The Holocaust Books

¿Toda tu vida has escuchado el termino "genocidio" sin saber todo lo que rodea a esta palabra? ¿Te gustaría saber cuales han sido los actos más atroces en contra de la humanidad? ¿Acaso existen otros momentos de la historia donde eventos genocidas hayan...

Die ""Chemische Abhandlung Vom Schwefel"" von Franz August von Wasserberg ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1788, das sich mit den chemischen Eigenschaften und Anwendungen von Schwefel besch�����ftigt. Das Buch ist in deutscher Sprache verfasst und enth�����lt...

Hitlers "Mein Kampf" wird anhand der Spätphilosophie der Romantik von F.W.J. Schelling nach fast 100 Jahren des Nichtverstehen-Könnens entschlüsselt. Zum ersten Mal überhaupt wird hier Hitlers gesamte NS-Weltanschauung verständlich, einschließlich des...

Krynki, located on an important route between Kraków and Grodno, had a significant Jewishpresence since the 17th century. Josif Giel established a wool and flannel factory here in 1827;it was soon joined by other factories, including 14 leather tanneries...

In postwar Budapest, Aldó, a 42 year-old doctor who survived the concentration camp but lost his wife and children, slowly sinks into despair. One day a new patient arrives, 16- year-old Klára, who has lost her parents and siblings. The doctor soon...

The Yizkor Book captures the history of Zinkov in good times and bad, of vibrant life in the town, and of the efforts by some to make aliyah to Israel or to depart for the west. Describing the living town of Zinkov - however briefly - brings into focus...

The pictures of gravestones in this book have been put together from pictures of the fragments, recovered since the 1980s by the municipality of Kutno. Seven hundred fragments were recovered in the surroundings walls and pavement, during years of...

Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919). The earliest known Jewish community appeared in the 16th...

Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve-year-old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed...

Radzivilov was once a prosperous Russian frontier town connecting the Russian and Austrian Empires. Because of its location, it was a center for trade, and had a thriving Jewish community. During the first World War it became a front line for different...

Jews began settling in Rokiškis in the late 17th Century. During the 19th Century, the town’s importance as a regional commercial center increased with the completion of a railway line that connected it to the Baltic ports of Riga and Libau...

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among...

This book highlights the role of Jewish women in saving Jewish children's lives during the Holocaust. How many people rescued Jews during the Holocaust? There is no certain answer to this question other than "far too few." Fewer than 0.5% of the 700...

In the modern age, post-Holocaust studies should embrace the variety of media and cultural channels available to enable the comprehension of the current population. When implementing these channels, individuals have to take into account a holistic...

A Civil War Devotional utilizes daily incidents and facts from the American Civil War and uses scriptural passages related to those occurrences to provide inspiration for each reader. The combination of these aspects allows a person to gain a greater...

Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed against the Jews of Europe during World War II continues to cast a giant shadow over humankind. Man's inhumanity to man is not a thing of the past. Genocidal action is still commonplace around...

At the outbreak of World War II, almost half of Chelm's 36,000 residents were Jewish, but only a few hundred survived the war-virtually wiping out a community that had lived for 700 years in southeastern Poland. Eight of Arlene Blaier Burrows' relatives...

Epistolae Japanicae est liber anonymus, qui anno 1570 editus est. In hoc libro describitur conversio multorum gentilium in varias insulas Iaponiae ad fidem Christi. Epistolae hae sunt epistolae missionariorum catholicorum, qui in Iaponia evangelium...

Ausgehend vom Gedenken an die Pogromnacht von 1938 untersucht der Band die Bedeutungswandlungen der Erinnerung an die Shoa und an die Geschichte jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland sowie die aktuellen Entwicklungen der erinnerungspolitischen Debatte, der...

An impressive piece of historical evidence. These letters provide us with an important perspective into a Jewish family's life as it is on the brink of destruction. Professor Sussman weaves together many lines of investigation - Hamburg, London,...

By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were...

Heidelberg, 1938Doctor Sárkány's career is crumbling. The once eminent pathologist begins to lose everything that he holds dear - his reputation, position and pride. But what of his wife, Éva? What of his twin daughters and unborn son? Surely his family...

After a U.S. Army doctor, David Wilsey, helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp in the spring of 1945, he worried he might never be the same. He was right. After his death, a daughter, Clarice Wilsey, found a box of letters and photos in the attic...

