Holocaust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510708655Author Phyllida ScrivensFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

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...

Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate Spain in a position of influence in the history and culture...

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of...

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942 is the third volume in a five-volume set published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on Holocaust history. Incorporating historical documents and...

This volume tells the largely unknown story of Holocaust survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after World War II. Amidst political turmoil and extreme privation, physically exhausted and...

How could the Holocaust have happened? How can people do such things to other people? Questions such as these have animated discussion of the Holocaust from our earliest awareness of what had happened. These questions have engaged the lay public as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541751187Author Deborah CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295910Author Phil ChernofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 1250Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 3336g

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 Price of Survival: Marcus Levin, Norwegian Holocaust Humanitarian, Irene Levin Berman tells the story of her father's heroic attempts to save the Jews of Norway, as well as hundreds of stateless refugees who had escaped other European countries...

The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the...

In this alternately humorous and horrifying memoir, a Jewish father drags his reluctant children around Europe on a hard-charging tour of Holocaust sites and memorials in order to impress on them the profound evil of Hitler's war against the Jews and the...

*A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize ‘A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling‘ Guardian ...

When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero-and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story. Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book...

Executive editors: Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, and Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, with Maja Peers; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce In summer 1942 the Germans...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052019574Author Isabelle EngelhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity...

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 9781529385960Author Claudia CarliFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hodder PaperbackPublisher Hodder & StoughtonWeight(grams) 129g

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...

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Ia?i killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern...

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...

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...

" Interviews with: Yitzhak Arad Leo Eitinger Emil Fackenheim Whitney Harris Jan Karski Arnost Lusting Mordecai Paldiel Marion Pritchard Dorothee Soelle Leon Wells Elie Wiesel Simon Wiesenthal The late Harry James Cargas was professor emeritus of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034278Author Saul S. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

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...

A book examining the treatment of the Jews living in the Channel Islands during German Occupation.About the AuthorDavid Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Law After Auschwitz: Towards a...

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe...

Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de...

Governments, Citizens, and GenocideA Comparative and Interdisciplinary ApproachAlex AlvarezA comprehensive analysis demonstrating how whole societies come to support the practice of genocide."Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383353Author Liat Steir-LivnyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

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...