History - Holocaust

At the outbreak of WWI, the Spiegels flee their home in Poland. The Hasidic couple struggles to adjust to life in Vienna. One daughter is in love with a man from an unsuitable background. Two sons drift from orthodoxy, embrace Zionism and face danger...

At the outbreak of WWI, the Spiegels flee their home in Poland. The Hasidic couple struggles to adjust to life in Vienna. One daughter is in love with a man from an unsuitable background. Two sons drift from orthodoxy, embrace Zionism and face danger...

This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to...

The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an ideal reader of Schopenhauer, nevertheless his remarks destroy that image, particularly if...

Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries after the Holocaust. The book reveals Jews' complex and often changing feelings toward their...

Published as Ich durfte ihm dienen: Erinnerungen an Papst Pius XII by Sr. M. Pascaslina Lehnert, W'uzburg, 10th edition, 1996.--Title page verso.Author: M. Pascalina Lehnert, Susan JohnsonISBN-10: 1587313677ISBN-13: 9781587313677Publisher: St. Augustine's PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2014Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), accompanied by never previously published photographic "postcards" from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (ŻOB) soldiers.The first part of the book,...

What was it like for a 10-year old Jewish girl to experience the Nazi Holocaust in 1945? Or, to face suicide, adjusting to a new life in America, an unhappy marriage, epilepsy, and losing 7 of 8 children? The author has coaxed out all...

There is no conflict between the Bible and science that is evidence-based. The conflict is between belief in the Biblical Worldview and belief in a non-biblical worldview. If a claim about nature is not testable or observable and then confirmable, it is not science....

In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian...

This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), accompanied by never previously published photographic "postcards" from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (ŻOB) soldiers.The first part of the book,...

Other than the celebrated story of Oskar Schindler, there were other Germans who helped Jews survive the Nazi-orchestrated Holocaust, and close to 600 of them have been honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Jerusalem Yad Vashem Holocaust Institute. This book details the...

This is a unique story about the unyielding love of a mother, who fought to protect her two young children from harm while helping every stranger who crossed her path, about belief in god, and the na?e perspective of a child in such a...

Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism.Author: Estelle TaricaISBN-10: 1438487940ISBN-13: 9781438487946Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2022Pages: 310Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x...

This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning...

Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Kl?er intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature. How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their...

During World War II, Soviet authorities deported several hundred thousand Polish citizens to the gulag; many died there. In their first English translation, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents firsthand accounts from more than 150 Polish Jewish survivors of occupation, deportation, and violence....

British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nation's changing religious-secular landscape.In the first half of the book attention is given...

In this haunting and stunning book, Benedix tells us Joe's story. Somehow, she tells us a story that doesn't necessarily want to be told. Somehow, she manages to tell Joe's bold and painful story while her own story simultaneously sneaks in. With breathtaking grace,...

This is the translation of the Hebrew Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Jaslo, Poland: "Toldot Yehudei Yaslo," which was destroyed by the Nazis in September 1939. The Jaslo Jewish community developed late because the Polish inhabitants refused to allow Jews to live...

There was never a more terrible time for Jews in Europe than from 1938 to 1945. The Nazis had overrun a great deal of the continent, bent on the domination of the world and the annihilation of an entire people. The death camps, unknown...

The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz. Christian theology must now address the challenge posed by the Shoah. Grace in Auschwitz offers a constructive theology of grace that enables twenty-first-century Westerners to relate meaningfully to the Christian...

In this book the reader is exposed to a life story of a Jewish boy growing up in pre WW II Germany, and of a youth miraculously surviving the Holocaust. As a boy Bernard walks the streets of Frankfurt and sees the transformation of...

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the immediate aftermath of the genocide to the present day, Holocaust Representations in Historyexplores this in detail.Daniel H. Magilow and...

In this updated edition, author Joseph Keysor addresses the growing trend among secularists to label Hitler as a Christian and therefore attribute the atrocities of the second world war to the Christian religion. Keysor does not settle for simply contrasting the Nazis' behavior with...

This volume presents translated selections from three of four volumes published in the mid-1940s in Romanian, by a witness to the fate of the Jewish population in Romania between 1933 and 1944. Editor/publisher Simon provides a brief introduction. This publisher specializes in making available...

Omer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, provides a critical analysis of various recent ways to understand the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime and the reconstruction of German and Jewish identities in the wake of World War II. Germany's...

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could...

Fascination with the evil of the Nazi regime has not diminished in the decades since Hitler assumed power in Germany, but the story of internal resistance to Nazism has not been as fully realized as have the innumerable tales of horror. In this compact...

The end of World War II saw an emergence of Holocaust dissention that began in Europe and has since developed into an international movement with adherents in almost every country in the world. At first, this denial was fueled by the desire to rehabilitate...

Levin, the journalist who uncovered the affair, describes British policy toward the Jewish people during the Holocaust era, particularly the construction of obstacles that prevented thousands from being saved. Levin then examines Britain's intentional and unabashed use of Holocaust victims and survivors' property after...

Denmark's World War II rescue of its Jewish population was a shining example of courage, morality and national resolve.In September 1943, three years after they invaded Denmark, the Nazis set a plan in motion to capture the country's nearly 8,350 Jews in a single...

Most books on Nazi Germany focus on the war years. Much less is known about the preceding years although these give important clues with regard to the events after November 1938, which culminated in the Holocaust. This book is based on eyewitness accounts chosen...

Reined into the service of the Cold War confrontation, antifascist ideology overshadowed the narrative about the Holocaust in the communist states of Eastern Europe. This led to the Western notion that in the Soviet Bloc there was a systematic suppression of the memory of...

When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, the Buchsbaum family chose different paths to escape Nazi brutality. Intelligence was not enough to survive the SS; bad decisions could prove fatal. Their stories live in Heart Songs - A Holocaust Memoir, and form the...

A teenager living in a Jewish orphanage. Nazis marching into his Polish village in 1939.How will the 14-year-old boy survive the brutalities on his own and keep his humanity?This shocking memoir of Holocaust Survivor Hank Brodt (1925-2020) offers a personal glimpse into the inner...

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-human" qualities of those who were persecuted and...

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L....

Good for Society: Christian Values and Conservative Politics In 'Good for Society' Martin Parsons has written a book well worthy of its sub title 'Christian Values and Conservative Politics.'. Good for Society is a robust defence of both our Christian heritage and the Conservative...

An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic. Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own...

How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part...

In Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling trope, Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into...

This holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that survived wwii. After his mother's death the album passed on to paul davidovits, who became keenly aware that he was now the only person alive who recognized the...

The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes...

Svetlana was a young Jewish child growing up in the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin. Life was difficult for Jews in the town of Gorky even before the Holocaust, but when the Germans brought war to Svetlana's home, survival became a daily...

Author: Adalbert LallierISBN-10: 1483620166ISBN-13: 9781483620169Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2013Pages: 138Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

"I Will Die Tomorrow, But Not Today" is the personal story of Bernard Schuster, a holocaust survivor from a small shtetl (village) in Poland called Jasionowka. He published this book in 1996, mainly to leave a record for his grandchildren and generations to come,...

Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world.Including contributions from an international and...

During World War II, most of the European Jews perished by bullets, starvation and in concentration camps. The Jews in Bulgaria avoided that fate, despite Hitler's repeated attempts to impose his "final solution" on the country. Until recently, not enough was known about those...

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique...