Holocaust Themed Books
This list includes books about the Holocuast, The Third Reich, Zionism and other related topics. Feel free to add books to this list and feel free to rate any of the books that are already listed.
List created by Kerry S. (french-taunter) on Mar 9, 2011
List Votes: 8 Books: 270 Contributors: 12 Watchers: 15 List Type: Open
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Night by Stella Rodway (Translator) & Elie Wiesel
Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking... more
Book Votes: 10
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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the... more
Book Votes: 10
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard -- their secret hiding place -- and promises... more
Book Votes: 9
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| Mar |
Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl... more
Book Votes: 6
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves... more
Book Votes: 6
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| Sharie H. (MartiniLush) |
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger's Handbook, left there... more
Book Votes: 6
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence... more
Book Votes: 5
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Livia Bitton-Jackson, born Elli L. Friedmann in Czechoslavakia, was thirteen when she, her mother, and her brother were taken to Auschwitz. They were liberated in 1945 and came to the United States on a refugee boat in 1951. This is her story, written for middle school or high school students.... more
Book Votes: 4
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 ...
Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the Palme d’Or.On September 23, 1939,... more
Book Votes: 4
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Hiding Place by Elizabeth Sherrill & Corrie Ten Boom & John L. Sherrill
The Hiding Place proves that the light of God's love can penetrate even the darkest recesses of despair, places like the Nazi extermination camp at Ravensbruck. After protecting Dutch Jews in a secret room in their home, Corrie ten Boom, her sister and father were discovered, arrested, and... more
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Maus: A Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, Bk 1) by Art Spiegelman
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of... more
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Maus II : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) by Art Spiegelman
MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II... For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and... more
Book Votes: 3
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Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Trudi Montag is born during WWI in the small town of Burgdorf in Germany. She is a dwarf. All her life she yearns to grow like everyone else. But as she matures and becomes the towns librarian, unofficial historian, conscience, and purveyor of gossip, she comes to learn that like the stones at... more
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Hannah thinks tonight’s Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await.
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List—in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina... more
Book Votes: 3
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Katarina by Kathryn Winter
It is 1942, and eight-year-old Katrina's carefree life in Slovakia is about to change. Jews are being rounded up, and Katarina and her aunt Lena and uncle Teo are in danger. Katarina does not understand why she is considered Jewish since her family has never been observant, but she trusts... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Corrie Ten Boom (Heroes of the Faith) by Sam Wellman
Despite great danger from the Nazis, she sought freedom for the Jews and became the heroine of Haarlem.
Book Votes: 2
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink & Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Mar |
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
"[A] devastating new history of the infamous death factory.... Rees's research is impeccable and intrepid" --The Washington Post
In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees provides a shocking portrait of the world's most infamous death camp. Informed by more than 100 original interviews with survivors and... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Surviving Hitler : A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
"Think of it as a game, Jack. Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis."Caught up in Hitler's Final Solution to annihilate Europe's Jews, fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps. Here, simple existence... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman Jurman
Born Polish Jew, the author, Alicia Appleman Jurman, has written a memoir of award winning status. The author re-creates her valiant skills of learning to survive in Nazi-dominated, war-torn Poland.
Between the ages of ten and 15, she suffered terrible hardships and encountered numerous... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the orpahns. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, with... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
All But My Life : A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Sharie H. (MartiniLush) |
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father,... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Sharie H. (MartiniLush) |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic-part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work-that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Be...
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a "J." Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski & Barabar Vedder (...
Published in Poland after World War II, Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories show atrocious crimes becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Prisoners eat, work, sleep and fall in love a few yards from where other prisoners are systematic.
Introduction by Jan Kott;... more
Book Votes: 2
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Holocaust Chronicle by Marilyn Harran
During the Second World War, six million Jews--as well as other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped, and homosexuals--were systematically murdered by Adolf Hitlers Nazis and their collaborators. The Holocaust Chronicle, written and fact-checked by top scholars, recounts the... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschw...
During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivors, who until now have kept... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
The ?explosive? (The New York Times) bestseller?now with a new introduction by the authorWhen Hitler ?s Pope , the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that ?redefined the history of the twentieth century? (The Washington Post ) was originally published, it sparked a firestorm of controversy both... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Gol...
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
Daniel, 14 in 1941, describes first his family's sense of belonging in Germany and their refusal to flee their country despite the initial instances of anti-Semitism they experience. By the time the family is ready to acknowledge the seriousness of their situation, no country is willing to... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Anna was so busy with her schoolwork and friends that she hardly had time to notice Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. But one morning her father was gone, and then she and her brother had to sneak out of Germany. Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
We Are Witnesses : Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust by Jacob Boas
Jewish teenagers David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne all kept diaries and were all killed in Hitler's death camps. These are their stories, in their own words. Author Jacob Boas is a Holocaust survivor who was born in the same camp to which Anne Frank was sent. Includes a photo insert.
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by David Faber & James D. Kitchen
This is a nonfiction, personal narrative that tells the true story of a young boy's courage in the face of Nazi attrocities during WWII. Born in Poland, David Faber as a teenager survived eight concentration camps, witnessed the murder of his family, and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945,... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka & Iris Von Finckenstein & Margot Bet...
As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and instantly knew that... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors by Unknown Author
No description available.
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors by Elinor J. Brecher
Seventy-five real-life Schindler's List survivors share their personal accounts of the Holocaust, their encounters with Schindler, their experiences after the war, and their reunions with the man who saved their lives.
Book Votes: 1
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| Mar |
Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Anya Karinsky's beautiful life seemed like one long and perfect dream that would spin on forever.
But her wonderful world of dances, travel, medical school, and her beloved family ended one day late in the summer of 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. The bombs that leveled her Warsaw... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Mar |
Babi Yar: A Docutment in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version by A....
No description available.
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, a fiery and independent scholar, is forced to disappear underground, leaving Emma and her parents imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi -- but as a lonely, frightened young... more
Book Votes: 1
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| bookcatgirl |
I Will Bear Witness : A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
March 10, 1933--"January 30: Hitler Chancellor. What, up to election, I called terror, was a mild prelude. On Saturday I heard a part of Hitler's speech from Koenigsberg. The front of a hotel at the railway station, illuminated, a torchlight procession. . . . I understood only... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender
"WE ARE FREE!" When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering. Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors,... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
"Not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written." -- John Toland, The New York Times Book Review
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died.? But I am here.1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror, she meets Paul, an American soldier who... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi & Stuart Woolf (Translator)
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
All Rivers Run to the Sea : Memoirs (Tous les Fleuves Vont à la Mer) by Elie Wi...
In this first volume of Elie Wiesel's projected two-volume autobiography, the Novel Laureate takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family life in a Carpathian village through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle to his... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn & Matt Mendelsohn ...
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust -- an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives' fates. This is their story.
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Death on the Black Sea: The Untold Story of the 'Struma' and World War II's Holocaust...
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a ship filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others -- among them, more than one hundred children -- perished.From this... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein
In this truly innovative memoir, Bernice Eisenstein combines her skills as a writer and illustrator to recount her early childhood in the 1950s. Drawing on the memories of her parents-both Holocaust survivors-and the fragmented stories of other family members lost in the war, she explores the... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of its Survivors by Mich...
Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, provides the powerful narrative for this concise history of the Holocaust. Each chapter addresses a different topic, moving from the rise of the Nazis and ghettoization to the death camps and... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl & Marion Blumenthal Lazan
If she could find four perfect pebbles of almost exactly the same size and shape, it meant that her family would remain whole. Mama and papa and she and Albert would survive Bergen-Belsen. The four of them might even survive the Nazis' attempt to destroy every last Jew in Europe
Book Votes: 1
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The Bielski Brothers : The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Vill...
In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski --... more
Book Votes: 1
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens by Allan Zullo
The Holocaust and the heroes -- "If they're willing to kill Jews, they're willing to kill people who hide Jews" : Maria Andzelm, Poland, 1942-1944 -- "Will I ever see any of you again? Are you even alive?" : Henri Zylberminc, Belgium, 1941-1944 -- "There must be... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
A Pocket Full of Seeds by Marilyn Sachs
Nicole's parents thought they would have enough time to escape from the Nazis. Now it is too late.
Nicole Nieman has never really thought about being Jewish. Now, with the Nazis occupying France, it is the only thing on her mind. An almost endless stream of refugees comes to stay at their... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hostage to War: A True Story by Tatjana Wassiljewa
When Tatjana was ten years old, Nazi Germany declared war on Russia. Enduring terrible conditions and near-starvation in work camps, Tatjana survived through liberation, but had more obstacles to overcome before fulfilling her dream to become a teacher.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer
Dearest Maman,
I keep all my letters to you in my notebook under my pillow. One day, when we're together again, I'll give them to you, and we'll sit and read them....
In June 1940, twelve-year-old Karin Levi's world is torn apart as the German army occupies Paris. Karin, her older brother,... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
it is June 1943, and for four years the Nazi armies have occupied the Polish town of Bedzin. Twelve-year-old Eva, along with her father and her sister, have been forced to leave their comfortable home and move into a tiny attic in the Jewish ghetto.
But Eva's life takes an even more... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hidden Child of the Holocaust: A True Story by Stacy Cretzmeyer
Ruth and her family live in the south of France. When the Naziz invade Paris during World War II, many Jews in France must go into hiding. Ruth's family changes identity. Her cousin tells Ruth that her name is now Renee, so that she blends in with other French children. When the Nazis move into... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Until We Meet Again: a True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Ko...
1942. A Small town in Poland. Two Jewish families fell to hiding places, hoping to evade deportation by the Nazis. At the last moment, 17-year-old Manya makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her family and join her sweetheart, Meyer, also 17, with his family. For three long years, Manya... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Tell Them We Remember : The Story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach
Written by a staff member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book draws on the museum's collection of period artifacts, photographs, maps, and oral and video histories to teach youngsters about the tragedy of the Holocaust.
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| books-of-kg |
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. The Drama...
A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic... more
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SCROLL OF AGONY by Katsh
"A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." --New York Review of Books "Not only the material for history; it is history itself, agonizingly, triumphantly alive." --Saturday Review Warsaw resident Chaim Kaplan's journal begins on September 1, 1939, the day the Nazi blitzkrieg stunned... more
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| Dw P. (squarespot) |
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration...
The drawings and poems by the children of Terezin are among the most poignant documents of the Holocaust. This expanded edition of the unforgettable collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly was occasioned by the loan of the children's art by the State Jewish Museum in Prague to the United... more
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| Barbara A. |
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
A rapturous new novel of first love in a time of war -- from the celebrated author of The Last Van Gogh. In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Voices of the Holocaust Teacher Guide by Literature & Thought
No description available.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Justice at Dachau : The Trials of an American Prosecutor by Joshua Greene
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside the... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Under Hitler's Banner: Serving the Third Reich by Edmund L. Blanford
This book takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of war history through the experiences of the Germans who reached adulthood in the Third Reich.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
LOVE & HATE:THE STORY OF HENRI LANDWIRTH by BILL HALAMANDARIS
No description available.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Before the Wall by George Clare
Driven by a need to understand the genesis of Nazism and world war, the author, an Austrian-born emigre to England who lost his parents to Hitler, went to Germany in 1946 as an interpreter with the British occupational force. As he became involved in efforts to catch ex-Nazis who were trying to... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop & William Pene Du Bois (Illustrator)
During the German occupation of France, twenty French children were brought to a refuge in the mountains. One day a young man came to their school with a request: Could they take in, and hide, ten Jewish refugee children?...based on a true story
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
North to Freedom by Anne Holm
Having escaped from the eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark. “[North to Freedom] is, to my mind, the single finest novel ever written for... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams
It's 1942. Thirteen-year-old Korinna Rehme is an active member of her local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by instituting a program to deal with what he calls the "Jewish problem," a program that she... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hitler's Plot to Kill the Big Three by Laslo Havas
No description available.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel
The greatest manhunt in history. . .
The quarry: Adolph Eichmann, Nazi arch-criminal.
The stalker: Isser Harel, head of Israeli Secret Service.
Never-before-told, this is the gripping, true, eyewitness account of the successful fifteen-year quest to bring Adolf Eichmann... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Between Two Streams : A Diary from Bergen-Belsen by Abel J. Herzberg
At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve small groups of "privileged" Jews for possible use in exchanges with Allied-held German civilians. Held in the special "Sternlager" at Bergen-Belsen their "privilege" amounted to being kept alive rather than gassed - although 70 per... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Beyond the Yellow Star to America by Inge Auerbacher
This is the story of a young Jewish girl who survived a concentration camp and came to the United States after the war to live the life that many like Anne Frank never survived to experience.
Inges second book, Beyond The Yellow Star To America, carries the reader into Inges world of an... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
By the Neck Until Dead: The Gallows of Nuremberg by Stanley Tilles & Jeffrey Denh...
Stanley Tilles, an ordinary citizen soldier caught in extraordinary times. Answering the call of his country at the end of World War II, Tilles finds himself in charge of carrying out the sentences of the Nazi War criminals at Dachau and Nuremberg. The never before told story of Second... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Can It Happen Again?: Chronicles of the Holocaust by Roselle K. Chartock (Editor) &am...
A collection of over 100 eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documentary materials, and selections from eminent writers about the Holocaust and genocide.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust by Eva Fogelman
In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation (2nd Edition) by Rita S. Bo...
Told with scrupulous care for accuracy, this book examines the causes and events of the Holocaust, giving important background information on Jewish life in Europe, on the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Controversial topics... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Holocaust by Gerald Green
Basis of the acclaimed 1979 television mini-series weaving the odyssey of Holocaust victims, taking the reader (and then the viewer) with documentary force through the darkest and most terrible events of the century. Green, a prominent novelist (THE LAST ANGRY MAN) used a novelist's imagination... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History) by L...
When The Holocaust first appeared in Israel in 1987, it was hailed as the finest, most authoritative history of Hitler's war on the Jews ever published. Representing twenty years of research and reflection, Leni Yahil's book won the Shazar Prize, one of Israel's highest awards for historical... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Mark It with a Stone: A Moving Account of a Young Boy's Struggle to Survive the Nazi ...
Sandy Rubenstein is the daughter of a survivor. On September 1, 1939, her father, Joseph Horn, began an odyssey through one of the worst atrocities in history. Horn stayed alive while his family perished, surviving stays in the Blizyn concentration camp, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. In her new... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph Persico
In an extraordinary re-creation of the Third Reich's day of reckoning, Persico recaptures the trial in bold strokes and minute detail. He enters the minds of all the key actors via groundbreaking research that includes the private papers of the Nuremburg prison psychiatrist and commandant,... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
An oral history of the Holocaust : the complete text of the film
This comprehensive transcription documents the interviews--with former German official bureaucrats, Polish peasants, and German colonizers of occupied Poland
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
To Life: 36 Stories of Memory and Hope by Museum of Jewish Heritage & Yitzchak Ma...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust opened its doors in 1997, and is recognized as a site of great cultural and historical importance. The powerful stories of courage, family, hope, and faith held within the hexagonal structure of the museum provide a uniquely... more
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Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with sons and daughters of survivors by Hele...
No description available.
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The Gravedigger's Daughter (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America by Dorothy Rabinowitz
New Lives, is a portrait of those of the survivors who came to live in America. Out of its moving narrative, based on the personal stories of more than 100 people interviewed by the author, there emerges the first full scale account of what actually happened, in the days, months, and years after... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Stella : One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany by...
In all of Holocaust literature there has never been another book like this: Haunting, deeply personal, as exciting as a spy novel, it is a non-fiction Sophie's Choice. Stella Goldschlag was blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful, and seductive, but she was also Jewish, and in World War II Germany, that... more
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| bookcatgirl |
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer
Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's Germany. Volume Two begins in 1942, the... more
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In the Secret Place by Peter Van Woerden
A prelude to The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom's nephew.
Peter Van Woerden, Corrie Ten Boom's nephew, began his career in the Dutch underground in 1942. He was the organist of the Reformed Church in Velsen and at his regular post on the bench one Lord's Day... more
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An Infinity of Mirrors by Richard Condon
"The action of An Infinity of Mirrors" takes place between 1932 and 1944 in Paris, in Berlin, and then in Occupied Paris. Paule Bernheim, a beautiful young French Jew, and "Veelee" - Wilhelm von Rhode - a Prussian officer whose family had been a part of the German military establishment for... more
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If You Save One Life by Eva Brown & Thomas Fields-Meyer
Point a finger, said the American soldier, at the one who made you look like a skeleton.
That sentence marks the end of a nightmare and a moment of moral clarity for Eva Brown, who survived Auschwitz and lost sixty members of her extended family in the Holocaust.
