Escape from Pannonia : A Tale of Two Survivors

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.
Steve Floris
9781894694032
140x215mm
160 pages
Granville Island Publishing
£10.99 pb
Eva's Story : A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank, New Edition

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...
Eva Schloss & Evelyn Julia Kent
9780952371694
105x180mm
224 pages
Evelyn Kent
£6.99 pb
Fateful Months : Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution: Revised Edition

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.

Introduction; The Decision Concerning the Final Solution; Wehrmacht Reprisal Policy and the Murder of the Male Jews in Serbia; The Development and Production of the Nazi Gas Van; The Semlin Gas Van and the Final Solution in Serbia; The Semlin 'Judenlager'; The German Security Police in Belgrade; The Gas Van at Semlin; Conclusion; Notes.
 
Christopher R Browning
9780841912663
b/w illustrations
155x230mm
113 pages
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
£8.95 pb
Final Journey - Holocaust : The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe

Filled with eye-witness accounts and contemporary evidence regarding the Nazis plan to send millions of Jews to the death camps. Wherever possible, author Martin Gilbert has given precise dates of every document quoted, and has cited the actual words used at the time. Since the Nazi attempt to murder the Jews of Europe concerned individual people -- people with names, families, careers, and futures, for millions of whom no one survived to mourn, or even remember -- Gilbert has tried to tell the stories of individuals, as well as of communities. We learn how these journeys were organised, where they went, the fate of those who were on them., and that no two journeys or experiences were the same. Through a series of these journeys, "Final Journey: Holocaust" brings into sharp focus what the victims actually went through. Maps, routes, ranges, and photographs relate to the many stories told. Spanning the whole spectrum of deportations and experiences during the Holocaust years, this is a cautionary tale for what can happen when tyranny takes command, and when the secrecy that is inevitable in war enables an evil regime to seek the destruction of a whole people.
Sir Martin Gilbert
9781596873667
140x215mm
240 pages
Brick Tower Press
£12.99 pb
Forgotten Holocaust : The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944, Revised Edition

The revised edition includes a short history of ZEGOTA, the underground government organisation working to save the Jews, and an annotated listing of many Poles executed by the Germans for trying to shelter and save Jews.
Richard C Lukas
9780781809016
140x215mm, paperback
358 pages
Hippocrene Books
£14.99
German Public & the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1945 : 'No One Participated, No One Knew'

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.
Jörg Wollenberg (ed)
9781573923309
145x215mm
220 pages
Prometheus Books
£42.50 hb
Ghost Children : Poems

This is a powerful collection of poems that explores the spiritual and emotional trauma suffered by child survivors of the Holocaust. Drawing on her own experiences as a child survivor in the Warsaw Ghetto, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz gives a gripping account of the attempt by survivors to find a means of continuing under the shadow of Auschwitz.
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
9780921870784
155x230mm
80 pages
Ronsdale Press
£7.99 pb
Hitler's Death Camps : The Sanity of Madness

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.
Konnilyn G Feig
9780841906761
b/w photos
150x230mm
546 pages
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc - January 1981
£22.50 pb
Hitler's Gift : The Story of Theresienstadt

Adolf Hitler had a way with deception to the point of fooling even representatives of the Red Cross. He corralled the Jewish intelligentsia from all over Europe and gathered them in Theresienstadt where he had them write and perform plays, compose music and offer it in extraordinary concerts, and even paint and exhibit their art in their own galleries -- in front of bedazzled inspectors who never checked the railway carriages parked behind the camp.
George E Berkley
9780828320641
b/w photos
155x230mm
308 pages
Branden Publishing
£16.50 pb
Holocaust & the Crisis of Human Behaviour

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.
George M Kren & Leon Rappoport
9780841913059
152x228mm
228 pages
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
£13.95 pb
Holocaust Conspiracy : An International Policy of Genocide

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.
William R Perl
9780944007242
b&w photos
155x230mm, hardback
261 pages
SPI Books
£14.50
Holocaust's Ghost : Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

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.

"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.

F DeCoste and Bernard Schwartz, Editors
9780888643582 (hb)

9780888643377 (pb)
b&w photos
210x260mm, hardback
568 pages
University of Alberta Press
£35.50 hb  £27.50 pb

Holocaust Voices : An Attitudinal Survey of Survivors

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.
Alexander J Groth
9781591021551
150x230mm, hardback
350 pages
Prometheus Books
£24.99
House By the Sea : A Portrait of the Holocaust in Greece

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.
Rebecca Camhi Fromer
9781562791056
b/w illustrations
140x215mm
176 pages
Mercury House
£14.99 pb
I Am First a Human Being : The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska

This collection of letters documents the trials of a young Polish woman who was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo in 1942 for working as a spy for the Polish Underground, imprisoned in Berlin, and executed two years later. In the last year of her life, she wrote over 60 poignant letters that, through the kindness of a courageous prison guard, were smuggled to her parents or to the guard's daughter, who became her pen pal.
Irene Tomaszewski
9781550650952
155x230mm
160 pages
Véhicule Press
£14.99 pb
I Dared to Live, 4th Edition

The astonishing true story of a Jewish woman's escape from Nazi persecution in Poland during World War Two using an alternate Christian identity.
Sandra Brand
9781887563499 (pb)
9781887563505 (hb)
b/w photos
155x230mm
206 pages
Schreiber Publishing
£12.99 pb £19.99 hb

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