Genocide & ethnic cleansing
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (Paperback / softback - 30 Dec 2003)
With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which focus...
ISBN-13: 9780375714177 ; ISBN-10: 0375714170
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EICHMANN AND THE HOLOCAUST (Paperback - 25 Aug 2005)
Following the overwhelming success of Great Ideas' launch, with a million sold in the UK alone, Penguin now publish a further 20 short, astonishing works of non-fiction drawn from the most remarkable writing of the past two and a half thousand years of human thinking.
Night Spies (Paperback / softback - 7 May 2003)
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...
THE HOLOCAUST (Paperback - 6 Oct 2005)
The Lost Words series provides an authentic picture of life in history through first-hand accounts. Powerful and emotive, these books ensure the reader gains a full understanding of what life was like.
ANNE FRANK AND CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST (Paperback - 29 Jun 2006)
Tells the life story of Anne Frank set chronologically against the significant events of the Holocaust. Spanning Anne's short life from 1929 to 1945, and the early rise of Hitler to the liberation of the concentration camps, this account examines both the fate of the Frank family and the wider picture of the Holocaust.
ISBN-13: 9780141319636 ; ISBN-10: 0141319631
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Righteous Smuggler: A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers (Paperback / softback - 20 Sep 2005)
For ages 9-12. During WWII, when Hendrik, the young son of a fisherman in Amsterdam, notices his Jewish friends being barred from school and ostracised by their other classmates, he is determined to stand by them. His parents have always told him to fight injustice. So when Hendrik realises what Hitler's policies ultimately mean for his Jewish friends and their families, he hatches a daring plan to help smuggle...
Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution: Revised Edition (Paperback / softback - 19 Sep 1991)
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...
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank, New Edition (Paperback / softback - 1 Oct 1999)
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...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex (Paperback / softback - 4 Mar 2003)
The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne’s story, however. This book rounds...
THE LAST SURVIVOR: LIVING IN A TOWN CALLED DACHAU (Paperback - 9 Feb 2001)
An investigation into what it is like to live in Dachau now. Ryback meets the people of Dachau and discovers how they live under the camp's shadow. He also tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, a camp guide whose past is difficult to reveal and, at times, to believe.
ISBN-13: 9780330390026 ; ISBN-10: 0330390023
Price: £8.05 Not Available
At the Mercy of Strangers: Survival in Nazi Occupied Poland (Paperback / softback - 12 Dec 2005)
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 Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Paperback / softback - 3 Feb 1997)
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages,...
Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth (Paperback / softback - 17 Jul 2009)
This collection of short stories follows the events of several children who survived the Holocaust from childhood to maturity. Some stories seek to find a voice stifled by old world fears in a country that is looking to find its own distinctiveness; others struggle rebellion, love found and lost, and pain of being helpless in the face of insuperable circumstances.
A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-sommer (Paperback - 7 Mar 2008)
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague—the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimized. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported....
AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE (Paperback - 3 Mar 2005)
As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. Through personal reflections and explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience, the author talks about the legacy of the Holocaust.
THE UNHOLY WAR: THE VATICAN'S ROLE IN THE RISE OF MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM (Paperback - 17 Jan 2003)
In this investigation, the author argues that the Roman Catholic Church's role in the historical hatred and persecution of Jews in Europe helped make the Holocaust possible. It reveals how traditional Catholic forms of dealing with Jews were transformed into modern anti-Semitism.
AUSCHWITZ (Paperback - 1 Sep 2005)
Shows how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. This book examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers.
The Hiding Place (Paperback / softback - 1 Oct 1984)
“I pray that God forgive them...”Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.Both woman had been sent to the camp for...



















