History - Holocaust

When Hitler came to power in 1933, he labeled physically and mentally handicapped citizens as dangerous to the genetic health of the German people. He initiated a compulsory sterilization program that eventually blocked 400,000 citizens from enjoying any normal family life. With the onset...

The present volume is the result of an interdisciplinary oral history research project, which was carried out at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. It focuses on the Kindertransport, the British rescue operation saving 10,000 predominantly German-Jewish children from Nazi...

Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Canadian war...

Volodymyr Volynskyy (Ludmir), now in Ukraine, was one of the oldest cities in Poland. A Jewish community existed here at the end of the thirteenth century, but information about the organized Jewish community only begins in the sixteenth century.The great synagogue, in the center...

Dr Jacques Lewin, the author's father and a medical researcher at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, was deported to Auschwitz on 27 March 1942 in the first convoy from Western Europe. He survived almost three years in Auschwitz and later Ebensee, but only rarely...

Part memoir, part fiction, A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES is a book of journeys taken, and journeys ahead.A Writer journeys into present day western Ukraine, to witness the present, to experience the past of the Pale of Settlement in what was then Russia at the...

The epic, untold story of how some of the biggest names on Broadway and in Hollywood fought fascism, opened America's eyes to the Holocaust, and forced the government to take action--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Black Count In September 1941, a screenwriter...

The Architecture of Control Beneath Modern ScienceBlending intellectual history, political theory, and critical philosophy, this interdisciplinary work forces a confrontation with what is called "progress." Beneath advances in modern medicine, data systems, and global security, it exposes enduring structures of authoritarianism, showing how tools...

The definitive and moving account of America's only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only...

Did you know that the mass media were reporting an impending holocaust of six million Jews since the late eighteen-hundreds? Did you know that the media have repeatedly exposed the stories of Holocaust survivors to be lies? Did you know that many mainstream scholars...

The author of this book weaves together five compelling and interrelated narratives. The book's main concern is to present the world's first unauthorized biography of Elie Wiesel. It shines the light of truth on the mythomaniac who, in the 1970s, transformed the word "Holocaust"...

The history of the notorious Auschwitz Camp as perceived by the general public rests almost exclusively on what witnesses on both sides of the camp fence have reported on it. Libraries and video channels like YouTube are full of experience reports. But how reliable...

Everyone Asks What Will Happen to Us traces how Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto wrestled with questions that had troubled them since the occupation began: when will the war end, and what will become of us? In examining the production and spread of...

Fighting Eichmann's Holocaust tells the story of a group of young Zionists who saved at least 30,000 Jews during Adolf Eichmann's genocide in Hungary during World War II. In the brutal Budapest winter of 1944-45, high-school and college-aged men and women helped Jews hide...

President of Israel Shimon Peres, in a speech to the German Bundestag on 27 January 2010, convened to mark Holocaust Day, voiced an often-repeated enigma that continues to trouble humanity over a half a century after the Holocaust: "The question still remains today why...

Part memoir, part fiction, A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES is a book of journeys taken, and journeys ahead.A Writer journeys into present day western Ukraine, to witness the present, to experience the past of the Pale of Settlement in what was then Russia at the...

Dora Bursztajn was only 13 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and set the world she knew ablaze. Forced into the Brzeziny Ghetto alongside her family, Dora was forced to grow up and shoulder a burden no child should bear: keeping her younger...

Threads of Hope is a work of historical narrative nonfiction that tells the true story of three Basque sisters separated as children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and the long, uncertain path toward reunion that followed. Through their experiences, the...

'Nobody knows how much I owe that man, ' Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life in Auschwitz. For six months, Lorenzo Perrone risked his own life to smuggle food, letters and clothing to prisoners. Without Perrone, Levi would not have...

What if the most powerful weapon of the Third Reich was not its army, but its image?For twelve years, the Nazi regime presented itself as a symbol of strength, order, and inevitability. Through carefully staged appearances, propaganda films, military spectacles, and relentless messaging, millions...

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...

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies is an innovative, multidisciplinary volume covering the history, religion, culture, and politics of Jewish studies and psychoanalysis.Author: Stephen FroshISBN-10: 1032442662ISBN-13: 9781032442662Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2026Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.02lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.18d

The Golden Age, during which Jews experienced peace, serenity, and prosperity in Poland, ended in 1939 with the Nazi invasion. Of the millions of Jews who had lived in large cities and in shtetls of Poland and the neighboring Soviet Republic of Ukraine, only...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025'Extraordinary' BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour'Uncompromising and supremely disquieting' Prospect'A story so profound and yet so readable -- a landmark book' Rory Clements The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who...

