Holocaust category: 1392 books
Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust
A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Tapestry of Hope
Holocaust Writing for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
**Winner of the Honor Book award in the 2003 Society of School Librarians International Awards program
Selected as a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Nonfiction Titles...
by Robert Z. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Holocaust's atrocities and losses are foremost in most people's minds, but this volume highlights the Jews who summoned the courage to stand up and fight. This compelling volume gives a history leading up to Holocaust and the terror inflicted by the Nazis during World War II. Captivating text...
Echoes of the Holocaust
Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The result of a research project conducted by Swedish scholars, this text examines interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in European societies, primarily focusing on the most recent decades. Using specific case studies, the articles in this anthology study how, when and why the collective...
by Theodore S. Hamerow
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
This book answers the most pressing question about the Holocaust: Why did the West do nothing as Hitler's killing machine took hold?
The Allies stood by and watched Nazi Germany imprison and then murder six million Jews during World War II. How could the unthinkable have been allowed to happen?...
Collaboration with the Nazis
Public Discourse after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the changes in representing collaboration, during the Holocaust, especially in the destruction of European Jewry, in the public discourse and the historiography of various countries in Europe that were occupied by the Germans, or were considered, at least during part of the war,...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume I
Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—some 20,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated,...
De vergeten holocaust
mijn leven als Sinto, ondernemer en overlevende
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Zoni is de aangrijpende autobiografie van een zeer bijzondere Holocaust-overlevende: Zoni Weisz. Hij is een man van twee werelden: Nederland en de Sinto-cultuur.
Zoni is de aangrijpende autobiografie van een zeer bijzondere Holocaust-overlevende: Zoni Weisz. Hij is een man van twee werelden:...
The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century
Contesting/Contested Memories
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts,...
Conquest and Redemption
A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Conquest and Redemption, Gregg J. Rickman explains how the Nazis stole the possessions of their Jewish victims and obtained the cooperation of institutions across Europe in these crimes of convenience. He also describes how those institutions are being brought to justice, sixty years later, for...
The Power of Witnessing
Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did...
Rywka's Diary
The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The newly discovered diary of a Polish teenager in the Lodz ghetto during World War II—originally published by Jewish Family & Children’s Services of San Francisco, now available in a revised, illustrated, and beautifully designed trade edition.
After more than seventy years in obscurity,...
by Guido Knopp
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
No crime in human history is of such importance for today as the Holocaust. Hundreds of contemporary witnesses have been interviewed, for the most part surviving victims, but also perpetrators who have spoken out for the first time. This is not an attempt to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, but...
by Claudine Vegh, Ros Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Approximately 1,500,000 Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust — almost ninety percent of those alive in Europe in 1939. The vast majority of those who survived were hidden, either with their parents, or with strangers. For decades, they were considered too young to remember their experiences...