Holocaust category: 1392 books
Underground to Palestine
And Other Writing on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post–World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone’s frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948–49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. Guttenplan
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But You Did Not Come Back
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A French woman’s heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.
A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the...
The Master Plan
Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions
In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan...
The Lampshade
A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prisoners to makes common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession...
Testimony
The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This illustrated, large-format book, Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation—A 20th Anniversary Commemoration combines, for the first time, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Schindler’s List with the history of the remarkable organization inspired by...
A Return to Chelm
My Journey to Uncover the Destruction of Two Jewish Families in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
At the outbreak of World War II, almost half of Chelms 36,000 residents were Jewish, but only a few hundred survived the warvirtually wiping out a community that had lived for 700 years in southeastern Poland.
Eight of Arlene Blaier Burrows relatives somehow survived. Seventy-two members of...
HENRY
A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish (Catholic) competitive swimmer, survives Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps by his wits, humor, luck, and friends. At times humorous, always gut-honest,...
Leslie's Stamps
A Saga of the Holocaust and Escape to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He had an idyllic childhood in a small Hungarian town where, it seemed, there was no animosity between the Christian majority and Jews like him. But with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Leslie Meisels ended up in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with his family. In Leslie's Stamps: A Saga of the Holocaust...
Into the Tunnel
The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a...
Isaac's Army
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto...
by Nechama Tec
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than...
Resistance
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The “exhilarating” definitive account of the 1943 uprising in Poland’s capital, named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Observer (Los Angeles Times).
No act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...
The Shadow of Death
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet...
by Daniel Himmel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Born on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in 1929, author Dan Himmel’s father soon joined the line of the condemned at the Birkenau death camp at the tender age of 15. He survived transfer to several different camps, including the dreaded Dora camp, from which few survived, and a death march,...