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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust.
2) Germany
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five thousand remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to one thousand. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps.
In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedlander's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. In this unparalleled work - based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs - the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.-Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxii, 311 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
How did Berlin's Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II? How could it happen that when Soviet troops liberated the hospital in April 1945, they found some eight hundred Jews still on the premises? Daniel Silver carefully uncovers the often-surprising answers to these questions and, through the skillful use of primary source materials...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany." "Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their dally lives in a world that was becoming more and more...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
xviii, 808 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Covers the anti-semitic activities of the Nazis all over the globe, refuting common myths about the Holocaust, including the perception that Jews went peacefully to their deaths.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...
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