Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Jacob Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
A rendezvous of history and imagination, of realities and dreams, hopes and disenchantments. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years of the author's childhood, when he witnessed the cataclysmic events of the 1930s, imprisoned between walls of ghettos, and finally silenced in Auschwitz.
The New York Times Complete World War II
The Coverage of the Entire Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Experience the history, politics, and tragedy of World War II through the original, often firsthand daily reportage of The New York Times, our country's newspaper of record.
The Times' complete coverage of World War II is now available in a paperback edition of this unique book. Hundreds of...
by Gloria Spielman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the years between WWI and WWII, young Henryk Goldszmidt dreamed of creating a better world for children. As an adult, using the pen name Janusz Korczak, he became a writer, doctor, and an enlightened leader in the field of education, unaware to what use his skills were destined to be put. Dr. Korczak...
by Rudolf Schlossberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
They murdered more than a million people, sometimes in massive killing orgies that saw tens of thousands dead in only two days.Consisting mostly of SS and police units, they were under the control of Heinrich Himmler and his deputies, Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner.They were the first Nazi...
by Susan Neiman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
Berlin--East and West, day and night--in the 80s before the Wall fell. Through the eyes of a U.S. philosophy student. And Jewish, which makes for moments awkward, poignant, crass, funny, and always lurking. A city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named Salem because it sounds...
William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey
The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
World-renowned journalist and best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer was an important witness to the rise of Nazi Germany.The Start (1904-1930): In the first of a three-volume series, he tells the story of his early life. The Nightmare Years (1930-1940):...
East West Street
On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.
East West...
Underground in Berlin
A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin.
In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed...
Lone Assassin
The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Tried to Killed Hilter
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A riveting account of Georg Elser’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler—and change the course of history—right before the outbreak of World War II.
Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That...
The Nazi Séance
The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality...
Beyond the Chestnut Trees
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Beyond the Chestnut Trees, is a haunting and deeply personal memoir by Maria Bauer, who escaped Hitler’s invasion of Prague. After 40 years in exile, Bauer makes an unforgettable journey back to her homeland, searching for lost friends and lost loves, and finds the spirit of her beloved city forever...
Villa Air-Bel
World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, and scores of other cultural...
Hunting the Truth
Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR
In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice
For more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking...
by Ivan Jablonka
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous, and they left little behind except their...