Holocaust

World War Two re-assessed for a new generation, from the 1930s through to the beginnings of the Cold War. A stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible episodes in world history.

A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother.Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria's shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek-who she thought was dead. He is now a "Silent Unseen," a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him, but the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner and the last person Maria trusts-even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can't resist.Tightly woven, relentlessly intense, The Silent Unseen depicts an explosive entanglement of loyalty, lies, and love during wartime, from Amanda McCrina, the acclaimed author of Traitor, a debut hailed by Elizabeth Wein as "Alive with detail and vivid with insight . . . a piercing and bittersweet story."

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites.

Maximilian Kolbe's decision to take the place of a condemned man in the Auschwitz concentration camp is one of the greatest stories of heroism to emerge from the Holocaust. This book brings to life for a younger audience the incredible story of a Polish weaver's son who grew up to be a priest, a missionary, and a martyr.Kolbe lived amid the political unrest, the social change, and the spiritual battles that shaped the modern world. In the thick of it all, he had one goal--to share the love of God with as many people as possible. And he was a great innovator, spreading the Gospel through multimedia--a work that took him all the way to Nagasaki, Japan.With his deep love for Our Lady, Kolbe also founded a Marian movement that has spread throughout the world, the Militia Immaculatae, also known as the Knights of the Immaculata. His imitation of Mary's tremendous trust in God enabled him to bring hope everywhere he went, including a prison camp.

The story of the life of our late father Yitzhak Weizman was only revealed to us, his three children, when we were already parents to our own children.We always knew that he was a Holocaust survivor. He had the number 145227 tattooed on his arm.But he told us very little about his Holocaust experiences. "It was a long time ago," he used to say, and "Polanyah" (as we called Poland at the time) seemed very far away. We studied in school and read books about it, but the Holocaust was not present in our home. Unlike other children of survivors, we were not pressured to eat everything on our plates and were even allowed to waste food. "It will not help the children of Africa if you eat everything," used to say our mother, who came from a family that had been living in Israel for six generations. Our father smiled.What we did know was that our father's grandfather had been an important figure in his life. He was a successful industrialist and trader, one of the richest Jews in the town of Gombin. He introduced our father to the secrets of the family business, but he also wanted him to learn Judaism in the heder, the traditional school where Jewish boys received basic religious instruction. We also knew that our father participated on the youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, that he loved to play soccer, and that the horses in Gombin were fast - he used to say that the carts in Gombin, even when loaded with grain, were faster than the lazy soccer players in Israel.We were aware that our father was the only survivor of his family. His father Menachem, his mother Hannah, and his sister Helcia had all been murdered during the Holocaust. But we did not really know how he had survived. He kept us ignorant about it. The shadows of the past remained outside the door.Things changed when the grandchildren arrived. The new generation did not like to be kept ignorant about anything. They asked questions and wanted to receive answers. Our father could not resist them. Without the pressure of the grandchildren's questions, it is doubtful that this book would have ever been written.Yitzhak WeizmanviWe have read our father's story over and over again. He writes things as they were, almost like an objective bystander - avoiding hyperbole or emotional excess. With characteristic modesty, he writes: "I am not a hero and I never wanted to be a hero."We emphasize this fact because the figure of speech "like cattle to the slaughter" burned our father's soul. In the times of the establishment of the State of Israel, that expression was often used to describe the way in which the Jews had perished during the Holocaust. When the country formally adopted the wording "Shoah veGvurah" (Holocaust and Heroism) to commemorate the tragedy, the relationship between the two concepts created difficult dilemmas for the construction of a new ethos in the Jewish state.Our father's story is a story of coping. It is also a story about his disposition to discern points of light in the midst of darkness and preserve them in his mind.As the readers will see in the book, the permanent effort to cope was our father's daily reality. We believe that some of the choices he made were truly heroic. One example is the story about his involvement in what he describes as an "interesting incident" in the Jędrzejów camp. Despite his lack of experience, he volunteered to replace the damaged wheel of a German officer's vehicle. In the process, he saved his life and that of his mates. Then, when he was given extra food as a reward for replacing the wheel, he chose to share it with his friends rather than keeping it for himself.

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the State of Israel. Traditionally described as "the act of going up", moving to the Land of Israel or "making aliyah" is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism.Zionist ideology was premised upon the reconstitution of the Jews as a free, self-determining nation in their own state. In recognition of this aspiration, Israel's Declaration of Independence declared that "The State of Israel will be open to the immigration of Jews and for the ingathering of exiles from all countries of their dispersion." In 1950, this principle was given shape as the Law of Return, enshrining this Zionist principle within Israeli law. The Law of Return grants every Jew in the world the automatic right to immigrate to Israel - in Hebrew called aliyah - and immediately become a citizen of the state. The Law of Return did not arise from ideology alone; it was also a practical measure. In the wake of the Holocaust, the first act of the new Israeli government was to abolish all restrictions on Jewish immigration. Israel, the government declared, would provide Jews the world over with a haven from anti-Semitism.This book of poems covers much of the spectrum of emotion associated with making Aliyah.

