History - Holocaust

Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the Holocaust, the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine . By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this study provides a new understanding of the institutional development...

Starting with popular objections to America's entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust, Schuldiner provides readers with a longer historical context and a deeper study of...

Paul Levine presents here for the first time the true history of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the most-famous heroes of the Holocaust. It is the first scholarly study of Wallenberg and Swedish diplomacy in Budapest during the Holocaust which both utilizes and contextualizes those...

A thorough narrative history that explores the previously unknown work of Baptists in the United States during the Second World War. How did US Baptists respond to Jews at home and abroad, especially as anti-Semitism grew and reports of the genocide overseas reached our...

Where was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? How has our religious belief been changed by the Shoah? For more than half a century, these questions have haunted both Jewish and Christian theologians. Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of...

In this pathbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. The Holocaust put the ideological convictions of Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz,...

Wayward Threads is the story of Robert Goldmann's youth in Reinheim, a small German village; his experience in the early Nazi years in Frankfurt; his forced emigration in 1939; and his subsequent career in the United States, including service with the Voice of America,...

The Shadow of Death: Letters in Flames is an analytical study of eight major Jewish and Israeli writers who wrote about the experience of the Shoah (Holocaust). The book is divided into two main sections.Author: Moshe PelliISBN-10: 0761839151ISBN-13: 9780761839156Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. This book shows how in France, the Turkish consuls in Paris and Marseilles intervened...

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history, Frank Sinatra.Sinatra's Century is an irresistible collection of one-hundred short reflections on the man, his music, and...

Born in Dresden as Nazism tightened its grip, Irmgard (Irma) Conradi witnessed the rapid dismantling of Jewish life in Germany. As discriminatory laws escalated into violence, Irma's world collapsed during the terror of Kristallnacht. She navigated her own survival in a regime built on...

With the German invasion of the Netherlands, the country's Jewish population faced an existential threat. Amidst fear, betrayal, and the silence of many, Pastor Leendert Overduin (1900-1976) chose another path. From his base in Enschede, he organized a clandestine network that expanded beyond his...

Among all topics of historical interest, none seem to merit as much attention and controversy as the Holocaust. Ironically, no topic is as poorly understood; distortion, confusion, and misinformation are the rule.In the years after World War Two, a few skeptics began to make...

A fresh, unforgettable, and deeply personal true story of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich that brings to light the vile Nazi policy under which Germans with Jewish ancestry were persecuted and condemned to death--including two young children from an ordinary...

In 2020, in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns, Denise Handlarski learned of testimony given by her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who she never knew. In his testimony, Jakub Handlarski accuses a Polish police officer of murdering his brother and sister prior to the Siedlce...

In the late 1930s, as the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and Austria intensified, five distinguished gentlemen met half a world away for regular late-night poker games. What began as an excuse to drink whiskey, smoke cigars, and discuss the political events of...

In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society....

This is the first ever study to address Jewish forced labor in the General Government (Poland) during the Holocaust, and its consequences on the Nazi regime. A fascinating book about mutual dependence of economics and warfare during one of the most difficult periods in...

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression: Opinion and Judgment is a comprehensive report published by the Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. The report provides a detailed account of the Nazi regime's conspiracy and aggression leading up to and during...

""After Hitler Stalin?"" is a book written by Robert Ingrim that explores the possibility of a Soviet victory in World War II and the potential consequences that would have followed. The book delves into the political and military strategies of both the Soviet Union...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The Holocaust stands as a focal event in modern Western history. With a vast array of literature, film, and historical work dedicated to the subject, it is increasingly difficult for educators to sift through the materials available and incorporate them into their curricula. New...

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust. The main text provides background on concepts such as culture, identity and stereotypes, as well as on specific topics such as Holocaust education as curriculum, various educational...

In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of survivors. Three main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion, the...

Contributors assess highly charged and fundamental questions about the Holocaust: Is it unique? How can it be compared with other instances of genocide? What constitutes genocide, and how should the international community respond? The third edition brings this volume up to date.Author: Alan S....

Author: FrankenISBN-13: 9798234036186Publisher: 10-Q PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2026Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

"ATTENTION! ATTENTION!" A loud and rough voice came through the school loudspeaker. That Wednesday morning, June 28th 1950, was different from the any Wednesday before it. A new reality was being imposed on South Korea by its neighbour to the north as thousands of...

