History - Holocaust

Offers a critical assessment of seven decades of Holocaust research and identifies the tasks ahead. The first comprehensive assessment of Raul Hilberg's work, the most important Holocaust historian of his generation. A line-up of some of the most prominent Holocaust historians in the world...

Holocaust educators and museums face an urgent challenge: preserving the memory of genocide while protecting the psychological well-being of those who learn about it. How can they teach about historical atrocities without traumatizing the very students they aim to educate?This groundbreaking book examines the...

Winner of the 2025 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian StudiesFinalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book AwardHonorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in...

Author: Barth Hoogstraten,M. D. Barth HoogstratenISBN-10: 0738853186ISBN-13: 9780738853185Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2005Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.80d

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a Jewish doctor, 1933-1949When Yakov Adler fled his hometown of Nuremberg in 1933, he left behind a Germany that was rapidly closing its doors to Jews. In Amsterdam he found safety, a new purpose, and eventually love....

The path of young Stanley's life takes an abrupt turn when Germany invades Poland and soldiers arrive in Jaslo with their new rules for the town's Jews. Forced to live crammed into a ghetto, Stanley is left bewildered at what his life has become....

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.While the first three parts of the book...

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,...

Two small boys are playing wargames as boys have done since time immemorial. They run towards the camera clutching guns made of wood, their knees grubby beneath the type of clothing in which small boys across Europe were commonly dressed for most of the...

Throughout the Holocaust, letters were sent in their millions, in a variety of different contexts and for a range of differing purposes. Holocaust Letters marks the first volume of its kind to examine collectively letter writing during this period. The book presents different methodological...

DG: Most people who met you mentioned the strength of your eyes. They were "shining", "blank" and "cruel", Kubizek's mother recalled.Kubizek: "Never in my life have I seen any other person whose appearance was so completely dominated by the eyes ... In fact, Adolf...

The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust--a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory--and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. Gideon Reuveni illuminates the swift transition and...

The Jewish Communities of Dubienka, Skryhiczyn and DorohuskThere has been a Jewish community along the Bug River in the Dubienka area since King Sigismund III granted permission for Jews to reside and operate businesses there in the late 16th century. The community's growth in...

An unforgettable collection of recipes inspired by ten diverse, moving stories of Holocaust survivors and WWII heroes, from James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya with author June Hersh. Memories of a Good Meal is a culinary journey that celebrates the tenacity of the human...

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Author: Charlie ScheidtISBN-10: 1978846746ISBN-13: 9781978846746Publisher: Rutgers University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsReview Citation(s): Foreword 01/28/2026

Covering Western and Eastern Europe, this book looks at the Holocaust on the local level. It compares and contrasts the behaviour and attitude of neighbours in the face of the Holocaust. Topics covered include deportation programmes, relations between Jews and Gentiles, violence against Jews,...

Hitler: And when they next asked him about my personality, just like you are doing throughout these conversations, seeking to hear abnormalities in my mind, Dr. Bloch again rebuked them saying, and I quote his words: Dr. Bloch: While Hitler was not a mother's...

In Volume III, questions and themes such as the following are asked and studied - Can Germans Be Defined as Insane and Evil Because of Their Ardent Support of Hitler? Hitler - "You Know, I Was Not Born an Anti-Semite. I Learned to Be...

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did...

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...

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...

Founded in 2011, The Research Journal of Germanic Antiquity is an independent scholarly journal devoted to preserving, translating, and circulating all early modern German religious texts (12th - 20th century). The underlying goal of this journal is to reprint rare German publications to introduce...

[A] memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis ...[full of] ingenuity and determinationAuthor: Ida Piller-Greenspan,Susan M. BrantingISBN-10: 159451254XISBN-13: 9781594512544Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2006Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.78h x 7.36w x 0.54d

More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: How is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answer those questions? Who owns the...

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.Author: John L. SpivakISBN-10: 1494027054ISBN-13: 9781494027056Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d

Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war's end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from...

Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some...

A guide to major books in English on the Holocaust.Author: Marty Bloomberg,Buckley Barry BarrettISBN-10: 0809514060ISBN-13: 9780809514069Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2008Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.47w x 0.78d

The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the...

After World War II, the Girls Club of Brooklyn, New York, became both home and safe haven to orphaned teenagers who were Holocaust survivors. They are a small group, but taken together these women's stories represent the broad range of experiences that most Jews...

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system.Author: Paul B. JaskotISBN-10: 0415173663ISBN-13: 9780415173667Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/1999Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d

Explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Bosworth argues that the traumatic history of the war has remained crucial to the politics of post-war societies.Author: Richard J. B. BosworthISBN-10: 0415084504ISBN-13: 9780415084505Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

What responsibility do the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil? In a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust Polonsky gathers together the most important arguments in this debate.Author: Antony PolonskyISBN-10: 0415042321ISBN-13: 9780415042321Publisher:...

Hundreds of ghettos were created throughout eastern Europe by the Germans and their allies during the Second World War. There have been some studies of the largest ghettos - Warsaw and L0dz - and a few accounts of some of the smaller ones; but...

This resource guide will help readers locate over 800 first-person accounts, fiction, poetry, art interpretations, and music by Holocaust victims and survivors, as well as videos relating the testimony and experiences of Holocaust survivors. In addition to the few well-known writers, artists, and musicians...

A chilling and unrivaled look into the psychology of Nazi leaders standing trial at Nuremberg.In August 1945, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR convened a tribunal in Nuremberg to try the military and civilian leaders of the defeated Nazi regime. A...

Hitler's Last Resort: The Child Soldiers of the Third ReichAs the Third Reich faced its downfall, Hitler turned to a desperate defense strategy: children. Fueled by relentless war propaganda, many members of the Hitler Youth believed that they could still achieve final victory and...

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust...

Why were the Nazis so successful in deporting Jews? Why did families such as Anne Frank's get turned in? Investigative journalist Ad van Liempt pulls back the curtain on the shocking practice of Dutch bounty hunters of the Jews, and reveals that ordinary citizens...

Heidelberg, 1938Doctor Sárkány's career is crumbling. The once eminent pathologist begins to lose everything that he holds dear - his reputation, position and pride. But what of his wife, Éva? What of his twin daughters and unborn son? Surely his family are more important...

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of...

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse...

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce...

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...

With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains for the work of remembering and commemorating this period of history is determined by both the bureaucratic excesses of the Nazi...

When Adolf Hitler became Germany's Reich chancellor in 1933, Dr. Gerhard Schmidt knew his world was crashing around him. A highly cultured assimilated Jew, he studied medicine, trained in biochemistry, and attained a faculty position at the Univ. of Frankfurt. Two months after Hitler's...

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin...

Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman argues that far from overwhelming...