Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Lillian Faderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
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A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s...
by Richard Rashke
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In October 1943, Esther Terner and 300 other Jews escaped from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in eastern Poland. It was the biggest escape of WWII and the subject of Richard Rashke's book, ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR. The book, and movie based on it, brought Esther many invitations to speak in public schools....
Found and Lost
Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead.
Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her Anne...
GITTA
Hidden Child of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From fragments of memories as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage in Sitnik, Poland, Gitta Rosenzweig weaves a tale of uncertainty that takes us across the globe on a journey of discovery.
If it had not been for the bravery of Ida Rozenszajn, who returned to Biala Podlaska after the war...
Losing Trust in the World
Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Am�ry went on to write a series of essays...
Four Perfect Pebbles
A True Story of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what...
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History
It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European...
Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present
History, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes...
Anna
A Teenager on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Anna Podgajecki was born in Korzec, on the Polish–Russian border. As life for the Jews became steadily worse, Anna’s parents insisted...
by Laura La Bella
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Holocaust is an atrocity of such overwhelming magnitude and depravity that it must never be forgotten yet can scarcely be comprehended. The sheer horror of it can often make it seem unreal to contemporary eyes. The primary-source images, firsthand accounts, meticulous timeline, and transcripts...
It Happened in Italy
Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
IMAGINE ELIZABETH BETTINA’S SURPRISE when she discovered that her grandmother’s village had a secret: over a half century ago, many of Campagna’s residents defied the Nazis and risked their lives to shelter and save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. What followed her discovery...
Never Again
A History of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
A work forty years in the making—Sir Martin Gilbert’s illustrated survey of the pre- and post-war history of the Jewish people in Europe.
Masterfully covering such topics as pre-war Jewish life, the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, and the reflections of Holocaust survivors, Gilbert interweaves firsthand...
The Fragility of Law
Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.
David Fraser demonstrates...
The Unwanted
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany
"What's most chilling about Dobbs's book is how his account of the early years of World War II echoes our politics today. Xenophobia, isolationism,...