Born into a close and... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 by Ben Shephard
“The things I saw completely defy description.†When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge — inside the camp were some 60,000 people... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
WIND CHILL FACTOR by Thomas Gifford
Viewing Germany's defeat as a minor setback, surviving Nazi officials plot their comeback, placing key personnel inside the world's major capitals and corporations, and John Cooper must race against time to stop them. Reprint.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman
A groundbreaking investigation into the mysterious gathering where the Nazi plan for genocide was reputedly decided. In early 1947, American officials in Germany stumbled across a document. Entitled "Secret Reich matter," it summarized the results of a meeting of top Nazi officials that took... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by Alan Levy
Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II. With the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeleton. Since then, he has achieved international reknown for his tireless and... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Something Remains by Inge Barth-grozinger
Erich Levi doesn't understand why his father is so gloomy when the Nazis are elected to power. He's too concerned with keeping his grades up, finding time to hang out by the river with his friends, and studying for his bar mitzvah, to worry about politics.But slowly, gradually, things begin to... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg by Frederick E. Werbell & Thurston Cla...
Publisher's Note: Recounts the courageous efforts of the Swedish businessman turned guerilla fighter in the rescuing of Hungarian Jews.
His life was an enigma. He fate is one of the great unsolved mysteries of war II. He was Raoul Wallenberg: the handsome, aristocratic... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
When the War Is over by Martha Attema
NY Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age List 2004 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award nominee 2004 CCBC Our Choice 2003 Janke has learned to hate the Nazis, until she meets Helmut. In occupied Holland during World War II, sixteen-year-old Janke Visser watches her father's and brother's... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Pictorial History of the Third Reich - A Shattering Photographic Record of Nazi T...
A nightmarish gallery of Nazi Infamy
To compile this unique history in pictures, the authors reviewed more than six million feet of film. They were given access to never-before-published private collections, sources behind the iron curtain, and files of the Nazi war lords themselves. Here... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
When Being Jewish was a Crime by Rachmiel Frydland
This is the amazing story of how Rachmiel Frydland, a Jew, was delivered from death time after time during the years of the Nazi occupation of Poland. Perhaps more importantly, this is Frydland's account of how the God of his ancestors took over and occupied his life, delivering him from death... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo
Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
All the Children Were Sent Away by Unknown Author
Fiction Book about the plight of English children in world war.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Blaze Engulfs, Vol.3: January 1939 to December 1941 (Holocaust (Woodbridge, Conn....
Few historical events from the twentieth century have affected the world as profoundly as the Holocaust. Today, more than half a century after it ended, the Holocaust remains a highly complex and compelling subject-one that continues to illuminate important historical developments and... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Refuge in Hell : How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis by Daniel B. Silver
How did Berlin's Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II? How could it happen that when Soviet troops liberated the hospital in April 1945, they found some eight hundred Jews... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by Robert Payne
BOOKS THAT MATTER
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-92891
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Survivor: An Inspiring True Story by Jack Eisner
This unforgettable story of the Warsaw Ghetto chronicles the author's courageous and extraordinary encounter with a horrific chapter in our world's history, even as it tells a tale of stunning bravery, of breathtaking escapes, and of mind-numbing risk in the face of certain death.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
A Friend Called Anne : One girl's story of War, Peace and a unique friendship withAnn...
Jacqueline van Maarsen met Anne Frank in 1941, and the two girls quickly became best friends. A Friend Called Anne details their relationship and reveals Anne as who she in fact was: a typical, fun- loving girl. The book also shares Jacqueline's own chilling experience of narrowly escaping... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Hitler's Secret Service by Walter Schellenberg
Original title: The Labyrinth
Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, an undistinguished law student-joined the Nazi Party at twenty-two. In ten years he rose to become the all-powerful head of the RSHA Intelligence--the German Secret Service. This book is his story.
He tells of the plot to... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Small Miracles of the Holocaust: Extraordinary Coincidences of Faith, Hope, and Survi...
From the authors of the bestselling Small Miracles series comes this inspirational collection of over 50 stories - each with the upbeat twist ending that has become the trademark of this remarkable series. The authors, both second-generation Holocaust survivors, have culled stories from before,... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Vienna Prelude (Zion Covenant, Bk 1) by Bodie Thoene
Nazi Darkness Was Descending Upon Europe Would Their Lives Ever Be the Same?
Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Prague Counterpoint (Zion Covenant, Bk 2) by Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene
She Had Escaped the Nazi Terror. But a Nation's Priceless Treasures Were Compelling Her to Return.
In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslovakia, but not for long. A million other... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Munich Signature (Zion Covenant, Bk 3) by Bodie Thoene
One Signature Could Seal the Fate of Europe Under Hitler's Tyranny.
In Prague Counterpoint, Elisa Murphy and Leah Feldstein risked everything to stand against the tide of Nazi terrorism and to buy a chance at life for two small boys. When Elisa is at last reunited with Murphy, the danger... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Jerusalem Interlude (Zion Covenant, Bk 4) by Bodie Thoene
For Jews in prewar Europe, the terrifying truth is uncovered: Truly they have no place to go. Escape or perish, but escape to where? As Central Europe is taken over by the Nazis under celebrated headlines of Peace in Our Times, hundreds of thousands pay the price for Hitler's international... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Danzig Passage (Zion Covenant, Bk 5) by Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene
A boarded-up church, a dressmaker's shop, a "borrowed" apartment, a Vienna pawnshop, a locked train compartment are these places of safety before making it to the Danzig Passage or way stations to betrayal and destruction?
