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163256
: A Memoir of Resistance
[Michael Englishman]
This is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage and resourcefulness as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was right -- helping other prisoners escape and joining the underground resistance. He refused to surrender his spirit despite the loss of his wife and his entire family to the Nazis. Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend’s children after the war. With the children’s mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files. Today, Englishman remains active, speaking out against racism and hatred.
{
110pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1554580099:9781554580095
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
AFTERSHOCK
: Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism
[David Matas]
Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon. Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimise the state. These accusations criminalise the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel. The contemporary international human rights system and the existence of the State of Israel are twin legacies of the Holocaust. The failure of the human rights system to prevent attacks on Israel and the Jews is an aftershock of the Holocaust.
{
256pp,
152x229mm,
August 2005;
PB,
£12.99,
1550025538:9781550025538
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
AND PEACE NEVER CAME
[Elisabeth M Raab]
Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story -- a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature. This book will appeal to a number of audiences -- to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism. Shortlisted for the 1998 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. Winner of the 1999 Jewish Book Committee award for best Holocaust memoir.
{
196pp,
140x215mm,
January 1997;
PB,
£15.99,
0889202923:9780889202924
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
AT THE MERCY OF STRANGERS
: Survival in Nazi Occupied Poland
[Gitel Hopfeld; Translated from Polish & Edited by Simcha Simchovitch]
An important addition to Holocaust literature for a number of reasons. It is a document about the survival of one individual and her two children. In and of itself, as a document and a first hand account about survival during the Holocaust, it is worth reading. The book is important because it documents how Polish friends, acquaintances and even strangers helped to ensure the survival of one Jewish family during the bleak days of the Holocaust. These acts of bravery by individuals and families, at grave risk to themselves, is fully documented here, with names, incidents and places. Ordinary farmers, the headmaster of the Sadurki railway station, the regional leader of the underground Polish Army, two priests...each one, in their own way, contributed to the survival of Gitel Hopfeld and her children. It is vital to ensure that the ‘mercy of strangers’ during the most horrific of times is not forgotten and that these acts of bravery become the genuine measure of humanity.
{
128pp,
December 2005;
PB,
£7.99,
0889628564:9780889628564
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
BECAUSE I SURVIVED
: An Autobiography
[Ludwig Muhlfelder]
The author reflects on major aspects of his life's journey -- the concept of God, the role of perpetrators and bystanders in the Holocaust, the continuity of the Jewish people, and the impact of the scientific revolution -- seeking to inspire others to remember the past with a commitment to the future.
{
304pp,
160x235mm,
November 2001;
HB,
£16.99,
0884002101:9780884002109
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
BIALYSTOK TO BIRKENAU
: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki as Told to John Munro
[Sir Martin Gilbert]
The testimony of survivors is the ultimate refutation of claims that the Holocaust did not occur. In this profoundly honest Holocaust memoir, Michel Mielnicki takes us from the pleasures and charms of pre-war Polish Jewry (now entirely lost) into some of the darkest places of the twentieth century. One of the few survivors of Birkenau -- not a concentration camp but an actual death camp -- Mielnicki tells his story with great courage and attention to truthful detail. In his home town of Wasilkow, Poland, he describes how pogroms, which began as small acts of anti-Semitism, led to mass murders and expulsions. Mielnicki also adds new material to the neglected history of Soviet rule in Poland from September 1939 to June 1941. Mielnicki's account of life in the camps of Birkenau, Buna, Mittelbau-Dora and Belsen is at times harrowing, but the personal qualities that helped him to survive when all human dignity had apparently been erased creates a powerfully redeeming human drama.
{
248pp,
155x230mm,
October 2000;
PB,
£11.99,
0921870779:9780921870777
, Ronsdale Press
} |
 |
BIANCASTELLA
: A Jewish Partisan in World War Two
[Harry Burger]
A fascinating and inspiring account of one man's uncommon journey through the horrors of the Holocaust.
{
168pp,
155x235mm,
July 1997;
HB,
£14.99,
0870813978:9780870813979
, University Press of Colorado
} |
 |
BRITISH GOVERNMENT & THE HOLOCAUST
: The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership?
[Meier Sompolinsky]
An examination of the tragic failure of the Anglo Jewish community and its leaders to influence the British policy of blockading the Jews of the continent during the Holocaust.
{
275pp,
155x230mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£19.95,
1902210247:9781902210247
/
HB,
£49.50,
1902210093:9781902210094
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAEL
: Social Dynamics & Post-War Experiences -- "Finding Their Voice"
[Sharon Kangisser Cohen]
This is the first exploration into the experience of child survivors in Israel, focusing on the child survivors’ experience in telling their past to a wider audience and in publicly identifying themselves as Holocaust survivors. Whilst psychological research focuses on survivor’s personal inhibitions and motivations in retelling their past, the book attempts to understand the impact that the post-war environment has had on the individual’s relationship to it. Using a qualitative narrative approach, this study examines the dynamics of 'silence' and 'retelling' in the post-war experience of child survivors. It demonstrates the ways in which social dynamics, as well as internal motivations, had an impact on the extent to which these people were likely to speak publicly about their war-time experience or whether they were more inclined to remain silent. The interviews with survivors are presented 'using their own voice', and can thereby be understood in their own unique context. The result is a unique work that synthesises social science fields as disparate as history and psychology.
{
293pp,
152x229mm,
August 2005;
PB,
£16.95,
1845190882:9781845190880
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
CITY OF LIFE, CITY OF DEATH
: Memories of Riga
[Max Michelson]
A stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia – at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalised, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family.
REVIEW: "With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival..." -- Elie Wiesel. "Through the prism of his own experiences, Michelson provides a wonderful glimpse into Eastern European life both before and during the Nazi occupation of Latvia..." -- Julie D Freeman, SUNY-Oneonta.
{
171pp,
155x230mm,
September 2004;
PB,
£12.99,
0870817884:9780870817885
, University Press of Colorado
} |
 |
COMITMENT TO THE DEAD
[Waterford]
The story of one woman's journey from a cultured life in pre-war Europe, through the devastation of Hitler's regime, to her commitment of helping the world understand the Holocaust.
{
January 1987;
PB,
£7.99,
0939650622:9780939650620
, Primer Publishing
} |
 |
CONFRONTING THE 'GOOD DEATH'
: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
[Michael S Bryant]
This readable study analyses the post-war attempt to prosecute perpetrators of a Nazi campaign against the mentally ill that facilitated 270,000 murders and set a precedent for Nazi mass murder.
{
269pp,
155x230mm,
December 2005;
HB,
£23.50,
0870818090:9780870818097
, University Press of Colorado
} |
 |
CONTEMPORARY PORTRAYALS OF AUSCHWITZ
: Philosophical Challenges
[Alan Rosenberg, James R Watson & Detlef Linke (eds)]
What happens when an entire group of human beings is excluded from the definition of humanity? How is the power of language used to distort reality? What happens when a comprehensive economic plan is based on theft, brainwashing, slave labour, and murder? These and other philosophical questions about the Holocaust are contemplated here. In 1988, a group of philosophers who had survived the Holocaust, or had known people at the Auschwitz death camp, decided to found an organisation that would examine the philosophical implications of Shoah: the Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (SPSGH). Noting that the history and the personal horror stories had been told and retold, SPSGH's founders Sander Lee, Berel Lang, and Alan Rosenberg argued that too little study had been so far devoted to the philosophy of Hitler's final solution and other genocides. Auschwitz problematised the Enlightenment concept of humanity, and other concepts. The perfection of state-sponsored and -administered mass death issued in new forms of language, moral indifference, and forgetting. Philosophy often even fails to mention the Holocaust in discussions of National Socialism. And the disaster of Auschwitz has been largely neutralised by the normalisation of a 'ruined' language. This volume includes essays in several areas: Witnesses and Testimonies; Morality and Ethics; Art and Poetry; History and Memory; and The Crisis of Representation. Contributors are Karyn Ball, Eve Bannet, Debra Bergoffen, James Bernauer, Klaus Dorner, Jennifer N Fink, Roger Fjellstrom, Ruth Liberman, Burkhard Liebsch, Alan Milchman, Raj Sampath, Paul Sars, Hans Seigfried, Thomas W Simon, Dan Stone, Peter Strasser, Frans van Peperstratten, Erik M Vogt, Andrew Weinstein, and others.
{
355pp,
155x230mm,
March 2000;
HB,
£47.50,
1573927333:9781573927338
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
CROSS TOO HEAVY: EUGENIO PACELLI
: Politics & the Jews of Europe 1917-1943
[Paul O'Shea. Foreword by Michael Phayer]
The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and dispute since his death half a century ago. Central to the dispute is the alleged 'silence' of the Pope during the years of the Holocaust. By examining the often little studied pre-papal life of Eugenio Pacelli much can be found to understand the policies, actions and statements of Pius XII during the war. When examining the Holocaust, it is imperative to place it within the contexts of Christian Judeophobia, modernity and the many intersections between the two. Powerful myths have been created about this man. Pius XII was not an antisemitic villain; nor a 'lamb without stain'. The opening of the Vatican German archives up to 1939 helped add detail and nuance to the author's writing. His methodology depended upon contextual interpretation of documents and material from many sources over the man's entire professional religious life up to 1943. This led the author to the conclusion that Pius XII did, in fact, act in a consistent manner towards the persecuted Jews of Europe, and had done so since the advent of National Socialism in the 1920s. Pacelli's behaviour during the war confirms his essential consistency, but also reveals the tragic flaw that relegated the Jews to be 'lesser victims'. His failure points to the moral crisis within many parts of the fractured Christian Commonwealth, as well as the personal culpability of Pacelli, the man and pope.
{
392pp,
150x220mm,
May 2008;
PB,
£15.00,
1877058718:9781877058714
, Rosenberg Publishing
} |
 |
DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS
[Paul Hilberg]
First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanised further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies. This revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic work extends the scope of his study and includes 80,000 words of new material, particularly from recently opened archives in eastern Europe, added over a lifetime of research. It is the definitive work of a scholar who has devoted more than 50 years to exploring and analysing the realities of the Holocaust. Spanning the 12-year period of anti-Jewish actions from 1933 to 1945, Hilberg's study encompasses Germany and all the territories under German rule or influence. Its principal focus is on the large number of perpetrators -- civil servants, military personnel, Nazi party functionaries, SS men, and representatives of private enterprises -- in the machinery of death.
{
360pp,
152x228mm,
January 1985;
PB,
£13.95,
0841909105:9780841909106
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
DISAPPEARANCE OF GOLDIE RAPAPORT
[Gina Schwarzmann & Evelyn Julia Kent]
Many stories of courage have been told about the sacrifices made by individuals and families during World War 2 -- this is one to stir the emotions of all who read it.
{
218pp,
130x200mm,
August 1994;
PB,
£4.99,
0952371626:9780952371625
, Evelyn Kent
} |
 |
ECHOES OF THE HOLOCAUST
: Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
[Klas-Goran Karlsson & Ulf Zander (eds)]
In what ways has the Holocaust been used to push for the satisfaction of various needs and objectives in Europe? The authors take this question as their point of departure in order to reflect upon the role of history in general and the effects of the Holocaust in particular. The study how, when and why the collective memory of the Holocaust has been expressed and activated for cultural, economic, political and social reasons. Memories of the Nazi genocide in the German-Polish borderlands, the Holocaust in Russian history school books and the debates on the American television series Holocaust are among the topics covered by the articles in this anthology.
{
295pp,
155x230mm,
January 2003;
HB,
£43.00,
9189116526:9789189116528
, Nordic Academic Press
} |
 |
ENDLESS MIRACLES
[Jack Ratz]
Despite the murder of his mother and four brothers, Ratz tells of endless miracles he witnessed during the Holocaust: how he and his father survived the Nazis' attack on their ghetto, how they were saved from a death camp by the Russian Red Army, and how they were able to escape to the West to live long and wonderful lives.
{
173pp,
155x235mm,
November 1998;
HB,
£13.50,
0884002020:9780884002024
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
ESCAPE FROM PANNONIA
: A Tale of Two Survivors
[Steve Floris]
Forced to work in a Hungarian slave labour battalion under the command of Hitler's Third Reich, Steve Floris managed to survive thanks to his skills as a cook and the decency of his commanding officer. After escaping and returning to Budapest, he married his sweetheart, who had also survived the Holocaust. Together they escaped Soviet occupied Hungary and went to Austria. They worked in UN refugee camps, then made their way to Salzburg and were accepted for immigration to Canada.
{
160pp,
140x215mm,
June 2002;
PB,
£11.99,
1894694031:9781894694032
, Granville Island Publishing
} |
 |
ESCAPE VIA SIBERIA
: A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival
[Dorit Bader Whiteman]
Whiteman presents a compelling story of survival. Through the story of one boy -- Eliott 'Lonek' Jaroslawicz -- she conveys the tale of the dramatic escape of thousands of Polish Jews from the encroaching Nazi menace. With the crack of a Nazi whip on his father's head, the world that Lonek knows is gone forever. Lonek and his family are forced to join the tide of refugees fleeing eastward. In the course of their flight they are imprisoned in a Siberian labour camp. A short-lived treaty between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Soviet Government allows for the miraculous release of approximately one hundred thousand Polish citizens, including Lonek's family. They make their way to Tashkent, only to find that life there is harsh-hunger and sickness abound. When his father falls ill, Lonek's mother is driven to despair and leaves her ten-year-old son on the doorstep of an orphanage. Lonek is then swept up in another miraculous rescue. He joins the more than 900 Jewish children known as the "Teheran Children," who depart on the only kindertransport that emanates from Russia. After an arduous journey, the children are stranded in Iran due to the vagaries of war and failed diplomacy. Their plight is championed by Henrietta Szold while the leadership of Hadassah relentlessly pressures the American and British governments to assure the children's safe passage. Finally, eight months after they leave Tashkent and after a route that takes them through India and Egypt, Lonek and the other children safely reach Palestine. In ESCAPE VIA SIBERIA, Whiteman has crafted an elegy to the human spirit while emphasizing the tremendous international forces which affected the Polish Jewish escapees' lives and their persistent, heroic struggle in the face of tremendous odds.
{
219pp,
160x235mm,
January 1999;
HB,
£22.95,
0841914036:9780841914032
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
EVA'S STORY
: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank, New Edition
[Eva Schloss & Evelyn Julia Kent]
Refugee in 1938, betrayed and arrested in 1944, Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz -- the same age as her friend Anne Frank -- only now, over 40 years later, has Eva felt able to tell her story...
{
224pp,
105x180mm,
October 1999;
PB,
£6.99,
0952371693:9780952371694
, Evelyn Kent
} |
 |
FATEFUL MONTHS
: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution: Revised Edition
[Christopher R Browning]
An important concern in understanding the "machinery" of the Holocaust is the timing of the decision to put into effect the Final Solution, the systematic murder of the European Jews. This book explores the crucial first steps in implementing the mass murder, including Hitler's role in the decision-making process. The participation of middle and lower middle echelon Germans, and the development of the technology of destruction, in particular, the gas van for use in the death camps. Looking at events from summer 1941 to Spring 1942, Christopher Browning sheds important new light on the historians' debate about how the policy of systematic mass murder emerged.
{
113pp,
155x230mm,
September 1991;
PB,
£7.50,
0841912661:9780841912663
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
GERMAN PUBLIC & THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, 1933-1945
: 'No One Participated, No One Knew'
[Jörg Wollenberg (ed)]
Wollenberg examines the painful question of the extent to which the German public was aware of Nazi persecution of the Jews. By weaving together eyewitness reports of Reichskristallnacht, this 'night of arson, terror, and destruction' of November 9, 1938, with interpretative essays by contemporary scholars, he constructs an eerie insider look at a gruesome event. Written in stark, almost conversational tones, the eyewitness testimony of Jews, half-Jews and non-Jews is both moving and horrifying. The first-person narratives of the non-Jews document how impossible it was not to know what was happening on Reichskristallnacht and how painful it is years later to deal with repression and denial. The victims whose accounts are included here struggle with the subjectivity of their childhood memories, filling gaps with adult verification and continuing to agonise about distrust of their record. The text is arranged in two parts: first the eyewitness accounts from Nuremberg of the events of November 1938; then a section containing analyses of policies, behaviour, and events as they were directed at the Jews during the Third Reich.
{
220pp,
145x215mm,
June 1996;
HB,
£39.50,
1573923303:9781573923309
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
GERMANS
: When Lies were Decreed as Truth & a Nation Allowed Itself to be Deceived
[Harry Conway]
Articulately, the author portrays the Germans as they accommodated themselves to the lies fed to them, averted their eyes from the efforts at stripping all perceived opponents of the regime of their civil rights, possessions, and eventually, their lives in the KZ, the dreaded concentration camps.
{
280pp,
160x240mm,
December 1995;
HB,
£16.99,
0884001857:9780884001850
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
HITLER'S DEATH CAMPS
: The Sanity of Madness
[Konnilyn G Feig]
Sheds the light of understanding on one of the most horrifying and inhuman episodes in history. Drawing on her first hand visits to all 19 primary concentration camps, on her contact with survivors and former Nazis, and on 20 years of study, the author brings the perspective of a historian and scholar to her quest for the meaning of the holocaust.
{
546pp,
150x230mm,
January 1981;
PB,
£22.50,
0841906769:9780841906761
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
HOLOCAUST & THE CRISIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
[George M Kren & Leon Rappoport]
This book offers a provocative interpretation of the major historical and psychological factors contributing to the Holocaust and its long range implications. The authors provide insights into the behaviour of perpetrators, victims, bystanders and active resisters, exploring the unique German context of the Holocaust and the myths of victim passivity and SS psychopathology. But their enquiry probes beyond actions and behaviour to confront the meaning of the event and the limited ability of prior forms of knowledge, values, and conceptual theories to interpret it.
{
228pp,
152x228mm,
December 1994;
PB,
£13.95,
0841913056:9780841913059
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
HOLOCAUST CONSPIRACY
: An International Policy of Genocide
[William R Perl]
Careful review of the Holocaust material published so far still leaves scholars and the public wondering: How could this tragedy ever have happened?; How was such a world-wide collapse of values possible?; Why was the Holocaust so terribly successful? These crucial questions are finally answered in 'The Holocaust Conspiracy'. By combining existing research with previously unknown findings, Dr Perl draws the inescapable conclusion that it was not apathetic inaction of the world’s powers that made the Holocaust and the Final Solution so tragically ineffective. Using extensive documentation, he convincingly proves it was deliberate action on the part of many nations that kept millions prisoner in a hostile Europe. These deliberate actions are conclusively shown to be the result of conspiracies within individual governments and between governments. Here, also, a comprehensive analysis of the Holocaust policies of powers that until now have received relatively little attention or blame: Switzerland, The Soviet Union, Latin America, and the International Red Cross. “The Holocaust Conspiracy” sheds shocking new light on the plots and discreet actions of world powers to effectively support the Nazi genocide programs. You will alter your perceptions of many nations after reading this work.
{
261pp,
155x230mm,
December 1989;
HB,
£13.50,
0944007244:9780944007242
, SPI Books
} |
 |
HOLOCAUST VOICES
: An Attitudinal Survey of Survivors
[Alexander J Groth]
Political scientist Alexander Groth, himself a Holocaust survivor and a former inhabitant of the Warsaw Ghetto, has collected 240 systematic interviews, which go far beyond the usual first-person accounts of private sufferings. The author questioned survivors about their anticipations and awareness of the Final Solution; their impression of those Germans who were active in it; and their views of fellow Jews, non-Jewish neighbours, Western Allies, the pope, and sundry political and social entities active and important during the period. The objective of this study is to arrive at a general understanding of this historic tragedy from the point of view of those who lived through it and have had the opportunity of a lifetime of mature reflection. The trove of information in this volume will be especially valuable to Holocaust scholars and leaves to posterity the significant voices of the survivors.
{
350pp,
150x230mm,
November 2003;
HB,
£23.50,
1591021553:9781591021551
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
HOLOCAUST'S GHOST
: Writings on Art, Politics, Law & Education
[F DeCoste & Bernard Schwartz (eds)]
A powerful collection of new commentary on the Holocaust by international writers from nine disciplines. The book forms a response to the Holocaust's demands on memory and on thought, and is an occasion to encounter the Holocaust both as history and as possibility. Contributors provided essays on art, politics, law, and education.
REVIEW: "This volume ventures to raise courageous, sometimes controversial questions about memory and the past and in doing so contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust and its legacy. It is recommended for all law libraries, Holocaust studies programs, and liberal arts collections." Susan Lee Pentlin, German Studies Review 27/2.
{
568pp,
210x260mm,
May 2000;
PB,
£29.50,
0888643373:9780888643377
/
HB,
£38.50,
0888643586:9780888643582
, University of Alberta Press
} |
 |
HOUSE BY THE SEA
: A Portrait of the Holocaust in Greece
[Rebecca Camhi Fromer]
During World War 2 almost 90% of Greece's Jewish population was killed, mostly in Nazi concentration camps, making it the most devastated of all the Jewish communities of Europe. One who survived was Elia Aelion, whose story here is told.
{
176pp,
140x215mm,
May 1998;
PB,
£11.50,
1562791052:9781562791056
, Mercury House
} |
 |
I DARED TO LIVE, 4TH EDITION
[Sandra Brand]
The astonishing true story of a Jewish woman's escape from Nazi persecution in Poland during World War Two using an alternate Christian identity.
{
206pp,
155x230mm,
May 2000;
HB,
£15.50,
1887563504:9781887563505
/
PB,
£9.99,
1887563490:9781887563499
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
I WAS THERE
[Frances Penney]
This is a searing story of a remarkable young woman who survived the Holocaust against all odds, and after years of silence in the US her adoptive country, decided to let the world know what had happened to her, to her loved ones, and to her fellow Jews. The strength and originality of her narrative stems from both the perspective of the young woman who offers a frank insight into what it was like for her, separated from most of her family and friends to survive six years of Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, and the author's keen recollection of small everyday details that sharply document the boundless brutality of the Nazis and their collaborators.
{
152pp,
155x235mm,
December 1988;
HB,
£9.50,
088400127X:9780884001270
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
IRENE
: Chronicle of a Survivor
[Irene Hofstein]
The bulk of this tender story of life for Jews in Nazi Germany is contained in the letters written in Berlin by the grandmother, Jenny Pelz, and sent to her family in Brookline, Massachusetts.
{
177pp,
160x235mm,
December 1997;
HB,
£12.99,
0884002004:9780884002000
, Schreiber Publishing (Shengold)
} |
 |
JOHANNA KRAUSE TWICE PERSECUTED
: Surviving in Nazi Germany & Communist East Germany
[Carolyn Gammon & Christiane Hemker]
Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (19072001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" is her story. Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received little education and worked mostly in shops and factories. In 1933, when she came to the defence of a Jewish man being beaten by the brownshirts, Krause was jailed for "insulting the Führer". After a secret wedding in 1935, she was arrested again with her husband, Max Krause, for breaking the law that forbade marriage between a Jew and an "Aryan". In the years following, Johanna endured many atrocities -- a forced abortion while eight months pregnant and subsequent sterilisation, her incarceration in numerous prisons and concentration camps, including Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s camp near Berlin, and a death march. After the war, the Krauses took part enthusiastically in building the new socialist republic of East Germany -- until 1958, when Johanna recognised a party official as a man who had tried to rape and kill her during the war. Thinking the communist party would punish the official, Joanna found out whose side the party was on and was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks. Both she and her husband were jailed and their business and belongings confiscated. After her release she lived as a persona non grata in East Germany, having been evicted from the communist party. It was only in the 1990s, after the reunification of Germany, that Johanna saw some justice. Originally published as "Zweimal Verfolgt", the book is the result of collaboration between Johanna Krause, Carolyn Gammon, and Christiane Hemker. Translated by Carolyn Gammon, "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust.
{
166pp,
155x230mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1554580064:9781554580064
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
KEEP IT SAFE!
: Jewish Life in a Hungarian Town
[Irén Ács with Júlia Levendel]
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the holocaust in Hungary renowned photographer Irén Ács collected photographs from her birth place of Szécsény and told her own story of a Jewish childhood in the Hungarian countryside to author Júlia Levendel. 'Keep it Safe!' is a moving document of a lost world and a fascinating example of the possibilities of found photographs when accompanied by an appropriate commentary.
REVIEW: "...a moving document...her book is a memorial and a valuable historical record. It's used in schools in Hungary, and there's a place for it in our own classrooms and libraries." -- Times Educational Supplement, Friday October 29th 2004.
{
86pp,
210x230mm,
June 2004;
PB,
£15.95,
1899460217:9781899460212
, Boulevard Books
} |
 |
LAST WALK IN NARYSHKIN PARK
[Rose Zwi]
This book tells the story of Rose Zwi's forebears who were Lithuanian Jews caught up in the sweeping history of the first half of the century in Europe. Naryshkin Park, Zhager, Lithuania was once a place where lovers walked. It is now the site of a mass grave where it is thought 3000, although some say 7000, bodies lie -- massacred on 2 October 1941. Among them were members of Rose Zwi's family. Rose Zwi's quest is an attempt to exhume the past in order to come to grips with it.
{
252pp,
140x215mm,
January 1997;
PB,
£11.95,
1875559728:9781875559725
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
LONG LABOUR
: A Dutch Mother's Holocaust Memoir
[Rhodea Shandler]
In this unusual Holocaust memoir, Rhodea Shandler gives a woman's view of life under the Nazis in Holland. She begins by describing her early life in a closely knit Jewish family in northern Holland. There was anti-Semitism, she explains, but it was of a low level, and the Jews with their strong ties to community managed to live relatively normal lives. Then everything began to change with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Through it all, she tells of life ongoing and how she became a nursing student in Amsterdam. It was while she was working in an Amsterdam hospital on 9 May 1940, that an explosion was heard, and she looked up to watch German paratroopers landing to take control of the city. Over the next few years she describes how the community attempts to cope even as Jews are being deported before their very eyes. Finally in early 1943, she and her new husband decide that they must go into hiding in the countryside. With the help of the Underground, they find a "safe" farm, but their situation changes when Shandler discovers that she is pregnant. Some of the most moving parts of the story describe her preparations for the child's birth, even as their "friendly" family turns against them, fearful of the new dangers a baby will bring. Then on a bitterly cold day in December 1943 the baby is born, and Shandler is left with the difficult task of caring for the child in the midst of continuing Gestapo raids. Shandler's memoir ends with the family's decision after the war to emigrate to Canada, and for Shandler to write of her struggle to give birth to the new.
{
176pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
1553800451:9781553800453
, Ronsdale Press
} |
 |
MEMORIES, DREAMS, NIGHTMARES
: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor
[Jack Weiss]
The compelling memoir tells the story of Holocaust survivor Jack Weiss. This is the story of his abused childhood, how a deported eleven-year old boy escaped from certain death to join his father in the middle of a war. He was deported again to the infamous Auschwitz/Bierkenau concentration camp where he was selected for forced labour. Somehow, he miraculously survived these horrors, & at the age of 17, he was brought by the Canadian Jewish Congress to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where was finally able to carve out a life for himself.
{
254pp,
130x190mm,
November 2004;
PB,
£14.99,
1552381269:9781552381267
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
MINA'S MOUNTAIN
[Hermione Bohm & Evelyn Julia Kent]
Written especially for pupils of 9 and over and anyone interested in the true stories of World War II. The perfect companion to The Disappearance of Goldie Rapaport. Mina's Mountain tells the true story of spirit, faith, and love that carry Hermione Bohm through the dark days of World War Two. In her early years, despite hardship and poverty, her family pulled together. The stark everyday struggle to survive is offset by a strong religious background. During the war, when it is her turn to look after five children of the List family, she takes them to mountains out of harm's way. Against all the odds of wartime, she falls in love and marries. This is a heart-warming story of a girl growing to maturity, when she learns that love never dies.
{
200pp,
135x225mm,
September 1997;
PB,
£5.99,
0952371669:9780952371663
, Evelyn Kent
} |
 |
MY YEARS IN THERESIENSTADT
: How One Woman Survived the Holocaust
[Gerty Spies]
Gerty Spies was born in 1897 at Trier into a Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries. Separated from her family by the Nazis, she was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. It was a peculiar place: publicised as a retirement city, a Nazi propaganda showplace where Jews could sit out the war. But it was actually a way station for those destined for the Auschwitz death camp. Isolated from the outside world, surrounded by death, Spies retreated to her inner self to concentrate on human, cultural, and other values. Her powerful talent for writing, discovered at the camp; enabled her to transcend and triumph over mental and physical degradations; to keep her own integrity; to not let evil destroy her loving nature; and, finally, to not lose faith in humanity. By the end of the war, 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt from disease and malnutrition. Spies' work exhibits a tension between the expression of camp reality and an imagination of an idealised past. Sensitive and humorous, but never bitter, her stories of the struggle for survival are expressions of her own individual moral poise.