Peretz Opoczynski was a journalist who made significant contributions to the Warsaw Ghetto's secret Jewish archive, Oyneg Shabes. Josef Zelkowicz, an ordained rabbi, became a key member of the semi-official archive in the Ló dz Ghetto. While other writers sought to create an objective...

A Train near Magdeburg-LARGE PRINT EDITIONWhat do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like? As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe,...

A groundbreaking history that illuminates Catholic sisters at the center of the Catholic Church's encounter with Nazism.Faith under Fascism: Catholic Sisters in Nazi Germany reveals the vital role women religious played in confronting, navigating, and ultimately outlasting the Third Reich. Focusing on the School...

You are about to take a journey through a series of poignant stories about lives impacted by war, genocide and displacement. Born to Holocaust survivors, the 12 writers whose stories appear in these pages explore themes of resilience, identity, memory and healing, as they...

The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of Atrocity: Material Culture and the Challenges...

The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to "cleanse the land" of Jews. Moreover, of all the Third Reich's allies, only Romania undertook...

Der pseudo-Euripideische Rhesos ist die einzige vollständig erhaltene griechische Tragödie, die auf einer Episode der Ilias (Buch 10) basiert, und ein einmaliges Zeugnis für die Geschichte der Gattung im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Die Ausgabe mit Einleitung und Kommentar bietet einen griechischen Text, für...

This collection of essays charts the shifting representation of World War II in Italian literature and film from 1943 to the present. The essays examine film genre, cultural history, gender, the Holocaust, emotion studies, shame theory, and environmental studies.Author: Gabrielle OrsiISBN-10: 1683931394ISBN-13: 9781683931393Publisher: Fairleigh...

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin. They were among a handful of couples who were married in Theresienstadt, and are possibly the only pair who lived to describe their wedding. They survived Auschwitz, and unimaginable slave labor...

It takes courage beyond belief to sneak out in the night to dig in the garbage for scraps to keep from starving when you know you would be killed if you were caught, or to crawl through ice and snow to freedom because the...

This book seeks to answer three vital questions about the worldwide response to Hitler's "Final Solution" When did information about the genocide first become known to Jews and non-Jews? Through what channels was this information transmitted? What was the reaction of those who received...

Teaching the Holocaust can be a very challenging experience. What content should be included and what should be left out? How can film and literature be integrated into the curriculum? What is the best way to respond to students who resist the idea of...

The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust yet other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide.Author: Hülya AdakISBN-10:...

Comprised of a wide breadth of scholarly materials and diverse articulations, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference will help you guide others in Holocaust research and show you how you can avoid contributing to the popularization and trivialization of the Holocaust. You'll find in it...

He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and...

Sentinel of Truth provides a gripping account of the assassination of two Turkish diplomats in California in 1973 by an aggrieved septuagenarian survivor of the Armenian Genocide, and explains how a study of the global campaign against Turkey's denial of the genocide cannot but...

On the basis of family archives of two families from Rommerskirchen, Germany, this book chronicles the tribulations of the Kaufmann and Vosen families under the Nazi regime until their eventual emigration to the United States.Author: Barbara Reisner,Josef WißkirchenISBN-10: 1304876268ISBN-13: 9781304876263Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2021Pages: 82Format:...

Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and some are considerably stranger than others. This book collects fifty of the most outlandish and widely believed conspiracy theories in circulation, examining what they claim, where they came from, and why they have attracted followers. It approaches the subject...

Author: Robert RozettISBN-10: 9653084488ISBN-13: 9789653084483Publisher: Yad Vashem PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 288Format: PaperbackAward: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist

Deslee Campbell's handbook to understanding denial of the Holocaust over the past decades is very timely as right-wing extremism is gaining traction in Europe, especially in Germany, now that memories are fading and all living witnesses to Nazi deeds are passing from this earth,...

A cache of poignant lettersA narrow escape from Nazi-occupied EuropeA family scattered and forever changed by warIn 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately scrambling to acquire visas to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Among them were Elsa and Saly Levi, a young...

Im März 1943 rollen hunderte Eisenbahnwaggons der Deutschen Reichsbahn in das Vernichtungslager Auschwitz. Aufgrund eines Erlasses von Heinrich Himmler sollen Zehntausende von Sinti und Roma von zentralen Sammelstellen im Deutschen Reich dorthin deportiert werden. Die meisten von ihnen kommen in dem Vernichtungslager Auschwitz um....

While the examination of bystanders to the Holocaust has constituted an important part of Holocaust research in the last decades, historians have focused mainly on the two major Western Allied powers, the United States and the United Kingdom. This book broadens this important research...