The net of Hitler's Third Reich begins to close... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Warsaw Requiem (Zion Covenant, Bk 6) by Bodie Thoene
As the Shadows Close Over Poland, a Stunned World Echoes the Words, "It Has Come to This - "
Having overrun Czechoslovakia, the iron baton of Hitler's Third Reich is poised to orchestrate a requiem for Warsaw. Foreshadowing an international nightmare the world will never forget,... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard...
A major contribution to the history of the Holocaust from the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize?winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen--the professional killing squads... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in United States Holocaust ...
No description available.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Battlefields and Playgrounds by Janos Nyiri
A major Holocaust novel, hailed internationally as 'vast and magnificent' and named Book of the Year by the Financial Times.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The war Hitler won, September 1939 by Nicholas William Bethell
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker
Acclaimed as the most remarkable novel of the Holocaust ever written in Germany, Jacob the Liar breaks with the genre's tradition of unremitting realism to offer a suspenseful and masterfully crafted tale of hope, desire, and the life-giving force of fiction. In the ghetto, the possession of... more
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| Sharie H. (MartiniLush) |
Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust by Samuel Drix
When the German Army captured Lwów, Poland, in 1941, the city contained a vibrant Jewish community of 160,000 people. By 1945, all but a few hundred were dead. Witness to Annihilation is the book that Samuel Drix vowed he would write. Drix endured nearly a year in the Janowska concentration... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Twilight of Courage by Brock Thoene & Bodie Thoene
The Gold Medallion Book Award winner by Bodie and Brock Thoene. The Twilight of Courage is a retelling of World War II that intertwines the stories of two American journalists' escape from the collapse of Warsaw, with those of an orphaned baby's journey to Jerusalem, a... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin ...
Deftly weaving together historical research and survivors' testimonies, The Holcaust is Gilbert's acclaimed and definitive history of the European Jews, fom Hitler's rise to power to Germany's surrender to the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration camps.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America by Ursula Hegi
Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them.
Like Studs Terkel in his classic Working, Hegi uses the art of the interview... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Eva's Story by Evelyn Julia Kent & Eva Schloss
Eva's Story is a gripping account of survival at Auschwitz by the stepsister of Anne Frank. Arrested with her family on her 15th birthday, Eva Geiringer Schloss and her mother survived the horrors of Auschwitz while her brother and father perished at Mauthausen. Eight years after the war her... more
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
The Children of Izieu: A Human Tragedy by Serge Klarsfeld & Kenneth Jacobson (Tra...
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
Corrie Ten Boom's Prison Letters by Corrie Ten Boom
The deeply-moving letters that were the only tie between Corrie, her loved ones and the outside world during her time of trial and triumph.
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| Kerry S. (french-taunter) |
After the Holocaust by Howard Greenfeld
Listen to the stories of Alicia, Civia, Ann, George, Judith, Akiva, Larry, and Tonia-eight survivors of the Holocaust, and eight of the bravest, most resilient men and women you'll ever have the privilege to hear. They came from different parts of Europe-Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Romania -- but... more
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A Childhood under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "Certified Jew" by Michael Wieck &a...
A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was percecuted first as a "certified Jew" by the Nazis, then as a German by the... more
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... And Heaven Shed No Tears (Shoah Studies) by Henry Armin Herzog
Henry Herzog survived the liquidation of the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland and endured terrible hardships in forced labor camps. He documents the increasing severity of Nazi rule in Rzeszow and the complicity of the Jewish council (the Judenrat) and Jewish police in the round-ups for deportation to... more
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A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944-April 1945 by Pavel W...
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A Cup of Honey The Story of a Yound Holocaust Survivor; Eliezer Ayalon by Neile Sue F...
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A Boring Evening at Home by Gerda Weissmann Klein
The book is a glimpse into the life of Gerda Klein, and into the thoughts that have always vindicated her belief that the most treasured place on earth is home, and that the most beautiful and desirable aim for people is to spend "a boring evening" there with family. "I have been in a place for... more
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A Child Of The Holocaust: A Non-Survivor's Story Of Survival by Robert Mauro
A Child Of The Holocaust: A Non-Survivor's Story Of Survival. The happiness of a Jewish family is destroyed when the Nazis invade Holland on May 10, 1940. At first life goes on as usual, despite the Nazis' occupation of Holland. But then the round ups of Jews begin and this once happy family... more
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A Child's Tapestry of War by Anne Ipsen
Anne Ipsen's memoir of her Danish childhood is bathed in the light of long summer evenings and the love of doting parents. But the evocative, artful strands that weave this story are interlaced with the menace and cruelty of the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II. This chronicle of... more
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A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero Of The Holocaust by Alison Leslie Gold
When Chiune Sugihara was growing up in Japan, he had never even met a Jewish person. There was no way Chiune could know that he would one day save the lives of thousands of Jews - and become a great hero to the Jewish people. Chiune Sugihara was a diplomat who left Japan to work in Lithuania, a... more
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A Holocaust Reader (Library of Jewish Studies) by Lucy Dawidowicz
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A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) by Yehuda Bauer & Nili K...
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A Teenager's Tears : When Parents Convert to Polygamy by John R. Llewellyn
Media attention has focused on the January 2001 tragic death of a polygamist toddler, when medical attention allegedly was not sought until too late. And that occurred on the heels of the prosecution of Utah polygamist Tom Green, alleging Rape of a Child and bigamy. What is the truth of Utah... more
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A Hero of Our Own : The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg
“Fry was the American Schindler…with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes…[think] Casablanca.” —New York Times Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued... more
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A Land Beyond Tears: A Guided Journey of One Family's Celebration of Life in the Face...
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A Partisan's Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust by Faye Schulman & Sarah Silberstein ...
Faye Schulman was learning photography when she escaped the Nazis and joined the Partisans-and she documented every harrowing moment. There have been two PBS documentaries on this talented teenaged Holocaust survivor.
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A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss & Evelyn Julia K...
Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don’t know about Eva Schloss, Anne’s playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This incredible... more
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A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany by Mark Roseman
At the outbreak of World War II, Marianne Strauss, the sheltered daughter of well-to-do German Jews, was transformed almost overnight into a woman of spirit and defiance. When the Gestapo came for her family, Marianne went underground, and traveled across Nazi Germany with false papers, aided by... more
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A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (A Centennial Book) by Y...
In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym,... more
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A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak by Janusz Korczak &a...
Janusz Korczak brings a humane, compassionate voice to help us honor children as independent beings worthy of utmost respect.
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A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir by Trudi Birger & Jeffrey M. Green ...
The author, a survivor of the Holocaust, describes her ordeal of being held with her mother in the concentration camp at Stutthof.
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A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France by Tela Zasloff
How French Protestant networks worked to rescue Jews and other refugees from the Nazis This is the story of a Holocaust rescuer, Pierre Toureille, a French Protestant pastor whose efforts resulted in the rescue of hundreds of refugees, most of them Jewish. Inspired by his Huguenot heritage,... more
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A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Po...
A Promise at Sobibór is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobibór in occupied Poland. Sobibór was not a... more
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A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish Slave Labor and Survival in the Gros-rosen Camp Syste...
In 1944, when a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and after Normandy, more than 60 new forced labor camps were established in Lower Silesia, Germany, adding to the approximately 40 camps that already existed. Inmates were Jews from Hungary and Poland... more
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A Century of Wisdom from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Hol...
At 107 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the world's oldest concert pianist. An eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one, she has seen it all. Despite her years of imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration... more
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A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis by Michael Berenba...
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A Rose from the Ashes by Rose Price
Rose Price has held audiences captive with her riveting story for decades, but not until now has she unfolded her life story so completely. This book contains the gripping details of Rose Price's childhood in Skarzysko, Poland, her harrowing experiences in Nazi concentration camps, her... more
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A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (Tauber Institute for...
How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a... more
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A Holocaust Survivor: In The Footsteps Of His Past by Naftali Deutsch
This book is a fascinating chronicle of Naftali Deutsch's miraculous survival from five concentration camps as a teenaged boy. "A Holocaust Survivor: In The Footsteps Of His Past" documents the atrocities and crimes of the Germans, Hungarians, and their collaborators, who murdered Naftali... more
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A Postcard From the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany by Lucy Beckett
Beginning in 1914 and ending on the eve of World War II, this epic story follows the coming of age and early manhood of the Prussian aristocrat, Max von Hofmannswaldau. From the idyllic surroundings of his ancestral home to the streets of cosmopolitan Breslau menaced by the Nazi SS,... more
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A Different Kind of Courage: Gretel's Story by Gretel Wachtel & Claudia Strachan
"A Different Kind of Courage" is the spellbinding account by an attractive and feisty young woman who witnessed personally Hitler's racist spite at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and had to endure the shock of the disappearance of her best friend and her family during Kristallnact, the night of... more
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A Triumph of the Spirit: Thirteen Stories of Holocaust Survivors (Studies in Judaica ...
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A Visa or Your Life!: A Boy's Life and the Odyssey of His Escape From Nazi Germany by...
This book, an autobiography, starts with the story of a Jewish boy growing up in Nazi Germany, related from the viewpoint of a teenager. He tells us about his youthful experiences and impressions, the restrictions and degradations forced on Jews by a hostile, totalitarian regime, and the... more
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A Survivor's Story by Severin Fayerman
When Germany invades Poland in 1939, seventeen year old Severin Fayerman sees his world change forever. His family's factory is seized by the Germans. Inevitably, the Fayermans are arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. Severin, separated from his family, is left alone in captivity. For... more
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A Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous & Philip Boehm...
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents."Spare, unpredictable, minutely observed, and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), the anonymous author depicts... more
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After Daybreak: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945 by Ben Shephard
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed... more
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An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbia...
That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so... more
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An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust by Henry A. Oertelt & St...
Oertelt, who lived with his older brother and widowed mother in Berlin, had just marked his twelfth birthday when Hitler came to power in January 1933. He begins with a firsthand account of Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938), when the Nazis destroyed Jewish property and synagogues across... more
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And the World Closed Its Doors: One Family's Struggle to Escape the Holocaust by Davi...
A Jewish family's desperate struggle to escape Nazi Germany, and how it illuminates the world's tragic abandonment of Europe's Jews during the Holocaust.
In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in... more
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And Yet, I Am Here! by Halina Nelken
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Halina Nelken was a precocious fifteen-year-old, living a middle-class life in Krakow. Like other girls her age, she recorded her personal observations and feelings in a diary. As conditions in Krakow deteriorated and her family was forced into the Jewish... more
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941 - 43 by Etty Hille...
Etty Hillesum (1914-43) lived in Amsterdam, like Anne Frank, and like her she kept a diary. 'All the writings she left behind,' writes Eva Hoffman in her Preface to this Edition of her diaries and letters, 'were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust,' but they resist being read... more
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Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Di...
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An American College Girl in Hitler's Germany: A Memoir (Mellen Lives, V. 8) by Jane L...
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A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust by Sophia Richman
AWolf in the Attic is a powerful memoir written by a psychoanalyst who was a hidden child in Poland during World War II. Her story, in addition to its immediate impact, illustrates her struggle to come to terms with the powerful yet sometimes subtle impact of childhood trauma. A Wolf in the... more
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American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1...
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A Voice from the Holocaust (Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict) by Eve Nussbaum Sou...
