Holocaust

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 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"--

'One of the best books I have read' Reviewer *****'A compelling story of bravery, love and survival' Reviewer *****'The twists and turns will keep you engrossed all the way through' Reviewer *****'Powerful and truly moving' Reviewer *****-----THE NEXT WORDS HE WRITES COULD BE HIS LAST . . . Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.But when the Nazis take over, everything changes. With their Jewish families' now under threat, the writers hide using false identities, their stories becoming their only salvation.Then a local policeman begins a dangerous mission to help them. But he faces conflicts of his own: having declared his love for a beautiful Romani-gypsy girl, Deya Reynes, he fears that she too will be sent to her death.When all they have left is courage, will they survive?-----'Darkly compelling, evoking the constant dread of life in wartime Austria' Fiona Valpy, The Dressmaker's Gift'Enticing, terrifying and heart-breaking' Mandy Robotham, The Resistance Girl'A gripping, intriguing and moving read' Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Auschwitz

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews.In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on Krakowiec as refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland.At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

"Nadie sale vivo de Auschwitz. Mala, reclusa 19880, lo entendiâo en el momento en que bajâo del tren de ganado para dirigirse a las profundidades del infierno. Como intâerprete de las SS, Mala usâo su posiciâon para salvar tantas vidas como pudo. Edward, recluso 531, es un veterano del campo y un preso polâitico. Aunque, con la cabeza rapada y el uniforme a rayas, se parezca a todos lo demâas, es un luchador de la Resistencia en la clandestinidad. Y tiene un plan de escape. Sabe que, a pesar de estar rodeado por cables elâectricos, ametralladoras coronando interminables torres de vigilancia y reflectores vagando por el suelo, dejarâan, tanto âel como Mala, el campo de exterminio. Hay la promesa de escapar juntos o morir juntos, en una de las mâas grandes historias de amor de todos los tiempos."--From back cover.

By October 1942 the Hlinka Guard had overseen the deportation of some 60,000 Slovak Jews. During the 1944-1945 German occupation, another 13,500 Jews were deported and 5,000 imprisoned. Many of the Jews ended up at the Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp. Not much is known about the Hlinka Guard. This book tells their story.

Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann, among other contributions.Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing German Jewish Studies forum in North America. Because the locus of scholarship is never incidental, Nexus 6 introduces a new section, "Contexts," to examine, in this case, what it means to pursue German Jewish Studies at a Catholic university, Notre Dame. And because research is never static, it inaugurates a series in which scholars revisit their own prior scholarly publications. Robert Smith launches this initiative by revising his view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a source for post-Holocaust Christian-Jewish dialogue. The volume also offers conversations with the legendary Paul Mendes-Flohr on his understanding of the German Jewish "legacy" and with Barbara Honigmann on her distinctive prose style and what it means to her to practice Judaism. The popular Film Forum section returns, this time focusing on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla. Nexus 6 also presents new scholarship on Babi Yar Holocaust memorials, Freud's famous Moses essay, Primo Levi's translation of Kafka, and an introduction to and first English translation of the 18th-century philosopher Salomon Maimon's understudied essay History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.

"This book highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians"--