What is the best way to demonstrate that the orthodox narrative about the "extermination of the European Jews by the Nazis" during World War II is fundamentally wrong? We think the best way is to take what the orthodoxy thinks is "arguably the single...

During the war, wild rumors were circulating about the infamous Auschwitz Camp: that the Germans were testing new war gases there; that inmates were murdered in batches of thousands in electrocution chambers, with gas showers, or by pneumatic hammer systems; that living people were...

When her grandmother falls ill overseas from England, eleven-year-old Lucy Sanford, and her family board the RMS Titanic to sail to New York City. On the first evening aboard the Titanic, Lucy meets a French boy around her age named Shane Anderson. Lucy believes...

History of the apostles rebuilt with the gospels, traditional word- of- mouth stories of the early church, and church traditions founded by them, they toured the entire Roman Empire, Russia, Asia, Africa, and England, and reached Japan, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, India ... ......

The 20th century was plagued with many wars, including World War I and World War II, that nearly led to the destruction of the world.This calamity was a consequence of the devil that began in the 19th century when he appeared before God's throne...

New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust. In studies of Holocaust representation and memory, scholars of literature and culture traditionally have focused on particular national...

"OUR "GRAVE" WAS A DUG-OUT HOLE in the ground about 3.5 feet deep and 6 feet wide. The three of us could only sit or lie down on the straw that was under us. There were boards above us covered by straw. It was...

The second book in the two volume set of The Distance continues the story of one country and its people trapped within overwhelming forces during the second world war. Although focused on events in Hungary during much of the book, it is an international...

From the bloodbaths of WWII Southeastern Poland - torched towns and villages, to lush forests, Anna fights for survival in the wake of destruction left behind by warring Germany. After witnessing the horrific murders of most of her family by German death squads, Anna...

One of the more dated cliches is that of the man holding a sign stating that the world is about to end; one of the most over used sermons is that of the he'll fire and damnation which will accompany the apocalypse. But what...

*This script-novel is based on a true story! In the year of 1943 when the WWII was going on, the young people of WWII-participating-nations faced the extreme situations of the war, whether it was one's own will or other's will. What was the honor...

The novel tells the story of a young woman's quest to bring hope and healing to Palestinians.The desire to help the subjugated people of Palestine prompts Rachel to trade the peace of her hometown, Olympia, Washington, for the war-torn city of Rafah, Gaza, Palestine....

After the German attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krakow, were occupied by the Nazis in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'. The region was not directly incorporated into the Third Reich but was...

This volume expands the intellectual exchange between researchers working on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust life and North American sociologists working on collective memory, diaspora, transnationalism, and immigration. The collection is comprised of two types of essays: primary research examining the Shoah and its aftermath...

"If the Holocaust, as image and symbol, seems to have sprung loose from its origins, it does not mean we should decry Americanization; rather, the pervasive presence of representations of the Holocaust in our culture demands responsible evaluation and interpretation."--from the IntroductionThe Holocaust is...

Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler's horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force designed to win elite support, to...

The decades separating our new century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region. Virtually no Armenians remain on their historic territories in what is today eastern Turkey. The Armenian people have been scattered...

In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in their relevance. Both mark Jewish...

At the end of World War II roughly 300,000 American GIs were deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those informal interactions played a significant role in the transformation of Germany from enemy to...

The Holocaust continues to be a defining event for understanding not only the course of history during the 20th century but the course of human events in general. Perhaps the most contentious issue is that of how the Holocaust continues to be understood, explained,...

Life in la Juderia, the Jewish quarter of Rhodes, had its basis in the strong cultural traditions of the Sephardic Jews who settled there after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Nazi occupation of the island late in World War II would shatter the community and...

Author: G. AronsonISBN-10: 1962054446ISBN-13: 9781962054447Publisher: Jewishgen.IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2026Pages: 402Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.67lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.88d

The gripping story of the fall of Heinrich Himmler--the man who sought to perfect genocide--as he becomes the most hunted war criminal in history during the convulsive final days of the Third ReichHeinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo, and Waffen-SS, rose to all...

Some books recount history, while others confront the machinery that made atrocity possible.Words That Killed is a piercing investigation into one of the most disturbing truths of the twentieth century: that genocide was not only carried out with weapons, but also engineered through language....

The Holocaust in Croatia recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War, with a focus on the city of Zagreb. Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein grounded their study in extensive research in previously closed archives, aided by the memories...

Neither Henryk Tauber nor Szlama Dragon is a name that rings a bell among the general populace, or even among most aficionados of World War II history. In fact, even in literature dealing with the Holocaust, these two names are not prominent by any...