Holocaust category: 1392 books
We Are Their Voice: Young People Respond to the Holocaust
Young People Respond to the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about this time in history. Some students wrote short stories. Some discussed the impact of books they had...
The Boy in the Suitcase
Holocaust Family Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a different...
The Holocaust by Bullets
A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII....
Taking the Stand: We Have More to Say
100 Questions-900 Answers Interviews with Holocaust Survivors and Victims of Nazi Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Nine Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi tyranny have "taken the stand" to give their testimony as a legacy for future generations. They are from five different countries and were persecuted for reasons of ethnicity, politics/ideology, or religion. All in all, they were interned in fifty-one...
Black Earth
The Holocaust as History and Warning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their...
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.?
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 sheds...
by Robert S. Wistrich
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in...
Heroes of the Holocaust
Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers....
Rhodes and the Holocaust
The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on...
by Inga Clendinnen
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Award and one of the New York Times' ten best books of 1999.
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view. She discusses the remarkable...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a reappraisal of the controversies that have shaped Holocaust studies since the 1980s. Historians, artists, and writers question if and why the Holocaust should remain the ultimate test case for ethics and a unique reference point for how we understand genocide and crimes against humanity.
In Search of Sugihara
The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust by Hillel Levine (130,000 words, 19 illustrations)
Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kovno, Lithuania, honored in 1984 by Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Among the Nations,”...