Holocaust category: 1392 books
A Castle in Wartime
One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
**"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories
An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times...
The Silent Heroes
A Memoir of Holland During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Dutch had intended to stay neutral at the outbreak of the war, as their military was no match for the Nazi hordes. Within five days, Holland had fallen and...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, 3rd Edition
Get the Big Picture on the War That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Complete Idiots Guide® to World War II, Second Edition, will feature updated and expanded coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It will include details about major...
50 Children
One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of...
The Third Reich at War
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
**A New York Times bestseller!
An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history**
Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe...
by Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war
This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three-volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of the Atlantic Monthly as "the definitive English-language...
Unshed Tears
A novel…but not a fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This true-life novel was written in the aftermath of the Second World War and the authors terrible experiences in a Nazi death camp. Judith, born in Prague was deported with her Jewish parents to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland when she was only 13. Within a year both her parents die and she is left alone...
Treblinka Survivor
The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The story of a man who survived Treblinka, to be haunted by his memories for 50 years—and ultimately, to be killed by them More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka and fewer than 70 came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, 50 years later, did he jump to his death from a...
by Ruth Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
A true story of shattered childhoods... Following her escape from Nazi Germany and the loss of her family Judith searches for unconditional love and acceptance. In a bleak boarding house she meets her future husband - another Jewish refugee who cares for her when she is ill.Tragically she associates...
All But My Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1995
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in...
A Lucky Child
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal...
Hiding in Plain Sight
Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War Two
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of...
by Comer Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Eichmann’s crimes, so monstrous that the first accounts were dismissed as anti-German propaganda, resulted in the death of 6,000,000 men, women and children. To maintain secrecy, the Nazis gave him the rank of sergeant at the very time when he was supervising the murder of Austria’s Jews. Speaking...