Holocaust category: 1392 books
Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor
Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use testimonies...
Not in My Family
German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Award Winner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award Even as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood. What is remembered, what has been imparted through German heritage, and what has...
Perpetrators
The World of the Holocaust Killers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." Primo Levi's words disclose a chilling truth: assigning blame to hideous political leaders, such as Hitler, Himmler,...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors...
by Lilo Cohn-Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Lilo was a child during the Holocaust. Now that the older generation of Holocaust survivors, such as her parents, are just about gone, she and others like her are the last survivors of the Holocaust the final witnesses to the horrors that Hitler perpetrated on the Jewish people. After Lilo attended...
by Julian Novitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
**Holocaust Tours is funny, fierce and unafraid: a first novel that questions what history means to us now.**Taking time out in the UK, Daniel meets Anita. Getting involved with her means getting involved with her study of Holocaust memorials - and brings him face to face with his own Jewish heritage....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were...
I Wish It Were Fiction
Holocaust Memories - 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
The writer of this memoir, Aaron Starkman, was barely 20 years old, when he was driven in into the Nazi Hitler hell. He decided to keep a diary, where he made notes of everything that was happening. He did not know whether he would survive. When he was liberated, he gathered all the notes and deposited...
Last Stop Australia
A New Voice of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
In this unforgettable memoir, Austrian Holocaust survivor, Johanna Altmann recounts the horrors and tragedies that she and her loved ones were forced to face. Her tale encompasses suffering, hope, resistance and, most of all, remembering.
Just as we should never forget the horrors of the Holocaust,...
Jumping Over Shadows
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
• A modern-day Romeo and Juliet story, this book will appeal to readers of romance and memoir alike. • Jumping Over Shadows is a second-generation Holocaust story, and the Holocaust and its impact continues to fascinate American readers. The U.S. Holocaust Museum averages 2.2 million adult visitors...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
How is the Holocaust remembered in Romania since the fall of communism? Alexandru Florian and an international group of contributors unveil how and why Romania, a place where large segments of the Jewish and Roma populations perished, still fails to address its recent past. These essays focus on the...
History Flows through Us
Germany, the Holocaust, and the Importance of Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
History Flows through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors – German historians, historians of the Holocaust and psychoanalysts of different disciplinary backgrounds – address...
How Was It Possible?
A Holocaust Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students...
The Unmaking of Man
Disability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction...