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  • Pogrom Cries – Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939–1946

    2nd Revised Edition

    Series Book 12 - Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies
    This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated. The results comprise the anthropological interviews with the members of the generation of Holocaust ... Read more

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  • Tragedie. Wyzwolenie. Lepsze Życie

    Po śmierci mojej mamy w maju 1994 r. postanowiłem spisać informacje o powiązaniach rodzinnych, o wydarzeniach rodzinnych, ułożyć tablicę genealogiczną, spisać wspomnienia z czasów II wojny światowej – wysiedleniach, pobycie w hitlerowskich obozach zagłady: Zamość, Oświęcim, Auschwitz-Birkenau... Podać nazwiska ludzi z naszj wsi pomordowanych w czasie wojny – jest pamiątkowa tablica w kościele ... Read more

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  • World War 2: Stories of the Schutzstaffel: True Accounts of Hitler’s Personal Bodyguards

    World War 2 History, #1

    Series Book 1 - World War 2 History
    The instigator and the mastermind behind the Holocaust; Adolf Hitler of Germany, was at the forefront of the Second World War and ruined millions of lives, throwing the entire European continent into chaos. Not only was he hated by the whole world, even some of his own military commanders didn’t like him.Most leaders around the world rely on one, maybe two bodyguards to keep them safe. Even the ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz

    Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2

    Series Book 2 - Holocaust Survivor Accounts
    The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".The Holocaust has no other comparison in the annals of human history because of the sheer extent of the terror it spread.In 1933 the ... Read more

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  • XXL-Leseprobe: Ich tue es für Euch

    Was wir von einer hundertjährigen Holocaustüberlebenden über Vergebung, Hoffnung und Toleranz lernen können

    Series series XXL-Leseproben
    Die Holocaustüberlebende und Zeitzeugin Margot Friedländer erinnert in diesem Interview-Buch gemeinsam mit ihrer Gesprächspartnerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger an den Holocaust und ermahnt die Leser, dass so etwas nie wieder passieren darf. Zugleich ruft sie zu einem offenen, vorurteilsfreien Miteinander in einer vielfältigen Gesellschaft auf.In diesem Buch, das anlässlich zum Jubiläum ... Read more

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  • To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona

    During World War II's Nazi onslaught, six million Jews were systematically and brutally killed. Yet millions survived, their lives altered permanently by the terrors they faced. After the war, many left long-established homes to settle in Israel and the United States, hoping for renewal. These are the stories of survivors who have made Southern Arizona their home. Each is an intimate slice of the ... Read more

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  • Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

    by Sonja Boos ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both ... Read more

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  • The Future of the German-Jewish Past

    Memory and the Question of Antisemitism

    Germany’s acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment to combat antisemitism and rebuild Jewish life in Germany. As we draw close to a time when there will be no more firsthand experience of the horrors of the Holocaust, there is great concern about what will happen when German responsibility turns into ... Read more

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  • The Diary of a Young Girl

    by Anne Frank ...
    Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their ... Read more

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  • The Complexity of Evil

    Perpetration and Genocide

    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia. ... Read more

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  • Judging 'Privileged' Jews

    Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'

    by Adam Brown ...
    Series Book 18 - War and Genocide
    The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently ... Read more

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  • World War 2 History: Eyewitness Accounts: Crimes Of The German FBK & SS

    World War 2 History

    Series series World War 2 History
    When Heinrich Himmler was appointed as its fourth leader in 1929, the SS consisted of less than three hundred volunteers whose job was to protect Nazi Party speakers. The SS was so short of cash that its members had to provide their own uniforms and fund their own meetings and transport.By the end of World War Two, just sixteen years later, more than one million men had served in the combat arm of ... Read more

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  • A Summer of Mass Murder

    1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust

    by George Eisen ...
    Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the ... Read more

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  • The Witness as Object

    Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

    Series Book 10 - Museums and Collections
    In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components in narrative and exhibition design strategies. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study ... Read more

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  • George Rochberg, American Composer

    Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity

    Series Book 154 - Eastman Studies in Music
    Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer. George Rochberg, American Composer, is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting into a rich cultural context the career of George Rochberg, widely acknowledged as one ... Read more

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  • Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought

    Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Migration to America

    Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Theory - An Analysis of Mein Kampf (Part 2)

    Series Book 2 - An Analysis of Mein Kampf
    The first book analyzed the early parts of the book within the context of logical deconstruction. This second book continues to consider the work of Hitler but this time on a physiological level. The book described Hitler's main theories and driving ideas which led to the rise of the NAZI regime surrounding the second world war. ... Read more

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  • To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona (Volume II)

    During World War II's Nazi onslaught, six million Jews were systematically and brutally killed. Yet millions survived, their lives altered permanently by the terrors they faced. After the war, many left long-established homes to settle in Israel and the United States, hoping for renewal. These are the stories of survivors who have made Southern Arizona their home. Each is an intimate slice of the ... Read more

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  • The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

    by Patrick Gallo ...
    On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why—and more importantly how—it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican’s involvement. At the time, Rome was within reach of the Allies, but the overwhelming force of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo, and SS in Rome precluded direct ... Read more

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  • The Final and Ultimate Holocaust: the Coming Massacre of the Twenty First Century

    Taking a look at history and our current political climate by examining a combination of ideological undercurrrents, historical occurences such as the Holocausts during the first half of the Twentieth Century (and also afterward) and the sudden assassinations in Vietnam during the second half of the Twentieth Century, the author Erik MacRae became alarmed and so sought to inform the public of what ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Youth: An Analysis of Mein Kampf

    Series Book 1 - An Analysis of Mein Kampf
    Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf, the official doctrine of the NAZI regime during WWII, is not a book that many would consider to read. Modern society is generally very well acquainted with Hitler and the ultimate outcome of his philosophical stances and will automatically denounce such notions based on a purely humanitarian and moral standpoint. The book remains illegal in many parts of ... Read more

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  • Repentance for the Holocaust

    Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses to the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims’ responses, such as ... Read more

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  • El devastador Holocausto Nuclear

    Les gustaría saber cómo pudieron llegar a sobrevivir un centenar de personas en las profundidades de la tierra, sobre los túneles del metro durante más de dos años, por consecuencias de una explosión nuclear de gran potencial sobre una ciudad de más de tres millones de habitantes, este y otros relatos se los plasmamos en este manuscrito.NADIE VALORA LA VIDAHASTA QUE LE FALTALO QUE TANTO ANHELAEste ... Read more

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  • Berlin Goodbye

    by Ralph Moratz ...
    The true account of Ralph Moratz's escape from Nazi Germany as a young boy. His journey took him through France and Spain, finally reaching freedom in America.This is his story, in his own words. ... Read more

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