History - Holocaust

This work presents the first English translation of Liri Xhunga's memoir. A teenage partisan fighter captured in battle and deported to the Nazis' infamous Ravensbruck camp for women, Xhunga composed this account of her own life under Albania's communist regime. The memoir offers rare...

This album leads the reader through the events of the Holocaust as depicted in Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum, and enables us to share the bewilderment of Holocaust scholars in attempting to explain the almost total willingness of human beings to accept the dictates...

Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority - was established in 1953 by the Israel Parliament. It is dedicated to the study and commemoration of the Nazis' genocide of the Jews and is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem....

No detailed description available for "Ethics and Memory / Ethik und Erinnerung".Author: Elie WieselISBN-10: 3110156490ISBN-13: 9783110156492Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/1997Pages: 53Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d

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...

This story could be one story--a child's world, maimed by inconceivable cruelty. A child's heart, irreparably torn.But this story is another one. In the spring of 1944 at the age of 15, Ted Winestone emerged from two years of hiding in the Belorussian woods....

An impressive piece of historical evidence. These letters provide us with an important perspective into a Jewish family's life as it is on the brink of destruction. Professor Sussman weaves together many lines of investigation - Hamburg, London, Cardiff, Australia, USA - into a...

"To this day I am unable to understand how I managed to survive against all odds." So relates the memoir of a young woman, Eva Szek (later Eisenkeit), who survived the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an...

Following the success of his novel Jettchen Gebert (1906), Georg Hermann (1871-1943) became one of Germany's best-loved authors: Schnitzler called him 'the Jewish Fontane'. A Berliner himself, Hermann was celebrated for capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the city, and renowned for his Impressionistic...

A haunting and eloquent book of poems and short stories retelling the author's parents' survival of the Holocaust.Author: Frieda L. FerrickISBN-10: 1515158381ISBN-13: 9781515158387Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2015Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.21d

This is a story of despair and hope; of devastation and triumph of hatred and love. It's the story of a 15 year old Zionist Jewish girl named Stenia Hollander whose world started falling apart when the Germans invaded her hometown of Krakow, Poland....

Before Hitler came to power, the Hanauers were prosperous and happy citizens of Germany. But as the Nazis consolidated their power, the Hanauers were systematically stripped of their belongings, their freedoms, and eventually their lives. When Terri Hanauer-Brahm's father drowned when she was still...

Author: Adalbert LallierISBN-10: 1483620069ISBN-13: 9781483620060Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2013Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 07/10/2013Foreword 10/08/2013

This memoir portrays the dreadful experiences of Camillo Adler and his family as Austrian refugees in France following the outbreak of WWII. Despite his suffering in internment camps, Adler feels bound by honor and duty to fight against the brutal Nazi regime. He enlists...

This is a book about the genocidal attack on the Jews perpetrated by the National Socialist regime in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The attack was carried out by the Germans and their collaborators, and succeeded in destroying nearly six million Jewish lives,...

Maria the Panther presents the story of the author's grandmother, Maria, who was a strong professional woman well ahead of her times. At the same time, her biography provides a sweeping overview of the history of twentieth-century Europe, transcending cultures. Grandma Maria was born...

Author: Aviva WoznicaISBN-10: 1436315182ISBN-13: 9781436315180Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2008Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

""Nazi Poison: How We Can Destroy Hitler�������s Propaganda Against The Jews"" is a book written by the Council for Democracy, which aims to provide readers with tools to combat Nazi propaganda against Jews during World War II. The book discusses the various methods used...

With Russian, Japanese and Chunchuse: The Experiences of an Englishman During the Russo-Japanese War is a memoir written by Ernest Brindle. The book details Brindle's experiences during the Russo-Japanese War, which took place between 1904 and 1905. Brindle was an Englishman who worked as...

In the 1930s, Carl Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig and, as prices commissioner, a cabinet-level official, engaged in active opposition against the persecution of the Jews in Germany and in Eastern Europe. He did this openly until 1938 and then secretly in contact with...

The Fighting Ghettos by Meyer Barkai is a historical account of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The book chronicles the heroic efforts of Jews in the ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, Bialystok, and other cities to resist Nazi oppression and fight for their survival....

