The Holocaust

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the clo...

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Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have ass...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Paul R. (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA) BartropIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of ...

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

One summer's night in 1946, over 1, 000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Barry TrachtenbergNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 28Cover type: Har...

Reducere. The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...

This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ig...

Reducere. Does injustice have an expiration date? Is it possible to wipe the slate clean of crimes of such magnitude, simply because the victims who suffered...

Reducere. A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterp...

The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Hea...

Reducere. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and th...

DescriptionOf the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust--perpetrators, victims, and bystanders--it is the l...

Reducere. A young Jewish boy is given a star to wear. At first he is proud of the decoration, but soon finds the star overshadowing him--no one sees the boy,...

Reducere. "You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you....Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So declares rescuer Hetty Vo te in this up...

Andrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland's halting judicial reckoning with wartime collaboration. As evidence of popu...

Contributor(s): Author: Doris MartinWith: Ralph S. MartinThe German army swept into Poland on September 1, 1939, and four days later into Dora Szpr...

Echoes from the HolocaustA MemoirMira Ryczke Kimmelman "During the most difficult times of World War II, " Mira Kimmelman writes, "I wondered wheth...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsEllen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusal...

Reducere. For many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found the echo hear...

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research inte...

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust

Reducere. Lucie's Hope follows George Mueller's life from a secure childhood in Germany before the Second World War, to his family's persecution by the Nazi ...

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust considers the gendered dimension of the phenomenon of writing as a means of speaking to or for others and for...

Reducere. Acclaimed science writer Heather Pringle uncovers the true story of the scientists and archaeologists Heinrich Himmler deployed to find proof for h...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca CliffordIllustration(s): 28 color illus.Number of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 12...

Reducere. When music is your only chance of survival Despite his success as a renowned songwriter, composer, and cabaret player, Willy Rosen's life was inter...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Stevi RichardsonIllustration(s): 12Number of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 510 x 298 x...

DescriptionIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked witho...

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Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi Party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. Join Hedy on her...

Reducere. It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behi...

This book seeks to explore aspects of the Holocaust as it is remembered and reflect ultimately on parallels with the world we live in today.Publish...

This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduc...

Kino and Kinder tells the fascinating, poignant but inspiring story of one family's survival as the Nazi party's anti-Semitic policies unfolded thr...

Reducere. The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out ...

Waitman Wade Beorn's The Holocaust in Eastern Europe provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location ...

How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re...

DescriptionA comprehensive introductory essay, along with a detailed chronology, reference entries, primary sources, images, and a bibliography pro...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe.This extra...

Reducere. The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents rou...

Reducere. Captivating One of those rare books that once you start reading, you can't put it down. Extremely well written and very descriptive. This vivid rec...

When did the Allies know about the Holocaust and why didn't they act earlier.

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncIllustration(s): 6 photographsNumber of pages: 244Collection: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and FantasyPubl...

`Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel

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Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Michael RothbergNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19Cover type: ...

Reducere. Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losse...

An important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic.

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

Once a skinny and weak child, Italian Gino Bartali rose to become a Tour de France champion and one of cycling's greatest stars. Bartali might have...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe.This extra...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Wendy LowerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 201 x 29Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

Reducere. In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Rachel L. (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University) EinwohnerIllustratio...

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Reducere. Yankel's simple life is upended when the Nazis invade Romania in this biographical novel. As the fascist dictator Ion Antonescu imposes increasingl...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy did the Holocaust ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hu...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

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In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazi...

Reducere. Charting the Sacred JourneySpiritual Tarot will take you far beyond traditional Tarot card glimpses of the future, and into the deepest recesses of...

Reducere. In this book, Deborah Lipstadt argues that, from 1933 to 1945, the American press failed to treat the destruction of European Jews as urgent news. ...

Reducere. Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship betwe...

Dear Madam -- You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe and this letter will not astonish you. In August 1939, just...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Reducere. Description"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." H di Fried was nineteen when ...