Holocaust category: 1392 books
Wintergreen
Suppressed Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
**Following her acclaimed memoirs Against the Stream and Out of Passau, Anna Rosmus revisits the crimes perpetrated in her German hometown during the Second World War
Passau, a small Bavarian city situated along the border with Austria, had gone decades without acknowledging the roles—however...
by Hermann Langbein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents,...
A Nation on Trial
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
No recent work of history has generated as much interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Purporting to solve the mystery of the Nazi holocaust, Goldhagen maintains that ordinary Germans were driven by fanatical anti-Semitism to murder the Jews. An immediate national best-seller,...
by Miep Gies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring...
One Long Night
A Global History of Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
"Masterly" -- The New Yorker
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year
A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere...
The House On Prague Street
A Haunting Story of a Girl's Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The House on Prague Street is a story told with translucent simplicity and freshness. It is a story of haunting innocence and terrible devastation, of lost love, of survival. It has an impact we have not felt since The Diary of Anne Frank and John Hersey's The Wall.
In pre-World War II Czechoslovakia,...
by Tom Bunzel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The Next Chapter describes what it was like to live through the horrors of World War II in occupied Czechoslovakia, endure concentration and labor camps, and then try to resume a “normal” existence in a hostile and alien world.
My mother’s account emphasizes, however, that this is not...
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: “If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it” (Alfred Kazin).
Lucy Dawidowicz’s groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz...
The Eternal Nazi
From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
From the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim’s secret life in Egypt comes the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world.
Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a...
What We Knew
Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's...
Emissary of the Doomed
Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population
When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until then, stories of Auschwitz and other "resettlement camps" were still treated...
by Richard E. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Richard Rubenstein writes of the holocaust, why it happened, why it happened when it did, and why it may happen again and again.
Resistance, Heroism, Loss
World War II in Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the...
Death on the Black Sea
The Untold Story of the 'Struma' and World War II's Holocaust at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others -- among them, more than one hundred children --...