Holocaust category: 1392 books
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Writing Our History
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto
Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by...
by Paul R. Bartrop
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Genocide: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as; how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide? How prevalent has genocide been throughout history? and how...
National Policy, Global Memory
The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of “Righteous among the Nations” to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own national...
by Jonathan Huener
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz...
On the Defensive
Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines...
by Deirdre Lauren Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The vast majority of studies of Hannah Arendt's thought are concerned with her as a political theorist. This book offers a contribution to rectifying this imbalance by providing a critical engagement with Arendtian ethics.
Arendt asserts that the crimes of the Holocaust revealed a shift in...
Two Regimes
A Mother’S Memoir of Wartime Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This is a verbatim memoir of Teodora Verbitskya. Very little is known about Teodora, a gentile Russian woman who bravely chronicled the years before, during and after World War II and her experiences in Russia, including deportation to German forced labor and concentration camps.
Through it...
Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons
A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity...
Heroes or Villains?
The True Story of Saving Jews in Occupied France Where There Were Heroes and Villains and Sometimes, You Could Not Tell the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Heroes or Villains? is the true story of the Holocaust in France that started when France surrendered to the Germans and Marshal Henri Philippe Ptain arrived to form, under the German watch, a petty French dictatorshipthe Vichy governmentwith these Vichy villains intent on assisting the short-handed...
by Julia von dem Knesebeck
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Thirty years passed before it was accepted-in West Germany and elsewhere-that the Roma (Gypsies) of Germany had been Holocaust victims. Drawing upon a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this record examines the history of the Roma struggle for recognition as racially persecuted victims...
by Edith M. Kozdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Tinis People is a true story about real people, her memories of Jews, Poles, Czechs, Germans and Austrians all of whom she thought of as her people form the backbone of this book. The book provides a historical, cultural and social perspective on the life of a Central European Jewish family from...
1940
verwarring en aanpassing
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 26, 2015
'Een nieuw standaardwerk over de bezetting.' - NRC Handelsblad
In vroege ochtend van 10 mei 1940 trekken Duitse militaire eenheden Nederland binnen. Op hetzelfde moment worden in het westen van het land doelen door de Luftwaffe aangevallen. De Duitse inval in Nederland is begonnen. Vijf dagen later,...
A Past in Hiding
Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical investigation that offers unprecedented insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the Holocaust and the powers and pitfalls of memory.
At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular...