Holocaust category: 1392 books
by Werner Loval
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a lastminute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogs the experiences of one Jewish family as the events of the twentieth century overturned its settled existence and scattered the family across the globe. Enhanced...
Nur wir haben überlebt
Holocaust in der Ukraine - Zeugnisse und Dokumente
Language: German
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Boris Zabarko, selbst Uberlebender des Ghettos von Schargorod hat 86 ergreifende und erschütternde Berichte von Uberlebenden der Ghettos in der Ukraine gesammelt. In jedem der Berichte schwingt die Trauer und Klage mit: "Nur wir haben überlebt". Als Kinder oder Jugendliche wurden sie Zeugen,...
by Hans Mommsen
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Hans Mommsen, einer der bedeutendsten Zeithistoriker der Bundesrepublik, liefert eine kompakte Gesamtinterpretation der komplexen Geschehnisse, die zur Entfesselung des Holocaust geführt haben. Dafür skizziert er zunächst die Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik sowie die Rolle des Antisemitismus...
"Wie konntest du Mensch sein in Auschwitz?"
Drei Generationen versuchen zu verstehen
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2017
" Ich habe drei Leben gelebt auf drei unterschiedlichen Planeten." Im Holocaust wurden Schicksale entschieden. Shalom Weiss erzählt aus seinem ersten Leben in der Geborgenheit seiner jüdischen Familie und aus seinem zweiten Leben in der Hölle von Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen. Es gelingt...
The Children of Willesden Lane
Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
An important and inspiring true story of survival during World War II
Mona Golabek tells the tale of her mother Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the infamous Kindertransport.
Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when...
Irena's Children
The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account 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.
In 1942,...
Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war...
My Wounded Heart
Life of Lilli Jahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
An international sensation already sold in fifteen languages, this heartbreaking collection of recently discovered letters captures the destruction not only of a life but also of an entire nation.
Born in 1900 to wealthy Jewish parents, Lilli Jahn stood firmly among the German bourgeoisie. A doctor...
Then They Came for Me
Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Communist..."
Few today recognize the name Martin Niemöller, though many know his famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemöller's evolution from a Nazi supporter to...
Hitler's Last Secretary
A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A firsthand account of Adolf Hitler from the woman who worked at his side, stayed with him in the bunker, and was featured in the film Downfall.
In 1942 Germany, Gertraud “Traudl” Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime....
by Erik G LeMoullec
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
While sitting in traffic heading to her great-grandfather’s eighty-fourth birthday party, Hayden asks her dad why her great-grandfather speaks the way he does. What follows is a car ride she will never forget as she learns about his difficult childhood.From living in the Lodz ghetto at age ten to...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) and “a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity” (Booklist).
At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying...
Night: Study Guide
Night, Elie Wiesel, Study Review Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of Night by Elie Wiesel. The guide includes: · A short summary of the entire...
by Ken Wachsberger, Bernard Mednicki
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
"Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance" is the powerful, poignant, at times funny story of Bernard Mednicki, a working-class, activist member of his socialist union in pre-Nazi Belgium who flees with his family to southern France when the Nazis invade, assumes a Christian...