Holocaust

When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what had happened in Europe. This ground-breaking new study shows how Britain and the United...

A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe--a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award The United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite...

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...

When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who...

In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565336Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999156544Author Susan F DarvasFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Summit Crossroads PressPublisher Summit Crossroads PressWeight(grams)...

Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life...

For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti's October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one thousand Roman Jews from the oldest Jewish community in Europe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922558704Author Klaus P FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Yogh & Thorn PressPublisher Yogh & Thorn PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276109Author Lesley Ann RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams)...

This book collects important and representative writings that respond to the Nazi atrocities and death camps. Written by theologians, literary figures, cultural critics, philosophers, and others, these writings survey the major themes in Western culture...

Demonstrates the enormous impact of the Holocaust by analyzing ten underreported Nazi trials In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938371097Author Alison Leslie GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tmi PublishingPublisher Tmi PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034001Author Bat-Ami ZuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, the core group of Himmler's murder units involved in the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," during and immediately after the German campaign in Poland in 1939...

This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish...

In this riveting book, a leading Holocaust scholar examines the dramatic attempts to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods, or political benefits, and explores the moral issues raised by the negotiations.Book...

Norbert Troller's unique account of life in Theresienstadt combines his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the camp with two dozen of his own drawings and watercolors. Troller recounts his two years in Theresienstadt from early 1942 until...

This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape...

Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from...

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)...

Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by terror. Susan Zuccotti relates hundreds of stories showing the...

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem "We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted," Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780781808705Author Richard C. LukasFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475213Author Nicholas KulishFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"An indispensable sourcebook . . . Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." -Geoffrey Hartmann, The New Republic"From these marvelous selections, one can see an entire...

Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the...

The Road to Auschwitz is the autobiography of Hedi Fried, a fifteen-year-old living in Sighet, Romania, when war breaks out in 1939. In March 1944, Hedi's family, along with three thousand other Jews from her village, are confined to a ghetto, awaiting...

When the Nazis forced most of Warsaw's Jews into the city's infamous ghetto during the Second World War, some 28,000 Jews either hid and never entered the Warsaw Ghetto, or escaped from it later in what Gunnar S. Paulsson calls 'the greatest prison-break...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276840Author Ardyn HalterFormat 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 9789082103137Author Manny SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097698Author Eddie JakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish question during an age of global crisis and war.The chapters are arranged chronologically, thematically, and geographically,...

Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the...

Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the...

The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning...