Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Righteous
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust
According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he...
Needle in the Bone
How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The astonishing stories of Holocaust survivor Lou Frydman and former Polish resistance fighter Jarek Piekalkiewicz are brought to life in Needle in the Bone. As mere teenagers during World War II, the two men defied daunting odds, lost nearly everything and everyone in the war, and yet summoned the...
Collect and Record!
Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with testimonies, memoirs, diaries,...
Murder in Our Midst
The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 1996
War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental tension reached its natural conclusion in the...
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving...
Aversion and Erasure
The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit...
Rethinking Poles and Jews
Troubled Past, Brighter Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators...
by Christoph Schiessl
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book follows the story of suspected Nazi war criminals in the United States and analyzes their supposed crimes during World War II, their entry into the United States as war refugees in the 1940s and 1950s, and their prosecution in the 1970s and beyond by the U.S. government, specifically by...
A History of the Holocaust
From Ideology to Annihilation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust...
by Shlomit Kriger, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Imagine sitting across from a member of the German Secret State Police and negotiating with him to allow for the release of Jewish youngsters and for the establishment of a Jewish school. What can a teenager do when forced to march past the gallows and see how two of his campmates were hung? These are...
How Could This Happen
Explaining the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Holocaust is the defining event of the twentieth century and perhaps all of modern history. Yet for too long, we have ignored the vital question of how and why such a monstrous event could have happened at all. Now, in How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the existing Holocaust...
by Lawrence L. Langer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
"Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments. His book is a moral as well as an intellectual...
Polish Film and the Holocaust
Politics and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and...
The Holocaust Averted
An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
The increasingly popular genre of “alternative histories” has captivated audiences by asking questions like “what if the South had won the Civil War?” Such speculation can be instructive, heighten our interest in a topic, and shed light on accepted history. In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey...