Holocaust category: 1392 books
Hanged at Auschwitz
An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story...
by Robert Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels,...
Allies in Auschwitz
The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich’s most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench...
Auschwitz
True Tales From a Grotesque Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the...
The Dentist of Auschwitz
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau;...
by Antony Beevor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
In his latest work, Antony Beevor—bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II—brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright...
Useful Enemies
America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How the United States protected John Demjanjuk: “A richly researched, gripping narrative about war, suffering, survival, corruption, injustice and morality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred).
John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...
We Will Not Be Silent
The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The dramatic, disturbing story of the small group of university students who dared to distribute leaflets condemning Hitler and his policies. Several paid with their lives. It's also an inspiring story of the profound effect young people can create on a nation's history by taking action based on their fervent beliefs.
Rescuing the Children
The Story of the Kindertransport
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This important book tells the story of how ten thousand Jewish children were rescued out of Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War 2. They were saved by the Kindertransport — a rescue mission that transported the children (or Kinder) from Nazi-ruled countries to safety in Britain.
The...
Berlin Ghetto
Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
With a foreword by Elie Wiesel, the first book to tell the complete story of Herbert Baum and the Jewish antifascist resistance in Nazi Berlin This fascinating book tells the story of a group of young Jewish people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances,...
The Belzec Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from...
The Sobibor Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt—with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942,...
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear,...