Holocaust category: 1392 books
Saving Children
Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Saving Children, Jack Werber describes in detail what life in Buchenwald was like, painting a haunting picture of his daily struggle for survival. But Werber did more than survive; he made saving children his special mission. In what is one of the most amazing stories of the Holocaust, Jack Werber...
After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared...
Until Our Last Breath
A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
"This is a powerful tale of the triumph of love under extremely difficult conditions. " - Publishers Weekly
At Leizer Bart's funeral, one of the mourners told his son Michael that the gravestone should include a reference to the Freedom Fighters of Nekamah, to honor his late father's...
Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted
Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in postwar East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907–2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted is her story.
Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received...
Mark It with a Stone: A Moving Account of a Young Boy's Struggle to Survive the Nazi Death Camps
A Moving Account of a Young Boy's Struggle to Survive the Nazi Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Sandy Rubenstein is the daughter of a survivor. On September 1, 1939, her father, Joseph Horn, began an odyssey through one of the worst atrocities in history. Horn stayed alive while his family perished, surviving stays in the Blizyn concentration camp, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. In her new introduction,...
Saving the Jews
Men and Women who Defied the Final Solution
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2000
During the Holocaust's long nights there were gentiles in every corner of Europe who saved Jews. This is their story.
A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz
History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908–1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Rescue Committee during the...
When Memory Comes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud
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Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old...
The Yellow Star
A Boy's Story of Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this now-classic Holocaust memoir, Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer recounts his survival of the Nazi camps. Clinging fiercely to his faith in God, the nineteen-year-old Unsdorfer faced the unspeakable horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald with courage and moral defiance, a testament to the abiding strength of the Jewish spirit.
by Jankiel Wiernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
An Inmate Who Escaped Tells The Day-To-Day Facts Of One Year Of His Torturous Experiences.
Jankiel Wiernik was a Jewish property manager in Warsaw when the Nazis invaded Poland and was forced into the ghetto in 1940. Despite surviving the horrors of the ghetto at the advanced age of 52, he...
by Ian Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time....
Death Dealer
The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hess's was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Hess's memoirs into English.These...
The Lost
A Search for Six of Six Million
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship,...
by Christopher R. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
"An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities,...