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From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge. Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive? Meanwhile Lillia is growing up, trying to care for Naomi, whose development is frighteningly slow, in part from malnourishment. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?

The most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Kaum ein nationalsozialistisches Konzentrationslager hat nach 1945 eine derart vielfältige Literatur hervorgebracht wie Buchenwald. Zu ihr gehören ideologisch bis heute umstrittene Bücher wie der antifaschistische Beststeller Nackt unter Wölfen, die hochkanonischen Romane wie Semprúns oder Kertész, weniger bekannte Romane wie Adlers Das Panorama oder Ferdinand Peroutkas Wolke und Walzer, eine Flut vergessener ,grauer' Bericht-Literatur, frühe Versuche einer soziologischen, politischen oder psychologischen Deutung des Lagers. Ebenso wie das Konzentrationslager Buchenwald selbst ist diese Literatur international. Buchenwald versammelte Menschen aus fast allen Ländern Europas. Viele von ihnen wurden aus politischen oder rassischen Gründen deportiert, die nationale Grenzen überschritten. Die Literatur, die aus dem Lager hervorging, entstand also einerseits in nationalliterarischen Kontexten, bezog sich aber andererseits auf ein transnationales Ereignis, das sich mit transnationalen Fragen verband. Die Literatur des Lagers Buchenwald lässt sich daher nicht einfach nationalliterarisch einhegen. Trotzdem wies die Forschung in den letzten Jahren einen starken Zug zur nationalliterarischen Segmentierung auf, was auch dazu führte, dass sich die Wahrnehmung darüber hinaus nur auf sehr wenige kanonische Werke beschränkte. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge über die Literaturen, die an der europäischen Textgeschichte des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald mitgeschrieben haben.

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.

A New York Times BestsellerLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team?led by an obsessed retired FBI agent?has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works?journalism, books, plays and novels?devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years?and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents?some never before seen?and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest?and came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this life-affirming intergenerational memoir, Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor, and her great-grandson, Dov Forman, come together to share her story?an unforgettable tale of resilience and resistance. On Yom Kippur, 1944, fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz, Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story, for everyone who couldn't. Now, at ninety-eight, this remarkable woman?and TikTok sensation, thanks to the help of her eighteen-year-old great-grandson?fulfills that vow, relaying the details of her harrowing experiences with candor, charm, and an overflowing heart.In these pages, she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz, and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London.Dov knows that it is up to younger people like him to keep Lily's promise. He and Lily bridge the generation gap to share her experience, reminding us of the joy that accompanies the solemn responsibility of keeping the past?and our stories?alive.

Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With heartbreaking and honest reflection, the author shares a gripping first-person narrative of his transformation from a Jewish eleven-year-old boy living happily in Tyczyn, Poland with his brother and parents, to his experiences as a teenage victim of growing persecution, brutality and imprisonment as the Nazis pursued the Final Solution. The author takes the reader back in time as he reveals in vivid and engrossing details the painful memories of life in his childhood town during Nazi occupation, the forced march before his jeering and cold-eyed former friends and neighbors as they are driven from their homes into the crowded and terrible conditions in the Rzeszow ghetto, and the heart-wrenching memory of his final farewell as he is separated from his parents who would be sent in boxcars to the Belzec extermination camp. Alone at age 14, George begins a three-year horror filled odyssey as part of a Daimler-Benz slave labor group that will take him through ten concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and France. In Plaszów he digs up graves with his bare hands, in Flossenbürg he labors in a stone quarry and in France he works as a prisoner in a secret tunnel the Nazis have converted into an armaments factory. In every concentration camp including Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig, Ravensbrück and others, George recounts the agonizing and excruciating details of what it was like to barely survive the rollcalls, selections, beatings, hunger, and despair he both endured and witnessed. Of the 465 Jewish prisoners with him in the labor group in the Rzeszów ghetto in 1942, less than fifty were alive three years later when the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division liberated the Wobbelin concentration camp on the afternoon of May 2, 1945. George recalls not only the painful details of his survival, but also the tales of his fellow prisoners, a small group who became more than friends as they shared their meager rations, their fragile strength, and their waning hope. The memoir moves us as we behold the life sustaining powers of friendship among this band of young prisoners. With gratitude for his courageous liberators, Salton expresses his powerful emotions as he acknowledges his miraculous freedom: "I felt something stir deep within my soul. It was my true self, the one who had stayed deep within and had not forgotten how to love and how to cry, the one who had chosen life and was still standing when the last roll call ended."

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

After Hitler came to power, some desperate Jewish families were able to send their sons out of Nazi-occupied Europe to America. When the United States entered World War II, these young men returned as U.S. soldiers to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. They did so knowing full well what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured. Known as the Ritchie Boys, they became one of the U.S. Army's greatest secret weapons, for they possessed a unique mastery of the German language, culture, and psychology, all of which they used as members of elite intelligence teams assigned to every major combat unit in Europe. They interrogated German prisoners of war and collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions that saved American lives and helped the Allies win the war.Drawing on original interviews and extensive archival research, Bruce Henderson's Sons and Soldiers traces the journeys of six of these remarkable young men. It is an epic story of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten.

"Originally published in Canada...by Second Story Press, Toronto, in 2002. Subsequently reprinted with new material by Second Story Press in 2012."--Title page verso.

The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child. Includes photographs of Leon Leyson's family.

This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate "Hitler's Pope"Accused of being "silent" during the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican of World War II are now exonerated in Gordon Thomas's newest investigative work, The Pope's Jews. Thomas's careful research into new, first-hand accounts reveal an underground network of priests, nuns and citizens that risked their lives daily to protect Roman Jews.Investigating assassination plots, conspiracies, and secret conversions, Thomas unveils faked documentation, quarantines, and more extraordinary actions taken by Catholics and the Vatican. The Pope's Jews finally answers the great moral question of the War: Why did Pope Pius XII refuse to condemn the genocide of Europe's Jews?

'A remarkable tale of survival, in which Jewish life in pre-war Poland and the atrocities of the Holocaust appear through an almost dreamlike lens of childhood memory' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'Mala's Cat is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable... This memoir, rescued from obscurity by the efforts of Mala Kacenberg's five children, should be read and cherished as a new, vital document of a history that must never be allowed to vanish' Julie Orringer for the New York Times__________Alone in a forest with only a cat for company - this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the HolocaustGrowing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod, on the fringes of a deep pine forest, Mala has the happiest childhood anyone could hope for.But, when the Nazis invade, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and family and friends are reduced to starvation. Taking matters into her own hands, she bravely removes her yellow star, and sneaks out to the surrounding villages for food.On her way back she receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away: her loved ones have been rounded up for deportation. With only her cat, Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she must flee into the forest.Malach becomes her family, her only respite from loneliness, a guide and reminder to stay hopeful even in the darkness.With her guardian angel by her side, Mala must find a way to navigate the dangerous forests, outwit German soldiers and hostile villagers, to survive, against all the odds.

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.

Polnische Juden stellten nicht nur die größte Gruppe unter den Opfern des Holocaust, in den 1930er Jahren hatte auch kein Land Europas mehr jüdische Einwohner und einen vielfältigeren jüdischen Printmarkt als Polen. Die Studie trägt zu einem Paradigmenwechsel bei, der diese Tatsachen stärker berücksichtigt, indem er den Blick von Ost nach West richtet und die polnischen Juden nicht länger als monolithischen Block passiver Opfer begreift, sondern als handelnde Subjekte, die den Antisemitismus, der sie bedrohte, aktiv bekämpften. Aufbauend auf einer Analyse der Berichterstattung der jiddischen Warschauer Tagespresse über Nationalsozialismus und Judenverfolgung legt sie die Netzwerke der jüdischen Zeitungsmacher frei und zeigt, wie diese sich trotz Zensur und Repression subversives Wissen aneigneten, es ihrem Publikum vermittelten und so die Vorstellungswelten polnischer Juden über Deutschland prägten sowie Protest- und Solidaritätsaktionen zugunsten der Verfolgten initiierten. Anne-Christin Klotz erhielt für dieses Buch den Marko Feingold-Preis in Jüdische Studien 2022 der Universität und des Landes Salzburg sowie den Irma-Rosenberg-Förderpreis für die Erforschung der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus (Universität Wien). Die Arbeit wurde außerdem im Rahmen des wissenschaftlichen Förderpreises des Botschafters der Republik Polen mit dem 2. Platz ausgezeichnet.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Afrika, Note: 1,2, Universität Rostock (Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Internationale Organisationen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hauptaugenmerk dieser Ausarbeitung soll sich auf die Rolle der Katastrophe in Ruanda richten, dem Genozid im April und Mai 1994 und die Umstände, sowie die Entscheidungen, welche zum völligen Versagen jener Organisation im Zuge der UNAMIR führten. Dazu werden zuerst einige grundlegende Aspekte der Charta der Vereinten Nationen vorgestellt, sowie die Legitimierung einer solchen Friedensmission beleuchtet. Der Hauptteil dieser Arbeit befasst sich chronologisch mit dem eigentlichen Versagen der UN, welcher sich in drei Abschnitte gliedern lässt, sowie mit den im Zuge des Brahimi-Reports gezogenen Lehren, um final in der Schlussbetrachtung den Fragen aktueller Herausforderungen ¿ insbesondere bezogen auf die Friedenssicherung der Vereinten Nationen ¿ nachzukommen. Abgesehen von den UN-eigenen Papieren zur Charta und den jeweiligen Resolutionen, waren die Hauptwerke zum Thema Völkermord in Ruanda u.a.: Understanding Peacekeeping von BELLAMY/ WILLIAMS/ GRIFFIN, sowie Eyewitness to a genocide von BARNETT, als auch Peacemaking in Rwanda von JONES, dem Thema dieser Arbeit sehr dienlich.Die Rahmenbedingungen und rechtlichen Grundlagen einer Friedensmission bildet allen voran die Charta der Vereinten Nationen. Sie besteht aus der Präambel und 111 Artikeln, welche in 19 Kapitel gegliedert sind. Ein weiterer Bestandteil ist das Statut des Internationalen Gerichtshofes, der nach dem Artikel 92 das Hauptsprechungsorgan der UN ist. Bis zur Gegenwart finden sich nur marginale Änderungen der Charta, wie die Erhöhung der Anzahl der nichtständigen Mitglieder im Sicherheitsrat von ursprünglich sechs auf zehn. Dennoch bietet die UN-Charta Raum für faktische Revisionen, zum Beispiel aufgrund neuer Interpretationen. Maßgeblich spiegeln sich in der Charta die Bestimmungen des Gründungsvertrages wider; So sei das oberste Gut die Aufrechterhaltung von Frieden und Sicherheit, zu diesem Zwecke gilt es wirksame kollektive Maßnahmen zur Verhütung und Beseitigung von Bedrohungen für den Frieden zu ergreifen.

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best History Book of 2015Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryThe first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration campsIn a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called "the gray zone."In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Examining, close-up, life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before.A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century.

Astrid Lindgrens edierte ,Kriegstagebücher 1939-1945', die sowohl in Schweden als auch in Deutschland erstmals 2015 publiziert wurden, sind Ausgangs- und Kristallisationspunkt dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes. Die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, die Lindgren mit Einsetzen der Kriegshandlungen am 1. September 1939 zu schreiben beginnt, bieten facettenreiche Zugänge für Geschichts-, Buch- und Literaturwissenschaft: So lassen sich etwa Verbindungen zum Kriegsgeschehen in Europa ebenso herstellen wie Überlegungen zum Verlagswesen und der Rolle der Materialität der Tagebücher anstellen; Lindgrens Werden als Schriftstellerin, ihr literarisches Schaffen und Wirken werden vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet und reflektiert. Gerahmt wird die so vorgenommene Positionsbestimmung Lindgrens, ihrer autobiographischen und kinderliterarischen Texte durch den Blick auf die politische und kulturelle Situation in Schweden und Europa während und nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges.

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal___________________________________________________________________________It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute - an expert on comics and graphic narratives - assembles the world's best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony. ___________________________________________________________________________'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on Maus'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik on Maus'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus