"How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times--the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor" Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished. In 1943, Alice, her husband and their six-year-old son were sent there, too. In the midst of horror, music, especially Chopin's "Etudes, " was Alice's salvation. Theresienstadt was a ...
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

By: Etty Hillesum

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pocket: May 1991

Seller ID: 266903

ISBN: 0671745557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust

By: Bernard Gotfryd

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: April 2000

Seller ID: 167502

ISBN: 0801863104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This collection of extraordinary true stories--including nine stories new to this expanded edition-- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the High Holidays--only to see it given to the Christian janitor because it is not kosher; we meet Alexandra, a Polish resistance fighter who enlists the teenaged Bernard in the cause but who perishes while he survives; and we share Bernard's fear as he s...
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Auschwitz and After

By: Charlotte Delbo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: February 1997

Seller ID: 218791

ISBN: 0300070578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, as they were preparing to distribute anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's vignettes, poems and prose poems of life in the concentration camp and afterwards - is a literary memoir. It is a document by a female resistanc...
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Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation

By: Michael F. Bernard-Donals, Richard Glejzer

Price: $19.95

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr: October 2001

Seller ID: 121551

ISBN: 079145150X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

By: Dwork, Deborah

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Yale University Press: March 1991

Seller ID: 272201

ISBN: 0300050542

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including diaries, letters, photographs and family albums), and archival records. Drawing on these sources, Dwork reveals the feeling, daily activities, and perceptions of Jewish children who lived and died in the shadow of Holocaust. She reconstructs and analyzes the many different experiences the children faced. In the early years of Nazi domination they lived at home, increasingly oppressed by rising anti-Se...
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Different Horrors, Same Hell: Gender and the Holocaust (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $24.00

Publisher: University of Washington Press: January 2013

Seller ID: 185090

ISBN: 0295992433

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central works of Holocaust scholarship and representation, from the books of Hannah Arendt and Ruth Kl ger to films such as Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Interviews with survivors and their descendants draw new attention to the significance of women's roles and family structures during and in the aftermath of t...
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Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics, and Aesthetics (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)

By: Dorota Glowacka

Price: $19.98

Publisher: University of Washington Press: May 2012

Seller ID: 185082

ISBN: 0295991690

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century philosophers and theorists, including Levinas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Derrida, to consider the role of language in the construction and transmission of traumatic memories; the relation between self-identity and the act of bearing witness; and the ethical implications of repr...
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Elder of the Jews: Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt

By: Ruth Bondy

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Grove Pr: September 1989

Seller ID: 246720

ISBN: 080211007X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

By: Ram Oren

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Doubleday Religion: August 2010

Seller ID: 202039

ISBN: 0385527195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler's List.

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, a Catholic nanny devoted to the family. When Michael's mother has a stroke, Gertruda promises the dying woma...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage)

By: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 231216

ISBN: 0679772685

Condition: Used - Very Good

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during ...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage)

By: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 259578

ISBN: 0679772685

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage)

By: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 270534

ISBN: 0679772685

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Holding on to Humanity: The Message of Holocaust Survivors

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: New York University Press: September 1992

Seller ID: 121544

ISBN: 0814714811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The effects of the Holocaust on those who survived it are immeasurable. How can one experience the trauma of the concentration camps - being reduced to a helpless witness of the brutality of torture, medical experiments, and execution of those around you - how can one survive this and remain the same? In many ways, the Holocaust has drastically effected those who survived, and in Holding on to Humanity Shamai Davidson explores the complex results of this dehumanizing experience. years working with this special group, trying to understand the nature of their experience. Evoking from survivors t...
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Holocast Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities

By: Dalia Ofer

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Berghahn Books: November 2011

Seller ID: 64438

ISBN: 0857452479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors' return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of p...
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Holocaust: A History

By: Deborah Dwork,Robert Jan Van Pelt

Price: $6.50

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: September 2002

Seller ID: 259579

ISBN: 0393051889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Indiana University Press: November 2002

Seller ID: 121541

ISBN: 0253215692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Irena's Children (Young Readers Scholastic Edition)

By: Mary Cronk Farrell (Adapter), ? Tilar J. Mazzeo (Author)

