Holocaust category: 1392 books
Violins of Hope
Violins of the Holocaust-Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and the Israeli violin maker dedicated to bringing these inspirational instruments back to life.
The violin...
Experience and Expression
Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
The many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women’s voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related to them. In Experience and Expression, the authors take on this challenge, providing...
by Ion Popa
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of them survived. Only recently, after the fall of Communism, have details of the history of the Holocaust in Romania come to light. Ion Popa explores this history by scrutinizing the role of the Romanian...
Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Classroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through history and literature. Howard Tinberg and Ronald Weisberger apply methods and insights of the Scholarship...
by Holly Mandelkern
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
BENEATH WHITE STARS: HOLOCAUST PROFILES IN POETRY features Holly Mandelkern’s narrative poetry about real people from the Holocaust whom she has known personally or whose stories she has taught. Melding historical detail and keen insights with the grace of poetry, she brings to life a wide variety...
British PoWs and the Holocaust
Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps,...
by Henry Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to "cleanse the land" of Jews. Moreover, of all the Third Reich's allies, only Romania undertook its genocide campaign without the...
Survivors and Exiles
Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
After the Holocaust’s near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centers, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime. In Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust, Jan Schwarz reveals that, on the contrary, Yiddish...
Filming the End of the Holocaust
Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by...
Die Kinder des Holocaust
Gespräche mit Söhnen und Töchtern von Überlebenden
Language: German
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Aus einer Vielzahl von Erinnerungen, Reportagen und mündlichen Überlieferungen entstand das Buch Die Kinder des Holocaust. Es war das erste Buch, das die Auswirkungen von Traumata, welche die Holocaust-überlebende Generation unwillentlich an die nächste Generation weitergab, untersuchte. In einer...
De onverwerkte holocaust
spiegel voor de kerk van nu
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog leidde de Holocaust niet tot een grondige bezinning in de protestantse kerk en haar theologie. Ondanks alle aandacht voor Israël bleef de Holocaust buiten beeld. Op dat punt hebben kerk en theologie gefaald, betoogt Ad Prosman. Doordat de kerk de Holocaust nooit goed heeft...
A Century of Wisdom
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of...
Introducing the Holocaust
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
'Excellent ... an astounding amount of material.' Times Educational Supplement
Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as a horrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims - in short, a single aberration of history.
Introducing the Holocaust is a powerful...
by Yaffa Eliach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original...