Eve Soumerai recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Berlin, as a teenaged refugee in the United Kingdom, and later as a young adult searching for answers in postwar Germany. This first-person memoir helps students understand the Holocaust and its effects by chronicling the... more
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An American in Hitler's Berlin: Abraham Plotkin's Diary, 1932-33 by Abraham Plotkin
This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic's final months and the early rise of Nazi power in Germany, Plotkin's diary... more
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Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance o...
Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions, student diaries and questionnaires, the author demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a... more
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Andi's War by Billi Rosen
This story for children portrays a real life situation, with real anxieties. It tells of a young boy's desire to fight and his grandmother who refuses to let him.
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America and the Survivors of the Holocaust by Leonard Dinnerstein
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A Voice That Spoke for Justice: The Life and Times of Stephen S. Wise (Suny Series in...
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Among the Survivors of the Holocaust, 1945: The Landsberg Dp Camp Letters of Major Ir...
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Amcha: The Remembrance of a Holocaust Survivor by Morris Bitterman
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And the Rat Laughed by Nava Semel
And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while travelling on the axis of time. ... more
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Aberfan, Struggling Out of the Darkness (Remembering the Vale) by Gaynor Madgwick
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Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust by Edward Anders
***Anders's remarkable reminiscences show that in the morass of the "Bloodlands" there were honest, helpful people of Latvian, German, Slavic descent, illustrating the utter absurdity of the "collective guilt" concept. -FRANK GORDON, journalist, Tel-Aviv. ***Surviving the Holocaust by a hair,... more
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Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
They were well-to-do Russian Jews living in Poland, in a world more like Tolstoy's than our own, a world of piano lessons, elaborate meals, and storytelling, a world swept away in the firestorm of the Holocaust.
Through memory, Anya brings this world back to life, room by room, street... more
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Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
This unique and profoundly moving memoir of life in the concentration camps and afterward was written by a French female resistance leader, a non-Jew who became an important literary figure in post-war France. Now available in English in its entirety for the first time, this book includes... more
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Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust by Bernard Gotfryd
This collection of extraordinary true stories--including nine stories new to this expanded edition-- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young... more
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At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities by ...
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Auschwitz by Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan Van Pelt
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. How could an ordinary town become... more
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Story by Lucie Adelsberger & Deborah E. Lipstadt
"A taut, terse Holocaust narrative that is all the more powerful for its ironic reserve." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Anthology of Holocaust Literature by Jacob Glatstein
The Anthology of Holocaust Literature brings together in one volume virtually every aspect of the Holocaust as recorded by people who were themselves part of that long era of darkness, either as victims or as witnesses. This anthology is a powerful and deeply moving work, a record of grandeur in... more
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Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi & Leonardo Debenedetti
The first published work by one of the central figures in twentieth century literature.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 then forgotten, and... more
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Auschwitz-The Nazi Civilization by Lore Shelley
This book describes some non-Birkenau-based women's work details through eyewitness accounts. The women worked in camp offices, SS-enterprises, and workshops catering to the comfort of the SS personnel. Some of the perpetrators appear in the accounts also, of course through the eyes of the... more
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As Long As I Remain Alive: The Autobiography of Low-Number Survivor of Auschwitz by M...
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Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses by Phyllis Lassner
In its rigorously researched analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature. Addressing the question of why the Holocaust is still being written, this study brings together... more
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Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Cam...
The first English book edition of Arnold Daghani's journal, illustrated with watercolours and drawings that he made secretly whilst in captivity.
Arnold Daghani (1909-85) came from a German-speaking Jewish family in Suczawa, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Romania. His... more
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Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance 1939 1945 by Isaac Kowalski
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Auschwitz: An eyewitness account of Mengele's infamous death camp by Miklos Nyiszli
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Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry by Jacob Presser
Setting out the processes that allowed the Nazis to perpetuate mass murder, this detailed history documents the destruction of Dutch Jewry, from isolation to deportation and, ultimately, extermination. Focusing on a country often forgotten in Holocaust histories, this comprehensive account... more
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Austhwitz to Australia; a Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by Olga Horak
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Auschwitz, Auschwitz: I Cannot Forget You as Long as I Remain Alive by Max Rodriguez ...
Max Rodrigues Garcia was born in Amsterdam in 1924. His father saw that a major war was about to explode. He hoped that the Germans would bypass Holland as they had during WWI. But he was wrong: Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940 and after many narrow escapes, Max was put on a train to... more
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Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor: Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations (Oxfor...
Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use... more
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Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of German...
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Fear and Hope : Three Generations of the Holocaust by Dan Bar-On
From survivors to grandchildren, members of families who survived the Holocaust, emigrated to Israel, and started families there tell their own stories. The three generations reveal their different ways of confronting the original trauma of the Holocaust. A unique account of the interplay... more
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Elder of the Jews: Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt by Ruth Bondy
Depicts the existence of Czechoslovakian Jews imprisoned in the ghetto at Theresienstadt prior to their removal to death camps, their attempts at self-government, and Zionist Jakob Edelstein's efforts on their behalf.
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943 by Etty Hillesum & K. A....
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Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II by Harold D. Werner
An authoritative account of the Jewish Resistance during World War II.
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The Enduring Spirit: The Inspiring True Story of a Holocaust Survivor by Shirley Lebo...
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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork : The Diaries, 1941-19...
For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible... more
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Farewell to Fear: The Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor by Ena Tarrasch & Thel Spen...
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Five Chimneys : A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only... more
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The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom by Pamela Rosewell Moore
In this intimate, loving look at Corrie ten Boom during her last years you will hear the true story of her struggle to communicate her love for her God during five years of stroke-induced silence.