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Scholastic: January 2017

Seller ID: 277036

ISBN: 1338135554

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust

By: Kestenberg, Judith S.,Brenner, Ira

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc: January 1996

Seller ID: 276330

ISBN: 0880486627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This work looks at the traumatic effects of genocidal persecution on the child's psychic structure and on development through the life cycle. It offers information to clinicians working with Holocaust survivors and their families and should serve as a guide for therapists and interested readers who want to learn more about the short- and long-term effects of genocidal persecution.
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Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: February 1987

Seller ID: 198599

ISBN: 0140093702

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time" Italo Calvino

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.
Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, "the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue." Each ce...
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Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination

By: Friedlander, Saul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: April 2008

Seller ID: 280472

ISBN: 0060930489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedl nder's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects ...
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Never to Forget

By: Meltzer, Milton

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books: September 1991

Seller ID: 271614

ISBN: 0440960703

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 155743

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to ...
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 186718

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 236107

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 247806

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: New

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 252429

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 259922

ISBN: 0374500010

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 269896

ISBN: 0374500010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 2006

Seller ID: 269897

ISBN: 0374500010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: April 2002

Seller ID: 272202

ISBN: 0393050467

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called second generation. This collection of writings considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many concentrations camps - Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free). In the words of this anthology's introduction: Other kids' parents didn't have numbers on their arms. Other kids' parents didn't talk about massacres as easily as baseball. How do you deal with this responsibility? Gathered here are writings of both ficti...
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Preempting the Holocaust

By: Lawrence L. Langer

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: May 2000

Seller ID: 8109

ISBN: 0300082681

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Simon Wiesenthal. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak, considered by many the premier Holocaust painter of our time, and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. He also offers a critical interpretation of Undzere Kinder, a neglected but important Yiddish film made in Poland after the war about Holocaust orphans.

Lange...
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Reflections on the Holocaust

By: Julia Zarankin

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Humanity in Action: January 2011

Seller ID: 153760

ISBN: B00TGCZUWG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Studying the Holocaust: Issues, readings and documents

By: Ronnie Landau

Price: $34.98

Publisher: Routledge: July 1998

Seller ID: 185086

ISBN: 0415161444

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Sensitive and appropriate teaching of the Holocaust is essential at all levels of formal and informal education. The Holocaust Education Reader by Ronnie Landau provides an educational companion for all those teaching this subject.
The book is designed to challenge student use of primary resources and encourage extra-disciplinary analysis.
This authoritative guide contains:
* a guide to major dilemmas confronting teachers
* documentary and literary selected readings
* suggested teaching activities
* an analysis of 'genocide' in the modern era
* a chronolog...
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Suffering as Identity: The Jewish Paradigm

By: Esther Benbassa

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Verso: March 2010

Seller ID: 242118

ISBN: 1844674045

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Reaching from biblical times to the present day, Esther Benbassa's prize-winning exploration of Jewish identity is both epic and comprehensive. She shows how in the Jewish world, the representation and ritualization of suffering have shaped the history of both the people and the religion.

Benbassa argues that the nineteenth century gave rise to a Jewish 'lachrymose' historiography, and that Jewish history was increasingly seen to be a 'vale of tears'--a development that has become even more pronounced since the Holocaust. The treatment of the Holocaust in the State of Israel now has the fo...
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Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)

By: David Patterson

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: September 1998

Seller ID: 121538

ISBN: 0815605307

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear.
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Sunflower : On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

By: SIMON WIESENTHAL, HARRY JAMES CARGAS, BONNY V. FETTERMAN, HARRY J. CARGAS

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: May 1998

Seller ID: 230101

ISBN: 0805210601

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.

While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But ev...
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Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza

By: Lillian Rosengarten

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Just World Books: October 2015

Seller ID: 80409

ISBN: 1935982605

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In 1936, Lillian Rosengarten and her family fled Nazi Germany for New York. But even there, the legacy of the Nazis brutality continued to cast a shadow over her family for many decades. In "Survival and Conscience," Rosengarten describes how she faced those challenges within her own life while gaining empathy for the struggles of others, realizing that all forms of extreme nationalism and hatred must be vigorously resisted.Like many other refugees from Nazism and survivors of the Holocaust, Rosengarten became a strong advocate of Palestinian rights. In 2010, she joined the Jewish Boat to Gaza...
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Survival In Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Touchstone: September 1993

Seller ID: 155864

ISBN: 0684826801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.

In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruel...
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