Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Warsaw ghetto uprising The Warsaw ghetto uprising Elaine Landau Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis in the early 1940s, focusing on the final days of fighting prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943. OL15040398W
Children during the Holocaust Children during the Holocaust Patricia Heberer **Hard-hitting nonfiction and biographical study of the experiences of Jewish children from all walks of life. A deeply moving and insightful look into their experiences, struggles, displacement and … OL16212033W
The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando The Holocaust odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando Rebecca Fromer Daniel Bennahmias is one of the few persons in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau to have survived the war, and the recounting of his experiences reveals details heretofore unknown about the "i… OL1810383W
Perspectives on Kristallnacht Perspectives on Kristallnacht Wil Mara "Provides comprehensive information on the persecution of Jews in Europe commencing in 1938 and its legacy"--Provided by publisher. OL1854038W
Defiance Defiance Nechama Tec The 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. … OL2066467W
Perpetrators Perpetrators Guenter Lewy ix, 195 pages : 25 cm OL21144694W
Death on the Black Sea Death on the Black Sea Douglas Frantz,Catherine Collins On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck,… OL445245W
Jagendorf's foundry Jagendorf's foundry Siegfried Jagendorf "Let us take advantage of this historic moment and cleanse the soil of Romania..." These words began the Romanian Holocaust in 1941. Deported Jews were expected to perish. So it might have been for t… OL4484273W
The Roots of Nazi Psychology The Roots of Nazi Psychology Jay Y. Gonen Was Hitler a moral aberration or a man of his people? This topic has been hotly argued in recent years, and now Jay Gonen brings new answers to the debate using a psychohistorical perspective, conten… OL50183W