Holocaust category: 1392 books
Simon Wiesenthal
The Life and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
**With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their...
Rosa's Child
The True Story of one Woman's Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Born in Germany in 1936, three year old Susi Bechhofer and her twin sister Lotte were among thousands of children evacuated on the now famous Kindertransport as the country fell into the cruel grip of Nazism. Adopted by the Manns, a childless Welsh Baptist minister and his wife on their arrival in...
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1
A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life...
by Leon Goldensohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn—a U.S. Army psychiatrist—monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately—one of the premier historians...
My Battle Against Hitler
Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
How does a person become Hitler’s number one enemy? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism.
Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his...
Hitler's Forgotten Children
A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2.
Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe....
A Special Brand of Courage
A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes.
On Hitler's Mountain
Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she...
Giants
The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their small stature earned them fame - and, ironically, ultimately saved their lives. As Hitler's...
Heinrich Himmler
The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich Himmler. As the head of the feared SS, Himler supervised...
by Edith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This initial volume of the Collected Works of Edith Stein offers, for the first time in English, the unabridged biography of Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), depicting her life as a child and young adult. Her text ends abruptly because the Nazi SS arrested, then deported, her to the Auschwitz...
Behind Enemy Lines
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers Weekly
Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France...
Hitler
The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical...
The Mascot
Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The "spellbinding" (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis
When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian...