Holocaust category: 1392 books
Auschwitz
Geschichte eines Verbrechens
Language: German
Release Date: August 12, 2011
In dieser ebenso fundierten wie erschütternden Darstellung gelingt es Laurence Rees, dem Leser die unfaßbaren Geschehnisse des Holocaust nachvollziehbar vor Augen zu führen – mit einem beunruhigenden Fazit: Der Holocaust ist kein düsterer Alptraum, kein singulärer Exzeß, sondern Ergebnis der menschlichen Veranlagung.
Humanitarians at War
The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial...
Abe-vs-Adolf
The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Abe Peckck
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Abe Peck is the only living Holocaust survivor of an entire town in Poland. He is the only person left in this world who can provide a firsthand account of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against his family, friends and contemporaries. Before Nazi Germany targeted European Jews for persecution...
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946
A Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Many available for the...
The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
**“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers,...
History vs. Apologetics
The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Set within the context of the political and ideological developments of the time, History vs. Apologetics examines the role played by the Catholic Church in the rise and consolidation of the Third Reich and in particular with regard to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Distanced in the beginning,...
Breaking the Silence
Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very little work in this space has looked at children whose parents fled Nazi persecution before the Holocaust. Even less attention has been paid to those who ended...
Soccer under the Swastika
Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In the heart of the twentieth century, the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses across Europe, even as war was engulfing the continent. Intimately woven into the war was the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, genocide on a scale never seen...
Rena's Promise
A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz
Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death...
Out of the Inferno
Poles Remember the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty "ordinary" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939-1945 by Polish Christians from diverse social...
Memory and Complicity
Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls...
by Al Sokolow, Reha Sokolow
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Ruth Abraham and Maria Nickel would never have met each other if it hadn't been for the Shoah. But when Hitler turned Germany into a cauldron of anti- Semitism, Maria Nickel decided that morality and ethics were more important than even life itself. This story of unbridled compassion made world...
The Pages In Between
A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navigate the increasingly bitter crossroads between memory and truth.
To a young newspaper reporter,...
by Lev Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
An author with name recognition in various genres: mystery, gay, Jewish, Holocaust Studies, self-help. 2. Although not a traditional mystery, this is a book that poses many questions as to the emotional turmoil suffered by a Jewish family--and answers them with a surprising twist. 3. Author has an active...