History / Holocaust

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

by Chil Rajchman & Solon Beinfeld

Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was...

The Third Reich: A Chronicle

by Richard Overy

Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position...

Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer

by Randall Bytwerk

A look at the life and work of Julius Streicher (1885-1946) the editor of Der Sturmer a widely read anti-semitic weekly newspaper

Poles Apart: The Tragic Fate of Poles During World War II

by Dr. Jerzy Janusz Maciuszko

Born in Warsaw, the author served on the front lines during the invasion of Poland by Hitler in 1939. He spent over five years as a prisoner-of-war. The book chronicles his and his family's stories as well as...

Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

by Gretchen Schafft & Gerhard Zeidler

This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II...

Reading Auschwitz

by Mary Lagerwey

"My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips...

The Pianist

by Wladyslaw Szpilman

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s...

Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer

by Hellmut G Haasis & William Odom

Georg Elser was just an ordinary working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself,...

Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

by Samuel Totten

Academics, NGOs, the United Nations, and individual nations are focused on the prevention and intervention of genocide. Traditionally, missions to prevent or intervene in genocide have been sporadic and under-resourced....

The Nuremberg Interviews

by Leon Goldensohn

During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn–a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army–monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations...

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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...

The Stars Bear Witness: An organizer of Jewish resistance in Warsaw, and one of its few survivors, tells of five years of epic heroism, pursuit, and m

by Bernard Goldstein & Leonard Shatzkin

Bernard Goldstein was a prominent Polish socialist, union organizer and Bund leader in the pivotal years of 1920 and 1921. He became active as a leader of the Jewish resistance movement in German-occupied Poland,...

Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide

by David G. Roskies & Naomi Diamant

A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France

by Sarah Lew Miller & Joyce B. Lazarus

This personal and historical account of an era conveys the day-to-day life of a teenage girl living in Nazi-occupied France with the ever-present threat of death. Despite her loneliness, hardships and the derailment...

Voices of the Old Sea

by Norman Lewis

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost...

Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

by Ram Oren & Barbara Harshav

Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.

Michael Stolowitzky,...

Hell's Cartel

by Diarmuid Jeffreys

The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates

At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations...

The Scene of the Mass Crime: History, Film, and International Tribunals

by Christian Delage & Peter Goodrich

The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film....

A Conspiracy Of Decency: The Rescue Of The Danish Jews During World War II

by Emmy E. Werner

The dramatic and compelling rescue of the Danish Jews from the hands of the Nazis, told through firsthand accounts and personal stories

Hiroshima Suite

by William Heyen

"I invite you to allow this remarkable Hiroshima Suite-which he seems to have heard all at once in one non-linear audition-to intone for you until, within the "transluminous horror" of August 6, 1945, we are...