Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Anita Selzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
It is German-occupied Poland in 1942 and Jewish lives are at risk. Nazi soldiers order young boys to pull down their trousers to see if they are circumcised. Many are summarily shot or sent to the camps.
A remarkable mother takes an ingenious step. To avoid suspicion, she trains her teenage son to...
Bending Toward the Sun
A Mother and Daughter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacy—forged in the terror of the Holocaust—that has shaped three generations of lives. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie tells the story of her mother, Rita, who like Anne Frank spent years hiding from the Nazis, and whose...
Between Dignity and Despair
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the...
Pack of Thieves
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in His
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
It was the largest organized robbery in history: the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe?Axis, Allied, and neutral. Award--winning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff, one of the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks had hoarded...
Hitler's First Victims
The Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.
Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic....
Neighbors
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story.
This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. It is the most important study of Polish-Jewish...
The Nazi Titanic
The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war, Hitler's...
Clara's War
One Girl's Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank—a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and cramped quarters—Clara’s War is a true story of the Holocaust.
Cara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When...
by Jafa Wallach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed...
Surviving Hitler
A Boy In The Nazi Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The life-changing story of a young boy’s struggle for survival in a Nazi-run concentration camp, narrated in the voice of Holocaust survivor Jack Mandelbaum.
When twelve-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is separated from his family and shipped off to the Blechhammer concentration camp, his life...
Roman's Journey
A Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Polish painter, sculptor, and architect gives readers “a terrifying view from the epicenter of the Holocaust” (Kirkus Review).
Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighbors...
Flares of Memory
Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty...
by Shimon Redlich
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlichs widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlichs personal memories...
by Ruth Minsky Sender
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this “vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is a Holocaust survival story that will be remembered for generations.
As long as there is life,...