Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Israel Joe Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Israel Joe Sachs recounts his Jewish childhood in Poland, followed by his personal story of survival through nearly six horrifying years of Nazi terror. Most of his family members died in the Holocaust, but he was spared by “The Invisible Hand of God.” Although survivors are scarred forever, “Witnessing a new generation rising from the ashes of the Holocaust uplifted our souls.”
by Nadia Gould
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
"In the evening they took us to the railroad station. They told us not to speak to anyone or even to one another. We were mute and deaf. There was a notice with our passports that explained we could not speak. This was the most excruciating train ride. We had to keep from talking and giving ourselves...
Roosevelt and the Holocaust
How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The year was 1932. At age fourteen Robert Beir’s journey through life changed irrevocably when a classmate called him a “dirty Jew.” Suddenly Beir encountered the belligerent poison of anti-Semitism. The safe confines of his upbringing had been violated. The pain that he felt at that moment...
by Gail Herman, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
The Liberators
America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The testament to a tragedy.
Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people...
by Stephen Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Stephen Nasser somehow dug deep within his soul to survive the brutal and inhumane treatment his captors inflicted on the Jews. He was the only one of his family to survive--but the memory of his brother's dying words compelled him to live. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly...
Partisan's Memoir: Woman Of The Holocaust
Woman of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were soon lost in the horrors of the Holocaust. But Faye survived, and the photographs she took...
The Holocaust
The Human Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The renowned historian weaves a definitive account of the Holocaust—from Hitler’s rise to power to the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945.
Rich with eyewitness accounts, incisive interviews, and first-hand source materials—including documentation from the Eichmann and Nuremberg war crime trials—this...
Other Schindlers
Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The inspiring stories of courageous non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, people have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the...
Faithful Friends
Holocaust Survivors' Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited for Their Return
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Never-before-told stories of the pets that were left behind during World War II in Hungary, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Romania, France, and Yugoslavia when Jewish families were torn from their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps. Most of these accounts are told by men and women who were...
Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents...
From Things Lost
Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In May 1933, a young man named Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi-occupied Germany. His departure allegedly came at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the Party. Schwab eventually arrived in South Africa, one of the few countries left where Jews could seek refuge, and years later, resumed a relationship...
by Gisella Perl, Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing...