"The World Must Know" documents the compelling human stories of the Holocaust as told in the renowned permanent exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Drawing on the museum's extensive collection of artifacts, archives, and eyewitness testimonies, and augmented with more than two hundred period photographs, ...
"False Papers" is the astounding story of a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust by living in the open. By sheer chutzpah and bravado, Robert Melson's mother acquired the identity papers that would disguise herself, her husband, and her son for the duration of the war. Always operating under the theory that one needed to be seen in order not ...
This book offers an authoritative account of the operation of the Auschwitz death camp. '...a comprehensive work that is unlikely to be overtaken for many years. This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets' - Walter Laqueur, "The New Republic". '...a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting' - ...
"He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason. Unique among Holocaust memoirs, "In the ...
Did we "know" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Was it truly feasible ...
A PROMISE TO REMEMBER is a concise and accessible history of the Holocaust presented in an interactive format that includes graphics, detailed sidebars, an audio CD and removable facsimiles of documents from the period. Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, provides the powerful narrative. ...
The story of American Jewry is inextricably entwined with the awesome defeat of the Holocaust and the rebirth of the state of Israel. However, for Michael Berenbaum, and others of his generation, whose adult consciousness included the war in Lebanon and the Palestinian Uprisings, the tale is more anguished, for the Jewish people is now divided, ...
Fifty years after the liberation of the death camps in Nazi Germany, the former Project Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., compiles a fascinating collection of firsthand accounts of the Holocaustfrom the first boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany in 1933 to testimony at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Includes ...
Murder Most Merciful is a collection of insightful essays that consider Sigi Ziering's play, The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff. Commentary from the book's diverse contributors, including Holocaust survivors, scholars, rabbis, philosophers, and historians, result in an insightful and provocative moral and theological exchange. Murder Most Merciful ...
Originally published in 1960 in German as 'Der Gelbe Stern', this book was one of the first comprehensive photographic accounts of the Holocaust. While remaining true to the author's original concept, this new edition is a completely fresh presentation of the photographs and documents, with several enhancements.
This is a probing collection of essays examining the evolution of anti-Semitism in the 21st century.This collection of sixteen probing essays - written by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and countries - argues that contemporary hatred of the Jews is not a throwback to the 1930s but a unique manifestation of 21st ...
The story of American Jewry is inextricably entwined with the awesome defeat of the Holocaust and the rebirth of the state of Israel. However, for Michael Berenbaum, and others of his generation, whose adult consciousness included the war in Lebanon and the Palestinian Uprisings, the tale is more anguished, for the Jewish people is now divided, ...
This monumental volume of extraordinary scope, depth, and power presents the results of nearly 50 years of Holocaust scholarship by the world's most eminent researchers. Fifty-four chapters probe such topics as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, ...
This monumental volume of extraordinary scope, depth, and power presents the results of nearly 50 years of Holocaust scholarship by the world's most eminent researchers. Fifty-four chapters probe such topics as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, ...
Over 75 percent of American Jews can trace at least one family member to Poland. This guide provides information on how to track down historical records relating to Polish Jews before the Nazi invasion of 1939. These records--postcards, photographs, and other documents of everyday Polish Jewish life--represent perhaps the only remaining physical ...
Beginning with two general essays, the book explores Nazi slave labor policies, and Nazi policies in the occupied territories. The remaining chapters examine Nazi treatment of Gypsies, Russian POW's, homosexuals, Catholic activists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and pacifists as well as Nazi medical experimentation policies.
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