Holocaust category: 1392 books
Troubled Memory
Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences...
Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments
Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Paul...
Hitler's Pawn
The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Herschel’s story is not really about another victim among six million victims. It’s about a naïve but intense kid suddenly trapped in the spotlight of world politics, and moreover world politics on the edge. It is about fame and obscurity. About the fall of France, and the first phase of World...
Human Rights after Hitler
The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights...
Because of Eva
A Jewish Genealogical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family’s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate...
Jewish Honor Courts
Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks—those who had served on Jewish councils, worked...
by Hans Keilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
[1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read." —Library Journal
In 2010, FSG published two novels by the German- Jewish writer Hans Keilson: Comedy in...
Saving One's Own
Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders...
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing.
Examining how representations...
by Pieter R. Wiederhold
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
A young boy who spent the first fourteen years of his life wealthy and protected suddenly faced five years of fighting to stay alive in Japanese concentration camps. Author Pieter R. Wiederhold wonders how he managed to survive at all during that difficult and horrifying time. He shares the untold...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1941–1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942 is the third volume in a five-volume set published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on Holocaust history. Incorporating historical documents and accessible narrative, this volume sheds light on...
Bronislaw Huberman: From child prodigy to hero, the violinist who saved Jewish musicians from the Holocaust
The Groundbreakers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Bronislaw Huberman was a child prodigy who played his violin before kings and queens. As an adult, he became one of the greatest violinists in the world. And then came the horrors of Nazi Germany and the violence and hatred towards the Jews of Europe. The time period was 1933 – 36. Huberman decided...
Facing a Holocaust
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.--Central European History
"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well.--Jan...
by Irene Kucholick
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Irene is a survivor. This is her true life story. Born in the same year as Anne Frank, she lived through the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, except Irene survived World War 2. She helped Jews hide during the holocaust and sneaked aboard trains returning from the Eastern Front. As a kid, she watched...