Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Peter Grose
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II
Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.
This...
I'll Be Damned
How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past thirty-five...
Voyage of the Damned
A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times).
On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World...
The Secrets of the Notebook
A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life – August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European history, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon and Hitler—and solved by the author of this...
Born Survivors
Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to...
The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann used her Alsatian dog to rip the clothes and flesh from the unfortunate victims of her blind wrath. Age...
by Alexander Mitscherlich, Fred Mielke
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
With 16 pages of photographs
One of the most shocking aspects of the Nazi treatment of their prisoners was the wanton cruelty of the doctors assigned to the concentration camps that were dotted throughout occupied Europe. In an ironic perversion of their Hippocratic oath doctors, such as the...
by A Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
This is the story of a survivor, what he saw and felt during his Calvary from Antwerp to the Malin distribution camp in France and from there to the extermination camp of Buchenwald.
To say that this book contains the scenes of a twentieth-century Inferno may sound commonplace. Yet, every page...
Alicia
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD • Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary—a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand—and follow.
“This memoir is heartbreaking. I hope...
Death in the City of Light
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.
As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive...
by Mark Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
His name and image are synonymous with tyranny, brutally and a chapter in human history which, though painful to remember, should never be forgotten. Hitler’s War is the fully illustrated story of how an unremarkable boy from Austria rose to become the most powerful leader in the world, indelibly...
Dachau Concentration Camp
A Guide to the former Concentration Camp and the Memorial Site
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit Dachau Memorial Site each year. Any visitor to the Memorial Site will find that the Memorial Site bookshop stocks two publications worthy of particular mention, both deal at length with the history of the former concentration camp; Stanislav...
Will The Real Albert Speer Please Stand Up?
The Many Faces of Hitler's Architect
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Reader review: "A well documented study of Albert Speer, the "good Nazi" who escaped the gallows at the Nuremberg trials...Geetanjali Mukherjee makes a compelling argument... Well written and a great read."
**He presented many faces to the world, but which one was genuine? **
Over...