Learn how a Corporal raised to full power and changed the worldThe story of the german resistance is one that is rarely heard, but the bravery of the conspirators, despite their lack of success in stopping hitler in his tracks, is nothing short of heroic. During the opening years of world war ii hitler and his military machine succeeded in virtually every campaign, making a coup unrealistic, but as the allies gained strength, especially after the americans entered the fray at the end of 1941, when the japanese attacked pearl harbor, an attempt on hitler's life began to become viable. Here is a preview of what you'll learn...Where hitler came from and what inspired him to extremist beliefsHis role in creating a new ideology, one that persists todayThe young, ambitious politician and how he rose to prominenceHow the führer came to be, and how he gathered his powerHitler's final solution, and the devastation it createdHow hitler was beaten, and his final daysAdolf hitler, a man born into a humble family and with aspirations of becoming a painter, rose steadily through the german army and the growing nationalistic political movements of orld war i era germany. He would become the man who lead the world into the second world war, challenging enemies both at home and abroad in his mission to rule the world and leave an indelible mark on modern humanity.

This holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that survived wwii. After his mother's death the album passed on to paul davidovits, who became keenly aware that he was now the only person alive who recognized the people in the photographs, remembered how they were interconnected, knew about their journey through life.Davidovits now tells the stories of the inhabitants of this lost world, guiding us through his own childhood. He evocatively portrays the harrowing and traumatic unfolding of history, but also lingers on poignant moments of love, bravery, generosity and humor.Finally, the camp is released and klara is free - but there are still hardships to overcome. Upon returning home to hungary with her family, they discover that the home they left behind is no longer theirs. Devastated, klara decides to leave her family and sets off on her own, to her new destination - first to italy then the land of israel. Her path will be wrought with challenges, but also with love, and the hope of a family of her own.Years later, the delivery of a mysterious letter sets into motion an unexpected series of events in the life of alice, klara's granddaughter. She embarks on a journey in pursuit of secrets from the past, secrets which when uncovered, might just help her decide her own path in life.

From the book's introduction: "The world was not prepared for Auschwitz. It was, in fact, a place unbelievable even for its inmates. No words can adequately describe this weird world -- unlike anything the world had ever known. In order to understand its implication, you actually had to be part of it. I'll have to be autobiographical, but follow me if you will into Auschwitz and spend a day there, and meet some of the people in the nameless mass of bodies. Try, if you will, to feel, even for a moment, that you could have been one of them, that in fact you were one of them." = = = = = = What would you have done? A simple question asked in countless contexts. Add the word "Auschwitz" and it becomes a searing, soul-searching challenge. In her compelling book, Only Hope, Holocaust survivor Felicia Bornstein Lubliner asks the reader to travel back in time, to follow her into the Nazi death camp, and to wrestle with this question, just as she did when faced with that reality. - George Conklin, Project Director, Worldwide Faith News, National Council of Churches The gripping stories in Only Hope: A Survivor's Stories of the Holocaust, told from the tender, first-person perspective of Felicia Lubliner, will transfix the reader from start to finish. Middle and high school students, as well as adults of all ages, will absorb the impact of the Holocaust in new and unforgettable ways through these remarkable, personal accounts. The legacy of this heroic woman will indeed live on, not only in her words, but in the hearts that are changed by the hope they inspire. - Kathleen A. Cepelka, Ph.D., Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Archdiocese of Milwaukee The narrator in these remarkable stories speaks with two voices. At times we hear the voice of the teenager Felicia Bornstein, as she describes her life in the Pabianice Ghetto and her imprisonment in Auschwitz. This is a voice of loss, anger, and immeasurable sadness. And we hear the voice of adult Felicia Bornstein Lubliner, as she looks back on the terrible events of her youth, trying to find meaning in them. Hers is a voice of hope. With both voices, the narrator tells tales of courage and of faith: the courage to bear witness; faith that someone will listen. - Kenneth Ehrlich, Rabbi and Former Dean, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Through a personal, unique and diverse lens, Felicia Lubliner conveys the raw emotional experience of a young woman trapped in the unimaginable depths of despair, yet through whose written words we find hope. Felicia Lubliner's Only Hope guides the reader through a Holocaust story that is much deeper than a number-6,000,000-giving us a human touch in the midst of inhumanity. - Dennis J. Eisner, Senior Rabbi, Peninsula Temple Beth El These stories vivify the horror of the Holocaust and the redemption of the human will. Felicia Lubliner makes us realize in Only Hope that the spark of life cannot be extinguished even in the darkest of times. - Dennis M. Read, Professor Emeritus of English, Denison University

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor is a captivating book written by Eddie Jaku. Published by HARPERCOLLINS in 2022, this book falls under the genre of biographies. It's a powerful narrative that explores the life of a man who, despite experiencing the horrors of Auschwitz, chooses to live his life with an unshakeable belief in humanity and happiness. The author, Eddie Jaku, masterfully recounts his experiences, making this book a compelling read. This publication by HARPERCOLLINS is not just a book; it's a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of positivity. It's a book that will leave you deeply moved and inspired.

"Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Gâeraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism"--

"Originally published in Portuguese as O ar que me falta by Companhia das Letras, Säao Paulo"--Title page verso.

"Translation of Yisker-bukh Chelm, Poland"--

Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.