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Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Lily Renée Wilheim, the Jewish girl who escaped from the Nazis through the Kindertransport operation, leaving her parents behind and traveling alone to England, later becoming a comic book artist in New York.
Author
Publisher
International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights.
Author
Series
Nazi Germany and the Jews volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997-]
Language
English
Description
A renowned historian and Holocaust survivor examines the anti-Semitism and persecution that led to Nazi Germany's attempts to systematically exterminate Europe's Jewish population, focusing on the people and events from the Nazi accession to power in 1933 to the onset of World War II. A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The epic true story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, an American hero who risked his life in the final days of World War II to save others--now in a thrilling young readers' edition. During the infamous World War II Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was captured, along with his infantrymen. The Nazis took him and his men to Stalag IX A, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Germany, where he was the highest-ranking American soldier....
11) No hard feelings
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, was caught shoplifting. He is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets the siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to the test."--IMDb.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...
13) The origins of the Final Solution: the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1939, the Nazi regime's plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. This book is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place during this crucial period--of how, precisely, the Nazis' racial policies evolved from persecution and...
14) No surrender: a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was the highest-ranking American soldier at Stalag...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling book, R�uta Vanagait�e holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann, the author of one of the most influential books on the Holocaust. Her searching exchanges with Dieckmann illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the Holocaust"--
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...
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