History - Holocaust

This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. The author integrates her memories of a refugee childhood with archival and historical research, including interviews. Fleeing the Nazis,...

A key player in the annexation of Austria in 1938, Odilo Globocnik was made Gauleiter of Vienna for seven months until the Nazi party forced him to resign because of his abrasive manner, murky financial dealings, and blatant incompetence. Due to a close personal...

Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth "Lessons and Legacies" conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to...

A U.S. Army doctor describes the fight to save 32,000 survivors of Dachau.Marcus Smith was the sole medical officer attached to a small displaced person (DP) team that was sent to the Dachau concentration camp the day after it was liberated by Allied troops...

The Race is Run: An Indictment of Creedal Christianity demonstrates that the core teachings of the major denominations of Christianity such as the Virgin Conception/Birth, the Miraculous Incarnation and the Trinity are not based on either the Hebrew Scriptures or the New Testament but...

A family memorial as told through an aggregation of experiences, interviews and memories of Walter Roth, supplemented with letters from his family trapped in Germany during the Nazi era. Walter explores his family history in the village of Roth, Germany and the region of...

Author: William ThomasISBN-10: 0595223044ISBN-13: 9780595223046Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2002Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.10w x 0.31d

Author: Samuel GruberISBN-10: 0595166911ISBN-13: 9780595166916Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.35d

Exiled to Siberia, sustained by faith, and driven by hope - a remarkable journey of survival and renewal. In the vibrant Jewish world of prewar Kovno, Gitta Langleben-Klibansky grew up in a close-knit Orthodox family. That world shattered with the Soviet occupation of Lithuania...

On September 10, 1952, Israel, West Germany, and the Jewish Conference on Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference) met in Luxembourg and signed the reparations agreement, commonly known as the Luxembourg Agreement. One year earlier, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had delivered a historic speech to...

After Belsen reveals the deeply personal ways in which British and American Christians responded to and were affected by survivors of the Holocaust in the years immediately following the liberation of concentration camps. British and American Christians--men and women, army chaplains and relief workers,...

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of German citizens between the wars. Covering the period between 1907 and 1933, his eyewitness account describes a country in...

From an award-winning historian, a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today "Extremely timely....Rees divides his book into 'Twelve Warnings, ' or red flags to look for...

From an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all. In 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel The City Without Jews, a satirical critique of...

Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to...

With postmodernism being associated with playfulness, parody, irony, and even négationnisme, how suitable a medium is the postmodern novel for representing the Holocaust? The readings of Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder, Pierre Assouline's La Cliente, Soazig Aaron's Le Non de Klara, Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes,...

The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate building in Leiden's city centre, the inauguration...

"The Holocaust as seen by through film by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg is a special book that adds to his other authored that educate students, educators and the community about the Holocaust and assists in meeting the New Jersey mandate that all students...

Classicists and lawyers alike will find this a fascinating study that shows how certain principles of Athenian maritime law are still imbedded in the modern international law of maritime commerce. Cohen has made a unique and substantial contribution to our understanding of the Athens...

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later...

A book composed of letters written over seventy years ago from a mother in Amsterdam to her daughter in London, via an intermediary in Geneva, with the inclusion of copies of the official Red Cross Cards.Through this one sided correspondence we learn from the...

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana "Jew: one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite. A person whose religion is Judaism." http:...

This book reveals how the Czech government covered up the horrors of the Lety WWII concentration camp near Pisek in former Czechoslovakia, a holocaust site, where victims' remains, even to this day are desecrated by the presence of a huge pig farm. While researching...

"The Holocaust as seen by through film by Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg is a special book that adds to his other authored that educate students, educators and the community about the Holocaust and assists in meeting the New Jersey mandate that all students...

It was 1942 in Amsterdam when Isaac and Anna Staal began noticing their Jewish neighbors disappearing. Some were taken away by Dutch police. Some vanished in the middle of the night. As the Nazis embarked on a manhunt for Dutch Jews, Isaac and Anna...

This book tells the story of the Holocaust in the words of Holocausters themselves, Jews who were alive in Europe during the period 1933-1945 and were directly touched by the Holocaust. There are no quotes from contemporary scholars or from any non-Jews living at...

