Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Hand of Compassion
Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such...
American Jewry and the Holocaust
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as...
On the Edge of the Holocaust
The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine,...
The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a range...
Erfahrungen der 'Zweiten Generation': 'Alles, alles Liebe'
Erkenntnisse aus Barbara Honigmanns Weg zum jüdischen Glauben?
Language: German
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust Studien, Note: 1,3, Universität Lüneburg (Sprache und Kommunikation ), Veranstaltung: Jüdische Identität im deutschen Kontext nach 1945, 18 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Nach 1945 war...
by Roman Büttner
Language: German
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust Studien, Note: 2, , 155 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Vermittlung von Geschichte in Film und Fernsehen hat in den letzten Jahren einen ungeheuren Boom erfahren. Die zahlreichen Dokumentationsreihen...
Der Kern des Holocaust
Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka und die Aktion Reinhardt
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Am 15. März 1942 begann die "Aktion Reinhardt". Die deutschen Besatzer deportierten die Juden aus den Ghettos im besetzten Polen und vergasten sie in den Vernichtungslagern Belzec, Sobibór und Treblinka. Bis November 1943 ermordeten sie dabei annähernd zwei Millionen Menschen, verbrannten...
The Nazi Officer's Wife
How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend,...
by William & Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a...
by Danny Naten
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
At the tender age of 16, Klara Wizel had a picturesque life with a loving and supportive family. There was no way to know that the Holocaust was creeping toward her and that soon this young Hungarian Jew would be fighting for her life due to the most notorious doctor of the 20th century, Dr. Josef...
Goebbels
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH • From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler’s malevolent minister of propaganda.
In life, and in the grisly manner of his death, Joseph Goebbels was one of...
From Broken Glass
My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed...
by Philip Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman’s comics all identify deeply-rooted...
The Nazi Hunters
How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team...