Holocaust category: 1392 books
Primo Levi's Resistance
Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his life
No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the...
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A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps
In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third...
by Diane Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
2008 Orion Book Award
The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers...
Judgment Unto Truth
Witnessing the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to understanding past and current events in the Near East. These memoirs of an American Protestant clergyman reveal little known aspects of major events in Asia Minor in the early twentieth century, give valuable insights to their background,...
by Egon Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
*An eyewitness account of a prisoner in Jasenovac, a concentration camp in the former Yugoslavia during WW II. T**his book is an authorized translation of the original book that was written in Croatian in 1966. What follows was written by the original publisher. *
There is no stronger or more...
by Samantha Baskind
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw...
by Richard Breitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.
Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle...
by Andrew Nagorski
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in this “deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice that began in 1945 and is only now coming to an end” (The Washington Post).
After...
Julius Streicher
Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946) spearheaded many of these efforts, publishing anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in his weekly newspaper,...
Stolen Legacy
Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“This former BBC journalist’s passionate search for justice is a suspenseful confrontation with World War II history. A fascinating journey.” —Anne-Marie O’Connor, national bestselling author of The Lady in GoldDina Gold grew up hearing her grandmother’s tales of the glamorous life in Berlin...
We Survived
Fourteen Histories Of The Hidden And Hunted In Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Thousands of Jews and Aryan” Germans opposed to Hitler led illegal lives under the Nazi terror and survived the relentless hunt of the Gestapo, the concentration camps, and the bombing. They survived in various ways; some as ordinary citizens taking part in the work-day life, others with fake...
by Michael Melnick
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Of the 7000 Jews living in the Baltic seaport of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia when the Germans invaded on June 21, 1941, only 200 remained alive when the city was liberated May 9,1945. Of these, maybe two dozen were hiding within Libau itself. This story is about 12 of them. Eleven adults were in the care...
This Has Happened
An Italian Family in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in 2005 in Italy and first published in English in 2006, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account...