Holocaust category: 1392 books
Holocaust Angst
The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important NSA publication provides a historical guide to western communications intelligence and the Holocaust from 1939 to 1945.
Contents: Chapter 1: Background * The Context of European and Nazi Anti-Semitism...
by Mindy Weisel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example." --Anne FrankDaughters of Absence is a collection of twelve essays written by daughters of Holocaust survivors. Each chapter is a contribution...
Der Holocaust
Ergebnisse und neue Fragen der Forschung
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2015
+++Die aktuelle Bilanz der internationalen Holocaust-Forschung seit den 1990er Jahren+++In den letzten Jahren ist eine Fülle an Studien zur Geschichte des Holocaust erschienen, mit wichtigen Ergebnissen zu zahlreichen Einzelfragen. Hochkarätige NS-Historiker führen hier endlich diese neuesten Erkenntnisse...
Holocaust Justice
The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly $230 billion to $320 billion in assets (figured in today’s dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activities of the...
Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives
Memory in Memoir and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation—the...
Holocaust
An American Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Understanding, renowned historian Deborah E. Lipstadt explores this striking evolution in Holocaust consciousness,...
Admitting the Holocaust
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, our age clings to the stable relics of faded eras, as if ideas like natural innocence, innate dignity, the inviolable spirit, and the triumph of art over reality were immured in some kind of immortal shrine, immune to the ravages of history...
by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all....
by Andy Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain...
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present
The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of...
by Donald L. Niewyk, Francis R. Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today.
Each...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".
The Holocaust has no...
Postcards from Auschwitz
Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials
Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its...