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Nazi Officer's Wife - How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust (Paperback): Edith H Beer Nazi Officer's Wife - How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust (Paperback)
Edith H Beer 1
R422 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust--complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

Aftermath - Coming of Age on Three Continents (Hardcover): Annette Libeskind Berkovits Aftermath - Coming of Age on Three Continents (Hardcover)
Annette Libeskind Berkovits
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From a Race of Masters to a Master Race - 1948 to 1848 (Paperback): A. E. Samaan From a Race of Masters to a Master Race - 1948 to 1848 (Paperback)
A. E. Samaan
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
H.H. Laughlin - American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator. (Paperback): A. E. Samaan H.H. Laughlin - American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator. (Paperback)
A. E. Samaan; Foreword by Garland E. Allen
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fatal Encounter - An absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 saga (Paperback): Marion Kummerow Fatal Encounter - An absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 saga (Paperback)
Marion Kummerow
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Trouble Brewing (Paperback): Marion Kummerow Trouble Brewing (Paperback)
Marion Kummerow
R590 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R237 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Skalat Memorial Book (Hardcover): Chaim Bronshtain Skalat Memorial Book (Hardcover)
Chaim Bronshtain; Translated by Neil H Tannebaum; Abraham Weissbrod
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From a Race of Masters to a Master Race - 1948 to 1848 (Paperback): A. E. Samaan From a Race of Masters to a Master Race - 1948 to 1848 (Paperback)
A. E. Samaan
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A World in Turmoil - An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II (Hardcover, New): Hershel Edelheit, Abraham J.... A World in Turmoil - An Integrated Chronology of the Holocaust and World War II (Hardcover, New)
Hershel Edelheit, Abraham J. Edelheit
R2,509 Discovery Miles 25 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Historians have long noted that Jews often appear at the storm center of European history. Nowhere is this more true than when dealing with the tumultuous years between the Nazi seizure of power in Germany on January 30, 1933 and the proclamation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. Yet, the events of Jewish history must also be viewed within the broader contexts of European, American, and global history. Spanning sixteen years of destruction and rebirth, A World in Turmoil is the first book of its kind, an integrated chronology which attempts to provide the researcher with clear and concise data describing the events as they unfolded. From the murder pits of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, to the battlefields in all the major theatres of operation, to the home fronts of all the major and minor combatants, A World in Turmoil covers a broad spectrum of events. Although major events throughout the world are noted, the volume concentrates on events in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. While the volume deals primarily with politics, significant social and intellectual trends are woven into the chronology. Augmented by an introductory essay and postscript to help place events in their historical context, by a bibliography, and by name, place, and subject indexes, the volume provides scholars and researchers alike a basic reference tool on sixteen of the most important years in modern history.

The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die (Paperback): Peter Lantos The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die (Paperback)
Peter Lantos
R246 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important read. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare - watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen. All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home. Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an internationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, Parallel Lines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated into Hungarian, German and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia, 2012) was his first novel. Peter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for 'services to Holocaust education and awareness'. He is one of the last of the generation of survivors and this - his first book for children - will serve as a testimony to his experience. Peter lives in London.

Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover): Jessica Rapson Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover)
Jessica Rapson
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

Mimi of Novy Bohumin, Czechoslovakia - A Young Woman's Survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Fred Glueckstein Mimi... Mimi of Novy Bohumin, Czechoslovakia - A Young Woman's Survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Fred Glueckstein Mimi Glueckstein
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mimi Rubin had fond memories of growing up in Novy Bohumin, Czechoslovakia, a place that ten thousand people called home. It was a tranquil town until September 1, 1939, when the German army invaded the city. From that day forward, eighteen-yearold Mimi would face some of the harshest moments of her life.

This memoir follows Mimi's story-from her idyllic life in Novy Bohumin before the invasion, to being transported to a Jewish ghetto, to living in three different German concentration camps, and finally, to liberation. It tells of the heartbreaking loss of her parents, grandmother, and countless other friends and relatives. It tells of the tempered joys of being reunited with her sister and of finding love, marrying, and raising a family.

A compelling firsthand account, "Mimi of Novy Bohumin, Czechoslovakia: A Young Woman's Survival of the Holocaust" weaves the personal, yet horrifying, details of Mimi's experience with historical facts about this era in history. This story helps keep alive the memory of the millions of innocent men, women, and children who died in the German concentration camps during the 1930s and 1940s.

Love and Resistance in WWII Germany - Three Book Collection (Paperback): Marion Kummerow Love and Resistance in WWII Germany - Three Book Collection (Paperback)
Marion Kummerow
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Belarusian Shtetl - History and Memory (Paperback): Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov The Belarusian Shtetl - History and Memory (Paperback)
Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov; Contributions by Ina Sorkina, Arkadi Zeltser, Svetlana Amosova, …
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Since 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, The Belarusian Shtetl creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus.

Reluctant Informer (Paperback): Marion Kummerow Reluctant Informer (Paperback)
Marion Kummerow
R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Honorary Aryans - National-Racial Identity and Protected Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (Hardcover, New): N. Bartulin Honorary Aryans - National-Racial Identity and Protected Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (Hardcover, New)
N. Bartulin
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 1941 and 1945, in one of the more curious episodes of racial politics during the Second World War, a small number of Jews were granted the rights of Aryan citizens in the Independent State of Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain how these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, and in particular how they were justified by the race theory of the time. Author Nevenko Bartulin explores these questions within the broader histories of anti-Semitism, nationalism, and race in Croatia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, tracing Croatian Jews' troubled journey from "Croats of the Mosaic faith" before World War II to their eventual rejection as racial aliens by the Utasha movement.

US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (Hardcover): Kevin Barrett US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (Hardcover)
Kevin Barrett; Gideon Polya; Foreword by Soren Roest Korsgaard
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
War Girl Anna (Paperback): Marion Kummerow War Girl Anna (Paperback)
Marion Kummerow
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust (Hardcover): Ceija Stojka The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust (Hardcover)
Ceija Stojka; Edited by Lorely E. French
R3,783 R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Save R1,019 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview, historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks. "Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), told from her perspective as a child interned in three Nazi concentration camps from age nine to twelve. Written by a child survivor much later in life, the memoirs offer insights into the nexus of narrative and extreme trauma, expressing the full spectrum of human emotions: fear and sorrow at losing loved ones; joy and relief when reconnecting with family and friends; desire to preserve some memories while attempting to erase others; horror at acts of genocide, and hope arising from dreams of survival. In addition to annotated translations of the three memoirs, the book includes two of Stojka's poems and an interview by Karin Berger, editor of the original editions of Stojka's memoirs, as well as color reproductions of several of her artworks and historical photographs. An introduction contextualizes her works within Romani history and culture, and a glossary informs the reader about the "concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (Hardcover): Estelle Tarica Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (Hardcover)
Estelle Tarica
R1,967 Discovery Miles 19 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History, Trauma and Shame - Engaging the Past through Second Generation Dialogue (Paperback): Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela History, Trauma and Shame - Engaging the Past through Second Generation Dialogue (Paperback)
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

History, Trauma and Shame provides an in-depth examination of the sustained dialogue about the past between children of Holocaust survivors and descendants of families whose parents were either directly or indirectly involved in Nazi crimes. Taking an autobiographical narrative perspective, the chapters in the book explore the intersection of history, trauma and shame, and how change and transformation unfolds over time. The analyses of the encounters described in the book provides a close examination of the process of dialogue among members of The Study Group on Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust (PAKH), exploring how Holocaust trauma lives in the 'everyday' lives of descendants of survivors. It goes to the heart of the issues at the forefront of contemporary transnational debates about building relationships of trust and reconciliation in societies with a history of genocide and mass political violence. This book will be great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of social psychology, Holocaust or genocide studies, cultural studies, reconciliation studies, historical trauma and peacebuilding. It will also appeal to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, as well as upper-level undergraduate students interested in the above areas.

Representing Childhood and Atrocity (Hardcover): Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith Representing Childhood and Atrocity (Hardcover)
Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith
R2,277 R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Save R304 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Invisible Ink (Hardcover): Guy Stern Invisible Ink (Hardcover)
Guy Stern
R879 R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Holocaust and his remarkable escape from Nazi Germany created the central driving force for the rest of his life. Stern gives much credit to his father's profound cautionary words, "You have to be like invisible ink. You will leave traces of your existence when, in better times, we can emerge again and show ourselves as the individuals we are." Stern carried these words and their psychological impact for much of his life, shaping himself around them, until his emergence as someone who would be visible to thousands over the years. This book is divided into thirteen chapters, each marking a pivotal moment in Stern's life. His story begins with Stern's parents-"the two met, or else this chronicle would not have seen the light of day (nor me, for that matter)." Then, in 1933, the Nazis come to power, ushering in a fiery and destructive timeline that Stern recollects by exact dates and calls "the end of [his] childhood and adolescence." Through a series of fortunate occurrences, Stern immigrated to the United States at the tender age of fifteen. While attending St. Louis University, Stern was drafted into the U.S. Army and soon found himself selected, along with other German-speaking immigrants, for a special military intelligence unit that would come to be known as the Ritchie Boys (named so because their training took place at Ft. Ritchie, MD). Their primary job was to interrogate Nazi prisoners, often on the front lines. Although his family did not survive the war (the details of which the reader is spared), Stern did. He has gone on to have a long and illustrious career as a scholar, author, husband and father, mentor, decorated veteran, and friend. Invisible Ink is a story that will have a lasting impact. If one can name a singular characteristic that gives Stern strength time after time, it is his resolute determination to persevere. To that end Stern's memoir provides hope, strength, and graciousness in times of uncertainty.

A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to (Hardcover): Bernard Wasserstein A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to (Hardcover)
Bernard Wasserstein
R763 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R105 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book. Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on Krakowiec as hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland. At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

Judy Glickman Lauder: Beyond the Shadows - The Holocaust and the Danish Exception (Hardcover): Judy Glickman Lauder Judy Glickman Lauder: Beyond the Shadows - The Holocaust and the Danish Exception (Hardcover)
Judy Glickman Lauder; Text written by Michael Berenbaum, Judith S Goldstein, Elie Wiesel
R1,275 R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480 Save R127 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The extraordinary experiences of ordinary people-their suffering and their unimaginable bravery-are the subject of Judy Glickman Lauder's remarkable photographs. Beyond the Shadows responds to the world's looking the other way as the Nazis took power and their hate-fueled nationalism steadily turned to mass murder. In the context of the horror of the Holocaust, it also tells the uplifting story of how the citizens and leadership of Denmark, under occupation and at tremendous risk to themselves, defied the Third Reich to transport the country's Jews to safety in Sweden. Over the past thirty years, Glickman Lauder has captured the intensity of death camps in Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in dark and expressive photographs, telling of a world turned upside down, and, in contrast, the redemptive and uplifting story of the "Danish exception." Including texts by Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum and Judith S. Goldstein, and a previously unpublished original text by survivor Elie Wiesel, Beyond the Shadows demonstrates passionately what hate can lead to, and what can be done to stand in its path. "This is photography and storytelling for our times, about what hate leads to, and how we can stand up to it. Beyond the Shadows is powerful and revealing, and sharply relevant to all of us who believe in the human family." - Sir Elton John

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