Holocaust category: 1392 books

Hogyan jutott el egy magyar keresztény zsidó fiú a bori munkatáborból hosszú élete végére a mai magyar szélsőjobbhoz? György Péter megkeresi és bejárja nemcsak a '44-ig, de az azóta eltűnt múltakat is, hogy megválaszolja e kérdést, megrajzolja apja és saját szellemi életrajzát....

Anna Frank era un'adolescente ebrea che, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, per sfuggire all'arresto dei nazi-fascisti tedeschi fu costretta a nascondersi insieme alla sua famiglia. Si segregarono nell'attico di una vecchia casa ad Amsterdam. Dopo più di due anni furono scoperti e...

Learn powerful lessons from the life of an extraordinary man who overcame numerous setbacks to defeat his Nazi adversaries and save human lives. Oskar Schindler, the author clearly demonstrates, suffered from multiple challenges now known as part of ADHD. Oskar failed in one business venture after...

In den Gefangenenlagern Erfurt und Ohrdruf lebten und arbeiteten bis zu 15.000 Gefangene. In dem kleineren Lager in Langensalza waren vom 20. November 1914 bis­ zum 18. März 1919 etwa 28.000 Gefangene untergebracht. Diese Buch schildert aus deutscher Sicht den Aufbau und die Unterhaltung der Lager...

In Polish Woods, which was first published in its English translation from its original Yiddish in 1938, is a historical novel describing the devolution of the Kotzker dynasty between the age of Napoleon and the Polish Revolt of 1863. Author Joseph Opatoshu reflects on the conflicting and even...

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but "The Treblinka Death Camp. History, Biographies, Remembrance" is unique. Webb and Chocolaty present the definitive account of one of history's most infamous factories of death where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives....

« Simone Veil s’est exprimée à des tribunes, sur des sujets et devant des publics fort différents. Les discours rassemblés ici ne représentent donc qu’une infime partie de ses interventions publiques : ce sont ceux qu’elle a prononcés, au cours de ces six dernières années, comme présidente...

In 1938 Britain, while war with Nazi Germany looms, the extravagant lifestyle of the English elite goes on. The so-called 'Season' is beginning, a traditional period during which marriageable young ladies of the aristocracy enjoy lavish balls and are 'presented' to the monarchy as they enter high...

The following is a story, historically documented in a journal recording of my great-great-great-great grandmother Bartheny Lanham, born in County Cork, Ireland and came to America to marry a man named Finney Simpson, a self-taught veterinarian, settling in Western New York. Believe it or not, each...

Il piccolo Ruben è un «giudeo cacasotto»: così lo deridono i compagni di classe, fino a quando un giorno la scuola gli viene per sempre preclusa. Ma lui non ne fa un dramma. Meglio le lezioni private di clarinetto dal professor Nussbaum, uno che suonava con i Wiener Philarmoniker prima che lo...

Anne Frank (1929-1945) è diventata celebre grazie al suo diario, che ha commosso e continua a commuovere lettori di tutte le età. Mirjam Pressler ne fa un ritratto biografico a tutto tondo, soffermandosi sulle contraddizioni e facendo emergere i talenti e le aspirazioni di questa giovane ebrea nata...

There is a loud knock at the door. The Germans have arrived to take this Jewish family away. It is 1939 in Poland. The Huberman family were partly prepared and the three children escape through a secret passage. The two older children, 13 and 10 leave the baby at the Abbey and plan to go to family...

Have you ever really thought about your ancestors – beyond their names and dates of events in their lives? The stories of how they lived their lives can be a source of strength as well as inspiration in your own life. In this new work of narrative nonfiction, Susan M. Rostan invites us to...

The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers...