History / Holocaust

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe--A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust

by Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev

In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves, readers bear witness to the terrible irony of the Ovitz’s fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped...

The Nazi Séance

by Arthur J. Magida

World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated.  Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic...

Churchill and the Jews

by Martin Gilbert

An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment--both public and private--to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain...

Echoes of the Holocaust: Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe

by Klas-Goran Karlsson & Ulf Zander

The result of a research project conducted by Swedish scholars, this text examines interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in European societies, primarily focusing on the most recent decades. Using...

And The World Closed Its Doors: The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust

by David Clay Large

More clearly than many other books, Large's account depicts the tragic abandonment of the Jews by Western Nations.- Booklist

The Pink Triangle

by Richard Plant

This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against...

The Boy

by Dan Porat

A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The...

The Girl in the Green Sweater

by Krystyna Chiger & Daniel Paisner

True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos...

As If It Were Life

by Philipp Manes, Ben Barkow & Klaus Leist

In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece"  ghetto of the Third Reich....

Until Our Last Breath

by Michael Bart & Laurel Corona

At Leizer Bart’s funeral, one of the mourners told his son Michael that the gravestone should include a reference to the Freedom Fighters of Nekamah, to honor his late father’s involvement in the Jewish...

The Occupied Garden

by Kristen Den Hartog & Tracy Kasaboski

The Occupied Garden is the powerful true story of a market gardener and his fiercely devout wife who were living a simple life in Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. During the subsequent occupation, Gerrit...

We Survived: Fourteen Histories Of The Hidden And Hunted In Nazi Germany

by Eric H. Boehm

First published in 1949 and now brought up-to-date, We Survived offers a dramatic and historical documentation of personal survival under the terror and persecution of the Third Reich

The Journey Back: Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book The Upstairs Room

by Johanna Reiss

The moving sequel to the Newbery Honor book, The Upstairs Room. After years of hiding from the Nazis during World War II, Annie is told the war is over and she must return home. Despite all odds she has survived...

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Israel Gutman

One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on dairies, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoratative account of a landmark...

Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived

by Lyn Smith

A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

by Matthew Brzezinski

Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic...

In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin

by Michael Berenbaum, Bianca Steiner Brown & De Cara Silva

Everyone eats, everyone has memories, and everyone has traditions. Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian concentration camp, In Memory's Kitchen pages are filled with the recipes...

The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind

by Nancy R. Goodman & Marilyn B. Meyers

Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century....

Forgotten Voices: The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II

by Ulrich Merten

More than sixty years ago the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war’s end, however,...

The Boxer's Story: Fighting For My Life in the Nazi Camps

by Nathan Shapow & Bob Harris

Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than to enjoy his teenage years and become a champion boxer. But the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of...