Genocide and ethnic cleansing Books

This book examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust.

This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwandaand Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994...

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and 'aparadigmatic' cases.

"The Seats of the Mighty," written by Gilbert Parker and first published in 1896, is a captivating work of historical fiction set during the 18th century, focusing on the British conquest of Quebec. The novel intricately weaves themes of war, political...

Das Gebiet der heutigen Ukraine gehörte zu den zentralen Tatorten der deutschen Besatzungsverbrechen und des Holocaust. Im September 1941 richteten die Deutschen dort das Reichskommissariat Ukraine ein, das zum Zeitpunkt seiner größten Ausdehnung aus...

In 1938, Berthold Skurmann was a young boy living in Vienna, Austria when Hitler’s Anschluss changed his world. With his father already interred in a concentration camp, and the family home confiscated, life in Vienna grew darker by the day for...

Else is a young woman on the brink of adulthood when she is forced to make decisions that will forever alter the course of her life. This is the story of what it means to be a civilian caught in the crosshairs of conflict, of the tender hope that...

Cieszanow is a small town in southeast Poland near the current border with Ukraine. Prior to World War I, it was part of Galicia in the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The town's development stalled after the war. The Jewish community was typical in...

Hrubieszow was not an average community, and its members were not ordinary. Its common folks had Jewish hearts and a humanist sensibility and there was nothing that they did not establish and build. They breathed with the breath of Jewish life...

This wide-ranging and profoundly insightful memoir picks up where The Eyes Are The Same, Susan Gold's searing Holocaust chronicle, left off. She considers the years she spent in America, her education, her marriage and family, and her career in the...

The Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood is torn apart-replaced by two harrowing years spent in...

This book is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the town of Horodenka, Ukraine (Sefer Horodenka)The history of the Jewish community of Horodenka in Eastern Galicia began in 1743. Only in the eighteenth century did the Jews become a...

In the 19th century, Kishinev was the economic and cultural capital of Russian Bessarabia By mid-century, Jews made up almost half the population, the community supporting a synagogue, a Jewish hospital, and numerous schools. The Haskelah, Hasidic,...

This is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Grajewo, Poland.358 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images.Jews have been living in Grajewo, in the province of Bialystok, Poland since the late...

Not To Forget, Impossible To Forgive is the heroic story of a young Jewish boy's survival in the Nazi concentration camps, as well as an analysis of the Nazi era. At 14, Moshe Avital and his family were expelled from their hometown, Bilke, Ruthenia, in...

These angry essays show how the massive New Afrikan uprisings of the 1960s were answered by the white ruling class: with the destruction of New Afrikan communities coast to coast, the decimation of the New Afrikan working class, the rise of the prison...

Students of mid-twentieth-century American political and diplomatic history remember Breckinridge Long as a well-connected and influential force, particularly during the Roosevelt years. Those with a particular concern for the tragically inadequate...

Set in Lithuania and South Africa, the Yiddish poetry of David Fram (1903-1988) memorialises an almost-obliterated Jewish culture in the old country and its surviving offshoots in the new. Frankel's study of the most important South African Yiddish poet...

Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire? How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades...

This uninhibited memoir by controversial writer/sexologist Gloria G. Brame, Ph.D. spares no details about the transformation of a girl into a woman. Naked Memory paves a new path in sex history, fearlessly depicting the true psychological landscape of...

History is filled with wars. We dream the victories and defeats, great and small, and note how they have shaped our world. Wars and social movements have made our civilization as we know it. Man's religion and past wars gives us an understanding of the...

Winner of the New Measure Poetry PrizeA multilayered book and performance, A Short History of Anger speaks through fragments, fractures, song, and the voices of a Greek Chorus. This lament confronts the massacre of Greek citizens in the 1922...

Founded in 2011, The Research Journal of Germanic Antiquity is an independent scholarly journal devoted to preserving, translating, and circulating all early modern German religious texts (12th - 20th century). The underlying goal of this journal is to...

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave...

Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New...

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

A History Of The Great War, 1914-: The Genesis Of The War, June, 1914 To August, 1915 (1916) is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to the First World War and the initial stages of the conflict. Written by Davenport and Briggs, the book...

The book examines the U.S. justification of indiscriminate fire bombings and atomic bombings that the U.S. forces conducted over several months in the final year of the Asia-Pacific war. It also discusses Japan's political exploitation of the atomic...

How do otherwise decent people become mesmerized by a doctrine of hate? How can its grip be broken? In seeking answers to these pressing questions for our times, Barbara Leimsner confronts the past to discover how one ordinary man-her adored German...

<p><em>My Story, My Voice</em> was written by Femma Mahdessian Slap, a Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivor who died in 2020. English was her second language. The short stories contained in this book came from her heart. She didn't want them...

"A captivating book rooted in first-rate research." -- New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestseller -- Espionage categoryFor the first time, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of...

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an...

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the...

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...

Una historia brutal y honesta de supervivencia y resiliencia humana durante la Segunda Guerra MundialManny Steinberg (1925-2015) pasó su adolescencia en los campos de concentración de la Alemania nazi, y, milagrosamente, sobrevivió a lo que mató a...

O Diário de Anne Frank, publicado originalmente em 1947, se tornou um dos relatos mais impressionantes das atrocidades e horrores cometidos contra os judeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A força da narrativa desta adolescente - que mesmo com sua...

Der Band behandelt exemplarisch die Mitwirkung der deutschen Privatwirtschaft an der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspolitik. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das Engagement des IG Farben-Konzerns in der Nachbarschaft von Auschwitz und das in Zusammenarbeit mit...

Unmittelbar nach der Befreiung der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager im Frühjahr 1945 entstanden Fotografien, die Berge von Leichen zeigen, Massengräber, halbverhungerte Überlebende auf Pritschen oder hinter Stacheldraht. Seit ihrer ersten...

Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population during the Holocaust. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that...

Nirze was one of a cluster of Armenian inhabited villages in the Gesaria (or Kayseri) region of Ottoman Turkey. It was a prosperous, mixed village, where Armenians lived peacefully alongside Turks and Greeks. The Armenian presence in this village was...

Far from the image of an apolitical, "clean" Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study...

Dr Peter Kraus is a retired obstetrician-gynaecologist. He is a child survivor of the Holocaust who migrated to Australia with his parents and brother in 1948. Slow Train to Auschwitz traces his family history, giving a glimpse of Jewish life in Eastern...

Most people associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany. Behind Barbed Wire examines how these notorious World War II camps actually reflected a previous use of the system, a system that began almost a century earlier. In truth, Adolf Hitler had...