Holocaust category: 1392 books
Menachem & Fred
Thoughts and Memories of Two Brothers
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. This is the story of two brothers caught up in the Nazi persecution of the Jews. After being transferred to several detention camps throughout...
Salvaged Pages, Multimedia Edition
Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation....
by Old Natural Ways, Rebecca Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The horrid acts of Auschwitz concentration camp are something that really needs no introduction. It is nearly impossible to discuss this topic with someone that does not know at least a few points about it while still having a full understanding of the horror of the acts done there. The acts, if applied...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This moving documentary volume brings together fourteen interviews of Holocaust survivors who later settled in Wisconsin. With words and photographs they describe the richness of pre-war Jewish life in Europe; the advent of proscriptive laws, arrests, and deportation; the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi camps; and ultimately the liberation and postwar experiences of the survivors.
Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust
The Concept of the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed...
by Wolfgang Benz
Language: German
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Wolfgang Benz, einer der renommiertesten deutschen Holocaust-Forscher, zeichnet in diesem Buch die Geschichte des Völkermordes an den Juden von der Ausgrenzung und Entrechtung bis zum industrialisierten Massenmord in den Vernichtungslagern nach. Sein Augenmerk gilt dabei nicht nur den Tätern, sondern...
by
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Als Kinder haben sie den Holocaust überlebt. Als Erwachsene in Israel meist geschwiegen. Nun erzählen sie von sich - mithilfe einer Frau, die Erinnerungsbücher mit ihnen verfasst: Miriam Dubi-Gazan Die großen Themen der Zeit sind manchmal kompliziert. Aber oft genügt schon eine ausführliche und...
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul...
Rethinking Holocaust Justice
Essays across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained...
Unlikely Heroes
The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population...
So weit wie möglich weg von hier
Von Europa nach Melbourne – Holocaust-Überlebende erzählen
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Hannah Miska lernte in Australien Pauline Rockman, die Präsidentin des Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne, kennen, deren Familie Magdeburger Wurzeln hat. Durch ihre Arbeit im Centre hatte Miska Gelegenheit, zahlreiche Überlebende des Holocaust kennenzulernen und Interviews mit ihnen zu führen. In...
Hakenkreuz und Rotes Kreuz
Eine humanitäre Organisation zwischen Holocaust und Flüchtlingsproblematik
Language: German
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Mit seiner 150-jährigen Geschichte gehört das Internationale Komitee vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK) besonders in Kriegszeiten zu den ältesten und aktivsten Hilfsorganisationen. Die wertvolle Hilfeleistung des IKRK für Millionen Verwundete und Kriegsgefangene im Zweiten Weltkrieg steht außer Zweifel,...
by André Biakowski
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Der Reisebus hielt und ich war da. Lodz meine Heimat auf Zeit. Mitten in Polen. Ein Jahr als Freiwilliger lag vor mir. Und dann war da diese polnische Sprache. Zungenbrecher. Ein ewiges Nachschlagen im Wörterbuch. Doch ein Wort begleitete mich täglich - Obiad. Ohne anfänglich zu wissen, was dieses...
Only a Bad Dream?
Childhood Memories of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
One of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, author Sahbra Anna Markus lived a life only those who have survived Hitlers hell can imagine. In Only a Bad Dream? she narrates the drama of her early years through her most vivid memories. Sahbra courageously recounts those childhood experiences...