Holocaust

Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthanasia" programs. These programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who,...

National bestseller: This "harrowing" true story of two Jewish families who survived hiding in the heart of the Nazi capital "honors the human spirit" (Andrea Dworkin). In January 1943, unable to flee Germany, the four members of the Arndt family went...

How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violenceFocusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted...

During the Holocaust, thousands of Jewish children were separated from their families and hidden in order to save their lives. In Belgium, the focus of this book, Roman Catholic convents were central to this dangerous rescue effort. Suzanne Vromen has...

"Phayer offers exactly what was needed. . . . A fair and even-tempered account of a volatile subject." -Kirkus Reviews"An important addition to the literature of the Holocaust." -Publishers Weekly"Very valuable . . . a fine and judicious book." -Istvan...

No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. Yet the sheer, crushing number of murders-over 1,200,000-the overwhelming scale of the crime, and the vast, abandoned site of ruined chimneys and rusting barbed wire isolate Auschwitz from us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Jewish Book Award Finalist 2019 2020. Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781916190801Author Irene ButterFormat...

A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and the Israeli violin maker dedicated to bringing these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618082322Author Peter NovickFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 442g

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During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kuhl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the...

This powerful, unique collection contains poems written not only by members of Jewish communities in Europe (representing the largest group persecuted by the Nazis), but also poems by people who were targeted on other grounds. Some belonged to political...

What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061320682Author Richard RubensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728057Author Tania CrasnianskiFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by...

Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism...

These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The...

Can the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276550Author Harry PilaFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466295742Author Paul PolanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

On 7 November 1938, an impoverished seventeen-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, obsessed with Nazi persecution of his family in Germany, brooding on revenge - and his own insignificance - bought a handgun, carried it on the Metro to the German Embassy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517109912Author Martin NicolausFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Granddaughters of the Holocaust explores the intergenerational transmission of trauma to the granddaughters of Holocaust survivors. Although members of this generation did not endure the horrors of the Holocaust directly, they absorbed the experiences of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278715Author Sarah HelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past.When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a...

". . . a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography . . . " -B'nai B'rith Messenger"This is the first and most sophisticated attempt I have come across to apply modern literary theory to Holocaust material, and the act...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955891670Author Olga WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Splendid Books LimitedPublisher Splendid Books Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197695364Author Regius Professor Emeritus Richard J EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501167638Author Primo LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724876027Author Jafa WallachFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

"While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982178529Author Simon ParkinFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution."-Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at...

In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the...

Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the storm-the German Jews-has received little attention. Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938-1945,...

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The revised edition includes a short history of ZEGOTA, the underground government organisation working to save the Jews, and an annotated listing of many Poles executed by the Germans for trying to shelter and save Jews.About the AuthorRichard C Lukas...