Holocaust

Fifty years after World War II, critical issues of this international conflict still haunt our society today in business, war crimes trials, and international relations. This text focuses on the historical issues of Christian rescue of Jews, resistance...

Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often...

This book addresses the issues of memory (a more suitable word would be Marianne Hirsh's term of postmemory) of the Holocaust among young Poles, the attitudes towards Jews and the Holocaust in the comparative context of educational developments in other...

"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact." -Michael L. MorganIn these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438431963Author Danielle BaillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 409Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 572g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874415780Author StadtlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034117Author Natan GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038061Author Sarah KavanaughFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037163Author Suzanne BardgettFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced...

In this provocative and insightful book, Joanna Beata Michlic interrogates the myth of the Jew as Poland's foremost internal "threatening other," harmful to Poland, its people, and to all aspects of its national life. This is the first attempt to chart...

In the Footsteps of OrpheusThe Life and Times of Miklos RadnotiZsuzsanna OzsvathA powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet."Zsuzsanna Ozsvath bring[s] forth Radnoti's life, his thought, and his passion...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523676Author Freda HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 350g

The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 to the modern day. The book weaves together a vast body of scholarship to bring students...

The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of...

While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A...

Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late...

Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the refugees been rescued by the diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by...

Seven decades after the destruction of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide remains largely ignored by governments and forgotten by the world public, even though the annihilation of Armenians was headlined around the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039242Author Tom LawsonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint 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 9780853035282Author GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 482g

In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that...

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchAuschwitz-the largest and most notorious of Hitler's concentration camps-was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in 1933...

This volume examines the changing role which ordinary members of society played in the state-sponsored persecution of the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia, both during the summer of 1941, when Romania joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and...

This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person--theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open Lithuania Fund board Irena Veisaite. The dialogue between Lithuanian historian Aurimas Svedas and a woman...

Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Nechama Baruchson, a native of Kovno, was a company commander of the underground...

The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this context When war between the Soviet Union and Germany broke out in 1941,...

The Touch of an Angel is the extraordinary story of a child's survival of the Holocaust. Henryk Schönker was born in 1931 into one of the most prominent and highly esteemed Jewish families of Oswiecim—the Polish town renamed Auschwitz during the German...

From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039761Author Margaret TaftFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social Democrat, show how the process of marginalization under the Nazis unfolded within the vibrant Jewish community of Breslau-until that community was destroyed in 1941. Cohn documents how...

Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn't Experience delves into the intergenerational transmission of trauma to the granddaughters of Holocaust survivors. Although members of this generation did not endure the horrors of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815775904Author Robert RotbergFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439914243Author Natasha GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history. The book takes an original approach as both a narrative and thematic introduction to the topic, and provides a core foundation...

This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to understanding past and current events in the Near East. These memoirs of an American Protestant clergyman reveal little known aspects of major events in Asia Minor in the early twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035817Author Robert RozettFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint 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 9780853037125Author Judith E. BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...