Between the years 1942 and 1943, under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps. This is the story of Operation Reinhard, recording the history of the death camps from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943. Using sources previously overlooked, such as German ......
During the 1930s many Americans avoided thinking about war erupting in Europe, believing it of little relevance to their own lives. This book offers a compelling historical look at Warner Bros' efforts as the only major studio to promote anti-Nazi activity before the outbreak of the Second World War.
This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets." -Walter Laqueur, The New Republic ... a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature." -Kirkus Reviews ... a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi death camps... serves as a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark ......
Separated from her family by the Nazis, Gerty Spies was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. Isolated from the outside world, surrounded by death, she retreated to her inner self to concentrate on human, cultural, and other values. This book presents her - sensitive and humorous, but never bitter - stories of the struggle for survival.
We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. This book covers a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyzes of western responses to the war.
We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. This book covers a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyzes of western responses to the war.
Paldiel highlights the role of non-Jews in extending aid and assistance to Jews inside Nazi-dominated Europe. From the testimonies and files housed at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust martyrs and heroes memorial in Jerusalem, Paldiel presents dozens of stories of the circumstances and odds facing Jews and those who would help them. Includes an eight-page ......
Using correspondence and other materials, Herczl recreates the Hungarian Christian church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. He provides a scathing indictment of the Church's lack of compassion toward - and even active persecution of - Hungary's Jews during World War II.
By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. This title offers a translation of Hoss' memoirs into English.
