Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Shortest History of Germany
From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel—A Retelling for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
2,000 years of history in one riveting afternoon
A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world’s...
Teaching about Genocide
Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught that have been particularly successful with their students.
Teaching about Genocide
Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book presents the insights, advice and suggestions of secondary level teachers and professors in relation to teaching about various facets of genocide. The contributions are extremely eclectic, ranging from the basic concerns when teaching about genocide to a discussion as to why it is critical...
by Liliane Richman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Like so many children of war, Liliane Richman grew up with a fractured past. Memories escaped her. As an adult Liliane began to feel the need to reconstruct her past, not only to understand the people she loved, but also to create a fuller picture of herself. Bones of Time is the story of a family,...
A Stone - A Name - A Human Being
A story of friendship and reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Nazi war crimes have been well documented. But what about the victims? The faceless, nameless millions who were murdered. A Stolperstein is a memorial stone designed to restore a victim’s name and thus his or her humanity. More than 50,000 stones have now been laid in continental Europe. “A Stone...
The Assyrian Genocide
Cultural and Political Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007–2015...
by Barbara Michael
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This is a different World War II perpective. People fled deep into the Soviet Union and into the Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan to avoid the terror of the invading German Army.The book codifies historical facts and testimonies of many Jews...
Finding Dr. Schatz
The Discovery of Streptomycin and a Life It Saved
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor,...
Year of the Sword
The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia - now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave...
Atrocity Speech Law
Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The law governing the relationship between speech and core international crimes a key component in atrocity prevention is broken. Incitement to genocide has not been adequately defined. The law on hate speech as persecution is split between the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and...
Auschwitz
Guida alla visita dell’ex campo di concentramento e del sito memoriale
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Ogni anno, dall’Italia, migliaia di visitatori raggiungono il lager di Auschwitz; per lo più gruppi di studenti e di insegnanti, ma anche famiglie e singole persone. Dal 1959 il loro numero cresce continuamente, nonostante sia trascorso ormai più di mezzo secolo dalla sua liberazione. Chi si reca...
Il Tramonto dei Giusti
I crimini di guerra e le resistenze europee al nazifascismo
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 23, 2017
L’autore ha voluto dare a questa pubblicazione un taglio divulgativo, con il chiaro intento di avvicinare i più giovani alla storia e contribuire a favorire una maggiore conoscenza di una delle pagine fondamentali del nostro passato più recente. Lo ha fatto con grande padronanza delle fonti, utilizzando...
A Civil War Devotional
Daily Inspirations with Historical Connections
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A Civil War Devotional utilizes daily incidents and facts from the American Civil War and uses scriptural passages related to those occurrences to provide inspiration for each reader. The combination of these aspects allows a person to gain a greater knowledge of the Bible as well as major facts related...
"Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion"
Anatomie einer Fälschung
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Die unglaubliche Geschichte einer Fälschung Die "jüdische Weltverschwörung" dient bis heute als Erklärung für jede nur erdenkliche Katastrophe: Kriege, Revolutionen, Wirtschaftskrisen, Börsenkräche, Terrorismus, Aids. Und immer wieder laufen die Fäden bei einem vermeintlich authentischen Buch...