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All Rivers Run to the Sea
• Elie Wiesel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York and his many pilgrimages to Israel.
(EUR153, $16.00)
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Anne Frank Remembered
• Miep Gies
• Allison Leslie Gold
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A memoir of Anne, the Frank family and occupied Amsterdam by Miep Gies, who with her husband and colleagues hid and protected the Franks through much of World War II. Ages 12 to adult.
(NTH59, $14.00)
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Art From the Ashes
• Lawrence L. Langer
• ANTHOLOGY
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A powerful collection of stories, journals, essays, poetry and prose about the Holocaust
(EUR131, $41.95)
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The Avengers, A Jewish War Story
• Rich Cohen
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The riveting tale of three kids from the Jewish ghetto, who went from the streets of Vilna to fighting the Germans and eventually wound up in a Kibbutz north of Tel Aviv.
(BLT16, $14.95)
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Badenheim 1939
• Aharon Appelfeld
• Dalya Bilu
• LITERATURE
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A haunting tale of the daily life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional Ausrian resort on the eve of the holocaust.
(AST35, $12.95)
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Conscience and Courage, Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
• Eva Fogelman
• HISTORY
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Psychologist Eva Fogelman relates stories (both small and large) of individuals who helped shelter and save Jews during World War II.
(GER193, $16.95)
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Defiance, The Bielski Partisans
• Nechama Tec
• HISTORY
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The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut.
(RUS120, $26.75)
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Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943
• Raymond-Raoul Lambert
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Lambert's war diary, published in French in 1985 and only recently translated into English, provides a deeper look into the life of Jews in World War II France. Lambert worked with the Resistance to save at least a remnant of the Jews in France, but was sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1943. Illustrated with maps and photgraphs.
(FRN736, $27.50)
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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition
• Anne Frank
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The classic story of an adolescent Jewish girl's life and thoughts while in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland. A new edition with added material.
(NTH05, $12.95)
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Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil
• Hannah Arendt
• RELIGION
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A provocative, challenging account of the trial of the Nazi leader.
(GEN255, $13.95)
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Fatelessness
• Imre Kertesz
• Tim Wilkinson
• LITERATURE
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This powerful novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of a teenage boy deported from Hungary to the Nazi death camps in 1944. It's drawn from Kertesz's own experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
(CEU26, $13.95)
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Freud in Vienna and other Essays
• Bruno Bettelheim
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Freud to the Holocaust and child psychology.
(AST51, $19.00)
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A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
• Stanley G. Payne
• HISTORY
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A schoalrly, comprehensive history with a focus on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
(EUR132, $24.95)
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Hitler and the Holocaust
• Robert S. Wistrich
• HISTORY
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A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II.
(EUR114, $13.95)
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Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
• Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
• HISTORY
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The controversial study of what ordinary German citizens did -- and did not do -- in reaction to the escalating horrors of WWII.
(GER06, $17.95)
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Holocaust Odysseys, The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy
• Susan Zuccotti
• HISTORY
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The true stories of nine French Jewish families and their escape from the Nazis.
(EUR292, $28.00)
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1
• Victor Klemperer
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The diaries of a Jewish professor of Romance languages in Dresden who lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war. This is the first volume in a two-volume series.
(GER88, $16.95)
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2
• Victor Klemperer
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The diaries of a Dresden professor of Roman languages who, being Jewish, lost his position under the Nazis but managed to survive the war in Dresden. This is the second volume in a two-volume series.
(GER89, $15.95)
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Jakob the Liar
• Jurek Becker
• Leila Vennewitz
• LITERATURE
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First published in Germany in 1969, this novel is considered one of the great contributions to Holocaust literature.
(GER93, $13.00)
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A Jewish Mother From Berlin and Susanna
• Gertrude Kolmar
• Brigitte Goldstein
• LITERATURE
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A novella and short story, each set in 192os Berlin.
(GER96, $28.33)
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Kingdom of Auschwitz
• Otto Friedrich
• HISTORY
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Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The entire history of Auschwitz is covered in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies.
(PLD04, $11.00)
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Life with a Star
• Jiri Weil
• Philip Roth
• LITERATURE
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A fictional account of the Holocaust told through the story of a young Czech Jew.
(CZH43, $19.00)
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The Man in the Box
• Thomas Moran
• LITERATURE
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A story of a gentile family in a small Austrian town hiding a Jew during World War II, told through the eyes of an adolescent boy.
(AST41, $12.00)
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Masquerade, Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary
• Tividar Soros
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A prosperous Jewsih family headed by the author (father of George Soros) goes into hiding in wartime Hungary, spreading out from Budapest across the countryside. Told with unwavering optimism.
(HGR40, $13.95)
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II
• Art Spiegelman
• LITERATURE
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of Spiegelman's father and family in Poland as World War II erupts. He renders the story of his father's early life, Nazi occupation of Poland, survival in a concentration camp and other events as a stark graphic novel.
(PLD22, $29.90)
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Night
• Elie Wiesel
• Marion Wiesel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An moving account of a Jewish boy's terrifying experience during the Holocaust.
(EUR79, $9.00)
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Number the Stars
• Lois Lowry
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Set in German-occupied Copenhagen, this is the fictionalized account of 10-year-old Annemarie Johanneson and her struggle to help her Jewish friend to safety. Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1990, it is recommended for ages 9-12.
(DMK11, $6.99)
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Nuremberg, Infamy on Trial
• Joseph E. Persico
• HISTORY
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A narrative history of the Nazi war crime trials in Nuremberg. Persico poignantly portrays the numerous characters and events surrounding the proceedings. Well-informed and engrossing.
(GER106, $17.00)
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The Painted Bird
• Jerzy Kosinski
• LITERATURE
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The acclaimed novel based on the author's own experiences in World War II Poland. The often disturbing account of a young Jewish boy's journey through rural Poland as he tries to evade everyone from SS officers to anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression.
(PLD07, $14.00)
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The Reader
• Bernhard Schlink
• Carol Brown Janeway
• LITERATURE
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The story of a man who discovers a terrible secret about his past lover who he finds as a defendant at a trial about Germany's Nazi past.
(GER68, $13.95)
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Remembering, Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
• Lyn Smith
• HISTORY
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This remarkable collection of oral histories weaves together more than 100 accounts of not only Jews but also other persectued groups -- Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, and resistance fighters -- to illuminate the Nazi terror 1933 through the liberation of the concentration camps.
(EUR221, $27.00)
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Resistance of the Heart, Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
• Nathan Stoltzfus
• HISTORY
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A riveting account of the Berlin women who rescued their Jewish husbands from deportation and death in early 1943.
(GER190, $23.95)
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Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Israel Gutman
• HISTORY
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An account of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi control, gleaned from the author's first-hand experience. He also places the ghetto experience in the context of Jewish history in general.
(PLD17, $16.95)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany
• William L. Shirer
• HISTORY
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Journalist and historian William Shirer's masterwork, this bestseller is a copiously-researched, authoritative portrait of Nazi Germany.
(GER108, $27.00)
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Schindler's List
• Thomas Keneally
• LITERATURE
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A landmark in literature about the Holocaust, this is the compelling story of the transformation of a Nazi tycoon and his rescue of 1,300 Jews from the concentration camps near Plaszow.
(GER51, $15.00)
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The Seventh Million, The Israelis and the Holocaust
• Tom Segev
• HISTORY
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Explores the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel.
(MDE140, $22.00)
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Shosha
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• LITERATURE
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A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists.
(PLD18, $15.00)
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The Theory and Practice of Hell, The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
• Eugen Kogon
• HISTORY
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Kogon's classic report to the Allied liberation forces, the basis for the Nuremberg investigations, describes the purpose, character, administration, and devastating human impact of German detention camps.
(GER218, $15.00)
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Barbara Vedder
• Jan Kott
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945.
(GER95, $14.00)
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Tzili, The Story of a Life
• Aharon Appelfeld
• Dalya Bilu
• LITERATURE
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The moving story of a young Jewish girl whose family accidentally leaves her behind when they flee Poland. Like Tzili, the author is a Holocaust survivor.
(PLD13, $12.00)
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution, A Reconsideration
• Mark Roseman
• HISTORY
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A chilling look at the notorious January, 1942 meeting of Nazi and German leaders, where the plan for the systematic extermination of Jews in Europe and thre Soviet Union was revealed.
(GER191, $14.00)
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Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories
• Hanna Krall
• Madeline G. Levine
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII.
(PLD49, $14.95)
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A Woman in Amber
• Agate Nesaule
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this American Book Award-winning memoir, Nesaule recounts the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. A gripping testimony of survival.
(RUS30, $15.00)
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The World Must Know, The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Michael Berenbaum
• HISTORY
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A powerfully illustrated history from the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
(EUR133, $24.95)
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The Zookeeper's Wife, A War Story
• Diane Ackerman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A marvelous storyteller, Ackerman recalls madcap, bohemian Warsaw before WWII, the devastation of the city by Nazi bombs in 1939, the horrors of the holocaust and heroic efforts in the resistance in this moving tale of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, directors of Warsaw Zoo.
(PLD70, $24.95)
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