History - Holocaust

The Destruction of Peoples considers the connections between colonial conquest and genocide in modern history. Drawing on a unique interpretation of Raphael Lemkin's conception of genocide, it closely examines Britain's establishment of settler colonies in Ireland, Australia and other invaded indigenous lands, with special...

Tudor Parfitt tells the extraordinary story of a Jewish child who survived the Holocaust in Slovakia by an almost impossible chain of events. In 1942, Vera, eight, was on a train from the concentration camp at Sered, in western Slovakia, bound for Auschwitz. Had...

"But if they were not murdered, where did the six million deported Jews end up?"This is a standard objection to the revisionist thesis that the Jews were not killed in extermination camps. It demands a well-founded response.While researching an entirely different topic, Steffen Werner...

More than three decades have passed since the Second Zündel Trial ended in 1988. Accused of spreading "false news" about the Holocaust, Ernst Zündel staged a magnificent defense in an attempt to prove to a jury that revisionist concepts of "the Holocaust" are essentially...

The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today--and the courageous countervoices Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would...

This book provides an insightful exploration of how a German policeman, Mathias Müller (Police Battalion 309), was involved in Nazi atrocities and mass murder behind the frontline in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It does this through the analysis of Müller's...

This updated edition of Witness, which includes a new Afterword with an address by Steven Spielberg, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. For over 25 years, the March of the Living...

No Strength to Forget relates the struggle for survival of the author's family in the direst of circumstances. In a world of legalized mass murder, instigated by the Nazis and adopted by many in Ukraine, the family was hunted for the crime of being...

The Halbjuden of Hitler's Germany were half Christian and half Jewish but, like the rest of the Mischlinge (or "partial-Jews"), were far too Jewish in the eyes of the Nazis. Thus, while they were allowed for a time to coexist with the rest of...

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor...

Lilo was a child during the Holocaust. Now that the older generation of Holocaust survivors, such as her parents, have mostly passed on, she and others like her are the "last survivors of the Holocaust" - the final witnesses to the horrors that Hitler...

Denmark in World War II: Occupation, Resistance, and Survival by Adrian E. Markham explores one of the most complex and remarkable chapters in modern Danish history. From the German invasion of April 1940 to the liberation of May 1945, the book traces how a...

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,...

While Holocaust education is a staple of American schooling, it is rarely studied as a product of the political machine. We often focus on what happens in the classroom, yet the path to those lessons begins years earlier in state legislatures and governors' offices.This...

After October 7th, which confronted Israeli children with unimaginable violence, the potential to apply post-WW II and Holocaust child rehabilitation approaches became clearly visible and urgent. After 1945, hundreds of thousands of children had to be brought back to everyday life against the background...

As victory in World War II drew near, the Allies decided to hold a major trial of Nazi leaders, which began in Nuremberg in November 1945. Conflict soon broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union over not only how to assess...

These are the last adult witnesses--in their own words. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of 'inferior' groups. His goal included the eradication of European Jewry, a plan...

Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve-year-old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed nearby. Child of the Forest is...

"It's All Relatives" is a memoir of 3 generations of the Gross family. Gathered from my memories and stories and writings of several family members.I am a daughter of Holocaust survivors. All my life my parents would precede each story with "BEFORE THE WAR"...

This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness. Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of...

Between Home and Homeland is a fascinating account of young German Jews who immigrated to Palestine during the 1930s in the Youth Aliya movement. As Hitler consolidated power, Jews and their allies in Germany began efforts to leave the country. Among them was the...

Long Shall You Live is a memoir following the lives of a young couple, Mienus and Suze, during the Nazi occupation of Holland during WWII. It traces Mienus' involvement in the Dutch Resistance in Vlaardingen and Rotterdam as a young patriot, and his subsequent...

The Holocaust takes on a riveting immediacy in these true stories of the everyday, understated heroism that saved thousands of Jews from annihilation at the hands of the Third Reich. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, To Save a Life pairs the...

Jezierzany and SurroundingsThis memorial book, a translation of the original Hebrew and Yiddish version published in 1959, preserves the history and legacy of the Jewish community of Jezierzany, now called Ozeryany. Previously part of the Polish region of Eastern Galicia, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire,...

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive?This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together...

Rescuing the Children is the autobiography of an extraordinary woman, the history of a remarkable organization she worked for in World War II France, and a portrait of children in severe psychological distress. The organization was the OEuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or...

In this luminous memoir a life shaped by motion, memory, cultures and careers, unfolds in the art of making a home in the unfamiliar. At the age of nine, Alex Krieger arrived in America with his three parents-survivors of the Holocaust. In Chicago, he...

