Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Michael J. Bazyler, Frank M. Tuerkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to
respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it
would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten...
The Wonder of Their Voices
The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience...
The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism, a Judge’S Verdict
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
I admire greatly the way in which Deacon Sciolino has been able to absorb a vast amount of material and weave it into a coherent account of the R. C. Church vis--vis the Holocaust. Telling the story from the inside has an especial relevance and importance. Rev. Hubert G. Locke, cofounder of the Annual...
Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational
The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the Stockholm International...
The Nazi Holocaust
Its History and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often...
by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
“[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives.” —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at...
Holocaust Journey
Travelling in Search of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
“A travelogue, spanning two weeks, of the essential sites of the Holocaust, by the venerable historian and author . . . [A] soul-searching trip” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1996, prominent Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert embarked on a fourteen-day journey into the past with a group of his...
The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law
Unfinished Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the suits...
Holocaust Education in Lithuania
Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Holocaust Education in Lithuania is based on a six-year, multi-sited ethnographic research project that was conducted to analyze the effects of the controversial policies of Holocaust education which were introduced as conditions of membership for access into post-Soviet western alliances. In order...
Surviving the Holocaust
A Life Course Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust
Between Destruction and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland.
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust starts by...
Counting on America
A Holocaust Memoir of Terror, Chutzpah, Romance and Escape
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Counting on America, an uplifting Holocaust memoir, illustrates the escalation of anti-Semitism following Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938 (the Anschluss); and the obstacles Jewish refugees faced trying to reach the shores of America. In response to the Nazi invasion, newlyweds Kurt and Hennie...
The Nazis' Last Victims
The Holocaust in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary...
A Thousand Darknesses
Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses,...