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Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted
Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in postwar East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907–2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted is her story.
Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received...
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...
Summary and Analysis of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Based on the Book by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Irena’s Children tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Tilar J. Mazzeo’s book.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies,...
In the Shadow of Auschwitz
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government's action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of...
Reluctant Witnesses
Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from American culture...
The Yellow Star
A Boy's Story of Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this now-classic Holocaust memoir, Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer recounts his survival of the Nazi camps. Clinging fiercely to his faith in God, the nineteen-year-old Unsdorfer faced the unspeakable horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald with courage and moral defiance, a testament to the abiding strength of the Jewish spirit.
by Jankiel Wiernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
An Inmate Who Escaped Tells The Day-To-Day Facts Of One Year Of His Torturous Experiences.
Jankiel Wiernik was a Jewish property manager in Warsaw when the Nazis invaded Poland and was forced into the ghetto in 1940. Despite surviving the horrors of the ghetto at the advanced age of 52, he...
Hanged at Auschwitz
An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story...
Allies in Auschwitz
The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich’s most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench...
Useful Enemies
America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How the United States protected John Demjanjuk: “A richly researched, gripping narrative about war, suffering, survival, corruption, injustice and morality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred).
John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...
by Christopher R. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
"An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities,...
A Conspiracy Of Decency
The Rescue Of The Danish Jews During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the rescue...