WWII's Most Unbelievable Stories: The Wild, The Weird, and The WarEver hear a story so mind-boggling you had to ask, "Wait...that really happened?"This isn't your typical World War II book. Instead of battles you've read about a thousand times, you'll dive headfirst into 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...

"Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding." --Naomi Klein "This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers." --Hisham Matar "A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing...

At just thirteen years old, Lilly was taken from her family and forced into a world of hunger, fear, cruelty, and loss during World War II.She endured hardships no young girl should ever have to face. She witnessed suffering up close and lived through...

Fascist Jews?Yes. As strange as it may sound to many readers today, before the racial laws of 1938 there were many Jews who supported Italian Fascism.This book tells the stories of twelve of them.They were very different people: politicians, military officers, businessmen, artists, and...

Fifty-five years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust continues to cast a dark shadow. For the past two decades, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by videotaping testimonies from...

In 1938, during Kristallnacht, Sonia Ascher's father was seized by the Nazis from his home in Germany and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This memoir follows her passage from a frightened child to an adult coping with the consequences of generational trauma that left...

The deportation of more than 400,000 Jews from Hungary to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp from mid-May to early July 1944 is said to have been the pinnacle of this camp's extermination frenzy. It was allegedly followed in August 1944 by the extermination of more than...

The National Socialist concentration camp of Stutthof, not far from Danzig (West Prussia), has never been the subject of scientific study by western historians. In Poland there exists quite an extensive body of literature on the subject, which must, however, be treated with caution,...

The novelists and movie-makers James and Lance Morcan have produced a book "to end [Holocaust] denial once and for all." To do this, "no stone was left unturned" to verify historical assertions by presenting "a wide array of sources" meant "to shut down the...

In 1993, Jewish theologian Deborah Lipstadt called British historian David Irving a "Holocaust denier." Irving sued her for libel in return. Subsequently a court case unfolded in England which attracted the attention of the world's mass media in 2000. The sharpest weapon in Lipstadt's...

The Auschwitz-Monowitz Camp was the Third Reich's largest and arguably most infamous forced-labor camp. After the war, it became the focus of one of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, the IG-Farben Trial. During that trial, the IG-Farben management was accused of having worked their slave-labor...

When it comes to the "Holocaust," terms like "gas chambers" or "gas ovens" dominate the public's mind. "Gas vans" are usually absent from the discourse. What percentage of the general populace has ever heard that the Nazis are said to have deployed mobile gas...

Celebrating the Legacy of Ernst ZündelIn this book, you can read all about the Herculean struggle of Ernst Zündel, as narrated by himself.In 1988, the appeal trial of Ernst Zündel, a German-Canadian accused of "knowingly spreading false news about the Holocaust" took place in...

Part of the Welcoming Speech by the Mayor of Sehnde Gerda Rose was born in Sehnde in her parents home. The Rose family operated a business in Mittelstra e and was - just like the other Jewish citizens - supposedly integrated in Sehnde. That...

Utilizing images from Jewish archives and collections in Israel and America, Samuel Heed brings to light hundreds of rarely seen Exodus 1947 photographs for the first time. Launched in 1928 in Wilmington, Delaware, the legendary Exodus 1947 was originally built as the flagship for...

A record of multimedia artist Susan Silas's work Helmbrechts Walk, 1998--2003, in which she retraced the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners from Germany to occupied Czechoslovakia.Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003 is a memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at...

Told through the voices of twenty European Jews who survived the Holocaust, The Hunted presents a micro historical account of persecution and survival under Nazi rule. Drawing on diaries and memoirs, it reconstructs a multiplicity of experiences across national, social, and religious contexts, examining...

As victory in World War II drew near, the Allies decided to hold a major trial of Nazi leaders, which began in Nuremberg in November 1945. Conflict soon broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union over not only how to assess...

In Life Against Death, Volume 2, Rabbi Irving Greenberg curates, introduces, and reflects on the most important essays written over the course of his lifetime on the Holocaust and Jewish-Christian relations, from 1977 to 2016. These influential works recognized as classic in his oeuvre...

During the holocaust in Nazi German approximately six million Jews died. What is not frequently mentioned is that millions of non-Jews were also murdered, perhaps enough to nearly double the total. With numbers approaching or exceeding ten million victims the scale of the extermination...

The world has changed since the 1930s, but human nature has not. What can we learn when comparing far-right populism in the United States to far-right populism elsewhere? How can we better understand the underlying ideas and ideologies that seem to transcend time and...

This book includes the text portions of our Reading Through History World War II series. Reading this will give anyone a great summary/overview of the war. Topics Included are as follows: Section 1: #Adolph Hitler: Mein Kampf, foundation of the Nazi Party etc.#The Nazis:...