In this allegorical novel of the Holocaust, Polish author Bogdan Rutha presents a tale in which the protagonist, a young Pole, is drawn into the nightmare world that is the Jewish ghetto in the city of N. Drawn to the ghetto, first by his intellectual...

  A young girl’s survival story against all odds in the face of pure evilKrystyna's childhood was full of happy moments, it was filled with friends, both Polish and Ukrainian and a lovely family. But her happy childhood did not last...

Mukačevo in der Tschechoslowakei. Zwei junge Mädchen, Manci und Ruth Grunberger, wachsen zusammen mit ihren sechs Geschwistern in einer liebevollen, jüdischen Familie am Fuße der Karpaten auf, eine friedliche Region, bis sie von Ungarn im Jahr 1938...

Imagine a German Jew who was a decorated German soldier in World War I, a resister in Cologne at the start of Hitler's reign of terror, and a Silver Star decorated U.S. Army soldier. Three heroic actions, at three different times, in three different...

Wciągająca autobiografia ocalałego z obozu koncentracyjnego Brutalnie szczera opowieść o ludzkiej wytrzymałości z czasów II wojny światowej Manny Steinberg (1925-2015) spędził swoje nastoletnie lata w nazistowskich obozach koncentracyjnych w...

Amsterdam, 1941Their whole world is about to shatter.German forces have invaded the Netherlands, but the Dutch are trying desperately to believe it won't be that bad. Meanwhile, Nazis openly terrorize Jewish people on the streets. Rumors of bone-chilling...

The Jewish residents of Ustilug lived in peace for many generations, raising their children to continue their forefathers' traditions. Igor Stravinsky, the famed composer of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", maintained a country estate...

How should we express the searing pain while preserving for eternity our holy dear ones and the community of our town, which had existed for centuries, and was completely destroyed by the foul Nazis, and their helpers, the cursed Poles?We planted one...

The idea of a "pinkas Kolomey," which would tell about the once splendid past of our now, in the Jewish sense, destroyed native city, and which would, through the accounts of eye-witnesses, victims who miraculously survived, mourn the annihilation of the...

This extraordinary book is a collection of memories from child survivors of the Minsk Ghetto, Belarus. These are rare and moving personal testimonies, and this is a book of some significance for it opens a window on the rarely told story of the Holocaust...

This  translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book for the Jewish Community of Radzyn Poland.  It contains first-hand accounts of rich life in community before the Shoah.  There are  eyewitness accounts of the murders of the Jews of...

This is the translation of the Memorial book of the Jewish Community of Kozienice Poland and the neighboring town of Garbatke. It is all that remains of this once thriving community. It bears witness to its existence and final destruction."All that...

A Family Saga: Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy takes an in-depth look at the exceptional history of the Jews of Lithuania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The community was unique, as it excelled in rational religiosity, devotion...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a calling from God led Stewart and Chantal Winograd to move their family from upstate New York to Belarus, in order to minister to the Jewish people. One Shabbat dinner with a group of Holocaust survivors led...

Spaces of Treblinka utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical...

Strength and unwavering faith conquer the most brutal circumstances in this masterful biography of survival against Nazi brutality.In Strength from Within, Amrom Gottesman explores the horrific story of his father, Leibish, enduring the ravages of the...

When the Germans march into their little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra it marks the beginning of a struggle to survive during which they will experience ghettos,...

A story of struggle, heroism, and triumph during the rise of fascism and communismIn the Time of Madmen examines a journey of discovery through the eyes of one family against world events of the past 125 years. Hope, love and resilience sustained them...

A unique approach to Holocaust literature, I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name comprises the compelling stories of eight Jews, a Righteous Gentile, and a liberator, all connected by the Holocaust and Jacksonville, Florida. They experienced the...

A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the...

Before World War II, Abe and Sonia Huberman were two soulmates happily married and in love, living a peaceful life with their family in Warsaw, Poland. But while Abe was away, on a short business trip to America, World War II broke out and the Nazis...

This is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are...

National bestseller: This “harrowing” true story of two Jewish families who survived hiding in the heart of the Nazi capital “honors the human spirit” (Andrea Dworkin).In January 1943, unable to flee Germany, the four members of...