Holocaust

Tombstone Histories is a venture into the strange past of a great Chinese city.Harbin, established in northeastern China in 1898 by Russians and others, was for a time home to some 38 different national communities, before war and revolution destroyed their lives. Harbin also became a safe house and waystation for Jews escaping pogroms and hatred in Europe, and Tombstone Histories presents the Jewish experience in the city in a personal and unforgettable way. It paints a revealing picture, never shown before, of Jewish daily life in this faraway and alien land, of how people functioned, struggled and sometimes thrived in a space that was so different and unfamiliar. Tombstone Histories offers glimpses of the lives of the rich, the poor and those in between with daily stories and reminiscences of close to sixty families.History so often ends up as just a series of tombstones, but this book provides the other side to the story-the personal details of lives which allow readers to draw their own conclusions about the human experience, especially survival.

Legendary American novelist Jack Engelhard is equally regarded for his high standard of journalism, which for many years appeared as Op-ed columns in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and also in such publications as The New York Times. Today he enjoys a large worldwide following for his columns that appear on the popular Israeli news/opinion website Arutz Sheva/Israelnationalnews, English edition. There he is recognized for his discerning eye on politics and culture in both the United States and Israel, where he has served as an American volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). In Writings Engelhard pulls no punches in this collection of columns about the political climate here and abroad that affects people worldwide. He is our conscience of today, pointing out distortions and corruption of our government and leaders. He is never afraid to tell us the truth no matter how difficult it is to face.

"A recounting of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who arranged for the transport of nearly 700 children who would otherwise have been sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the late 1930s. From the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert"--

הספר מבוסס על סיפור גבורה אמיתי שהתרחש בשנה האחרונה למלחמת העולם השנייה על אדמת הונגריה ושרק מעטים שמעו עליו.ב-19 באפריל 1944 פלשו הגרמנים להונגריה במטרה למנוע מהם לעבור צד במלחמה ולשתף פעולה עם בעלות הברית. עד אותו הזמן, לחמו ההונגרים לצד הגרמנים במדינות אירופה ועזרו להם בביצורים ובכיבושים, והזדהו עם האידיאולוגיה הנאצית. עתה, הנאצים החלו להפסיד במלחמה וכבר החלו לראות את הקץ מתקרב. אך עדיין נותרה להם מסימה אחת להשלים בטרם יובסו, להשמיד את כל קהילת יהודי הונגריה. הנאצים מצלחים תוך פרק זמן קצר לרכז במחנות ולשלוח לאושוויץ את מרבית היהודים. עתה נותר להם להשמיד רק את יהודי העיר הבירה בודפשט. רק מנהיג יהודי אחד, מקס שמו, נחוש למנוע מהנאצים לסיים את מלאכתם בטרם תסתיים המלחמה. האם הוא יצליח או ישלם בחייו?

Based on an extensive range of primary sources - whether they be archival, journalistic or documentary - some of which are exposed here for the first time, the present volume reviews the efforts made by the State of Israel to obtain reparations from Germany after the Holocaust, as well as the unprecedented storm which this issue caused among Israeli Jews. It is the most comprehensive research work undertaken in any language on this subject.

Yury Kharchenko, herausragender Vertreter zeitgenössischer Malerei, arbeitet in Werkzyklen, die seinen intensiven Bezug zu existentiellen Themen wie Dunkelheit und Licht wiederspiegeln. Virtuose Farbigkeit verbindet sich mit inhaltlicher Dichte - mal poetisch, mal lautstark - zu einer eigenständigen Bildsprache. Seine Werke der letzten sechs Jahre werden opulent und textlich fundiert vorgestellt.Verwandelt sich Erinnerungskultur in unserer Konsumgesellschaft immer mehr zu einem Entertainment Park? In einer Zeit von zunehmendem Antisemitismus und Holocaustrelativierungen zeigt sich in Yury Kharchenkos aktuellen Bildern eine für ihn neue Deutlichkeit und Vehemenz. Er benutzt das Vokabular der Popkultur, von Disney und Hollywood und mischt sie mit Gewaltfantasien, die tabuisierte Verweise auf den Holocaust enthalten. Ein künstlerisches Werk, das hinsehen lässt und aufrütteln will.

Michael L. Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold returns with the harrowing story of a young woman's coming-of-age during the Holocaust in Romania--a tale based on her grandmother's true experiences.

