Holocaust category: 1392 books
In the Name of Humanity
The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The “unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution” from the New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
On November 25, 1944, the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz—part of the largest killing machine in human...
by Ruth Minsky Sender
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The sequel to The Cage and To Life continues Sender's account of her struggle to build a new life in America, her battle to cope with her horrific memories of the Holocaust, her decision to tell her story, and her career as a teacher of Jewish history.
Hana's Suitcase
The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This award-winning true Holocaust story, newly updated, connects generations through one woman’s quest to find the truth behind a mysterious suitcase.
In March 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education center in Tokyo, received an empty suitcase from the museum at Auschwitz....
Six Million Paper Clips
The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
At a middle school in a small, all white, all Protestant town in Tennessee, a special after-school class was started to teach the kids about the Holocaust, and the importance of tolerance. The students had a hard time imagining what six million was (the number of Jews the Nazis killed), so they decided...
by Corona Brezina
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Adolf Hitler's henchmen Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Eichmann were involved in planning and implementing the Final Solution, the euphemism for the genocide of Jews and mass murder of other non-Germans across Europe during World War II. This cogent narrative provides readers with...
by Zoe Lowery, James R. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Nazi Germany’s Holocaust has become something of a benchmark for all other genocides. This instructive volume offers readers insight into the background of its mastermind, Adolf Hitler, and sets the stage for the appalling fates of so many minorities, including Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals,...
by Tanya Provines
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Written by an education major at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK, “Rays of Sunshine: Women During the Holocaust” is more than a research paper. It includes photographs and personal notes from the author telling how a visit to the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany broke her heart...
After the Girls Club
How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
After World War II, the Girls Club of Brooklyn, New York, became both home and safe haven to orphaned teenagers who were Holocaust survivors. They are a small group, but taken together these women's stories represent the broad range of experiences that most Jews suffered during and after the Holocaust....
The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On the evening of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich, Howard Reich's mother, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her home in Skokie, Illinois and fled. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head," Sonia told anyone...
by Wendy Lower
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's...
Surviving Remnant
Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir,...
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust
Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,...
Zwarte aarde
geschiedenis van de Holocaust
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 28, 2015
De Holocaust staat gelijk aan de verschrikkelijke dood van miljoenen joden in de gaskamers. Maar nog voordat die gaskamers werden gebouwd, was het grootste deel van de Europese joodse bevolking al door de nazi’s gedood in de landen ten oosten van Duitsland. In Zwarte aarde geeft Timothy Snyder antwoord...
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden
Die Jahre der Verfolgung 1933-1939. Die Jahre der Vernichtung 1939-1945
Language: German
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2007 an Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländers Buch über die Verfolgung und Vernichtung der europäischen Juden ist einhellig als eines der bedeutendsten historischen und literarischen Werke unserer Zeit gerühmt worden. Nirgendwo sonst wird die Geschichte...