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From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography by Alter Wiener
Alter Wiener's father was brutally murdered on September 11, 1939 by the German invaders of Poland. Alter was then a boy of 13. At the age of 15 he was deported to Blechhammer, a Forced Labor Camp for Jews, in Germany. He survived five camps. Upon liberation, by the Russian Army on May 9, 1945,... more
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Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust by Mar...
A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family... more
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Gerda's Story: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor by Gerda Nothmann Luner
Gerda Nothmann Luner was born to an upper-middle-class family in Berlin, Germany, in 1927. By 1939 the anti-semitic atmosphere in Germany was so bad that Gerda's parents sent Gerda and her younger sister, Vera, to foster parents in Holland while they continued to try to make arrangements for... more
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The Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto April-May 1943 by Fren...
The twenty-eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in World War II. Only the fighting at Leningrad from 1941-1943, Stalingrad in 1942-1943, the Warsaw Rebellion of 1944, and Budapest in 1944-1945 lasted longer. The Jews had resisted en masse... more
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Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust ...
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The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt by Hannelore B...
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children?mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies?tell us how they... more
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Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor by Jana Renee Friesova
Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín (Theresienstadt). Her memoir unfolds before us the poignantly familiar picture of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships,... more
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For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith (Judaic Studie...
In 1939, Baruch Goldstein was a religiously observant adolescent resident of the Jewish community in Mlawa, a town that was then in East Prussia. After war broke out, the Jewish community there was relatively sheltered, as that region was incorporated into the German Reich rather than into the... more
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Head of the Line: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir by Michael Jackson
"I came through the Holocaust because of a series of often inexplicable circumstances, all of which were beyond my control. For instance, my 6-foot-2-1/2-inch height positioned me at the head of the line in forced marches across Europe. For a time, I benefited from this -- at least... more
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Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews ...
In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, these children found sanctuary with other families and... more
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Himmler's Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank (Religion, Theol...
Jacob Frank survived four Nazi concentration camps, including Dachau and the little-known Lipowa Labor Camp in Lublin, Poland. The SS randomly chose him to head a 450-man tailor operation at Lipowa, which put him in contact with such notorious SS officers as Himmler, Eichmann, Goeth, and... more
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Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews by Ad van Liempt
In Hitler's Bounty Hunters, investigative journalist Ad van Liempt pulls back the curtain on the shocking practice of bounty hunters and their roles in the Holocaust. These bounty hunters rounded up over 9,000 Jewish citizens for the Nazis, sometimes chasing families across hundreds of miles for... more
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Holocaust Survivor by Mike Jacobs
A penetrating memoir by the founder of the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center, who has spoken since 1950 to an estimated 500,000 people about the Holocaust. Mike Jacobs was born in the small Polish town of Konin, where the Jewish community dated from 1397. When Poland was invaded by the Nazis in... more
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The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945 by Nora Levin
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Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants : Late Life Adaptations (Plenum Series on Stress a...
Based on a unique research study, this volume examines the later life development of Holocaust survivors from Israel and the US. Through systematic interviews, the authors – noted researchers and clinicians – collected data about the lives of these survivors and how they compared to... more
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Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey by Un...
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The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the by Michael J...
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This monumental volume of extraordinary scope, depth, and power presents the results of nearly 50 years of Holocaust scholarship by the worldâs most eminent researchers. Fifty-four chapters probe such topics as Nazi... more
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Holocaust Years: The Nazi Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945 (Anvil Series) by ...
Covered here are the events involved in the preparation and implementation of the planned annihilation of Europe's Jews by the Nazis. Part I is a compact history of preparatory steps leading to the decision to destroy the Jews physically, including Western anti-Semitic practices and doctrines,... more
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The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945. by Nora. Levin
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Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemp...
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Holocaust Memoir Digest: A Digest of Published Survivor Memoirs With Study Guide and ...
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Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957 by Margarete Myers Feinstein
Stranded in Germany after the Second World War, 300,000 Holocaust survivors began to rebuild their lives while awaiting emigration. Brought together by their shared persecution, Jewish displaced persons forged a vibrant community, redefining Jewish identity after Auschwitz. Asserting their... more
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Home At Last Auschwitz Survivor by Kurt Moses
It was around midnight on November 11, 1942, we were taken from our home in Sittard, Holland and to the railroad station. This happened sixty-five years ago, when I was seventeen years old, but I shall never forget. My parents, my sister and I, each carrying only a backpack and a piece of... more
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Hold On To Life, Dear: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor by Wanda D. Lerek
Memoirs of a holocaust survivor, who lived through the Warsaw uprising. From preface: "... my painful experiences as a young Jewish girl struggling against the barbaric Nazi war machine. The war robbed me of my youth. I entered it as an innocent, hopeful teenager. I felt I had lived too many... more
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The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Bi...
This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first few days after the liberation. Two SS photographers documented the entire process of arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path... more
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Jewels and Ashes by Arnold Zable
Like Schindler's List, this is a haunting document for the next generation of Holocaust survivors. Zable travels from Australia to the Eastern European countryside of his parents' remembrance to understand the present-the inner lives of those who, like his parents, survived the hatred... more
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My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story by J. L. Witterick
Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are... more
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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Retired architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz tells how he learns the truth of his origins, as a Czech child spirited away from his mother and out of Nazi territory on the Kindertransport. He returns to confront the childhood traumas that haunt him and to find what is left of his... more
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Atlas of the Holocaust by M. Gilbert & Martin Gilbert
Atlas of the Holocaust, the product of seven years' research, is a comprehensive record of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe during World War II. World-renowned historian Martin Gilbert has drawn each of the 316 maps especially for this atlas. All are fully annotated and are... more
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The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS officer--until now. Hitler and Nazism are... more
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