Holocaust category: 1392 books
Legacies, Lies and Lullabies
The World of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Legacies, Lies and Lullabies: The World of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor is a smorgasbord of history, memoirs, interviews, poems, recipes and cultural tidbits. It explores the rise of Hitler, the perils of life in Terezin, the soap opera of Eastern European relatives, and the invisible baggage...
Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature
Stories in New Ways
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide, and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and race. It shows how literary representations...
Hitlers Menschenhändler
Das Schicksal der "Austauschjuden"
Language: German
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Zwei ungleiche Männer zwischen den Fronten des Holocaust Ein Jahr vor Kriegsende, als der Massenmord an den Juden seinen grausamen Höhepunkt erreicht, verhandelt SS-Obersturmbannführer Kurt Becher mit dem jüdischen Unterhändler Rudolf Kasztner über die Freilassung von ungarischen Juden - im...
The Forgiveness to Come
The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we cannot...
Carved in Stone
Holocaust Years - A Boy's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The title of this book is taken from Primo Levi's words about survivors of the Holocaust: `The survivors are divided into two well-defined groups: those who repress their past en bloc, and those whose memory of the offence persists, as though carved in stone.' The memories of Manny Drukier are indelibly...
Europa gegen die Juden
1880 - 1945
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In seiner neuen, großen Gesamtdarstellung "Europa gegen die Juden 1880-1945" zeigt der bekannte Historiker Götz Aly, dass der Holocaust nicht allein aus der deutschen Geschichte heraus erklärbar ist. Sowohl in West- als auch in Osteuropa hatten Antisemitismus und Judenfeindschaft seit 1880 sprunghaft...
"Endlösung"
Völkerverschiebung und der Mord an den europäischen Juden
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Das zentrale Standardwerk ›Endlösung‹ des bekannten Historikers Götz Aly, bei seinem Erscheinen 1995 ein entscheidender Schritt in der Erforschung der Geschichte des Holocaust, liegt jetzt in einer durchgesehenen und aktualisierten Neuausgabe vor. Götz Aly zeigte als Erster, wie sich in einem...
Topographies of Suffering
Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of “monument fatigue”, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of...
The Hidden Children
The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
They hid wherever they could for as long as it took the Allies to win the war -- Jewish children, frightened, alone, often separated from their families. For months, even years, they faced the constant danger of discovery, fabricating new identities at a young age, sacrificing their childhoods to...
Survival in the Shadows
Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
National bestseller: This “harrowing” true story of two Jewish families who survived hiding in the heart of the Nazi capital “honors the human spirit” (Andrea Dworkin).
In January 1943, unable to flee Germany, the four members of the Arndt family went underground to avoid deportation...
by Fiona Gold Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since childhood, author Fiona Gold Kroll has been drawn to a photograph of her great-uncle, Benjamin Albaum, a Jewish man who disappeared from Paris at the beginning of World War II. A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of Fiona’s quest to discover his fate. Chasing Holocaust shadows across...
163256: A Memoir of Resistance
A Memoir of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation...
Hanns and Rudolf
The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE
The “compelling,” untold story of the man who brought one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals to justice—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post).
May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes...
by Ann Major
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Of Jewish origin but thoroughly assimilated, Ann Major's enormously successful family, especially in terms of cultural and scientific achievement, lived confident in the future. Little did they realize that their world was being threatened by the looming danger of the Holocaust, perpetrated both by...