History - Holocaust

On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during which hundreds successfully escaped while guards killed as many in the process. In this groundbreaking work, Chad S.A. Gibbs draws upon recently...

In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés--Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich--who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover...

The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II,...

Strength and unwavering faith conquer the most brutal circumstances in this masterful biography of survival against Nazi brutality.In Strength from Within, Amrom Gottesman explores the horrific story of his father, Leibish, enduring the ravages of the ghetto before he is transported to several concentration...

Iakovos Kambanellis wrote 'Freedom came in May' as a result of time spent in Mauthausen Concentration camp in Upper Austria, and the title refers to his unexpected release by American forces in May 1945. His personal memoir is of being arrested with no recourse...

How well do we know Hitler? Is he mad? If so, is he still criminally culpable for his crimes? Assuming one accepts the existence of evil, is he evil?If Hitler is a criminal, what about the acts of other leaders? Is Churchill equal to...

In this collection of stories and essays, unexpected events of everyday life become a springboard to examine deeper layers of meaning. A bowl shattering for no apparent reason leads to musings about other abrupt endings, a chance encounter engenders a new friendship, a meeting...

In this true story, The Daughter's a Farmer, we view the journey of a mother and a daughter moving gradually toward mutual understanding and respect for each other's world perspectives and life choices, and see lessons learned and insights gained that surprised them both....

"My Education Continues" tells the remarkable story of how Fela Igielnik survived life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brutality of World War II. But more than that, it reveals the possibility of transforming even the darkest of experiences - starvation, forced labor and...

A story that covers the impact of the holocaust on a present-day family and the writer who told their story.For many years the brown leather suitcase had lain hidden under the house. Someone had placed it there, away from prying eyes, behind the aching...

Seventy years after World War II ended, stories still emerge from the ashes of the Holocaust. This true story chronicles the life of the Dutch van Dam family and the German-Jewish Herschkowitsch family who were impacted by the rise of Hitler and the Nazi...

Nazis force Mates Bruner, a Jew growing up in Poland, to build the very concentration camps that kill his people. He escapes and is hidden by a courageous farmer, but at the end of the war he discovers that of his entire family, only...

"I wrote this book so you would remember. I will not be here to speak to you this story forever. Don't let the lessons from this evil fade away. Remember. Remember. Remember!" This book by Menachem Taiblum, with Cyndie Meyer, is first and foremost...

History repeats itself: ethnic incitement, land grabs, biased media, and government surveillance played a part in WWII and do so again. Don't think so? While not a complete history of WWII, nor a focus on the battles, It was Blood, Sweat, & Tears creates...

Winner of the Bronislaw Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesWhy do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in...

READER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED because this book includes descriptions and illustrations of the terrible cruelty inflicted on men, women and children by the Nazi's. The book is in two parts and is a factual account of genocide, committed by German Nazi's. It happened...

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.Author: James Waterman WiseISBN-10: 1494014394ISBN-13: 9781494014391Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d

Robert Pagginson presents his "Empty Inside Series" and the Best-Seller "What Makes Nazis Better Than Jewish?" - a novelty book where all pages are blank. For centuries Jewish people suffered from cruel persecutions, being hounded out of their native land for long. Years passed,...

Diary of an Italian youth going through the Holocaust experience. From the arrest to the train, then the march, and finally liberation. Larry, his brother Ralph, and cousin Meto support each other through the horrors of the concentration camps.Author: Loretta J. Levi,Larry L. LeviISBN-10:...

Martha and Miriam Rosenthal - Jewish twins born on Hitler's birthday April 20, 1933 experience a wonderful childhood during the 1930's in their upper-class neighborhood of Berlin-Nikolassee. Despite their parents' fears while witnessing the alarming march toward Nazification, their life seems manageable until their...

A young child who survived the Holocaust by using her imagination and resourcefulnessWilhelmina was born into the raging World War II. Her Father was forced to abandon the family and escape Poland to avoid enlisting in the army, and as a result, her mother...

This book is the chronicle of a family's survival: my mother and my mother-in-law struggles and miracle survival during WWII in France. The stories told in this book stem from a promise I made to my mother, Renée Holzer-Englander-Besnainou, in 1977 when I was...

