Genocide and ethnic cleansing Books

This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal...

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide. It will include in its exploration critical and cultural victimologies...

A Short Account Of Experiments Made In Italy And Recently Repeated In Geneva And Paris, originally published in 1830, is a book written by the Italian physicist and anatomist Giovanni Aldini. The book provides a detailed account of the experiments...

The judgments of historians regarding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II can be grouped into two opposing camps: those who believe President Truman made the right choice and those who decry that decision, considering that other options...

In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel's central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account. Following the development of Yad Vashem since 1942, when the idea...

Der Band nimmt eine interdisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme von Biografie und Werk des österreichisch-jüdischen Schriftstellers Franz Werfel unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Völkermords an den Armeniern vor. Was brachte Werfel in seinem Roman „Die vierzig Tage des...

The Spanish Civil War that began 17 July 1936 with Franco’s military coup, didnot end with the defeat of the supporters of the legal government 1 April 1939.From the moment the first shot was fired, the military insurgents embarked on awave of...

Buried under the rubble of time, forgotten by the vicissitudes of history, lie two small towns, both shtetls that until recently have been lost to memory, especially to the memory of families who ended up in the English-speaking world. They were sister...

This is the English translation of the memorial book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Turobin, Poland.This book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life of the Jewish community of Turobin before the Shoah and eye- witness accounts of...

Yizkor Book of Ostrow Mazowiecka (No. 2)This memorial book, written by a survivor, tells the fascinating story of the Jewish community of the town of Ostrow Mazowiecka (called Ostroveh by Jews), Poland, from its inception in the mid-1700s until its...

Jews of Kaiserstrasse vividly details the fate of the Jewish residents of single street in Mainz, Germany from 1939-45. This book is the culmination of Michael Phillips' meticulous research into the lives of approximately 300 individuals that at one...

From Volyn To Kherson, tells the stories of hardship and suffering and bewilderment experienced by the people of Ukraine in the early weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion and war.The collection draws on news reports and social media postings during the...

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a...

The murder of a third of Europe's Jews by the Nazis is unquestionably the worst catastrophe in the history of contemporary Judaism and a formative event in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Understandably, therefore, the Shoah, written...

Love in a Time of Hate paints an intimate portrait of Magda and André Trocmé, who transformed a small town in France into a place of safety during the Holocaust. At great risk to their own lives, the Trocmés led efforts in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon to hide...

When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Joseph and Marie Rebhun were forced to witness the most unbelievable atrocities during the ensuing six years. Joseph escaped death by jumping from the train taking him to Auschwitz. Marie fled to the Baltic states,...

Das Buch ""Juden und Judentum im neunzehnten Jahrhundert"" von Simon Bernfeld wurde im Jahr 1898 ver������ffentlicht und behandelt die Geschichte der Juden und des Judentums im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Autor beschreibt die politischen, sozialen und...

Le livre ""Voyage De Siam, Des Peres Jesuites, Envoyez Par Le Roy Aux Indes Et A La Chine"" �����crit par Tachard, Guy en 1686 relate les voyages des missionnaires j�����suites envoy�����s par le roi de France en Inde et en Chine. Le r�����cit se...

In "Der Völkermord in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo: Die vergessene Tragödie ans Licht bringen" werden endlich die unsagbaren Schrecken eines der verheerendsten und am meisten übersehenen Konflikte der modernen Geschichte ans Licht gebracht. Dieses...

En El genocidio en la República Democrática del Congo: Desvelando la tragedia olvidada, por fin salen a la luz los horrores inconfesables de uno de los conflictos más devastadores y pasados por alto de la historia moderna. Este libro de gran alcance y...

Have you ever wondered how a single event can change the course of history? Assassinations and assassinations have shaped politics, unleashed wars, brought down empires, and sometimes caused irreversible social changes. If you are interested in...

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, A.A. Castor draws striking parallels between the actions of Israel in the Palestinian territories and the historical atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Through a meticulous examination of...

Deslee Campbell's handbook to understanding denial of the Holocaust over the past decades is very timely as right-wing extremism is gaining traction in Europe, especially in Germany, now that memories are fading and all living witnesses to Nazi deeds are...

Die deutschen Besatzer und ihre einheimischen Helfer ermordeten zwischen 1941 und 1944 in Ostgalizien mehr als eine halbe Million Juden. Lemberg, die größte Stadt dieser multiethnischen und geschichtsreichen Region, veränderte in Folge der Shoah...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust-Studien, Note: 1,1, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Seminar "NS-Täterforschung", Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit stellt sich...

Der Band versammelt die Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung in Bologna (November 2021) unter dem Titel Die Shoah in der deutschsprachigen Literatur, die in Zusammenarbeit der Universitäten Gießen und Bologna organisiert wurde.

Volozhin was a small town in Belarus about 47 miles northwest of the capital Minsk situated along the Minsk-to-Vilnius highway. It was renowned for the Yeshivah established there in the early 1800s that became a beacon for Torah study for Jews in eastern...

Volozhin was a small town in Belarus about 47 miles northwest of the capital Minsk situated along the Minsk-to-Vilnius highway. It was renowned for the Yeshivah established there in the early 1800s that became a beacon for Torah study for Jews in eastern...

Según el Honorable Winston Churchill, la primera victima de la guerra es la verdad. Difícil resulta discutir la justeza de esta afirmación del viejo león británico. A partir de la guerra franco-prusiana de 1870, y en el...

This book takes a fresh look at Germany's most influential Nazi leaders, examining their backgrounds, education and convictions. It provides compelling evidence that the rising influence of Darwinism, eugenics and race theory in early-twentieth...

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international...

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until...

El Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a este, lo que le ata a...

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places...

This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

The author's German-born parents seldom spoke of the Holocaust but a monochrome portrait in the dining room hinted at a connection to a dark past. After his father's death, a chance discovery lifts the veil of silence, revealing the two ghosts in the...

This book brings together international scholars to examine and share new approaches in the history of women's rescue and resistance during the Holocaust and the Armenian and Rwandan genocide.

During World War II, approximately 10,000 Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine. Unlike the areas under German control where Jews faced systematic extermination, survival rates were...

A terrified six-year-old Polish Boy runs through the woods. His mother shouts, "Go faster my love." He does, and the Nazis kill her.Chielik is plagued by unanswered questions. He is a Jew.In 1945, after the war and surviving in the Black Forest, Chielik...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,0, Universität Bremen, Veranstaltung: Der Holocaust in seiner europäischen Dimension: Themen, Methoden und Probleme der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 2,3, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie groß ist das Handlungsspektrum der sogenannten "Trawniki-Männer" im...

In the northeast of Mazovia, once Greater-Poland, the town of Makow-Mazowiecki, county seat of Powiat, is set on the banks of the Orzysz river.A Jewish community was established in Maków in the middle of the 16th century and was subordinate to the...

Yedinitz, Bessarabia, compared to where we live today, was a small shtetl. Yet for us, it was a city. I can still see the streets and small lanes. Here is the small marketplace, the Torhovitse as we used to call it, where the peasants' fair used to take...

In 1939, in the Polish town of Tarnogród, 65 miles (105 km) south of Lublin, lived 5000 residents, half Jewish. Jews lived in Tarnogród for hundreds of years. By the end of WWII none remained.The story of this community, it's history, it's people, it's...