Holocaust

In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume revisit some topics central to Holocaust studies, such as the stance of the papacy and the concern about...

Rescued in 1945 from Dachau - where he lay dying when Francois Mitterand, his onetime comrade in the resistance, recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners - Robert Antelme set out to do what seemed ""unimaginable,"" to describe not only...

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...

Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting...

Life is full of extraordinary happenings and adventures" so asserts Norman Shneidman to begin "The Boxing Medal". The story of a survivor of the Vilnius Ghetto, and the most unlikely story of the rediscovery of a relic from his past -- a...

Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations. Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, Yoder identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547248028Author Neal BascombFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g

Magda Trocme (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend Andre Trocme (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles. Together, they worked heroically,...

After the defeat of Germany in World War II, 140,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were transported to camps maintained by the Allies for displaced persons (DPs). In this study, historians Angelika Konigseder and Juliane Wetzel offer an...

Lessons and Legacies XII explores new directions in research and teaching in the field of Holocaust studies. The essays in this volume present the most cutting-edge methods and topics shaping Holocaust studies today, from a variety of disciplines:...

The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional...

Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman...

A collection of 19 essays focusing on how various fields of study can open new perspectives on the Holocaust. Culture and politics in Germany after 1933 are examined, and the memorialization of those years, and the shocking denials of the Holocaust are...

Seventeen contemporary academics and critics look at the Holocaust and its literary aftermath. Includes studies of Paul Calan, Doris Lessing, Peter Weiss, Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Anne Frank, Jacob Lind, Jurek Becker, and others. This study involves...

In the courtroom and the classroom, in popular media, public policy, and scholarly pursuits, the Holocaust - its origins, its nature, and its implications - remains very much a matter of interest, debate, and controversy. Arriving at a time when a new...

When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book...

Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and RhodesThe Sephardim suffered devastation during the Holocaust, but this facet of history is poorly documented. What literature...

The stories in Out of Chaos forms a profound testament to lost and found lives that are translated into compelling reading. The collection illuminates brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida...

On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why—and more importantly how—it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican's...

"Ida Lupino (1918-1995) was more than a gorgeous image of film noir in the forties and fifties who starred in classics such as They Drive By Night, High Sierra, and Road House. Lupino also evolved into one of Hollywood's earliest female directors...

The social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale-of the individual or of a particular...

In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume revisit some topics central to Holocaust studies, such as the stance of the papacy and the concern about...

As the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. Among these are critical issues that receive serious scholarly attention, often for the first time, in this collection of essays by some of the world's most...

This is a Hungarian edition.Munkácsi Ernő a katasztrófa után alig két évvel megjelent visszaemlékezése a magyar zsidóság deportálásának nehéz, ellentmondásos nézőpontból megírt krónikája. Munkácsi a Horthy-korszakban a neológ zsidó közösség főtitkára,...

At the end of June 1941, Latvia fell into the hands of the Germans. This book is an account of life and death during the subsequent Nazi reign of terror. Press describes his escape from the Riga ghetto, his three years in hiding, and the trials that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978801615Author Brian E. CrimFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By burning and looting libraries and censoring ""un-German""...

Life-saving acts of heroism by ordinary people in the face of Nazi tyrannyBook InformationISBN 9780252074028Author Ellen Land-WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034278Author Saul S. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676408Author Ib KatznelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate a frequently unclear path to recover their property from governments and neighbors who had...

'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I...

Portrayals of the Holocaust in literature, paintings, and architecture have aroused many ethical debates. How can we admire, much less enjoy, art that deals with such a horrificevent? Does finding beauty in the Holocaust amount to a betrayal of its...

At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell. Levi, an Italian chemist and resistance writer in Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust and sent to Auschwitz. Of the 650 people transported to the camp in his group, only 15 men and 9...

It is France that, along with Germany, has persecuted the most Jews. Spoken at the beginning of 1943, this phrase was not a denunciation, but rather an unashamed assertion by Andre Lavagne, the chief of Marshal Petain's civil cabinet. Indeed, France's...

In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091443Author Stephen KochFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Counterpoint LLCPublisher Counterpoint LLC

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick* *An Indie Next Great Read*'[A] vivid depiction of a family's heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding.' - Clare Lombardo, New York Times Book Review 'Spanning generations and...

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082896Author Douglas WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint WriteLife LLCPublisher WriteLife LLC