Holocaust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573701Author Ken KrimsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 682g

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Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented historyFrom the award-winning historian of the Holocaust,...

The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile documents that have been carefully selected to remind...

My Seven Lives is the English translation of the best-selling memoir of Slovak journalist Agnesa Kalinova (1924-2014): Holocaust survivor, film critic, translator, and political prisoner. An oral history written with her colleague Jana Juranova My Seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904915386Author Ernst SchnabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Southbank PublishingPublisher Southbank PublishingWeight(grams) 298g

An award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian "General Storm" who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may also have been a Jew-killing antisemite. A fascinating...

In the heart of the twentieth century, the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses across Europe, even as war was engulfing the continent. Intimately woven into the war was the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and...

In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic...

Following the 1940 invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in cities and towns across the country with the initial aim of segregating and isolating the Jewish community. These closed sectors were referred to as Judischer Wohnbezirk or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621640998Author Guillaume ZellerFormat PaperbackImprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores how the Nazi programme of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called...

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975,...

Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the Nazis. At last comes the first full account of the kapo trials, based on records newly declassified after...

Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as literature on the subject. According to these accounts, the Kindertransport was a straightforward act of rescue and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951682248Author Leon Weliczker WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Orchard InnovationsPublisher Orchard InnovationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221239Author Anders RydellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710372Author Marlen GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

"This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets." -Walter Laqueur, The New Republic" . . . a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature." -Kirkus Reviews" . . . a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most...

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975,...

This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups. It is a...

A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces;...

The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims...

For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have...

Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300912Author William L. ShirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981103386Author Hourly HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705298Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front...

This documentary volume brings together 14 first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors who later settled in Wisconsin. With words and photographs, they describe the richness and variety of pre-war Jewish life in Europe; the advent of proscriptive laws,...

The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999378158Author Ivor PerlFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lemon SoulPublisher 2 Simple Publishing Ltd.Weight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Non-Fiction 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780195376852Author Nechama TecFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

The title of this book is taken from Primo Levi's words about survivors of the Holocaust: `The survivors are divided into two well-defined groups: those who repress their past en bloc, and those whose memory of the offence persists, as though carved in...

In April 1945, when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army, Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support, to bear witness, and to document the crimes. They were overwhelmed, understaffed, and left...

The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child...

In December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Skede, near Liepaja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme distress, sometimes without clothing...

During the past several decades, the twentieth-century Holocaust has become a defining event in many histories. This newfound respect for the Judeocide has been cathartic for both individuals and communities, in that it provides evidence that audiences...

Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities committed against the Jewish population of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during World War II is particularly remarkable...

""In the summer of 1993 I began a self-imposed journey into the blurred space between memory, story, and reality when I rented a car from Warsaw Avis and drove to the village in Poland in which my mother had lived before immigrating to the United States...