Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Elly Gross
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp....
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
A Memoir of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust, in this National Jewish Book award finalist and Parents Choice Gold Medal Award–winning title, an ideal companion to...
War and Genocide
A Concise History of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews,...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
"Shocking. Revelatory. Compelling. A truly authentic and riveting read. A milestone in WWII and Holocaust history."-- Damien Lewis, author: The Nazi Hunters
A harrowing, beautifully written and extremely well-researched account of a little-known aspect of the Holocaust. Patricia Posner's...
by Beatrice Muchman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
From Booklist Muchman was born in Berlin in 1933. In March 1939, she, her parents, and four relatives fled to Brussels to escape the Nazi regime. In 1942, Germany occupied Belgium, and Muchman's parents brought her and her cousin to the home of two Catholic women for safekeeping. Her parents were...
The Holocaust in Hungary
Evolution of a Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form...
by David Chagall
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2000
Before World War 2, there was a total of sixteen million Jews in the world--over one fourth were sephardic Spanish Jews, tracing their ancestral lineage from the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Hitler engineered the genocide of six million Jews, almost all of them Ashkenazic or European Jews, descended from...
From Holocaust to Harvard
A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A statesman’s “deeply personal account of his journey from Nazi-occupied Austria to the heights of the American intellectual establishment . . . Heart wrenching” (Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state).
When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria, ripping...
by Arek Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
How do you survive when you’re 11 years old and all your family have been taken from you and killed?
How do you continue to live, when everything around you is designed to ensure certain death?
Arek Hersh tells his story simply and honestly, a moving account of a little boy who made...
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick...
In Broad Daylight
The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
**How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad Daylight
Based on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700...
And The World Closed Its Doors
The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Much has been written about the West's unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis. Now David Clay Large gives a specific human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, Large tells...
Remember Us
My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A New York Times Best Seller!
Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning...
Night
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power
When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him “the conscience of the world.”...