History - Holocaust

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and...

Sarah, nine years old, endures yet another air-raid in the street shelter in Blitz-torn England. At the same time nine-year old Claude is practising an escape should their house in occupied France be raided by the Gestapo. Sarah and Claude, Jews, and their families...

During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives...

The Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum. Events had been building up to it for a long, long time before the Nazis came to power. German history, along with the supposed civilizing effects of Judeo-Christianity, are, thefore, traced from Roman times to the...

Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing extensively on the works of Victor Klemperer, Ruth Kluger, Michal Glowinski, Primo Levi, Imre Kertész and Béla Zsolt, this...

Dr. Jack Porter, a former Milwaukeean, now living in Newtonville, Mass, continues his memoirs with these two parts of the trilogy. Future memoirs will include How to be a Rabbi in Ten Easy Lessons, Twelve Screen Treatments including 'Key West Rabbi' and 'Partisans'.," and...

This is the first book in English on the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia and the only one of its kind which focuses on the women who were forced to live in it. Interwoven with the description of everyday life in the...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers' rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites. The...

The dispute over Edgar Degas's Landscape with Smokestacks was featured in newspapers and on television. But because the suit was settled before trial, the story behind the headlines was never publicly presented. Howard J. Trienens, a lawyer for the defendant collector, traces the landscape's...

A revelation and a source of hope. Background essays give a historical overview of how the early pessimistic concentration on pathology has given way to greater emphasis on survivors' adaptive potential and strengths. Many contributors stress the importance of remembering and facing the pain...

Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including...

The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows...

1940s Germany: Little Gerda Collin was fully aware that fear, not freedom ruled her country. Bomb shelters, gas masks, dog tags, and sirens were all she knew. Her father, who she called Vati, was drafted before Gerda was born. Gerda's mother had no idea...

For more than half a century, historians, theologians, and moral philosophers have wrestled with one of the most consequential questions of the twentieth century: What was the true role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust?Was he a cautious diplomat working behind the scenes...

Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.Author: Lucy...

Told in her own words, this is the incredible true story of one young woman's survival of Auschwitz and Belsen because she happened to play the cello.Although my head was shaved and I had a number on my arm, I had not lost my...

Author: Michael Calvin,Naftali SchiffISBN-10: 1400255589ISBN-13: 9781400255580Publisher: Harper HorizonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2026Pages: 272Format: Hardcover

"This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state--or is worried they're about to find out."--Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth The hidden history of a...

Hitler's Food Tasters - The Untold Story of Margot Wölk and the Women Forced to Taste for the FührerEast Prussia, 1942.Hidden inside Hitler's secret headquarters - the Wolf's Lair - fifteen young German women were forced to taste every meal prepared for the Führer.Every...

Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it--a memoir built on fabrications. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their...

As the last Holocaust survivors fade from our world, their stories have never felt more urgent to hear.Ten years ago, Sophie - in France and across Europe - and Leslie - in the United States and around the world - set out to create...

The Nazi Child Abductions in Poland The relationship between Germany and Poland is still shaped by the crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II. One of the lesser-known atrocities is the abduction of tens of thousands of Polish children, who were selected...

The moment we first set foot on the soil of the Naliboki Pushcha, the atmosphere was completely different. We felt a new kind of security, as if we were in our own partisan kingdom.... We had survived so many dangers, but we were now...

A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor. "Weinberg's graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion." --Booklist...

On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas...

The Nazi Child Abductions in Poland The relationship between Germany and Poland is still shaped by the crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II. One of the lesser-known atrocities is the abduction of tens of thousands of Polish children, who were selected...

A story of one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and of an underground existence in the non-Jewish part of the city during the Second World War. Based entirely on the author's original diary, rediscovered twenty years after the war, Michael Zylberberg...

While historical research on the Holocaust has been growing constantly, and has in the last few decades almost exploded, the perspective of the targeted group - the Jews - as an active player in the historical arena of the Holocaust, a player with its...

The Nazi genocide of the Jews, while unique in some ways, was not the only genocide of the twentieth century. This innovative book, the product of a year-long collaboration of scholars from many disciplines, is the first curriculum to systematically tie the teaching of...

Author: Eugene DavidsonISBN-10: 0826260284ISBN-13: 9780826260284Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/1998Pages: 352Format: Hardcover

Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. The Frühaufs faced enormous obstacles with the German and foreign authorities when they attempted to take advantage of matriarch Hilde Frühauf's U.S. citizenship. At...

Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust attempts to sensitize individuals to the tragic results of a racist world outlook, as well as make clear to them how complicated are the series of steps that take the individual from the expression of racist...

In the shadow of the gas chambers, music played.At Auschwitz, where brutality was engineered with industrial precision, a group of imprisoned musicians was ordered to form an orchestra. They performed as trains arrived. They played for SS officers. They rehearsed while smoke rose beyond...

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Ia?i killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia...

In the preparations for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, special units known as the Einsatzgruppen were formed with the special charge of executing Jews, communists, and members of other targeted groups. Drawn from the S.S., the S.D., and the Gestapo, members of...

Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By burning and looting libraries and censoring "un-German" publications, the Nazis aimed to eradicate...

Author: Meins G. S. CoetsierISBN-10: 0826266282ISBN-13: 9780826266286Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2008Pages: 248Format: Hardcover

A searing indictment of silence in the face of genocide.Arthur D. Morse's groundbreaking work remains one of the most powerful and meticulously documented accounts of how the United States government-and much of the American public-failed to act while millions of Jews were being exterminated...

Author: Tim WhittomeISBN-13: 9798369448793Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2026Pages: 408Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.44lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.25d

Author: Tim WhittomeISBN-13: 9798369448809Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2026Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.79lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.11d

Author: David ShtokfishISBN-10: 1962054349ISBN-13: 9781962054348Publisher: Jewishgen.IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2026Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.59lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.88d

Author: Adena BernsteinISBN-10: 1735292893ISBN-13: 9781735292892Publisher: Adena J. BernsteinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 390Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

The Korets Yizkor Book tells the 500-year history of Korets, including the early history of the town, the famous Rabbi Pinchas, and the Jewish publishing houses. It includes the survivors' memories of the way of life, the geography, and the history. Education and art...

The Holocaust: A Concise HistoryBy Daniel LevinThe Holocaust is often remembered through images of camps, gas chambers, and mass graves-scenes so overwhelming they can feel detached from ordinary history. This distance, while understandable, obscures a crucial truth: the Holocaust did not erupt suddenly or...

Valkininkai is a small town in what is now Lithuania about 30 miles southwest of the capital Vilnius. Prior to World War II, it had been part of the Russian Empire and later Poland. The Russians and Poles called it Olkeniki. After the German...

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract. It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Japan and...

This is the diary of an unnamed twenty-year-old man who spent almost a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was released in a hopeless condition-severely weakened, with a bruised kidney and extreme exhaustion.An eyewitness account, it describes the entire process: from accidental arrest...

A remarkable firsthand account of the rise and fall of the Nazis told from the inside of a prison cell. The first complete English translation of the international classic work of World War II literature and investigative journalism. Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist...

Mykhaylo Borysovych Kupershteyn was born on September 17, 1947, in the town of Murovani Kurylivtsi in the Vinnitsa region. Since 1973, he has lived in the town of Bar with his wife, son, and daughter. He is an active member of the Jewish community...

Lanowce in western Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire from 1795 until the end of World War I in 1918. In the Russian census of 1897, there were 1,174 Jews out of a total population of 2,525. When national boundaries changed after...