Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: January 10, 2012 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8060-8 (0-8129-8060-3)
Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: March 9, 2010 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4280-5 (0-8052-4280-5)
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”—The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the...
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Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: December 1, 1989 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-28218-4 (0-553-28218-2)
A shocking but uplifting story of true-life heroism during the Holocaust unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary. Alicia endured separation from her family and even the sight of her own mother's brutal murder to rescue Jews from the Nazis. She swore on her brother's grave that if she survived...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: September 1, 2009 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4244-7 (0-8052-4244-9)
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 9, 2004 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3403-1 (1-4000-3403-5)
Paris in the 1930s—melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized—provides the poetic beginning for this memoir by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his youth in a Proustian reverie, recalling his childhood in France, his family's escape to America during the Vichy regime, his experiences in the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 4, 2007 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27925-5 (0-307-27925-1)
Bad Faithtells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.
Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 13, 2005 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3207-5 (1-4000-3207-5)
It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Morocco to Paris, a city made hectic at the threat of Nazi invasion. At the same time in Germany...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: January 16, 2001 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72064-9 (0-385-72064-5)
It was the largest organized robbery in history—the detailed, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied, and neutral. Now, for the first time, prizewinning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff details the full scope of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70529-8 (0-375-70529-5)
This true story of World War II starts in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna, where a small band of underground Jews fights with unending cunning and courage. At the heart of this resistance are Abba Kovner, a fiery poet and leader, and two fearless teenage girls, Vitka Kempner and Ruzka Korczak...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: April 11, 2006 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-72231-5 (0-385-72231-1)
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: March 1, 1986 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-34532-2 (0-553-34532-X)
Dawidowicz provides a detailed account of the growth of the Nazis' plan to annihilate the Jews, and the Jewish response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism.
"The War Against the Jews comes to us as a major work of synthesis, providing for the first time a full account of the Holocaust... Dawidowicz...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 26, 1988 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72043-0 (0-679-72043-X)
Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of unspeakable suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century.
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: March 5, 2013 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-5052-1 (0-8070-5052-0)
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 1, 1996 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-48033-8 (0-385-48033-4)
Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the Definitive Edition of Anne Frank's diary features 30% new material. It restores all of the entries omitted from previous publications-including Anne's observations about her emerging sexuality and her stormy relationship with her mother. "The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's dreams...
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Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: February 3, 1997 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-57712-9 (0-553-57712-3)
Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the Definitive Editionof Anne Frank's diary features 30% new material. It restores all of the entries omitted from previous publications-including Anne's observations about her emerging sexuality and her stormy relationship with her mother.
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: June 1, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-1427-1 (0-8070-1427-3)
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the...
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Format: Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: June 1, 2006 Price: $8.99 ISBN: 978-0-8070-1429-5 (0-8070-1429-X)
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the...
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Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: March 30, 2000 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-1426-4 (0-8070-1426-5)
One of the 10 most influential books in America. –Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club “Survey of Lifetime Readers”
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: October 30, 1996 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-7071-0 (0-8070-7071-8)
As a young woman, Rena Kornreich endured the Nazi death camps for almost three and a half years. Rena’s Promise, the remarkable story of her survival, shows how her relationship with her younger sister, Danka, gave her the will to persevere under unimaginable circumstances.
“Gelissen, who was on the first Jewish transport...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback On Sale: October 25, 2005 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33605-5 (0-385-33605-5)
In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-born woman from Bialystok, where virtually the entire Jewish community would soon be sent to the ghetto and from there to Hitler’s concentration camps, was determined not...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 25, 2005 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3043-9 (1-4000-3043-9)
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 have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately—one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany—made them available to the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 28, 1997 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-77268-2 (0-679-77268-5)
With an Afterword to the 1997 Vintage paperback edition. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 30, 2003 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71417-7 (0-375-71417-0)
From the internationally renowned author of the best-selling Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust comes this penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust that goes beyond anything previously written on the subject.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: April 8, 2003 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0879-5 (0-7679-0879-1)
The Nuremberg trials, which brought charges against top Nazi brass after World War II, have been well documented, but few know of the courtroom drama that unfolded sixty-five miles south at Dachau. The trial held there found individual concentration camp workers, hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors, personally responsible for...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: August 14, 2007 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6746-3 (0-8129-6746-1)
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half...
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