Holocaust category: 1392 books
World War 2 History: Eyewitness Accounts: Crimes Of The German FBK & SS
World War 2 History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
When Heinrich Himmler was appointed as its fourth leader in 1929, the SS consisted of less than three hundred volunteers whose job was to protect Nazi Party speakers. The SS was so short of cash that its members had to provide their own uniforms and fund their own meetings and transport.By the...
The Eagle Unbowed
Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
World War II gripped Poland as it did no other country. Invaded by Germany and the USSR, it was occupied from the first day of war to the last, and then endured 44 years behind the Iron Curtain while its wartime partners celebrated their freedom. The Eagle Unbowed tells, for the first time, the story of Poland’s war in its entirety and complexity.
The Boxer's Story
Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Before 1940, Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than enjoying his teenage years and becoming a champion boxer. But the Nazis’ systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different sort of fight, where the prize for victory...
by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A guide to the beliefs, traditions and practices of Judaism that answers questions for both Jew and Gentile.
Rabbi Kertzer answers over 100 of the most commonly asked questions about Jewish life and customs, including: What is the Jewish attitude toward intermarriage? Toward birth control?...
Desperate Mission
Joel Brand’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book is the story of the former Hungarian Zionist leader, Joel Brand, as told to Alex Weissberg, author of The Accused, which told of his experiences as a prisoner of the Soviet secret police.
Most of Desperate Mission: Joel Brand’s Story (1958) is devoted to an account of how Brand...
A Forgotten Hero
Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII
In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating...
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1987
... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad’s book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."—New York Times Book Review
... some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read.... the authentic, exhaustive,...
Sentinel of Truth
Gourgen Yanikian and the Struggle Against the Denial of the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Sentinel of Truth provides a gripping account of the assassination of two Turkish diplomats in California in 1973 by an aggrieved septuagenarian survivor of the Armenian Genocide and explains how a study of the global campaign against Turkeys denial of the genocide cannot but include the killings carried...
by Edith Sheffer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**Shortlisted for the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize
A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.**
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children...
by Helga Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The Bonfire of Berlin is a searing...
by Leo Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Found guilty of treason in 1937, Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, spent the rest of World War II in Sachsenhausen, Moabit, and Dachau concentration camps.
In I Was in Hell with Niemoeller, which was first published in 1942, Niemoeller’s former...
by Diane Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis...
Anne Frank's Family
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The story is one that is envisioned by many: a relative, an old woman who has lived in the same home for a lifetime, passes away, her death prompting the inevitable task of sorting through her effects by her surviving family. But in the attic in this particular house, a treasure trove of historic...
Children of Armenia
A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the “starving Armenians,” the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable...