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"Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." -Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With UsFrankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City BeautifulVera was made for vengeance.Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf - an ancient and profane magic - to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death.When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen kisses amidst the tragedy, and of a grisly death. And when she meets Akiva, she recognizes the boy with soft lips that gave warm kisses. But these memories aren't hers, and Vera doesn't know if she gets-or deserves-to have a life beyond what she was made for.Vera's strength feels limitless-until she learns that there are others who would channel kishuf for means far less noble than avenging a daughter's death. As she confronts the very basest of humanity, Vera will need more than what her creator gave her: Not just a reason to fight, but a reason to live.

"When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take their wealth with them. Their escape routes were diverse: Sweden and Switzerland boasted proximity, banking, and industrial closeness, while Spain and Portugal offered an inviting Atlantic coastline and shipping routes to South America. And in various ways, each of these so-called neutral nations welcomed the Nazi escapees, along with the clandestine wealth they carried. Cashing Out tells the riveting history of the race to intercept the stolen assets before they disappeared, and before the will to punish Germany was replaced by the political considerations of the fast-approaching Cold War. Bestselling author Neill Lochery here brilliantly recounts the flight of the Nazi-looted riches--the last great escape of World War II--and the Allied quest for justice"--

Trapped under Mussolini's reign and Hitler's occupation, this riveting true story is propelled by a brave girl's courage and a family's bond as they struggle to survive the battle between evil and the power of love.

The Watchmaker's Son tells the personal story of Max Houss who wrote his memoir at the age of 96. The life of Max was, and remains, a life well-spent, and while this book attempts to do justice to his journey out of Nazi Germany, his arrival through Ellis Island, his military experience as a US soldier going back to Germany to fight for his new country, and his success as a businessman and provider for his family upon his return from WWII, the reality of his life cannot be captured by words alone. Mark Twain once said "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." The life of Max Houss cannot be described accurately in words, but this Memoir is an attempt by Max to capture his incredible life story.

Protestant pastors and Catholic priests served as chaplains in Hitler's military. What role did Christian chaplains play in Nazi crimes? Drawing on a wide array of sources this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.

An account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake. "Eichler shows how four towering composers--Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten--lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time"--Publisher description.

Henry Oster was just five years old when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. One of the 2,011 Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne, he was one of only 23 to emerge alive from the concentration camps after the war.

'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Trauma and Truth examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today.

One of the many military events not widely recalled each year is the Kibeho Massacre, where a massacre of over 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons occurred, twelve months after the Rwandan genocide which saw upwards of 1,000,000 slaughtered.The Australian contingent that was on the ground at the time comprised a miniscule number of professionals when accounting for the overall number of 120,000 IDPs situated in the camp at Kibeho: for those that can recall, it was here that the Virgin Mary did appear, and in 2001 Kibeho was added to the list of approved Marian apparition sites.What you read here is based on actual events, occurring between April 17th and May 9th, 1995.During the deployment of Australian Infantry to Rwanda, whose main task was to provide security for the contingent, many a variety of task was met: carrying stretchers through the AUSMED hospital, escorting dental technicians, medics, and other specialised personnel through the winding hills of this land-locked country, and conducting security pickets on key installations to which were their sole responsibility. They never expected to be confronted by the slaughter of more than 10,000 men, women, children and babies. The basic infantryman was trained and prepared more for a situation as that presented by Vietnam, scaled down versions of the Falkland War and Somalia, or even a prolonged campaign against highly trained foes. But in Rwanda... no one could fathom that their worst nightmare may actually bear its rancid fruit of toxicity.

Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all.'Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing book - rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...'It was 1941 when the German army rolled into Kyiv. The young Anatoli was just twelve years old. This book is formed from his journals in which he documented what followed.Many Ukrainians welcomed the invading army, hoping for liberation from Soviet rule. But within ten days the Nazis had begun their campaign of murdering every Jew, and many others, in the city. Babi Yar (Babyn Yar in Ukrainian) was the place where the executions took place. It was one of the largest massacres in the history of the Holocaust. Anatoli could hear the machine guns from his house.This gripping book is the story of Ukraine's Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child. His clear, compelling voice, his honesty and his determination to survive guide us through the horrors of that time. Babi Yar has the compulsion and narration of fiction but everything recounted in this book is true.'Extraordinary' Orlando Figes, Guardian'A vivid first-hand account of life under one of the most savage of occupation regimes... A book which must be read and never forgotten' The TimesThis is the complete, uncensored version of Babi Yar - its history written into the text. Parts shown in bold are those cut by the Russian censors, parts in brackets show later additions.

Der Mord an den europaischen Juden zahlt zu den am besten erforschten Ereignissen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei wird die mehrjahrige Ghettophase in Ostmitteleuropa in der Regel nur als eine Art Vorstufe der Vernichtung wahrgenommen. Joachim Tauber stellt diese These auf den Prufstand, wobei er am Beispiel Litauens insbesondere den generell vernachlassigten Arbeitseinsatz von Juden in Ghettos untersucht. Das Leben der Menschen in den Ghettos, so die Quintessenz seiner quellengesattigten innovativen Studie, war gepragt von entbehrungsreicher Arbeit fur die deutschen Besatzer und litauische Einrichtungen. Um Arbeit drehte sich in den Ghettos alles: Sie stand fur die judische Ghettoleitung ebenso im Vordergrund wie fur die deutsche Zivilverwaltung, die groten Wert darauf legte, sie so effizient wie moglich zu organisieren. Letztlich bildete sie sogar die Voraussetzung fur die Fortexistenz der Ghettos. Arbeit war fur viele Juden die letzte Hoffnung, wie kaum je so eindringlich gezeigt worden ist, wie in diesem Buch.

Die Studie "e;Das Amt und die Vergangenheit"e; (2010) hat nicht nur in der Offentlichkeit, sondern auch in der Fachwissenschaft eine lebhafte Debatte uber die Rolle des Auswartigen Amts in der NS-Diktatur hervorgerufen. Der vorliegende Sammelband bezieht sich auf diese Diskussion, die jedoch nicht einfach nur erneut gefuhrt wird. Ziel ist vielmehr eine Bestandsaufnahme der Forschung nach der Debatte. Was wissen wir wirklich uber das Auswartige Amt im Nationalsozialismus, wo liegen die Desiderate, was ist gerade in Arbeit, was unbestritten, was umstritten? Damit gibt der Band eine Antwort auf die Frage, wie sich dieser Streit zwischen Historikern in die Entwicklung der Forschung einordnen lasst und welche Impulse von ihm ausgehen konnen.

The life story of a Holocaust survivor: his prewar childhood in Czechoslovakia, his experiences in 8 Nazi concentration camps, his liberation and emigration to the USA, and his career as a General Motors engineer, a Christian minister, and a consummate teacher. For Walter Ziffer, who today considers himself a Jewish secular humanist, life has always been a search for meaning. His compelling and insightful memoir distills the experiences of a remarkable man.

"Translation of the Memorial Book of Zychlin"--