{
214pp,
140x215mm,
May 1997;
HB,
£23.50,
1573921416:9781573921411
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
NEVER FAR AWAY
: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman
[Anna Heilman]
Brings to print the mysterious story of the Gunpowder Plot, where women working as slave labourers in the Union Munitions factory plotted to destroy Auschwitz crematoriums.
{
160pp,
155x230mm,
September 2001;
PB,
£14.99,
1552380408:9781552380406
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
NIGHT SPIES
[Kacer]
Ages 9 to 12 years. It is the middle of World War II, and, with the help of trusted friends, Gabi, her mother and her cousin Max go into hiding in a tiny mountain village. It takes great willpower to endure months of fear in their cramped hiding space at the back of a barn, and eventually Gabi and Max sneak out for the first of many secret night-time walks. Through the discovery of anti-Nazi partisan soldiers camped in the nearby woods and new roles as partisan scouts, Gabi and Max find strength and courage, and a renewed sense of hope in dark times.
{
197pp,
140x190mm,
May 2003;
PB,
£4.99,
1896764703:9781896764702
, Second Story Press
} |
 |
NO ONE AWAITING ME
: Two Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Romania
[Joil Alpern]
A riveting account of two orphaned brothers whose courage enabled them to survive the rarely told horrors of the Holocaust in Romania. As Jews expelled from Bukovina & Bessarabia to Transnistria, young Joil & his brother Avrum witnessed the cruel deaths of their parents & many others. This is a deeply personal account told through the memories of a child. Readers will never forget the powerful & loving bond between these two brothers. This memoir becomes an inspiring & thoughtful experience for any reader willing to consider both the constructive & the destructive capacities of humankind. This is a story both poignant & triumphant as Joil recounts how he survived the Holocaust with an unmistakable optimism that ultimately brought him to the prairies of Canada.
{
262pp,
155x230mm,
October 2001;
PB,
£14.99,
1552380610:9781552380611
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
ON GERMANS & JEWS UNDER THE NAZI REGIME
: Essays by Three Generations of Historians
[Moshe Zimmermann (ed)]
This unique volume, which is sure to engage the attention of both scholars and the general public, is an unparalleled cross-generational and international dialogue among eminent historians about three central aspects of the unfathomable enigma of the Holocaust. In the first section, beyond a seminal overview of sixty years of research, the writers reflect on historiography and historical thought ranging from contemporaries of the Third Reich to the ongoing discussion about the controversial role post-war West German historians played in Holocaust research. This is followed by a section focusing on social anti-semitism until the 1950s and the German public’s awareness of the Holocaust, including the posture of the German Resistance Movement. The third major theme is the Jewish society, from its initial attempts to develop new forms of societal life under the Nazi regime until the brink of annihilation during the mass deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. The concluding chapter sheds light on the unresolved tension between reflective personal memory and impersonal historical research of this dark period in human history.
{
435pp,
175x245mm,
January 2006;
HB,
£25.99,
9654932547:9789654932547
, Hebrew University Magnes Press
} |
 |
PARNAS
[Arieti, Silvano]
Without sermonising or assigning an easy explanation to a mysterious drama, the author gives an overview of Italian-Jewish history, a description of war-torn Italy, and a dramatic account of the process of self-understanding in the face of death itself.
{
160pp,
140x215mm,
May 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
0966491300:9780966491302
, Paul Dry Books
} |
 |
PRISON ON WHEELS
: From Ravensbrück to Burgau
[Eva Langley-Dános]
"Prison on Wheels" is a remarkable diary kept by a young Hungarian woman, Eva Dános, during sixteen horror-filled days and nights of deportation by the Nazis in 1945. It is an eyewitness report of a 700-kilometre rail journey from Ravensbrück, north of Berlin, to Burgau, near Munich, one of the countless such operations that took place within Nazi Germany’s vast network of labour and concentration camps. What makes this account of particular interest is the fact that the author had been a member of a small, underground group in Budapest led by Gitta Mallasz, and her fellow-prisoners included some of these same comrades. Their humanity helped to sustain them.
{
124pp,
140x215mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£12.50,
3856305858:9783856305857
, Daimon Verlag
} |
 |
RESCUERS
: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
[Gay Block & Malka Drucker]
A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries.
{
256pp,
230x280mm,
January 1992;
PB,
£20.95,
0841913234:9780841913233
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
RESISTANCE & SURVIVAL
: The Jewish Community in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941-1944
[Sara Ginaite-Rubinson]
First published in Lithuania in 1999, this book received very wide critical acclaim and is now considered one of the seminal works on Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust period. Co-published with the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation
{
252pp,
155x230mm,
August 2005;
PB,
£12.99,
0889628165:9780889628168
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
RING OF MYTHS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Israelis, Wagner & the Nazis
[Na'ama Sheffi]
This book examines the Israeli attitude towards Wagner in light of remembrance of the Holocaust and the shape of the new Israeli national identity. To many in Israel, Richard Wagner is a symbol of the concentration camps, or at least of a fierce sociopolitical controversy. Although the cancellation of a performance of the prelude to Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1938 was simply an impetuous response to the events of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, over the years this incident became part of a wider pattern as the Wagner boycott was extended to other composers suspected of collaborating with the Nazis.
REVIEW: "Sheffi concludes that the choice of Wagner as the target for all their abhorrance of Nazism and the Holocaust 'both sins against the man and obscures the significance of the Holocaust'." -- Choice. "Does an excellent job of showing the historical evolution of the debate, and linking this to the political and ideological evolution of the State of Israel." -- H-Net; H-Genocide. "The reception of German culture in general and Wagner's music in particular is traced to show how the taboo developed alongside the collective memory of the Holocaust... For Sheffi, the dilemma around Wagner reflects the situation of the state of Israel as a whole... She takes the musical debate... and uses it as a mirror to reflect Israeli society today. [The book] shows a profound understanding of how Israeli society emerged and how it functions today." -- The Jewish Quarterly Review.
{
184pp,
155x230mm,
January 2000;
HB,
£45.00,
1902210522:9781902210520
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
RUMKOWSKI & THE ORPHANS OF LODZ
[Lucille Eichengreen]
Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed head of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, had absolute authority over selections and deportations. He also used his power to molest children in the Lodz orphanage and outside. This quiet, devastating memoir by a Holocaust survivor documents her own abuse by Rumkowski and the accounts she heard from many others who suffered at his hands.
{
125pp,
140x215mm,
December 1999;
PB,
£11.50,
156279115X:9781562791155
, Mercury House
} |
 |
RUNNING THROUGH FIRE
: How I Survived the Holocaust
[Zosia Goldberg, as told to Hilton Obenzinger; Introduction by Paul Auster]
"Du solst starben zwischem goyem!" A fellow Jew within the Warsaw Ghetto, offended by Zosia Goldberg's Polish of no Yiddish accent, spat at her in Yiddish: "May you die amongst the goyem!" Zosia took this 'curse' instead as a message from God. Her dramatic tale begins with her escaping the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewer, whereafter she survived the Holocaust posing as a Gentile. Zosia did not die amongst the goyem, and yet along her dangerous journey she should have died on numerous occasions. She was a 'débrouillarde', someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Her account is filled with unique energy and a wonder at the strangeness of human behaviour. For not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity.
REVIEW: Noted in the Jewish Chronicle, June 18th, 2004.
{
189pp,
140x215mm,
April 2004;
PB,
£10.99,
1562791281:9781562791285
, Mercury House
} |
 |
SAVING THE JEWS
: Amazing Stories of Men & Women Who Defied the 'Final Solution'
[Mordecai Paldiel]
The author has collected the most amazing stories of people who secretly saved Jewish lives from 1933 to 1945 and arranged them chronologically and geographically to show us that there will always be a few righteous souls who have made a greater difference in favour of human goodness.
{
256pp,
155x230mm,
November 2000;
HB,
£16.99,
1887563555:9781887563550
, Schreiber Publishing
} |
 |
SCARED & THE DOOMED
: The Jewish Establishment vs the Six Million
[M J Nurenberger]
This is not only an important work on a painful and hidden chapter of Jewish history, it is also surprisingly prophetic. During World War 2, M J Nurenberger had a ‘front row seat’ to what he called the ‘Jewish Civil War’. This ‘war’ was a fierce struggle between the ‘pseudo-Zionist establishment’ in North America and the ‘Irgun’ underground in what was then ‘Eretz Israel’ and their delegations in Washington and New York. This ‘Jewish Civil War’, according to M J Nurenberger, was the primary cause for the paralysis of organised and established American Jewry when Jews world-wide began to face the greatest challenge and ultimate tragedy of Jewish history -- Hitler’s war against the Six Million and their eventual extermination. Based upon exhaustive research in numerous archives, first-hand eye-witness accounts, and interviews with numerous participants, this book exposes the various events, the internal conflicts and bold initiatives which took place in the relations between the US State Department, the Jewish Establishment and the Irgun. It also includes detailed and careful analyses of the Sternbuch Saga and the Musy Mission to Himmler, both of which were pivotal in sealing the fate of European Jewry.
{
261pp,
155x230mm,
June 2006;
PB,
£11.99,
0889628483:9780889628489
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
SCENES FROM HITLER'S '1000-YEAR REICH'
: Twelve Years of Nazi Terror & the Aftermath
[Kerry Weinberg PhD]
In this extraordinary memoir Kerry Weinberg documents what happened to her and many others like her during one of the most horrific periods of European history. As the events of the Holocaust recede more and more into the past, we have seen the unfortunate rise in recent decades of anti-Semitic revisionist propaganda questioning the historicity of the Nazi-sponsored genocide. In this context, documents such as Weinberg's, which testify to firsthand experiences of eyewitnesses, are especially valuable to set the record straight. Forced by circumstances to live in many nations under many regimes, she became a citizen of the world and a survivor compelled to tell her story and those of others who could not escape.
{
175pp,
150x230mm,
May 2003;
HB,
£19.99,
159102045X:9781591020455
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
SHIVITTI
: A Vision
[Ka-Tzetnik 135633]
Though the author survived two years in Auschwitz, the memories of the horrors he experienced gripped him mercilessly for years until he found relief through psychotherapy. This book is the author's unforgettable memoir of that experience.
{
120pp,
140x215mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£10.99,
0895561131:9780895561138
, IPG (Gateways Books & Tapes)
} |
 |
SO OTHERS WILL REMEMBER
: Holocaust History & Survivor Testimony
[Ronald Headland (ed)]
These essays and works by historians, writers, political scientists, artists, lawyers, psychologists, clergy, provide a wide range of perspectives. Rather than pretending to reflect or offer any orthodoxies in Holocaust scholarship or Holocaust education, this collection intentionally deals with a variety of subjects and perspectives as offered by researchers and survivors. So Others Will Remember is a combination of history and memory, or more precisely, of historical analysis and painful recollection.
{
248pp,
155x230mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£13.50,
155065120X:9781550651201
, IPG (Véhicule Press)
} |
 |
STAYING HUMAN THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST
[Terez Mozes]
In June 1944, Teréz & Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by the widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps & an uncertain future, Teréz & Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945. Told in a direct & riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest & most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual & historical point of view.
{
386pp,
125x190mm,
October 2004;
PB,
£14.99,
1552381390:9781552381397
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
SUICIDE & THE HOLOCAUST
[David Lester & Richard Stockton]
The purpose of this important book is to explore the phenomena of the low suicide rate in the concentration camps during the Holocaust, and why its survivors seem to become increasingly susceptible to suicide, as they grow older. This unique book explores this heretofore unexplored area of history by the case study method utilising the detailed biographies of famous survivors. People kill themselves usually because they are in deep despair, with no hope for the future. Surely the people in the concentration camps, especially those that were clearly extermination camps, would have been in deep despair with no hope for the future. But since they supposedly did not commit suicide at a high rate, they must not have been in such state. This puzzle of human behaviour is examined under the microscope of a well-known world expert on suicide.
{
July 2005;
HB,
£83.50,
1594544271:9781594544279
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ
: Children of the Shoah
[Milton J Nieuwsma]
Tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler's most notorious death camp. With dramatic photographs, Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenebaum, and Rachel Hyams document the story in their own words.
{
162pp,
190x260mm,
February 2005;
PB,
£9.99,
1596870729:9781596870727
, Brick Tower Press (ibooks)
} |
 |
TALKING WITH ANGELS, 4TH EDITION
[Gitta Mallasz & Lela Fischli]
The true story of four young Hungarians in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval -- the holocaust -- who encountered luminous forces that helped them find new direction and hope in their shattered lives. These forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied them for seventeen perilous months, until three of them met their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world.
{
474pp,
140x210mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£20.99,
3856307044:9783856307042
, Daimon Verlag
} |
 |
THREE TRAGIC HEROES OF THE VILNIUS GHETTO
: Witenberg, Sheinbaum, Gens
[N N Shneidman]
Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno), the capital of Lithuania, has been one of the main centres of Jewish cultural, religious, social and political activity of the Diaspora since the middle ages. At one time, one half of the city inhabitants were Jewish. Everything changed during the Holocaust. The Jewish community was destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators. But there were those who refused to surrender without a fight. Witenberg and Sheinbaum were the leaders of the Jewish underground resistance organisations in the Vilnius ghetto. Gens was the Jewish Head of the ghetto, appointed to this position by the German authorities. Each person had the same objective -- personal and communal survival. All three perished during the destruction of the Jewish ghetto. These three figures constitute the 'Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto'. This book compares the different approaches to the issues of resistance and survival and illuminates the specific problems of Jewish resistance and also the larger dilemma of survival during the Nazi era.
{
174pp,
155x230mm,
December 2002;
PB,
£12.99,
0889627851:9780889627857
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
TRICKS OF FATE
: Escape, Survival & Rescue, 1939-1945
[Morris Gruda]
One aspect of Holocaust experience and literature has been largely undocumented -- up to now. The value and importance of "Tricks of Fate" is that it fills in this apparent void in Holocaust literature. Morris Gruda’s flight through Nazi occupied Poland and into the Soviet Union, his struggles for survival and his return to Poland at the end of the war is a unique story, but one which he shared with many other Jews. Indeed, it is estimated that 300,000 Jews were caught in or escaped into Russian-occupied Poland shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Many of these Jews later participated in the Russian war against Germany after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Morris Gruda was one of them. Morris Gruda has powerfully re-created the traumas, the disasters, the minor triumphs, the hunger and disease, the endless vagaries of pure chance that allowed him to survive. He has not only filled a void in the literature, but he emerges as an immensely sensitive, humane individual struggling to survive and to reunite his family. Morris Gruda emigrated to Canada after the war and has become a successful businessman, philanthropist, noted Yiddish writer and poet, a father of two children and the grandfather of twelve.
{
265pp,
155x230mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
0889628629:9780889628625
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
WHERE WAS GOD?
: The Lifes & Thoughts of Holocaust & World War II Survivors
[Remkes Kooistra (ed)]
A valuable and important addition to the literature of Holocaust and Survivors of World War 2. Professor Kooistra was Chaplain at the University of Waterloo in Ontario after he emigrated to Canada from Holland. During his tenure at Waterloo, he created a Study Group which made oral histories of Holocaust victims and Survivors. From this vast wealth of material, he has now prepared this book. The book has a definite Dutch focus. It provides important new information about the persecution and deportation of Dutch Jews as well as how many Dutch Jews were hidden and saved in Holland. Written for both Jews and non-Jews. The most amazing stories are tales of survival by non-Jews in concentration camps. Many of the stories are astonishing and painful. Heroism -- yes, but also chance, confusion, the unexpected. An important contribution both to history and to literature.
{
204pp,
155x235mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£12.99,
0889627576:9780889627574
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
WHO LOVES YOU LIKE THIS, 2ND EDITION
[Edith Bruck]
This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood destroyed.
{
120pp,
140x210mm,
December 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
0966491378:9780966491371
, Paul Dry Books
} |
 |
WITNESS
: Images of Auschwitz
[David Olère & Alexandre Oler]
Inside these pages are some of the most famous drawings to emerge from a survivor of Nazi extermination camps.
{
112pp,
280x225mm,
December 1998;
HB,
£23.99,
094103769X:9780941037693
, D & F Scott Publishing Inc (West Wind Press)
} |
 |
WRITING & THE HOLOCAUST
[Berel Lang (ed)]
In this extraordinary collection of essays, historians, novelists and philosophers ponder the imponderable: Was the effort to exterminate the Jewish people a unique historic event or does it fit into a larger context? Is there justification for creating Holocaust fiction? Is humour an appropriate tool in Holocaust literature? Must a work about the Holocaust have redemptive value? With some exceptions, the essays were presented as papers at a 1987 conference at SUNY Albany. Among the participants were Saul Friedlander, Raul Hilberg and Aharon Appelfeld. Although a few contributions are oppressively intellectual, many brilliantly interweave anecdotes and issues to arrive at insights into the awesome task of writing about the Holocaust. Appelfeld, for example, vividly recollects pitiful child survivors who performed snatches of Jewish songs for coins before concluding, "The problem... has been to remove the Holocaust from its enormous, inhuman dimensions and bring it close to human beings."
{
293pp,
152x228mm,
January 1988;
PB,
£13.95,
0841911851:9780841911857
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE
[Ewa Kurek]
The story -- never told before -- of how Polish nuns in World War II saved hundreds of Jewish lives in German-occupied Poland. Forty-nine convents and orphanages were involved in protecting the children and the most authoritative estimates indicate 1200 Jewish young people survived the war in these shelters.
{
255pp,
165x235mm,
January 1996;
HB,
£16.99,
0781804094:9780781804097
, Hippocrene Books
} |
