Holocaust category: 1392 books
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Als Kind in Theresienstadt
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Wie kann ein Kind den Holocaust überleben? Die achtjährige Margot verliert ihr Zuhause, ihre Familie wird von den Nazis ermordet und sie selbst in das KZ Theresienstadt deportiert. Doch anders als viele andere Kinder im Lager übersteht sie Hunger, Elend, schwerste Arbeit – und überlebt. Aus...
Hitler's Police Battalions
Enforcing Racial War in the East
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels. Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in Nazi genocide that until now has been generally neglected by historians of the war.
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Narrative Reflections
How Witnessing Their Stories Changes Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families. Inspired by the practice of narrative therapy, these essays bear witness to the experience of survivors and facilitate...
Pius XII. und das Dritte Reich
Eine Dokumentation
Language: German
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Im anhaltenden Streit um die historische und moralische Beurteilung von Papst Pius XII. stehen bis heute zwei Fragen im Vordergrund: Sein Verhältnis zum „Dritten Reich“ und seine Haltung gegenüber dem Holocaust. Saul Friedländer hat aus den Archiven die wichtigsten Dokumente zusammengetragen,...
Wohin die Erinnerung führt
Mein Leben
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Saul Friedländer ist noch ein halbes Kind, als der Zweite Weltkrieg zu Ende geht. Sanft und in einer wunderschönen Sprache erzählt der große Historiker des Holocaust von seinem Leben danach, das reich ist an Erfahrungen und Begegnungen, aber das Leben eines Entwurzelten bleibt. "Wohin die...
Child of the Forest
Based on the Life Story of Charlene Perlmutter Schiff
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve‑year‑old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed nearby. Child of the Forest is based on the true...
Avrumele
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Avrumele: A Memoir is a first-person account of Albert Hepner's experiences as a "hidden child" during the Nazi hunt for Jews in German-occupied Brussels during World War II. This memoir is written from the perspective of a frightened child whose father has died, leaving him and his widowed...
The Perpetual Refugee
Images of a Holocaust Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
His triumph over repeated terrible misfortunes is told here in an inspirational manner, and ought to be a positive lesson for everyone in adversity. He has made the world a better place.”Survival is a theme which runs through the book. His mother, pregnant with Paul, was bound for Auschwitz and...
Advocate for the Doomed
The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886–1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration’s reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR’s...
Elie Wiesel
Messenger to All Humanity, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1994
Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement." Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity,...
Justice Behind the Iron Curtain
Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain,Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response...
by Anne Bordeleau, Sascha Hastings, Robert Jan van Pelt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Internationally renowned and award-winning historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt's The Evidence Room is a chilling exploration of the role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz - arguably the Nazis' most horrifying facility. The Evidence Room is both a companion piece to, and an elaboration of,...
1942
oorlog op alle fronten
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In januari 1942 wordt Nederlands-Indië bezet door Japan. Het is een nieuwe teleurstelling en schok voor de Nederlandse bevolking. In diezelfde maand worden op de Wannsee-conferentie concrete plannen uitgewerkt om de Europese Joden massaal te vermoorden en in juli beginnen de eerste massadeportaties....
by Anthony Bellen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In “After Auschwitz”, Dr. Anthony D. Bellen dares to ask the “unasked question,” and explore the possibility of perceived positive experiences within the horrific trauma of the Holocaust. In a setting of rapport and trust, the survivors, whose stories are portrayed in this book, were able...