Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.
Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to...
Stolen Words
The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world—tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections,...
The Years of Extermination
Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary...
Out of Passau
Leaving a City Hitler Called Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The true story behind the film The Nasty Girl: A memoir by a German woman who uncovered her hometown’s war crimes and complicity with the Nazis.
Nestled along the Danube in southern Germany, Passau is a pleasant tourist destination known for its historic buildings and scenic views at the...
The Book Thieves
The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**"A most valuable book." —Christian Science Monitor
For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful...
The Hands of War
A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story.
As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew...
The Impostor
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize
For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud: Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp....
At the Mind’s Limits
Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
This searing memoir of the author’s concentration camp experience “is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience” (Newsweek).
“Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.”
At the Mind’s Limits is the story of one man’s incredible...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters and diary entries, weaving together all the periods of the author's life -- from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, New York -- Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our...
Rescue Board
The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board,...
Masquerade
The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the Final Solution” into effect with deliberate speed. Soros, a Jewish lawyer in Budapest, secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife, and...
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2
A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's Germany. Volume Two begins in 1942, the year...
Someone Made a Mistake, So I am Here Now
The Dagmar Lieblová Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The true story of Dagmar Lieblová, who survived the Holocaust, while the rest of her family perished. Some memories are about people seemingly unknown and obscure. You won’t find among them famous poets, musicians or politicians. These were ordinary people, of whom there are many. And yet, nobody...
A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud...