Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Lucien Lazare
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Mission of Abbé Glasberg is the fascinating story of a priest - of Jewish origins - who dedicated himself to the task of helping the refugees who were streaming into France during the years preceding World War II. Together with Father Chaillet, Abbé Glasberg created the ecumenical Amitié Chrétienne...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The story of the SS of Treblinka is a highly compelling one. This book provides vivid descriptions of events in the camp from the point of view of the men that witnessed them. Using interviews, personal letters, and unpublished diaries, some supplied by historian Marcin Zborska in Warsaw and published...
by Joseph Keysor
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Confusion dominates too many discussions of the churches in Nazi Germany. Germany was not a Christian country but had been deeply influenced by powerful philosophical and scientific forces of secularism for over a century before 1933. The churches themselves were often mere facades of theological...
Scattered Stones, Shattered Seeds
The Story of a Shtetl and a Family Who Lived There
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Family mysteries often remain tangled for decades, just waiting for someone to pick up the thread and begin to unravel the web. Filled with questions, the author puzzles over her family history. What was life like for her father growing up in the Galician shtetl of Borchov at the turn of the last...
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA.
Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War...
Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent...
by Göran Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize
On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto...
"The Saddest Ship Afloat"
The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake...
by Nigel Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of...
Escape from Vichy
The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential...
Nazi Germany
History Examined
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Understand the rise of a dangerous ideology.
There is renewed interest in the Nazi Party that ruled Germany as a fascist state from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. However, the events that led to the rise of Nazism-and the near victory of the Axis Powers in World War II-date...
Hitler's Generals on Trial
The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
By prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg trials sought to educate West Germans about their criminal past, provoke their total rejection of Nazism, and convert them to democracy. More than all of the other Nuremberg proceedings, the High Command Case against fourteen of Hitler’s generals embraced...
The Agitator
William Bailey and the First American Uprising against Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This story of an anti-fascist's dramatic and remarkable victory against Nazism in 1935 is an inspiration to anyone compelled to resist when signs of oppression are on the horizon
By 1935, Hitler had suppressed all internal opposition and established himself as Germany's unchallenged dictator....
The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers’ rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites.
The Remembered...