities, denunciations and arrest, and, on the other, miraculous rescues, incredible escapes and...

Alexandre and his family live in Poland, which is partitioned in 1939, followed by a brief period of Soviet rule full of tension and fear. This is followed by the German invasion and occupation which brings depression and debasement to the Jews. Locked up...

Sharpe examines Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as a case study of Arendt's theoretical work on judgment. In addition, he seeks to illustrate two dimensions of judgment: modesty--who am I to judge? and arrogance--how dare you judge me? He demonstrates the extent to which...

Faith, Hope and Resilience is a deeply moving historical memoir that chronicles the life of a Jewish child who survived the horrors of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Through a personal and unfiltered lens, the author recounts a childhood shaped by fear, hunger,...

Dabrowa Górnicza in southern Poland was shaped by the coal mining that fueled industrial growth in the region. Coal permeates many of the book's chapters starting with one titled "The Eternally Gloomy Town." Residents would say that the sky was always covered in a...

Ever since Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe and deputy Führer, crunched a cyanide capsule between his teeth and died the night before his execution for war crimes, speculation about his death has never ended. The question of how Goering obtained the poison...

How Vatican officials aided Nazi war criminals and undermined Allied justice after World War II In the aftermath of World War II, the Nuremberg Trials promised a new era of international justice, holding Nazi leaders to account for their crimes. Yet beyond the courtroom,...

Examines the final years of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the varied, nuanced ways Jewish people resisted Nazi rule. The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942-June 1943 sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences of the tens...

Until now, in the scholarly literature on the development of 'Holocaust consciousness' in the UK, the 1960s has been a missing decade. This book brings together an impressive cast of expert scholars to provide a much-needed corrective to the situation. It ranges widely across...

Review"a most powerful story"PHILIPPÈ SANDS, author of THE RATLINE and EAST WEST STREET "accomplished ... succinct, clear and precise story-telling"TOBIAS JONES, author of THE DARK HEART OF ITALYProduct DescriptionFrom the cosmopolitan seaport of Trieste to war-ravaged Verona, Rita's War tells the tragic true story...

Zvi Helmut Steinitz Memoirs for eternal remembrance For years I was preoccupied with the thought of documenting the tragic fate of my family members, all of them perished in the Holocaust. Yet for almost my whole life, I tried to suppress the sorrowful past,...

A Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one. Part One is the story of Dieter Vaupel, a German high school teacher who, in 1983, uncovered a hidden past when he and his students began researching what happened in their town during the Nazi...

Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jewsâ "most of them survivors of the Nazi death campsâ "who sought to immigrate to the Land of Israel were intercepted by the Royal Navy and deported to the nearby island of Cyprus, where they were detained...

Charles Edward was ruler of the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, and the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was closely allied with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the implementation of eugenic policies designed to improve German...

My Many Lives is an autobiography written by Lotte Lehmann, a renowned opera singer. The book chronicles her incredible life journey, from her early days in Germany to her rise to fame as one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. Lehmann shares...

""Hitler's Germany: The Nazi Background to War"" by Karl Loewenstein is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of Nazi Germany and the events that led to World War II. The book explores the political, economic, and social factors that allowed Hitler and the Nazi...