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All Rivers Run to the Sea


by Elie Wiesel

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

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, $16.95)

Anne Frank Remembered

Anne Frank Remembered


by Miep Gies | Allison Leslie Gold

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1988
  • PAPER
  • YOUNG ADULTS

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)

Art From the Ashes


by Lawrence L. Langer

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 1995 PAGES

A powerful collection of stories, journals, essays, poetry and prose about the Holocaust (EUR131, $41.95)

The Avengers, A Jewish War Story

The Avengers, A Jewish War Story


by Rich Cohen

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 262 PAGES

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)

Badenheim 1939

Badenheim 1939


by Aharon Appelfeld | Dalya Bilu

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 148 PAGES

This haunting tale depicts life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional spa in Austria on the eve of the holocaust. (AST35, $14.95)

Children of the Holocaust

Children of the Holocaust


by Arnold Lustig

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 516 PAGES

Lustig's faith in the power of the individual is at the center of these two story collections and the novel, Darkness Casts No Shadow, intended by the Czech writer as one work, (GER110, $24.00)

Conscience and Courage, Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust


by Eva Fogelman

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

Psychologist Eva Fogelman relates stories (both small and large) of individuals who helped shelter and save Jews during World War II. (GER193, $18.95)

Defiance, The Bielski Partisans


by Nechama Tec

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The story of daring Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $14.95)

Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943


by Raymond-Raoul Lambert

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

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)

The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition


by Anne Frank

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 340 PAGES

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, $13.00)

Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil


by Hannah Arendt

  • RELIGION
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 312 PAGES

A provocative, challenging account of the trial of the Nazi leader. (GEN255, $16.00)

Fatelessness

Fatelessness


by Imre Kertesz | Tim Wilkinson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Drawn from Kertesz's own experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, this powerful novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of a teenage boy deported from Budapest to the Nazi death camps in 1944. (CEU26, $15.00)

Freud in Vienna and other Essays


by Bruno Bettelheim

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Freud to the Holocaust and child psychology. (AST51, $19.00)

A History of Fascism, 1914-1945


by Stanley G. Payne

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 628 PAGES

A schoalrly, comprehensive history with a focus on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. (EUR132, $24.95)

Hitler and the Holocaust

Hitler and the Holocaust


by Robert S. Wistrich

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 295 PAGES

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, $15.00)

Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust


by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 624 PAGES

The controversial study of what ordinary German citizens did -- and did not do -- in reaction to the escalating horrors of WWII. (GER06, $17.95)

Holocaust Odysseys, The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy


by Susan Zuccotti

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER
  • 320 PAGES

The true stories of nine French Jewish families and their escape from the Nazis. (EUR292, $28.00)

The Holocaust Sites of Europe

The Holocaust Sites of Europe


by Martin Winstone

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 438 PAGES

A historical guide to concentration camps, ghettos and other sites throughout Europe. (EUR388, $25.00)

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, Vol. 1


by Victor Klemperer

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 519 PAGES

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, $18.00)

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1941-1945, Vol. 2


by Victor Klemperer

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 556 PAGES

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, $18.00)

A Jewish Mother From Berlin and Susanna

A Jewish Mother From Berlin and Susanna


by Gertrude Kolmar | Brigitte Goldstein

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 202 PAGES

A novella and short story, each set in 192os Berlin. (GER96, $28.33)

Kingdom of Auschwitz

Kingdom of Auschwitz


by Otto Friedrich

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. He covers the entire history of Auschwitz in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. (PLD04, $11.00)

Life with a Star

Life with a Star


by Jiri Weil | Philip Roth

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

A fictional account of the Holocaust told through the story of a young Czech Jew. (CZH43, $19.00)

The Man in the Box


by Thomas Moran

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

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)

Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II

Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II


by Art Spiegelman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1986
  • PAPER
  • 296 PAGES

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, the Nazi occupation of Poland, survival in a concentration camp and other events as a stark graphic novel. (PLD22, $31.90)

Night


by Elie Wiesel | Marion Wiesel

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 109 PAGES

An moving account of a Jewish boy's terrifying experience during the Holocaust. (EUR79, $9.95)

Number the Stars


by Lois Lowry

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 137 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

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)

Nuremberg, Infamy on Trial

Nuremberg, Infamy on Trial


by Joseph E. Persico

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 544 PAGES

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)

The Painted Bird

The Painted Bird


by Jerzy Kosinski

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

The Reader

The Reader


by Bernhard Schlink | Carol Brown Janeway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 218 PAGES

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)

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


by Lyn Smith

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 448 PAGES

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)

Resistance of the Heart, Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany


by Nathan Stoltzfus

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 386 PAGES

A riveting account of the Berlin women who rescued their Jewish husbands from deportation and death in early 1943. (GER190, $24.95)

Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


by Israel Gutman

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 277 PAGES

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, $19.95)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany


by William L. Shirer

  • HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 1249 PAGES

Journalist and historian William Shirer's masterwork, this bestseller is a copiously-researched, authoritative portrait of Nazi Germany. (GER108, $29.99)

Schindler's List

Schindler's List


by Thomas Keneally

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

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, $16.00)

The Seventh Million, The Israelis and the Holocaust

The Seventh Million, The Israelis and the Holocaust


by Tom Segev

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Explores the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology and politics of Israel. (MDE140, $24.00)

Shosha

Shosha


by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER

A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists. (PLD18, $15.00)

The Spirit of Prague

The Spirit of Prague


by Ivan Klima | Paul Wilson

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 188 PAGES

The renowned Czech novelist charts the history and culture of Prague from World War II to the Velvet Revolution in these brilliant essays. (CZH05, $16.95)

The Theory and Practice of Hell, The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them


by Eugen Kogon

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 333 PAGES

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, $16.00)

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen


by Tadeusz Borowski | Barbara Vedder | Jan Kott

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 180 PAGES

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, $15.00)

Tzili, The Story of a Life


by Aharon Appelfeld | Dalya Bilu

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

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)

The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution, A Reconsideration


by Mark Roseman

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

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, $15.00)

Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories


by Hanna Krall | Madeline G. Levine

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII. (PLD49, $14.95)

A Woman in Amber

A Woman in Amber


by Agate Nesaule

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 280 PAGES

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, $16.00)

The World Must Know, The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


by Michael Berenbaum

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 250 PAGES

A powerfully illustrated history from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. (EUR133, $29.95)

The Zookeeper's Wife

The Zookeeper's Wife


by Diane Ackerman

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

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, $14.95)

 

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