Emerging from darkness and chaos, survivors of the Holocaust were left with nothing but images and tears. Mournful images of long lost children, parents and loved ones alongside visions of death and destruction that would nearly always resurface throughout every survivor's lifetime. Although an...

With insight and empathy, Stephanie Krulik narrates the incredible tale of lovers Inge and Jerry, who, but for providence, might have become statistics, two amongst many thousands with similar stories, lost during one of the darkest moments in modern history. In Interrupted Lives, Krulik...

A civilian internee of World War II, a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44, a partisan, and a member of Tito's Yugoslav army, the author fought against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. After the war, as a foreign editor of the Belgrade daily, Borba, he...

Being Frank with Anne is a poetic interpretation of Anne Frank's diary. It can be used as a companion to the diary and has chronological dates that correspond with Anne's diary entries. It has been used by classrooms studying the Holocaust. Reviewed by Buddy...

The memoir of Helen Weinberg depicts the plight of a young woman who hailed from Kremenitz, Poland. Separated from her family during World War Two, she was imprisoned, beaten, starved and tortured. This story is told using her own words from stories, essays and...

Author: Carlo RossISBN-10: 1465357866ISBN-13: 9781465357861Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2011Pages: 140Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

What compelled a 60+-year-old man, who had been diagnosed previously with blockages of his heart but refused surgery, to begin running marathons? You could say his running began back in Bilgoraj, Poland. "I call this invisible power" Simcha was known to say. Interviewed by...

CELEBRATING 80th YEAR OF LIFE TOGETHER! This memoir begins with the history of nine generations of the Voss family. For nearly 200 years, like most Jews in Germany, they lived in peace. Then, in 1933, the Nazi government came to power and denied Jews...

Moshe Brezniak's outstanding story, as told to his son on his death bed, describes in chilling detail the horrors of living as a Jew during the Holocaust. These memoirs, recounted in amazing detail, are one of the clearest, most life-like testimonies of the Nazi...

Author: Carl FreedmanISBN-10: 1441517189ISBN-13: 9781441517180Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2009Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

'The universe began shrinking, ' wrote Elie Wiesel of his Holocaust experiences in Hungary, 'first we were supposed to leave our towns and concentrate in the larger cities. Then the towns shrank to the ghetto, and the ghetto to a house, the house to...

Republishing this book which contains Janka's Holocaust letter and stories about her life in America. The second edition includes the story of the Festinger Family Reunion in Sighet Romania which took place in 2012. The center-piece of this book is Janka Festinger's 60-page Holocaust...

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits...

Cuba With Pen And Pencil is a travelogue and historical account of Cuba, written by Samuel Hazard in 1873. The book is divided into chapters that cover different aspects of Cuban life, including its geography, history, culture, and politics. Hazard describes his experiences traveling...

Author: Hannah NaiditchISBN-10: 1436361419ISBN-13: 9781436361415Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

The Holocaust was unique within the context of the Second World War because Jews were disproportionately represented among the civilian casualties in that conflict. Over 50 million people died as a result of the application of total war, with 12% being Jews. Half of...

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had...

With a foreword by Elie Wiesel, the first book to tell the complete story of Herbert Baum and the Jewish antifascist resistance in Nazi Berlin This fascinating book tells the story of a group of young Jewish people who had lives filled with intellectual...

Sven Sonnenberg, as a child, lived with his family in North-Eastern Poland when WWII broke out in 1939. He was of mixed parentage: his mother's roots in Germany, his father a Jew. He tells the story of his Jewish-German family. They were dragged across...

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...

Author: Adolf HitlerISBN-10: 8172345429ISBN-13: 9788172345426Publisher: Fingerprint! PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2016Pages: 648Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.30d

Read the international sensation already translated into 9 languages and named a Jabuti Prize finalist! Unearthing the network that hid the Angel of Death, the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades. In 1985, six-year old Betina Anton watched Brazilian...

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'...

Behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz stood more than gas chambers-there were blocks built to erase the human soul. *What you're about to discover will change how you see the Holocaust forever.* The Blocks of Auschwitz is a haunting journey through the hidden architecture...