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Author: Neville RaymondISBN-10: 0759666830ISBN-13: 9780759666832Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.38h x 6.34w x 1.10d

Survivors, especially, will appreciate Weber's account of Hitler's war against the Jews; from killing Jews at the edge of the pit to Zyklon-B and the crematoria.Author: Helen WeberISBN-10: 0595414370ISBN-13: 9780595414376Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2006Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

This is my memoir - a true story about victims of World War II and their life in concentration camp, their fears and their dreams, their relations with others, and their struggle on a journey to make a home in exile. It is also...

During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address some of its unresolved injustices. Amending the Past offers the first in-depth account of these commissions,...

Uniformed Murderers investigates the causes, logistics, motivations, and legal awareness of the Romanian servicemen--both military and gendarmerie--who massacred or otherwise caused the death of more than three thousand Jews, Roma, and others in 1941 and 1942. Over time, there have been significant assumptions about...

This book tells the story of three young children, now in theireighties, whose childhood was shattered by the murderousNazi regime in Zbaraz, a small township in Poland, nowUkraine. Though born into loving families, they lost theirchildhood, their families and their homes, at a very...

CONTENT WARNINGThis book contains graphic eyewitness testimony and historical photographs documenting acts of mass violence and human suffering. Some material may be disturbing to readers.Historical photographs included in this volume may be distressing.This book is intended for readers aged 18 and over. It is...

"Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grandmother, retelling, often in their own voices, the story of their struggles."...

"Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grandmother, retelling, often in their own voices, the story of their struggles."...

No wonder Michelle Friedman became a psychiatrist - she started young.A child of Holocaust survivors, she grew up on a Catskills chicken farm, absorbing a legacy of trauma, displacement, and family violence. In this illustrated memoir, Michelle weaves together hair-raising stories of her parents'...

Author: Debra HarkinsISBN-10: 1952800323ISBN-13: 9781952800320Publisher: Purple Owl PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2023Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

This landmark collection of primary sources provides unique first-hand insights into the persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe under Nazi rule. The documents, all translated from the language of the original source, range from the police orders and administrative decrees issued by...

This is the unique tale of a physician who encountered a remarkable woman, a centenarian at one hundred and two years old, living with Alzheimer's dementia. In a moment of clarity, she implored him to "let the world know" her story before she departed...

What if the most haunting place in history still had something left to say? Step inside the gates of Dachau-the first Nazi concentration camp-and witness the chilling blueprint that shaped a system of industrialized cruelty. Dachau: A Walk Through Germany's First Concentration Camp is...

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony: the act of writing poetry and prose to both relay and process traumatic events.Author: Rina DudaiISBN-10: 103251745XISBN-13: 9781032517452Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x...

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on the...

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women--champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid...

From Despair to Hope and Back is a manifesto about Israel discriminating against its Holocaust survivors; these citizens are obliged to pay two kinds of taxes: 1) Their income tax, like the rest of their compatriots, plus 2) A significant part of their German...

A testament to the will to survive and the strength to remember the Holocaust. Roman Kent's autobiography recounts his idyllic childhood in pre-war Poland, shattered by the Nazi invasion. Experience the horrors of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau through his eyes, as his family...

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...

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...

A groundbreaking study of betrayal during the Holocaust.Who Betrayed the Jews? examines the multifaceted ways Jews were betrayed during the Holocaust, challenging conventional narratives. Agnes Grunwald-Spier reveals how countrymen, neighbors, and even fellow Jews contributed to the persecution, driven by greed, fear, or ideology.This...

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives...

A ten-year old boy hides at the top of a stairwell listening to his father tell his harrowing story-a story about almost being gassed to death in a Nazi concentration camp. He doesn't dare ask his father to explain. His dad offers no further...

Survival, Romance and Revenge The scope of the Holocaust, Guerrillas blowing up trains, and the Russian Army's Blitzkrieg drive across Eastern Europe to the Baltic Sea are the backdrop for Yehuda's true adventure of survival romance and revenge. The story of Yehuda Adelman makes...

Erwin Biener's comfortable middle-class boyhood in Hungary was destroyed by the coming of the Nazis. For a long time, he and his mother lived a terrible existence hiding from the Nazis and their equally maniacal Hungarian allies, often just seconds from capture and deportation...

Hymns and Lamentations is a meditation on the realities of deep faith and great suffering. It takes its place in the long tradition of religious literature where a personal relationship with the divine is embraced and swum through, while the equally great reality of...