Natten mellem 1. og 2. oktober 1943 slog tyskerne til mod jøderne i Danmark. Aktionen blev startskuddet til en dramatisk nervepirrende og følelsesladet måned, hvor det lykkedes for omkring 7.000 jøder at flygte til Sverige, mens lige under 500 ikke slap væk i tide og endte i bugen på et transportskib eller i en kreaturvogn med retning mod Theresienstadts mørke indre. I ”Oktober 1943” foldes begivenhederne ud dag for dag og uge for uge gennem en række historiske skikkelser, der på hver deres måde var centralt placeret midt i det hele. I bogen får læserne – også de nyeste – en samlet, nuanceret fortælling og forklaring på dét efterår, der satte sig så markant i den danske identitet og nationale fortælling. Det sker via øjenvidner og helt nye kilder, der aldrig har været fremme før. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

Executive editor: Klaus-Peter Friedrich; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce This volume, the first of three in the series focusing on the persecution and murder of the Jews in occupied Poland, documents the developments from the attack on Poland in September 1939 up to July 1941. It covers the territories of western and northern Poland annexed to the Reich as well as the General Government. With the attack on Poland, around two million Polish Jews came under German rule. Jews were immediately subjected to stigmatization and humiliation, exposed to arbitrary acts of violence, deprived of their livelihoods, subjected to forced labour and forcibly displaced. In July 1940, a report by representatives of Polish Jews on the situation in the annexed territories of Poland sent to the US embassy in Berlin described a 'downcast, stigmatized Jewish population', terrorized and powerless in face of displacement, expulsions and the increasing incarceration of the Jewish population in ghettos, and it predicted that 'the process of destruction is not yet complete'. The volume documents the drive by the occupiers systematically to confiscate the property of the Polish Jews, and the different, often chaotic and conflicting strategies for displacing Jews in the annexed territories and in the General Government. The volume shows a range of reactions by the non-Jewish population of Poland to the escalating persecution of the Polish Jews. It also shows the efforts by Jewish organizations to publicize their plight abroad, to withstand the onslaught on their communities and to manage daily life in the increasingly desperate conditions of the ghettos. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

Juni 1944. Den franske modstandsmand Robert Antelme tages til fange af Gestapo og sendes til koncentrationslejren Buchenwald og senere arbejdslejren Gandersheim. Da de allierede nærmer sig lejren i løbet af foråret 1945, evakueres fangerne først til fods og siden med tog til koncentrationslejren Dachau. Da den senere præsident François Mitterand, der var aktiv i modstandsbevægelsen, besøger Dachau efter befrielsen, finder han Antelme i den aflukkede del af lejren, hvor de syge og fortabte tilfælde er lukket inde. Det lykkes at evakuere Antelme og bringe ham tilbage til Paris, hvor hustruen, forfatterinden Marguerite Duras, venter på ham. Menneskeslægten beretter om dagligdagen i lejrene og fangernes kamp for at overleve i et hierarki, der har døden som en konstant horisont, om fangernes indbyrdes forræderier og venskaber og SS’ernes vold. Det er samtidig en refleksion over, hvad det vil sige at være menneske, når livet er reduceret til viljen til at holde sig i live. Bogen udkom i 1947 og betragtes som et af de vigtigste vidnesbyrd fra Anden Verdenskrig.

Ruth Ravina's story is one of childhood under duress. She survived hunger, cold, solitude, existential boredom, and life-threatening situations. Born on April 7, 1937 in Warsaw, Poland, she was raised in Kozienice. In 1940, about a year after the German invasion, a ghetto was established in Kozienice, where Ruth was forced to witness executions. Escaping the Kozienice ghetto in the fall of 1942, she had to negotiate the exigencies of three forced labor camps in Poland - Pionki, Skarzysko-Kamienna, and Czestochowa - together with her mother and her cousin Sarah. Being hidden for the most part, Ruth was in constant fear of being caught and killed; children were essentially not allowed in these camps. Her father and most of her very large extended family perished in the Holocaust. Only she, her mother and her cousins Sarah and Rose survived. Though essentially Ruth's 'Invisible Holocaust', the work transcends the memoir form in its presentation of the author's metatexts, her own imperilled childhood in the war. Clearly secondary to Ruth's story, this material nevertheless complicates and intensifies the narrative without relativizing the Holocaust. This kind of dialogue between Jew and German has not taken place before in the Holocaust memoir as a genre. It shows the particular brutality children suffer in war, regardless of the ideological and political position they are forced to occupy.

"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.