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The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through

The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through

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Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless

I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless

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'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...
Uprising

Uprising

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Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realises her life is about...
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest

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Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and...
Death on the Black Sea

Death on the Black Sea

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On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a ship filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece...
Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered

Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered

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An extraordinary story of courage, forgiveness and reconciliation. Sabina Wolanski was just 12 years old when her home town in Poland was invaded by Nazis. In her diary, along with...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the...
The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the

The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the

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After the German attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krakow, were occupied by the Nazis in an administration which became known as the...
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide

Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide

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Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...
Death in the City of Light (Trade)

Death in the City of Light (Trade)

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Occupied Paris, 1944. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers patrol the elegant boulevards and the once-vibrant city is shrouded in suspicion and fear. At...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

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This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

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A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather, the bestselling, Costa prize-winning author of The Volunteer (over 100k TCM)...
The Klemperer Diaries: v.2: To the Bitter End, 1942-45

The Klemperer Diaries: v.2: To the Bitter End, 1942-45

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Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets....
The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the

The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the

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In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews...
Night

Night

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A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...
Konin: A Quest

Konin: A Quest

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A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

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The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet it is a sad testament to our time that those who make...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

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The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death...
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish

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In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of...
The Pianist

The Pianist

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The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the...
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

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This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France

Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France

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Ninette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World...
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the

A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...
Our Nazi: An American Suburb's Encounter with Evil

Our Nazi: An American Suburb's Encounter with Evil

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The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries...
Space and Time under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the

Space and Time under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the

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A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution , Guy Miron considers...
I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless

I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless

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'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41

I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41

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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank...
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

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The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. 'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims...
Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File

Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File

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The book titled Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by the author Alan Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

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Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection...
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had...
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

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Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...
Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

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The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

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A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2- Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz. With new introduction...
Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of

Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of

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Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

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This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor

Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor

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Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...
I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

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'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...
The Holocaust: Origins, History and Aftermath c.1920-1945

The Holocaust: Origins, History and Aftermath c.1920-1945

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The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes...
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

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The graphic adaptation of one of the world's most-loved books 'June, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to...
Night

Night

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First time in Modern Classics Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New

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The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals. _____________________________________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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New to Black Classics from 20th c. Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...