Holocaust category: 1392 books
Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words...
by William J. Winslade, Viktor E. Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished....
by Thomas Maeder
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.
On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement...
by Siegmund Siegreich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Do I believe in the Thirty-Six? I believe in miracles.
Sigi had just turned 15 and was living a carefree life in Poland when WWII was declared. Within days, Germany crossed the Polish border and randomly, to assert their intentions, exterminated Jews and Poles. The Siegreich family relocated...
by Melita Maschmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self by Melita Maschmann (translated from the German by Geoffrey Strachan, with a new introduction and an afterword by Marianne Schweitzer Burkenroad with Helen Epstein; 98,000 words, 10 photographs)
Account Rendered was first published in Germany in...
Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
After the Roundup
Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“A vivid and unforgettable word picture of the destruction of Nazi Germany” (The New York Times).
A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during...
A Train in Winter
An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship....
Amor y horror nazi
Historias reales de los campos de concentración
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2018
La autora refleja cómo sus protagonistas sobrevivieron a la enfermedad, las vejaciones y al hambre gracias a su valentía, pero también, gracias al motor que en aquel momento movía su corazón, el amor. Porque, pese a los trabajos forzados, los abusos y palizas, o la inanición, su mayor lucha...
by Leonard Gross
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin—and survived: “Consummately suspenseful” (Los Angeles Times).
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five...
Killing the SS
The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This is the Popular Reference edition of the fully-illustrated title, ISBN 9781848587915. Author Nigel Cawthorne provides a concise, yet detailed look at one of the most chilling organizations ever conceived by the human imagination, whose misdeeds are viewed with an unflinching gaze, making for a chilling, yet engrossing read.
Hunting Eichmann
How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt.
When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the mountains...