Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Sara Manobla
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little did she realize that her contact with the Jews of the Soviet Union would become the start of her own voyage of self-discovery. Her commitment to the cause of the refuseniks...
Journal 1935–1944
The Fascist Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded...
by Michael Melnick
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Holocaust survivor HENRY MELNICK was born in Lodz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, he was sent to do slave labour in the Nowy Sacz and Tarnow Ghettos and at Szebnie camp. He was then transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen death camps. When...
Words to Outlive Us
Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
The story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through twenty-eight never-before-published accounts-a precious and historic find.
In the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir-a mosaic of individual diaries, journals,...
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by Judith Sternberg Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust
Despite the Nazi oppression of all Jews in the lands under their control, Judith Sternberg Newman and her family were hugely fortunate to have managed get permission to settle in Paraguay in 1940. However their escape was blocked...
by Joanne D. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Based on Gilbert's 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully defied the Nazis provide a new perspective on women and the Holocaust.
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday
A Memoir of Loss, Survival, and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America. Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits' compelling memoir recounts his happy childhood memories in Derecske,...
by Heni Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
What compelled a 60+-year-old man, who had been diagnosed previously with blockages of his heart but refused surgery, to begin running marathons? You could say his running began back in Bilgoraj, Poland. “I call this invisible power” Simcha was known to say. Interviewed by numerous magazine and...
by Hannah Podob
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
The word Holocaust, to many people, brings images of concentration camps. Indeed much has been written and documented about those brutal places.
Less documented however, are the thousands of Jews who escaped the death camps and hid from Nazi tormentors in the hills, riverbanks, sheds, sewers...
Orchestra of Exiles
The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitler—as seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles.
“The true artist does not create art as an end in itself. He creates art for human beings. Humanity...
Final Witness
My journey from the Holocaust to Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen concentration camp he survived the inhuman brutality of the SS guards, the ravages of near starvation, disease, and squalor. All but one of his...
Reign of Terror
The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The astonishing true story of a Swede in Hungary who stood up to Nazis and saved thousands from the Holocaust.
Although the honors awarded Raoul Wallenberg are well deserved, he is only one of the many brave individuals—most of whom remain forgotten by history—who saved thousands of Jews...
A Guest in my Own Country
A Hungarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed...
Auschwitz
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
This vivid and harrowing narrative history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators
The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz,...