Set in Warsaw, Selsia, and Paris, Furst's stunning, action-packed new thriller combines espionage with deadly romance, all happening during the rearing threat of Hitler's gathering war against Europe.
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland just before the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Spinelli's first historical novel tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival though the eyes of a young orphan.
The story of the Warsaw Rising from the author of The Isles and Europe: A History who is also the leading British authority on the history of Poland. Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 ...
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the ...
A stirring long-suppressed memoir about a pianist's incredible survival in Warsaw during World War II discusses the terrible deaths of family members and shows how he was saved by a German officer who had heard him playing the piano. 15,000 first printing.
"A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." - "New York Review of Books". "Not only the material for history; it is history itself, agonisingly, triumphantly alive." - "Saturday Review". Twenty years after the Warsaw Ghetto was annihilated, Chaim Kaplan's diary was found carefully preserved in a kerosene can. Originally written in Hebrew, ...
A history of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, written by one of its few survivors. Gutman makes use of diaries, personal letters, underground press reports, and his own recollections in creating an account of one of the most desperate resistance movements of the entire war.
Burning, looting, raping, murdering, Hitler's Penal Regiment advanced on the centre of Warsaw leaving in their wake a bloody trail of death and destruction. They killed indiscriminately: Pole or German, man, woman or child - anyone who crossed their path was eliminated. For Himmler had sworn that Warsaw would be razed to the ground - if it took ...
Sarah Leonard, an American in Warsaw to oversee the construction of a new luxury hotel, is horrified to learn that a number of beheaded corpses have been turning up in and around the construction site. Workers blame a demon, the media blames a serial killer; all Sarah knows is that the killings must be stopped or her hotel will fail before it even ...
Thirty percent of Warsaw's population was Jewish in 1939, when the Nazis invaded and relegated the community to the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. Collected here, diary excerpts and letters of Jews forced to suffer under these circumstances attest to years of tragedy.
The astonishing, true story of a group of Jewish children who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the Nazi-occupied city. Sentenced to death, hounded at every step, they kept themselves alive by peddling cigarettes in Warsaws Three Crosses Square - where the author, a member of the Jewish ...
A memoir of Singer's childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father. The vanished world Singer recalls, of the Hasidic community in Warsaw in the early part of this century, is beautifully evoked.
This memoir tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army for almost a month, and rescued the few surviving Jews after the Ghetto was destroyed. Kazik spent the rest ...
In the tradition of classic first-person accounts of life during the dark years of Nazi genocide, I Remember Nothing More is an unforgettable profile of one woman's extraordinary courage. Adina Blady Szwajger worked in the Jewish ghetto children's hospital, set up safe houses for Jews, distributed money, collected arms, and was always in fear for ...
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly ...
This is the first English biography of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and educator, who on 6th August, 1942, sacrificed his own safety by leading two hundred orphans onto the train to Treblinka where he perished with them. Korczak was one of the first advocates of children's rights. He pioneered progressive orphanages, founded a ...
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war.
This is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma Seidenman s arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw s Jews are about to meet their death. A handful of people conspire in Irma s escape; in the author s masterful hands they form a pattern of intersecting lives ranging backward and forward through time.
How a 10-year-old Jewish boy survives the Holocaust and finds his way to Israel and life-transforming faith in the Messiah is a true story you'll find difficult to lay down. It reveals the lengths to which a loving Lord will go to bring one soul safely home. (This version only available in Spanish).
This journal of the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940-42 is the astounding achievement of Ringelbaum, the historian and teacher who organized a team of chroniclers within the ghetto called 'Oneg Shabbat' to collectively keep this journal.
'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia' Independent on Sunday 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an ...
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