Holocaust category: 1392 books
Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?
The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938–1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In this major work exploring the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred, by examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow the refugee ship St. Louis to land in America, the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, and the deportation of...
by Mary Lagerwey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
"My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like...
A Moral Reckoning
The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction...
Erased
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in...
After Eichmann
Collective Memory and Holocaust Since 1961
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a...
"What! Still Alive?!"
Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
"What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from...
Searching for Schindler
A memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around...
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East
Arab and Turkish Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Given their geographical separation from Europe, ethno-religious and cultural diversity, and subordinate status within the Nazi racial hierarchy, Middle Eastern societies were both hospitable as well as hostile to National Socialist ideology during the 1930s and 1940s. By focusing on Arab and Turkish...
Hedy's Journey
The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, sixteen-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will...
The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...
Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany
Origins, Practices, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such...
Sobibor
A History of a Nazi Death Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately...
They Were Just People
Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Hitler’s attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to...
Heroes of Spirit
100 Rabbinic Tales of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
“Some rely upon chariots and some upon horses, but as for us, upon the Name of the Lord, our G-d, we call.” Time and again, history has repeated itself for the Jewish people - with Nazi Germany being the prime example. The truncheon-wielding sadistic German soldiers appeared to be in their heyday...