Holocaust category: 1392 books
Izzy's Fire
Finding Humanity In The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The story of how an impoverished three-member Catholic farm family saved thirteen Jews from the Holocaust in Lithuania, seven of them escapees from Kovno Ghetto. All sixteen lived and as of 2015, five of the Jews are still living. This book is being used in public and private schools, colleges and universities,...
Ordinary Jews
Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence
Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival...
Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions
The International Tracing Service Archive and Holocaust Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, holds millions of documents that enrich our understanding of the many forms of persecution during the Nazi era and its continued repercussions ever since. Drawing on a selection of recently...
The Case for Auschwitz
Evidence from the Irving Trial
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt’s book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz...
Oskar Schindler and His List
The Man, The Book, The Film, The Holocaust and Its Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Canadian Journalist Herbert Steinhouse met Oskar Schindler in1946; Schindler told Steinhouse his story. At first, Steinhouse didn't believe him,. but by 1949, Steinhouse had written an article "The Man Who Saved 1,000 LIves." That article pre-dates -- and validates --all subsequent Schindler research....
Conscience and Courage
Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and...
A Pedigreed Jew
Between There and Here – Kovno and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Nechama Baruchson, a native of Kovno, was a company commander of the underground movement of the ABZ in the Kovno ghetto. After the destruction...
The Interior of Our Memories
A History of Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A history of the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre, one of the earliest permanent memorial museums which was set up in 1984 by survivors of the Holocaust. The book provides a history of the Centre's early days and examines its transformation from a collection of artefacts into an organisation that focuses on exhibitions, remembrance and education.
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection...
by Paul R. Bartrop, Eve E. Grimm
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A comprehensive introductory essay, along with a detailed chronology, reference entries, primary sources, images, and a bibliography provide crucial information that readers need in order to understand Hitler's plan, as carried out through legislation and armed violence. The book also demonstrates...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Europe in the twentieth century witnessed the large-scale displacement and mass murder of civilian populations because of their ethnic or national identity. Genocide is the ultimate expression...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This thesis analyzes the rise of paramilitary organizations in Germany from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, through World War I, into the Weimar Republic, and finally in the Third...
by Saul Friedländer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This ePaper, History and Memory: lessons from the Holocaust, presents the original text of the Leçon inaugurale delivered by Professor Saul Friedländer on 23 September 2014 at the Maison de la Paix, which marked the opening of the academic year of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The lecture highlights...
After the Fact
The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically....