Holocaust category: 1392 books

Edited by Zita Podany This book is a summary of Maria’s life. She survived the Nazi labor and death camps that plagued most parts of Europe during World War II. She had to learn to cope with death at an early age. In a short period of time, she lost her father and three brothers as she and...

Harrowing account of U.S. Army chaplain John G. Gaskill of what he witnessed in Dachau. For three months, Gaskill ministered to liberated inmates and imprisoned SS soldiers at Dachau. Every evening for a month, Gaskill and other clergymen held mass funerals for those who died from starvation...

“Many impressive books have been written about German horror camps where, from 1939 until 1945, human beings were subjected to degrading experiences, or were destroyed like swarms of helpless insects. E The camp where I stayed for several years has received less publicity than the...

An incendiary work of scholarship arguing that racism was the driving force behind Nazism, rather than a by-product of it—essential reading in an age of renewed fears of bigotry, tyranny, and fascism.   World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century, redrawing the political map in...

This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, the core group of Himmler’s murder units involved in the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” during and immediately after the German campaign in Poland in 1939. In addition to relevant Einsatzgruppen...

Ein Glücksfall beschert uns die Lebenserinnerungen von Else Sohn- Rethel (1853 – 1933), herausgegeben und behutsam kommentiert von Hans Pleschinski. Es sind lebendige, beherzte und liberal-kluge Memoiren einer Frau aus dem deutsch-jüdischen, kulturell reichen Großbürgertum, wie sie in dieser...

A revealing account of Hitler’s thoughts and actions throughout World War II from one of his closest aides. Major Gerhard Engel was Hitler's army adjutant from 1938 to 1943. During his years with Hitler, Engel kept a diary. After the war, he added material to shed further light on certain...

Lucille Eichengreen ha vissuto all’interno della più longeva tra le comunità ebraiche intrappolate nell’Europa nazista, quella del ghetto di Lodz, il secondo della Polonia dopo Varsavia, dominato dalla controversa figura di Chaim Rumkowski, rievocata anche da Primo Levi ne I sommersi e i salvati....

Durante un viaggio in Polonia nello scorso mese di agosto mi è capitato di fare una tappa all'Inferno. In questo Inferno i Diavoli non avevano i classici segni distintivi dei Diavoli dei dipinti ma vestivano una divisa. A parte questi particolari visivi, per così dire, si è trattato di autentiche creature infernali.

The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime periods. Individual...

Abandonné à la naissance, Antoine Boulan fuit l’orphelinat et tente de survivre en restant sur le droit chemin pour tenir une promesse. Rattrapé par l’époque, il sombre dans les cambriolages et se voit condamné au bagne par erreur. Quand la guerre éclate, il revient en France pour prendre...

Aux portes de l’enfer (juillet 1942 - décembre 1944) Traqué par la Gestapo, Antoine fuit Paris et se réfugie auprès du groupe de Gustave Jandart, Honneur du Loiret. Il en devient vite le lieutenant et s’installe dans la ferme abandonnée où transitent les candidats au passage de...

Après la diffusion des tracts et les missions de renseignements, Antoine est devenu un membre du Groupe Opéra sur qui on peut compter. Après une première exfiltration réussie, avec son ami Jean-Paul Mazières, ils doivent récupérer un camion chargé d’armes et de munitions qui les attend...

Magic can be found in the darkest of places... It is the time of the Second World War, and Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Separated from his family, he doesn?t have a friend in the world. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this...