Holocaust category: 1392 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Primo Levi (1919–87) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until...
by Ann Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The only way they would survive, was if they stayed …TOGETHER
Sala Schonwetter lived the perfect life. Married to the man of her dreams, mother to two beautiful children, and a member of one of the most respected families in town; she had it all. The year was 1939, and the world was about...
Trauma in First Person
Diary Writing During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi persecution. Throughout...
Probing the Limits of Categorization
The Bystander in Holocaust History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders—it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint. Described by Hilberg as those who were “once a part of this history,” bystanders present unique challenges...
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...
Saving Lives in Auschwitz
The Prisoners' Hospital in Buna-Monowitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek-newly graduated from medical school in Krakow-was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in...
by Noemi Jaffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
"This is much more than a survival story. It is the story of how the scars of a woman can be and are passed through generations. It is about being a woman, a mother, and a daughter."—Gabriela Almeida, Continente
"An infinite work."—O Estadão de São Paulo
A groundbreaking...
Troubled Memory, Second Edition
Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a 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...
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War.
In this extensive study of how southern Jews in the United States responded to the Nazi persecution...
Täter
Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Auf beunruhigende Weise wird gezeigt, wie Tötungsbereitschaft erzeugt wird und wie wenig wir unseren moralischen Überzeugungen trauen können.Über den Holocaust ist viel geschrieben worden, aber die wichtigste Frage ist bis heute nicht beantwortet: Wie waren all die "ganz normalen Männer", gutmütigen...
by Constantin Mavromatidis
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust Studien, Note: 1,3, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.Einleitung Der Holocaust markiert die katastrophale Zuspitzung der antisemitischen Exzesse in Europa. Diese ist in diesem...
In My Brother's Image
Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In My Brother's Image is the extraordinary story of Eugene Pogany's father and uncle-identical twin brothers born in Hungary of Jewish parents but raised as devout Catholic converts until the Second World War unraveled their family. In eloquent prose, Pogany portrays how the Holocaust destroyed the...
by Primo Levi
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 10, 2019
'Primo Levi is een geniaal schrijver.' Louis Theroux in de Volkskrant
Een overlevende van Auschwitz en de holocaust richt zich met zijn woorden tot ons allemaal
Als verzetsstrijder trok Primo Levi in 1943 de bergen in, maar hij werd al na enkele maanden gepakt en naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd....
Intimate Violence
Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors...