Holocaust category: 1392 books
And the Sea Is Never Full
Memoirs, 1969-
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: "I will become militant....
Hell's Traces
One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp’s three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell’s Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition to Alexandre,...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1944–1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative*, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946,* provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish...
The New Life
Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) survived in concentration and death camps, in hiding, and as exiles in the Soviet interior. After liberation in the land of their persecutors, some also attended university to fulfill dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, and professionals. In The New Life: Jewish Students...
by Jürgen Matthäus, Frank Bajohr
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party’s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining...
Four Girls From Berlin
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A pair of silver Regency candlesticks.
Pieces of well-worn family jewelry.
More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs
Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family and...
by Elizabeth R. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.
Lilly's Album
Based on a true story
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Lilly’s Album is a story based on the trials and tribulations of a Jewish family that takes place between the First and Second World Wars. The book was written by Holocaust survivor’s son, Lilly's nephew. This is a heart-rending tale of the journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of...
Here, There Are No Sarahs
A Woman's Courageous Fight Against the Nazis and Her Bittersweet Fulfillment of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their ghetto, she and her parents...
My Brother's Keeper
Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
Thirty captivating profiles of Christians who risked everything to rescue their Jewish neighbors from Nazi terror during the Holocaust.**
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they...
A Small Town Near Auschwitz:Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family...
Hidden Children of the Holocaust:Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis
Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, these children found sanctuary with other families and schools--but...
Shared Sorrows
A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
On the morning after Kristallnacht, Toby Sonneman’s father walked through broken glass to apply for the visa that saved him from the fate of so many during the Third Reich. In examining her own family history, the author discovered the similarities between the fate of the Jews and the Gypsies in...
After Such Knowledge
Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities...