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Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust

I Swear to You, Adolf Hitler, Fealty and Obedience - Sin and Retribution 2 (Hardcover): Adalbert Lallier I Swear to You, Adolf Hitler, Fealty and Obedience - Sin and Retribution 2 (Hardcover)
Adalbert Lallier
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Single Light (Paperback, New): Ernest Levy The Single Light (Paperback, New)
Ernest Levy
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ernest Levy, the youngest of eight, was born into a strong Orthodox family and achieved his Bar Mitzvah as Nazism reached into Czechoslovakia and expelled Jews of Hungarian origin back across the border. From there his story takes us through the war years, via Auschwitz, to the labor camps, from where, as the Russians closed in, inmates were force-marched to Belsen. Ernest survived Belsen and typhoid to choose repatriation. Finding himself back in Budapest, a crisis of faith, brought on by the hideous experiences of his teens, led him to flirt with communism. A revived faith and a passion for music won the day and established his future. Since finding a home in Scotland in the early 1960s, he has been able to educate and enlighten the young people around him of events which otherwise would only be remote in a history book.

The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015 - The Story of Innocence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Maryla Hopfinger,... The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015 - The Story of Innocence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Maryla Hopfinger, Tomasz Zukowski
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority politics of memory. The category is of performative character since it defines the roles of event participants, assumes passivity of the non-Jewish environment, and alienates the exterminated, thus making it impossible to speak about the bystanders' violence at the border between the ghetto and the 'Aryan' side. Bystanders were neither passive nor distanced; rather, they participated and played important roles in Nazi plans. Starting with the war, the authors analyze the functions of this category in the Polish discourse of memory through following its changing forms and showing links with social practices organizing the collective memory. Despite being often critiqued, this point of dispute about Polish memory rarely belongs to mainstream culture. It also blocks the memory of Polish violence against Jews. The book is intended for students and researchers interested in memory studies, the history of the Holocaust, the memory of genocide, and the war and postwar cultures of Poland and Eastern Europe.

Thrown Upon the World - A True Story (Paperback): George Kolber, Charles Kolber Thrown Upon the World - A True Story (Paperback)
George Kolber, Charles Kolber
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Those Who Remained (Hardcover): Zsuzsa F Varkonyi Those Who Remained (Hardcover)
Zsuzsa F Varkonyi; Translated by Peter Czipott; Edited by Patty Howell
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oskar Schindler Saved My Life (Hardcover): Carl Freedman Oskar Schindler Saved My Life (Hardcover)
Carl Freedman
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Holocaust Scholarship - Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Michael R. Marrus,... Holocaust Scholarship - Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Michael R. Marrus, Milton Shain, Christopher R Browning, Susannah Heschel
R3,130 Discovery Miles 31 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of individual odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts.

The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust - Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto (Paperback): Silvia Tarabini Fracapane The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust - Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto (Paperback)
Silvia Tarabini Fracapane
R1,393 Discovery Miles 13 930 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark. "How was it in Theresienstadt?" Thus asked Johan Grun rhetorically when he, in July 1945, published a short text about his experiences. The successful flight of the majority of Danish Jewry in October 1943 is a well-known episode of the Holocaust, but the experience of the 470 men, women, and children that were deported to the ghetto has seldom been the object of scholarly interest. Providing an overview of the Judenaktion in Denmark and the subsequent deportations, the book sheds light on the fate of those who were arrested. Through a micro-historical analysis of everyday life, it describes various aspects of social and daily life in proximity to death. In doing so, the volume illuminates the diversity of individual situations and conveys the deportees' perceptions and striving for survival and 'normality'. Offering a multi-perspective and international approach that places the case of Denmark into the broader Jewish experience during the Holocaust, this book is invaluable for researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and the history of modern Denmark.

The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary (Paperback, Definitive edition): Anne... The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary (Paperback, Definitive edition)
Anne Frank; Edited by Mirjam Pressler, Otto Frank 2
R275 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R27 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the diary begins. '12 June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support' The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century. Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript, which was deleted from the original edition. It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult. Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation. For young readers and adults it continues to bring to life Anne's extraordinary courage and struggle throughout her ordeal. This is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was born on the 12 June 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. This seventieth anniversary, definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl is poignant, heartbreaking and a book that everyone should read.

The Girl Who Counted Numbers (Hardcover): Roslyn Bernstein The Girl Who Counted Numbers (Hardcover)
Roslyn Bernstein
R680 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R62 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fire Unextinguished (Hardcover): Aviva Woznica Fire Unextinguished (Hardcover)
Aviva Woznica
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dokshitz-Parafianov Memorial (Yizkor) Book - (Dokshytsy, Belarus) - Translation of Sefer Dokshitz-Parafianov (Hardcover): David... Dokshitz-Parafianov Memorial (Yizkor) Book - (Dokshytsy, Belarus) - Translation of Sefer Dokshitz-Parafianov (Hardcover)
David Stockfish; Produced by Joel Alpert, Aaron Ginsburg
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hasag-Leipzig Slave Labour Camp for Women - The Struggle for Survival told by the Women and their Poetry (Paperback): Hasag-Leipzig Slave Labour Camp for Women - The Struggle for Survival told by the Women and their Poetry (Paperback)
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the story of an international forced labour camp for women, the largest of the auxiliary women's camps attached to KZ Buchenwald in Germany. It was the place that the Jewish prisoners sang the satiric camp anthem: Hasag is our father, the best father there is / He promises us - long years of happiness / In Leipzig - a paradise on earth. Was Hasag-Leipzig really a paradise compared to other Nazi installations, in terms of the treatment of prisoners and their living conditions? This study provides answers to this question as it depicts the camp for 5500 from 18 countries, among them 1200 Jewish prisoners brought there from Poland. Special attention is paid here to the cultural activities. The author has collected a large number of verses penned in the camp. They add a refreshing new dimension to the scholarly work, bringing the reader closer to the alien, unfamiliar world known as the Hasag-Leipzig Women's Camp.

After Eichmann - Collective Memory and Holocaust Since 1961 (Hardcover): David Cesarani After Eichmann - Collective Memory and Holocaust Since 1961 (Hardcover)
David Cesarani
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe 's Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became the Holocaust .

This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings together new research by scholars from Europe, Israel and the USA.

Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College - Restoring Ruptured Traditions (Hardcover, New): Stephen R Haynes Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College - Restoring Ruptured Traditions (Hardcover, New)
Stephen R Haynes
R2,770 Discovery Miles 27 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

American church-related liberal arts colleges are dedicated to two traditions: Christian thought and liberal learning. According to Haynes, the moral continuity of these traditions was severed by the Holocaust. Because so many representations of these traditions contributed to the Nazis' ideological and physical efforts to annihilate millions of men, women, and children, it is unclear whether these traditions can any longer be said to facilitate human flourishing. Haynes presents a convincing argument that the post-Holocaust church-related college can participate in the restoration of these ruptured traditions through a commitment to Holocaust Education. This book provides valuable information for teachers who already offer a Holocaust course or for those who are considering doing so. In addition, the author presents an accurate picture of Holocaust Education at church-related colleges through an analysis of his nationwide survey. This book will be an important resource for scholars, teachers, and administrators.

Israeli Society, the Holocaust and Its Survivors (Paperback, New): Dina Porat Israeli Society, the Holocaust and Its Survivors (Paperback, New)
Dina Porat
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of twenty essays analyzes the encounters of the Yishuv (the Hebrew community in pre-state Israel) and Israeli society with the Holocaust while it occurred, and with its survivors. Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, this is still a painful topic, very much at the center of the agendas of both Israel and the Jewish communities worldwide, focusing on a soul-searching issue: was the tragedy unfolding in Europe part and parcel of public life in the Yishuv, its priorities and anxieties, and did Israeli society embrace the survivors as they deserved? Based on a wide scope of primary sources and on many years of research, the essays deal with a variety of poignant sub-issues, such as the attitudes of David Ben-Gurion, Martin Buber and other leaders, the understanding of the information about the 'Final Solution', relations and tensions between the Yishuv and the Jewish communities and youth movements in Nazi-occupied Europe, rescue plans and their failure, decis

Judging 'Privileged' Jews - Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' (Paperback): Adam Brown Judging 'Privileged' Jews - Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' (Paperback)
Adam Brown
R629 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R77 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called "privileged" positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi's concept of the "grey zone," this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on "privileged" Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of "representing the unrepresentable," this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.

Sobibor - A History of a Nazi Death Camp (Hardcover): Jules Schelvis Sobibor - A History of a Nazi Death Camp (Hardcover)
Jules Schelvis; Translated by Karin Dixon; Edited by Bob Moore
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibor is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibor began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibor is not well documented and, were it not for an extraordinary revolt on 14 October 1943, we would know little about it. On that day, prisoners staged a remarkable uprising in which 300 men and women escaped. The author identifies only forty-seven who survived the war.Sent in June 1943 to Sobibor, where his wife and family were murdered, Jules Schelvis has written the first book-length, fully documented account of the camp. He details the creation of the killing centre, its personnel, the use of railways, selections, forced labour, gas chambers, escape attempts and the historic uprising.In documenting this part of Holocaust history, this compelling and well-researched account advances our knowledge and understanding of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the European Jews.Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

False Gods (Hardcover): Adolf Eichmann False Gods (Hardcover)
Adolf Eichmann; Translated by Alexander Jacob
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adolf Eichmann was head of Gestapo Division IV-B4, the Third Reich's notorious Security Service, which was responsible for implementing the "Final Solution" of the European Jews in the Greater German Reich. False Gods is a book that will be controversial - not only with the Jewish community, but also with the historical "revisionists" who seek to deny the Holocaust. Eichmann's testimony not only challenges the generally accepted history of that period, but it provides much in-depth detail of the historical facts - facts which Eichmann himself was fully prepared to confirm from the surviving documents of the period that were submitted by both the prosecution and defense during his trial. In False Gods Eichmann states: "I shall describe the genocide of the Jews, how it happened and give, in addition, my thoughts of the past and of today. For not only did I have to see with my own eyes the fields of death, the battlefields on which life died away, I saw much worse. I saw how, through a few words, through the mere concise order of an individual to whom the state gave authority, such fields for the extinction of life were created. I saw the machinery of death. Grasping cogs within cogs, like clockwork. I saw those who observed the process of the work; and during the process. I saw them always repeating the work and they looked at the seconds-hand, which hurried; hurried like life to death. The greatest and cruellest dance of death of all time. That I saw. And I prepare to describe it, as a warning." Adolf Eichmann

On the Death of Jews - Photographs and History (Hardcover): Nadine Fresco On the Death of Jews - Photographs and History (Hardcover)
Nadine Fresco
R2,673 Discovery Miles 26 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures..."-L'Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The majority were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer. The perpetrators took pictures of the December killings. These pictures are among the rare photographs from the first period of the extermination, during which over 800 000 Jews from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death. By showing the importance of photography in understanding persecution, Nadine Fresco offers a powerful meditation on these images while confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt. From the forward by Dorota Glowackay: Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known images: synagogues and Torah scrolls burning on the night of Kristallnacht; deportations to the ghettos and the camps; and, finally, mass executions in the killing fi elds of Eastern Europe. The unique set of photographs included in On the Death of Jews shows groups of women and children from Liepaja (Liepaja), shortly before they were killed in December 1941 in the dunes of Shkede (Skede) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the series, we see the victims' bodies tumbling into the pit.

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (Hardcover): Michael A Grodin M D Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Michael A Grodin M D
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish - My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath (Paperback): Maria Chamberlain Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish - My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath (Paperback)
Maria Chamberlain
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Massacre in History (Hardcover): Mark Levene The Massacre in History (Hardcover)
Mark Levene
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic exploration. What exactly is a massacre? When - and why - does it happen? Is there a cultural, as well as political framework within which it occurs? How do human societies respond to it? What are its social and economic repercussions? Are massacres catalysts for change or are they part of the continuity of the human saga? These are just some of the questions the authors address in this important volume. Chronologically and geographically broad in scope, The Massacre in History provides in-depth analysis of particular massacres and themes associated with them from the 11th century to the present. Specific attention is paid to 15th century Christian-Jewish relations in Spain, the St. Batholemew's Day massacre, England and Ireland in the civil war era, the 19th century Caucasus, the rape of Nanking in 1937 and the Second World War origins of the Serb-Croat conflict. The book explores the subject of massacre from a variety of perspectives - its relationship to politics, culture, religion and society, its connection to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and its role in gender terms and in relation to the extermination of animals. The historians provide evidence to suggest that the "massacre" is often central to the course of human development and societal change.

Good Beyond Evil - Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (Paperback): Eva Gossman Good Beyond Evil - Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (Paperback)
Eva Gossman
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Good Beyond Evil is the story of a handful of ordinary people who risked their lives to save the lives of one Jewish family. It begins in the spring of 1939, weaves through the post-liberation period and ends in 1997 with a ceremony at Yad Vashem. The acceptance of two of the main characters into the Community of 'Righteous Among the Nations' provokes humbling reflection on the richness of opportunities enjoyed by members of the family who were saved compared with the narrowly circumscribed lives of those who saved them. Set in the broader context of Czechoslovakia's short history, its democratic institutions and endemic anti-Semitism, Good Beyond Evil is a also a requiem for a once-flourishing Jewish community.

Eyes of the Blind (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Barth Hoogstraten, MD Barth Hoogstraten Eyes of the Blind (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Barth Hoogstraten, MD Barth Hoogstraten
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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