Holocaust category: 1392 books

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog maakte Primo Levi de wereld op indringende wijze deelgenoot van zijn oorlogservaringen. Met zijn aangrijpende verhalen en getuigenissen zorgde hij ervoor dat de Jodenvervolging niet vergeten werd. Als kampoverlevende mocht hij niet zwijgen; erover schrijven was voor hem een...

Op de avond van 25 februari 1943 worden de 26-jarige Mirjam Blits en haar man Eddy door de Sicherheitsdienst van hun bed gelicht. Zij moeten zich zo snel mogelijk klaarmaken voor hun lange reis Ruim twee jaar later keert Mirjam terug in Amsterdam. Moederziel alleen, want haar man Eddy, haar vader,...

Het verhaal van Millie Werber als overlevende van de jodenvervolging is opmerkelijk. Millie kwam in 1940 vast te zitten in het getto van Radom, Midden-Polen, en werd daarna op transport gesteld om dwangarbeid te verrichten in de wapenindustrie. Vervolgens werd ze in 1943 afgevoerd naar Auschwitz,...

Maria the Panther presents the story of the authors grandmother, Maria, who was a strong professional woman well ahead of her times. At the same time, her biography provides a sweeping overview of the history of twentieth-century Europe, transcending cultures. Grandma Maria was born in 1902...

Sarah, nine years old, endures yet another air-raid in the street shelter in Blitz-torn England. At the same time nine-year old Claude is practising an escape should their house in occupied France be raided by the Gestapo. Sarah and Claude, Jews, and their families experience the devastating effects...

The spellbinding true story of a little girl's miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War. September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia...

Follow the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Byelorussia, during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding him as he at first struggles to simply survive and then to overcome his brutal oppressors through covert action with the...

◎《安妮日記》首度漫畫化！ ◎《與巴席爾跳華爾滋》 得獎動畫導演阿里．福爾曼和知名插畫家大衛．波隆斯基聯手合作！ ◎ 安妮．法蘭克，被《時代雜誌》選為二十世紀百大人物！ ◎《安妮日記》是猶太人大屠殺史實中，最扣人心弦的個人紀實，被譽為「改變世界的10本書！」 聰明又孤單的安妮，在十三歲的生日那天收到一本非常特別的日記本。她決定把日記取名為吉蒂，並將所有的祕密都和吉蒂分享。那時正值希特勒發動反猶太主義運動，大規模驅逐消滅猶太人。安妮的父親為了保護全家，在安妮的姐姐收到納粹黨衛軍的召集令之後，馬上帶著全家躲進事先準備好的密室。就這樣，安妮一家四口和另外四個人，一起躲在密室長達兩年的時間，直到被告發抓起來為止。安妮把她在密室的所有生活點滴，都向最親愛的吉蒂傾吐。正值青少女的安妮，把她面對生命、死亡、自由以及親情與愛情的不安與渴望，都寫在《安妮日記》中。 而這本《安妮日記【漫畫版】》是安妮．法蘭克基金會首度授權，由《與巴席爾跳華爾滋》得獎動畫導演阿里．福爾曼和知名插畫家大衛．波隆斯基聯手合作。 這本獨一無二的漫畫，取材《安妮日記》中文字，保留原作的完整與力量，希望將安妮的生命力量傳遞給更多的讀者。 「現代經典之作！」 －－...

This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives...

In World War II, most aviation pilots were armed with many weapons. But in the US Air Force reconnaissance squadron, these men flew ongoing missions over enemy lines, photographing enemy targets before and after they were bombed – facing onslaughts of enemy fighters and armed with -- a camera! Read...

'I wasn't happy. I wasn't unhappy. I was there at that time and that was all. I didn't involve myself in philosophical reflections, but my mind was like a camera, imprinting forever the idyllic beauty of the European summer of 1939.' The idyll does not last long. Within days a young Jewish...

Born in relative comfort in 1926 to a Jewish family in Nuremberg, Germany, Henry Burger remembers festive picnics in the public parks, evening concerts, and athletic competition at the local recreation center. That all changed in 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to power. As the Nuremberg Laws unfolded,...

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these...

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive...