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Sun Turned to Darkness
Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir
Inbunden, 1998
403 kr
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An examination of the recorded memoirs of 50 Holocaust survivors. Patterson draws on the sacred texts of Jewish tradition and the philosophy of Fackenheim and Levinas. He discusses the recovery of tradition, recovery seen as recovery from illness, and recovery as a process which has no resolution.
Last Lullaby
Poetry from the Holocaust
Häftad, 1999
253 kr
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A collection of poems written in Jewish ghettos, way stations, death camps and forests under the nightmarish circumstances of the Holocaust.
Survival
The Story of a Sixteen-Year Old Jewish Boy
Inbunden, 2000
366 kr
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The personal story of a teenage boy in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. It begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgium concentration camp of Breendonk at the age of 16 and follows his movements through a series of camps until 1945, concluding with the Auschwitz death march and his …
Meeting
An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician
Inbunden, 2000
268 kr
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Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Muinch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.In this rare interview Muinch—the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes trial refers to himself as a "victim," claiming …
Meeting
An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician
Häftad, 2021
188 kr
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Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Muinch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.In this rare interview Muinch—the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes trial refers to himself as a "victim," claiming …
Nightmares
Memoirs of the Years of Horror Under Nazi Rule in Europe, 1939-1945
Av Konrad Charmatz, Matthew Kudelka
Häftad, 2003
288 kr
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When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son, and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnessed the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, his country and his culture. In this study of suffering and survival, he gives …
War in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps
Inbunden, 2001
366 kr
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A Polish partisan and political prisoner and non-Jew, the author recalls wartime and the horrors of Auschwitz. 1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details ""life"" in the …
War in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps
Häftad, 2021
291 kr
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1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins …
Harry Haft
Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
Inbunden, 2006
283 kr
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Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle …
Fiorello's Sister
Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story
Av Gemma Gluck, Rochelle G. Saidel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
201 kr
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Born in 1883 in New York City, Gemma La Guardia Gluck was the daughter of an American army bandleader and European mother of aristocratic Italian Jewish lineage. She was the sister of beloved New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Gemma and her Hungarian Jewish husband were living in Budapest in …
Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood
Av Helena Ganor
Inbunden, 2007
246 kr
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The evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive Holocaust memoir. With lyrical prose and remarkable candor, Helena Ganor narrates her story through a series of recently penned letters to the significant people in her life during her wartime …
Will to Freedom
A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism
Av Egon Balas
Häftad, 2008
291 kr
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Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young …
Life and Thought of Louis Lowy
Social Work Through the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2011
294 kr
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Louis Lowy (1920–1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his life, however, he recorded an oral narrative that explores his activities during the Holocaust as the formative experiences of his career. Whether …
Portrait of Pacifists
Le Chambon the Holocaust and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé
Inbunden, 2012
362 kr
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This biography tells the story of André and Magda Trocmé, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in flight from Nazi roundups could be hidden or led …
When the Danube Ran Red
Häftad, 2017
173 kr
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Opening with the ominous scene of one young schoolgirl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944 in …
Harry Haft
Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle …
Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour
Inbunden, 2000
355 kr
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This work tells the story of how George Mantello - First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945 - defied censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.
Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide
Av Berel Lang
Häftad, 2003
222 kr
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This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, the role of knowledge in ethical decisions, and the …
Christian Responses to the Holocaust
Moral and Ethical Issues
Av Donald J. Dietrich, Donald Dietrich
Häftad, 2003
282 kr
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Delineates the roles that individuals and their churches played in confronting Hitler. Written by both Jewish and Christian scholars, these essays focus on the Christian responses to Nazism and delineate the roles that individuals and their churches played in confronting Hitler.
Emil L. Fackenheim
A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust
Häftad, 2008
216 kr
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Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. In this revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to …
Murder Without Hatred
Estonians and the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2009
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529 kr
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In this detailed study of Estonians' role in the Holocaust, Anton Weiss-Wendt casts light on a largely unexplored subject. A country known for its benevolent treatment of ethnic minorities, Estonia had a small number of indigenous Jews, and anti-Semitism existed on a relatively limited scale. …
Who Will Say Kaddish?
A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland
Av Larry Mayer
Inbunden, 2002
467 kr
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By the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to the second largest Jewish population in the world. By war's end, its Jews had been decimated and their culture all but destroyed. The authors of this work revisit their roots to research a rumour that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern Poland.
Three Homelands
Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America
Inbunden, 2002
481 kr
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Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in America. Told with the inimitable flair of a born storyteller, these stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and …
New Dawn
A Triumph of Life After the Holocaust
Av Helen Sendyk
Inbunden, 2002
244 kr
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This sequel to Sendyk's critically acclaimed End of Days is the story of how three Holocaust survivors struggled to build new livesfrom the ashes of war-torn Poland to the rebirth of Israel.
Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust
Häftad, 2005
510 kr
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Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. These essays concern various aspects of Jewish daily life and governance, such as the Judenrat, the Warsaw Ghetto …
Disenchantment
George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz
Inbunden, 2011
328 kr
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George Steiner has enjoyed international acclaim as a distinguished cultural critic for many years. The son of central European Jews, he was born in France, fled from the Nazis to New York in 1940, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944. Through his many books, voluminous literary criticism, …
Obliged by Memory
Literature, Religion, Ethics
Inbunden, 2006
238 kr
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A collection honoring Elie Wiesel's seventieth birthday. Based on a three-day symposium, ""The Claims of Memory,"" this volume conveys the omnipresence of memory in Elie Wiesel's writing and attempts to preserve the flavor of the exchange that took place. It represents several intersecting …
Emil L. Fackenheim
A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2008
453 kr
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Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. In this revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to …
