Holocaust category: 1392 books
Behemoth
The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem...
by Magda Hollander-Lafon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Born in Hungary in 1927, Magda Hollander-Lafon was among the 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May and July 1944. Magda, her mother, and her younger sister survived a three-day deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; there, she was considered fit for work and so spared, while her mother and sister...
Violence, Memory, and History
Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal to help German Jews to any large degree emerges...
by Wolfgang Benz
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Woher kommt der Begriff «Drittes Reich»? – Was war der Arierparagraph? – Welche Rolle spielten die Kirchen im Dritten Reich? – War Hitler ein genialer Feldherr? – Was wußten die Deutschen vom Holocaust? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet Wolfgang Benz knapp, kenntnisreich und für jeden...
Terror in Frankreich - Analyse einiger Bilder der Ausstellung 'Hitlers Verbrechen'
Analyse einiger Bilder der Ausstellung 'Hitlers Verbrechen'
Language: German
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust Studien, Note: 1,5, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg im Breisgau (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Die Französische Besatzungszone nach 1945:Aufklärung und 'Umerziehung' mit Bildern:Realisation und...
Spätes Tagebuch
Theresienstadt - Auschwitz - Warschau - Dachau
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Max Mannheimer hat alles durchlitten, was einem Menschen in den von Deutschen entfesselten Inferno zustoßen konnte: Demütigung, Vertreibung, Internierung im Ghetto, Tod fast der ganzen Familie in der Gaskammer, Arbeitslager und KZ, Hunger, Krankheit und Misshandlung. Wie durch ein Wunder hat er...
Auschwitz and Birkenau
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings...
Visualizing Jews Through the Ages
Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in...
Justice at Dachau
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler’s first concentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team from lawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining charges for crimes that courts had never before confirmed. Among the accused were Dr. Klaus Schilling, responsible for hundreds...
Imprisoned
Drawings from Nazi Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
“A visual testament to the horrors of Nazi cruelty . . . Produced by some of the artists who perished in concentration camps” (Kirkus Reviews).
In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional...
Bound for Theresienstadt
Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezín) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe. Tens of thousands of inmates perished...
Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Christopher Simpson
The Splendid Blond Beast, Blowback, and Science of Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Three provocative exposés from a National Jewish Book Award–winning journalist address the CIA’s recruitment of Nazis and use of psychological warfare.
The Splendid Blond Beast: This groundbreaking investigation into the CIA’s post–World War II liberation and recruitment of Nazi war...
The Terrible Secret
Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution"
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book seeks to answer three vital questions about the worldwide response to Hitler's "Final Solution": When did information about the genocide first become known to Jews and non-Jews? Through what channels was this information transmitted? What was the reaction of those who received...
Motherland
Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
One woman's moving story of her journey with her mother to find their past and the tragedy that haunts it
In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents--before being killed by the Nazis--sent her from Germany to live with relatives in America. Fifty-four years later, Edith decided that it was time to,...