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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken long note of Shoah's innovative style and its place in the history of documentary...
Publisher
Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Zookeeper's Wife tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Diane Ackerman's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Zookeeper's Wife includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Detailed timeline...
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Publisher
Sunbury Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ten children. Some survived with the help of others. Some survived on their own. Some not only survived but helped others survive as well. Each of their stories, like each of them, is different. Their experiences are different. But taken together, with each story in its own historical context, they provide a broad understanding of the struggles of those who survived and those who didn't.
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Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The aim of this book is not only to show the historical Auschwitz but the Auschwitz that has taken root in human beings: first, the inability to distinguish between good and evil; second, the obsession for reaffirming one's own identity as uniquely human and third, the impossibility of thinking about otherness. Even today, Auschwitz persists as a legacy, of which our world is both executor and heir. Auschwitz is, therefore, the starting point, but...
25) The forgotten
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Language
English
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Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past—the heroic parts as well as the parts that fill him with shame—before it is too late.
Elhanan's story compels his son to go to the Romanian village where the crime that continues to haunt his father was committed. There he encounters the...
Elhanan's story compels his son to go to the Romanian village where the crime that continues to haunt his father was committed. There he encounters the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
'HISTORICAL FICTION AT ITS BEST'
-- Bookseller & Publisher
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war-torn London and then across enemy...
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Displaced is Linda Schwab's Holocaust memoir, a retelling of her experience surviving 18 months in a man-made cave, another year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and three years as a refugee in a displaced persons camp. Just six years old when a band of Nazi soldiers arrived in her tiny shtetl in Myadel, Poland, Linda observed atrocities no child ever needs to witness. With her parents and two brothers, during the summer of 1942, Linda was forcibly...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1986
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IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story of a man who survived Treblinka, to be haunted by his memories for 50 years-and ultimately, to be killed by them More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka and fewer than 70 came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, 50 years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages." -- Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, she wrote what has become the world's most famous diary. But how could an unknown Jewish girl from Amsterdam be transformed into an international...
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Language
English
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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But, what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals-both Jews and Nazis-associated with it.
The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals,...
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