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This book documents when and what the US government knew about the Nazis' systematic extermination of European Jewry. US policies on immigration, the bombing of Auschwitz and the rescue of Jewish refugees, as well as the responses of American Jewish leaders during the Holocaust, are reviewed. An introduction by Elie Wiesel is provided in the paperback edition.
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A collection of essays on: ghettoization, Auschwitz, Holocaust literature, Holocaust testimonies and the Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen. An introduction by the author is provided at the beginning of the volume.
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This detailed work explores the internal society of the Nazi concentration camps and the different types of resistance employed. The author--who participated in such resistance himself--deals with the conditions of the camps, as well as tension and cohesion between groups of prisoners. Most of the research that went into the book is based on conversations with survivors.
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After the German invasion, Yankele and his family flee Poland and head toward the Russian border. Once across, they become refugees in the Soviet Union. While his father is off fighting in the Red Army, Yankele, his mother and sister are forced to flee once again, and set off on a long journey. After a harrowing experience along the way, Yankele gets separated from his mother and finds himself ...
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This book is a compilation of testimonies of survivors describing the event of liberation. They are a sampling, extracted from thousands of larger and longer testimonies.
Each testimony begins with a brief Holocaust biography- name, birthdate, place of the survivor, where deported to, where they spent the Holocaust, where liberated from and by whom, and where they immigrated to afterward...
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A slim biography that nevertheless has lots of information, as well as insight into Anne's nature. It focuses on the years of hiding, explains how the Franks, the Van Pels, and Dr. Pfeffer managed to survive for as long as they did with the help of Miep Gies. Features of this book include: archival photographs on sepia-tinted pages, a full-color map of Europe from 1943-1944, and a diagram of the s...
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This book traces the life of Anne Frank from when she and her family moved from Germany to Holland in the 1930s until her tragic death at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, at the end of the Holocaust. An emphasis is placed on Anne's diary, "Kitty." A list of important dates in Anne Frank's life is provided at the back of this biography.
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For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become the "human face of the Holocaust." Her diary of twenty-five months in hiding, a precious record of her struggle to keep hope alive through the darkest days of this century, has touched the hearts of millions.
Here, after five decades, is the first biograph...
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This book, on audiocassette, chronicles the life of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank's family in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. The author describes her relationship with the Franks, Anne's personality, conditions under Nazi occupation, Allied liberation and the publishing of Anne's diary by her father after the war.
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In this book, photographs, illustrations and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts and personal accounts to provide an insight into Anne Frank's childhood before and after the Holocaust. The story of how Anne's diary was published after the war is recounted at the end of the book along with a chronology of the Frank family and the families in the Secret Annex. There is an introduction b...
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Video is filmed at the Amsterdam home where 13-year-old Anne Frank wrote her diary about the Holocaust and about the place where family hid throughout most of World War II. It opens with a modern scene from the grade school that Anne attended with other students including a dozen Jewish children, all killed in the Holocaust for no other reason than being Jewish. The film depicts the city, the buil...
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An extensive compilation of primary sources documenting the Holocaust. Written by victims and witnesses, the work includes testimonies and literary works. Authors include men, women and children who lived and wrote during the Nazi occupation of Europe and in the camps. Includes a substantial section on the resistance.
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A collection of autobiographical short stories beginning from the author's childhood days in Radom, Poland. Gotfryd recounts his experiences living in the Radom ghetto, joining the Polish underground surviving six Nazi concentration camps, and searching for family members following the second world war.
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This book comprises seven essays on the Holocaust. The author has a background in the history and teaching of the Holocaust (he is director of the Yad Vashem library) and thus emphasizes the need – throughout the book – to approach the Holocaust critically.
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A large collection of prose, poetry, drama, journals and diaries, and visual art about the holocaust. Selections by such writers as Primo levi, Elie Wiesel and Paul Celan, and reproductions of works of art by painters in the Terezin concentration camp. Also included in their entirety are a novel by Aharon Applefeld, a novella by Pierre Gascar and a drama by Joshua Sobol.