Josh Cohen argues that Auschwitz is a key problem for how we think and therefore we cannot be assured that Auschwitz will not repeat itself.Author: Josh CohenISBN-10: 0826477356ISBN-13: 9780826477354Publisher: ContinuumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2005Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.17h x 6.22w x 0.60d

The Roosevelt administration tried to deport them. The FBI spied on them. The British wanted to arrest them. But none of that could stop the Bergson Group from forging ahead with its campaign for rescue of Jews from the Holocaust in 1943-1944. Their rallies,...

Hearing the testimony of radical negation / Susan Shapiro -- In our terrible age: the tremendum of the Jews / Arthur Cohen -- Interruption of the forgotten / Rebecca Chopp -- "Facing the Jews" Christian theology after Auschwitz / Johann-Baptist Metz -- Holocaust and...

Author: Nathan DrewISBN-10: 1962834654ISBN-13: 9781962834650Publisher: Wisdom EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2026Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory and the moral force of survival. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner - a fiercely intelligent young woman who endured...

Intimate in voice and sweeping in historical reach, Was It Just a Matter of Luck? bears witness to the endurance of memory and the moral force of survival. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner - a fiercely intelligent young woman who endured...

Eleven African American settlements consisting of a church, school, and cemetery in McLennan County, Texas, continued the work begun originally by the Freedmen's Bureau that would enable thousands of ex-slaves in Texas to adapt to freedom.Author: Charles L. Sr. PerkinsISBN-13: 9798385060221Publisher: WestBow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger. In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is hidden. Her name is Elli....

This colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people. It was a summer like no one had ever experienced: in the four months from May to September 1945, the...

These stories offer a profound exploration of the human condition when subjected to adversity, discrimination, and injustice. Within the pages of this collection, readers will discover tales of resilience, courage, and hope, as well as the enduring spirit that drives individuals to survive, resist,...

Wie gestaltet sich der familiale Dialog über die Familienvergangenheit in der Nazizeit in Familien von Verfolgten des Naziregimes wie auch in Familien von Nazi-Tätern und Mitläufern? Welchen Einfluss hat die Vergangenheit der Gro eltern auf das Leben ihrer Kinder und Enkel? Wie unterscheidet sich...

Are you drawn to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity? Intrigued by the stories of courage that emerge from the darkest chapters of history? Wondering how a young girl's diary became a beacon of hope and a symbol...

A powerful work of moral and political philosophy.The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some five years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley and I...

Author: Robert J. Hanyok,Center for Cryptologic HistoryISBN-10: 1780393040ISBN-13: 9781780393049Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.37d

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...

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews. It brings together a range of internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work. It includes...

Mona seems to have it all: youth, beauty, intelligence, and a privileged place in Germany's elite Aryan society. At fifteen, she lives a life where power and wealth seem to affirm her family's deeply ingrained beliefs. But as she uncovers the disturbing truths lurking...

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work.Author: Jan BorowiczISBN-10: 1032360518ISBN-13:...

The first part of the book describes how the author himself was saved. Fleeing the ghetto in 1942 he hid in occupied Poland using forged papers. He survived agonizing wanderings and was able to rescue his little family through his determination and adaptability to...

"Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland." -- Central European History"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well." --...

Heidegger's connection with Nazism is well known and has been exhaustively debated. But we need to understand better why Heidegger believed National Socialism to be the best cure for the ills of modern society. In this book Christopher Rickey examines the internal logic of...

Author: Deborah (Devora) Ross-GraymanISBN-10: 9493418618ISBN-13: 9789493418615Publisher: Amsterdam PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Helen FryISBN-10: 0300303564ISBN-13: 9780300303568Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2026Pages: 208Format: Paperback

One moonless night in 1942, a handsome 20-year-old British SOE lieutenant, Maurice Pertschuk, rowed ashore on the Cote d'Azur with orders to report to the French resistance. Three years later he'd be hanged at Buchenwald, just 13 days before its liberation, within earshot of...

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is often debated in Germany today, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its...

Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this volume explores how post-Holocaust memorial books help to reshape our understanding of Jewish life and death in Eastern Europe In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Eastern European survivors created yizker bikher--Yiddish for "memorial...

Revenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators as well as revenge fantasies expressed in diaries, letters, last wills, wall inscriptions, songs,...

The book reveals the many facets of the forced labor system and the specific conditions at Siemens in Ravensbrück. For the first time, the volume brings together texts by female forced laborers from Ravensbrück, translated from various languages, as well as contemporary illustrations and...