Holocaust category: 1392 books
After Long Silence
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
“Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities.”—Chicago Tribune
“To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is.”
Helen...
Hiding Edith
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
From award-winning author Kathy Kacer - Hiding Edith is the true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi invasion of France. Edith's story is remarkable not only for her own bravery, but for the bravery of those that helped her: an entire village, including...
Upon the Head of the Goat
A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Upon...
The Crime and the Silence
Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category
A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truth
Jan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town...
The Girl in the Green Sweater
A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge...
Flory
Survival in the Valley of Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1939, as the Nazi occupation grew from threat to reality, the Jewish population throughout Europe faced heart-wrenching decisions—to flee and lose their homes or to go into hiding, hoping against all odds to avoid the fate of being discovered. Holocaust survivor Flory A. Van Beek faced this terrible...
Hitler's Furies
German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
“Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust.” —Washington Post
In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern front—not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but...
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken...
Motherland
Growing Up with the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A groundbreaking second-generation memoir of the Holocaust and its legacy by Otto Frank’s goddaughter—“The extraordinary tale is heroic” (The New York Times).
Rita Goldberg recounts the extraordinary story of her mother, Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who...
Simon Spatz
From Holocaust to Halifax, A Story of Survival and Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
His was a life worth living, a story worth telling.
So Jim Spatz describes the story of his father, Simon Spatz, in the introduction to this fascinating biography of the high-profile Jewish Nova Scotian businessman (1913–2007). In Simon Spatz, former journalism professor Michael Cobdon tells...
by Helen Weber
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2006
Survivors, especially, will appreciate Weber's account of Hitler's war against the Jews; from killing Jews at the edge of the pit to Zyklon-B and the crematoria.
Nazi Gold
The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A “compelling [and] carefully researched” account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times).
In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany’s invincible...
The Archive Thief
The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs...
My Train to Freedom
A Jewish Boy?s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest,...