Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Jorgen Kieler
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Writing in lively tones with a wit that reveals his indomitable spirit, the author paints a vivid picture of the resistance movement in Denmark, with detailed descriptions of many of the Holger Danske group's daring sabotage operations.
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...
Tell No One Who You Are
The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told to tell no one she is Jewish, she...
by Sebastian Haffner
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 53,000 words)
In this succinct, fact-based, insightful analysis of Hitler and his impact on the world, Sebastian Haffner displays his skills as a first-class journalist and a student of German and modern...
Crowns, Crosses, and Stars
My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler, and a Life Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage...
The Stars Bear Witness
An organizer of Jewish resistance in Warsaw, and one of its few survivors, tells of five years of epic heroism, pursuit, and miraculous escape
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bernard Goldstein was a prominent Polish socialist, union organizer and Bund leader in the pivotal years of 1920 and 1921. He became active as a leader of the Jewish resistance movement in German-occupied Poland, eventually playing a critical role on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Bernard was born...
"A Problem From Hell"
America and the Age of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow...
The Polish Experience through World War II
A Better Day Has Not Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee...
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything...
Hitler's Millennial Reich
Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those...
Four Thousand Lives
The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
In November 1938, about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subject to torture, starvation, and arbitrary death. This book tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp...
Liberation
New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An exploration of freedom by some of the world’s most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps
The year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But...
The Jews of Silence
A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They...
by Joseph Keysor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Hitler's combination of religious and secular rhetoric has led to diverse interpretations of his fundamental orientation. How can talk about some higher power harmonize with his concept of life as a brutal and amoral struggle for survival? A careful consideration of his views shows that while...