Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
Nechama TecThe prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. In fact, many Jews struggled alone ...
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survi...
Neal BascombHunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt.When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his es...
Facing the Lion (Abridged Edition): M...
Simone ArnoldSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials recruit for the Hitler Youth. Simon...
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers a...
Wendy HoldenThe Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer's Wif...
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Men...
Lucette Matalon LagnadoDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to...
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy,...
Gotz AlyA provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy did the Holocaust happen in Germany, of all places? How did a country known for its culture and refinemen...
Witness For My Father: A World War II...
Barbara S. BergrenMartin Weigen was eleven when the Nazis invaded his hometown of Starachowice, Poland. He survived the death march from Auschwitz, imprisonment at Buchenwald, and the deaths of his family before his liberation at Dachau and the decisio...
Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story ...
Marty BrounsteinCan hope be found amidst tragedy? Nestled in the hills on the western side of Jerusalem is a museum called Yad Vashem. There, people from around the world visit daily to learn about the tragic period of history from 1933 to 1945 kno...
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of...
Heather Dune MacAdamA PEN America Literary Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee An Amazon Best of the Year Selection The untold story of some of WW2’s most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all. Reade...
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis...
Caroline MooreheadFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lig...
Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passenge...
Sarah A. OgilvieThe ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939, more than nine hundred Jewish refugees boarded the St. Louis ...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp...
The Nazis Next Door: How America Beca...
Eric Lichtblau"A captivating book rooted in first-rate research." — New York Times Book Review New York Times bestseller — Espionage category For the first time, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of t...
Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs, a profoundly moving autobiography Manny Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story. Born in 1925 in the ...
Un Amor En Auschwitz / A Love in Ausc...
La historia de un prisionero polaco y una judÃa que se enamoraron en el campo de exterminio. Un hecho real, inexplicable e injustamente olvidado, que la periodista Francesca Paci reconstruye por primera vez a traves de fuentes extraÃ...
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane AckermanThe movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only ...
A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Thei...
Catherine Bailey"I was gripped byA Castle in Wartimeit contained more tension, more plot in factthan any thriller."Kate Atkinson, author ofBig SkyandCase Histories An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary cour...
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and D...
Omer Bartov"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (TheWall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and famil...
Living among the Dead: My Grandmother...
Adena Bernstein AstrowskyThis is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her me...
Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen ...
Nanette Blitz KonigA monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions ...
In Return of the Exiled, Max Buchdahl details the passage of his family throughout Germany in the years prior to their immigration to the United States. Return of the Exiled parallels the past, as Max's family attempts to get out of N...
Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introducti...
Jane CaplanAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echoes with us today. The incredible f...
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedu...
Father Patrick DesboisHow the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out--In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more th...
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of Ame...
Rebecca ErbeldingWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDFor more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That ...
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections o...
Norman FinkelsteinIn his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. I...
The Risk of Sorrow: Conversations wit...
Valerie FosterWhat can the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust teach us before they are gone? What is it that hasn't yet been said? A high school teacher is given the opportunity to find out when one such survivor chooses her to preserve her f...
Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an A...
Joshua GreeneDenson, just 32 years old, with one criminal trial to his name, led a brilliant and successful prosecution, but nearly two years of exposure to such horrors took its toll. His wife divorced him, his weight dropped to 116 pounds, and h...
On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust St...
Jeannette Grunhaus de GelmanWhen the Germans march into their little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra it marks the beginning of a struggle to survive during which they will...
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." ―Josef Joffe, Wall Street JournalWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by ad...
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a twelve...
Janina HeschelesWhile still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this harrowing report from her hiding place in Cracow. The notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, t...