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Helps the modern reader understand events that span almost 4,000 years of the history of Judaism and the Jewish people. This profound and engaging meditation opens the way to a powerful new understa……続きを見る

This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were ……続きを見る

En este libro la autora traza una historia general del odio al judío, primero en las sociedades teocráticas (que aspiran a asimilar al enemigo) y luego en las sociedades surgidas de la Ilustración, ……続きを見る

O Holocausto, o assassinato em massa dos judeus europeus, não se deu numa planície ou em floresta distante do espaço civilizado. O espanto do mundo até hoje não conseguiu resolver a contento como um……続きを見る

First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, reali……続きを見る

**"A most valuable book." ーChristian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small……続きを見る

This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particu……続きを見る

Een plotselinge openhartoperatie leidde tot deze prachtig geschreven overpeinzingen over het leven Als schrijver Elie Wiesel op zijn tweeëntachtigste met spoed een hartoperatie moet ondergaan – er w……続きを見る

In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis; a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery. Rita Gabis c……続きを見る

Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom through book censorship. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control o……続きを見る

The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness – a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the S……続きを見る

Approximately 1,500,000 Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust ー almost ninety percent of those alive in Europe in 1939. The vast majority of those who survived were hidden, either with……続きを見る

Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Unde……続きを見る

Mientras el poder de Hitler crecía, acorralaba a otros que él consideraba indeseables. Hitler de había convertido en un poder y la destrucción lenta de los Judíos se puso a cabo. En 1942, cerca de u……続きを見る

**Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein "Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast ……続きを見る

In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the ……続きを見る

During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerv……続きを見る

Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most people’s experiences. A……続きを見る

Modernity has provided more than enough reason to give up believing in holiness, still we have learned that to give up the struggle to achieve it means that we become less human. As we leave the twe……続きを見る

A Powerful, Life-Affirming New Perspective on the Holocaust Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivorsーtheologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and……続きを見る

Im Zuge der nationalsozialistischen "Gesundheitspolitik" wurden Hunderttausende Menschen Opfer von Zwangssterilisation und gezielter Tötung. Auch BewohnerInnen der Caritas-Anstalt St. Anton im Salzb……続きを見る

"Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettl……続きを見る

Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and……続きを見る

Alles andere als eine Erfolgsgeschichte des Rechtsstaats Während Opfer der NS-Militärjustiz jahrzehntelang um ihre Rehabilitierung kämpfen mussten, machten ehemalige Wehrmachtjuristen wie Richard Bö……続きを見る

Der Nazi und der Judenretter. Unterschiedlicher könnten zwei Brüder nicht sein: Hermann Göring (geboren 1893) ist rebellisch und findet seine Bestimmung im Soldatentum. Albert (geboren 1895) dagegen……続きを見る

Born in Hungary in 1927, Magda Hollander-Lafon was among the 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May and July 1944. Magda, her mother, and her younger sister survived a three-day deportation ……続きを見る

Un antico detto sostiene che la storia è scritta dai vincitori. Sulla base di questa affermazione, diventa una sfida scrivere di Hitler e della Seconda Guerra Mondiale senza farsi influenzare dai pr……続きを見る

In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue……続きを見る

The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s w……続きを見る

Harrowing account of U.S. Army chaplain John G. Gaskill of what he witnessed in Dachau. For three months, Gaskill ministered to liberated inmates and imprisoned SS soldiers at Dachau. Every evening ……続きを見る