Holocaust category: 1392 books
Survivor
Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the extraordinary story of how he survived the Holocaust
Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength, and his determination...
by Arnost Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1962, Night and Hope is a collection of interrelated short stories by a young Czech writer who was a boy in the Terezín concentration camp near Prague during the war. They have already been received with great acclaim abroad and they now make their appearance for the first time...
Jacob's Cane
A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore; A M
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an...
Irena's Children
Young Readers Edition; A True Story of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II—now adapted for a younger...
by Beth Hurley Luers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The book presents 3 Holocaust survivors, Leo Bretholz, Martin Gray, & Thomas Buergenthal, and what they have done to give back to the world to make it a more humane place when that same world tried to kill them. Lessons in moving forward, and brotherhood.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist...
De fotograaf van Auschwitz
Het verhaal van de man die gedwongen werd de oorlogsmisdaden van de nazi's vast te leggen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Het schokkende verhaal van de man die gedwongen werd de oorlogsmisdaden van de nazi's vast te leggen
Iedereen kent de foto’s van de gevangenen in Auschwitz en die van de slachtoffers van Mengeles wetenschappelijke onderzoeken. Maar wíe nam die foto’s? Een SS’er? Mengele zelf?
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by Iby Knill
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
As seen on BBC television - The Woman Without a Number is the inspirational story of holocaust survivor Iby Knill, whose early childhood was spent in Czechoslovakia before her parents - alarmed at the persecution of Jews in Germany - smuggled her over the border to Hungary.
While there, she was caught...
by Yoram Kaniuk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The first biography of Yossi Harel . . . offers valuable insights into the Jewish struggle to create a homeland.” —Booklist
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,” internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk...
The Blessed Abyss
Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
On February 4, 1941, Nanda Herbermann, a German Catholic writer and editor, was arrested by the Gestapo in Münster, Germany. Accused of collaboration with the Catholic movement, Herbermann was deported to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women in July 1941 and later released upon direct orders from...
Beyond Trochenbrod
The Betty Gold Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Few are familiar with one of the Holocaust’s most monstrous acts, the systematic murder of 5,000 Jewish residents in a Nazi-occupied Polish town, Trochenbrod, on August 11, 1942. Of the 33 who escaped death, only one person remains to describe these events—Betty Gold. Twelve-year-old Betty and...
The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside...
Restitution
A family's fight for their heritage lost in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari Reeser, and then her son Karl, to retrieve them. Along the way...
by Herbert Pundik
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1998
A moving narrative about heroes and ethics, survival and appreciation. Part memoir and part pure history, Pundiks talent for storytelling and his journalistic compunction for detail puts his book in a class of Holocaust literature still capable of expanding our understanding of humanitys darkest years.