Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Ida Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to "the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish...
Return to the Reich
A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to...
Speak You Also
A Holocaust Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the...
Reckonings
Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A single word--"Auschwitz"--is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet focusing on a single concentration camp, however horrific the scale of crimes committed there, leaves an incomplete story, truncates a complex history...
The Spirit of Renewal
Finding Faith after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1991
Helps the modern reader understand events that span almost 4,000 years of the history of Judaism and the Jewish people. This profound and engaging meditation opens the way to a powerful new understanding of the nature of God and the spiritual life.
Majdanek
Verloschene Lichter. Ein früher Zeitzeugenbericht vom Todeslager
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Mordechai Strigler (1918–1998) begann kurz nach seiner Befreiung aus dem Konzentrationslager Buchenwald im April 1945, seine Erfahrungen im Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Majdanek in literarischer Form zu verarbeiten. Er legt jedoch keine nüchterne Schilderung des Lebens und Leidens der...
Keeping the Promise
A Torah's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Follow the incredible journey of a small Torah scroll from a Dutch rabbi to a Bar Mitzvah boy during the Holocaust and finally to Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who died on space shuttle Columbia.
by Anne Frank
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust-and lived happily ever after.
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village...
Architects of Death
The Family Who Engineered the Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A sobering story of an industrial family’s cold efficiency behind the design of the ovens at Auschwitz
Architects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust were...
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by Bernard Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust
“Born in a small town outside of Warsaw in 1889, Bernard Goldstein joined the Jewish labor organization, the Bund, at age 16 and dedicated his life to organizing workers and resisting tyranny. Goldstein spent time in prisons from...
Holy Enemies of Freedom
How Martin Luther Unleashed the Beast of Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare the criminal conspiracy that is unleashed upon ordinary people by organized religion.
The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted to throw the Jews out of Germany. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians,...
Theresienstadt
Eine Geschichte von Täuschung und Vernichtung
Language: German
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Nirgendwo kam der Zynismus der Nationalsozialisten deutlicher zum Ausdruck als in Theresienstadt. Die Weltöffentlichkeit und die zur Deportation bestimmten Juden wurden planmäßig über den Zweck der Einrichtung getäuscht. Bis heute hält sich das Bild des privilegierten «Altersghettos», in dem...
Auschwitz - Geschichte eines Vernichtungslagers
Ein SPIEGEL E-Book
Language: German
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Auch siebzig Jahre nach der Befreiung am 27. Januar 1945 löst Auschwitz immer noch Emotionen aus wie kein anderer Ort, an dem die Nationalsozialisten mit industrieller Effizienz Häftlinge umbrachten. Das staatlich angeordnete Jahrtausendverbrechen ließ Auschwitz zum furchtbarsten Wort der deutschen...