Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Yad Vashem Studies
Author: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
Author: Dr Robert RozettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135969507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume reference that provides reliable information on this ignoble and frightening episode of modern history. It features eight essays on the history of the Holocaust and its antecedents, as well as coverage of such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-semitism and Nazism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on significant aspects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs from the archives at Yad Vashem bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and at the same time attest to the invincibility of the human spirit. Best Specialist Reference Work of the Year - Reference Reviews UK
Dancing on a Powder Keg
Author: Ilse WeberPublisher: Bunim & Bannigan Limited
ISBN: 9781933480398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On May 6, 1939, Ilse Weber, in writing to her sister-in-law, Zofiah Mareni, noted "You will probably be happy to know how do we live here now? Well, at least we're not pestered by boredom. It's like dancing on a powder keg. The air is impregnated with insane rumors, which we no longer believe." Starting in 1933, Ilse's letters recorded the lives of her small family during a time of increasing danger, when Europe descended from peace to the chaos of war and genocide. In 1933, Ilse Weber lived in her ancestral town, Vítkovice, near the industrial area of Moravia-Ostrava in northern Czechoslovakia. She was thirty, married to Willi Weber, and had a son Hanus, aged two. As author of children's books and radio scripts, she used her maiden name, Ilse Herlinger. She wrote in German, the language of that border region, thinking of herself as a Czech. Lilian von Löwenadler, to whom the letters were mostly addressed, was the daughter of a Swedish diplomat, with whom Ilse had maintained an epistolary relationship since childhood, enhanced by personal visits. At that time Lilian was living in England. In 1934, Ilse gave birth to a second son, Thomas. In 1938, Hitler's Third Reich annexed Vítkovice and the rest of what it called Sudetenland. Soon after, it occupied all of Czechoslovakia. In the spring of 1939, the Webers, now living in Prague, sent Hanus on a Kindertransport to London, to Lilian, who took him to Sweden to live with her mother. In 1942, Ilse, Willi and Tommy were sent to the Thersienstadt Ghetto. Working there in the children's infirmary, Ilse entertained the patients with songs, accompanying herself on her contraband guitar. It is these songs and poems, mail correspondence having become near impossible, in which we can trace Ilse's last years. As inmates disappeared on trains to 'the East,' Willi hid his wife's music and poems in a work shed with his gardening tools. He went 'east,' followed, later in 1944, by Ilse and Tommy. In the autumn of 1945, Willi, having survived in a labor camp, was joined by fourteen year-old Hanus and they recovered Ilse's songs and poems. After a year of anxious inquiry, they relinquished hope that Tommy and Ilse were alive. We would not have the letters had not someone, decades later, while cleaning out a London attic, found them in a box.
The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
Author: Otto Dov KulkaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Presented for the first time in English, the huge archive of secret Nazi reports reveals what life was like for German Jews and the extent to which the German population supported their social exclusion and the measures that led to their annihilation.
Yad Vashem
Author: Moshe SafdiePublisher: Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
175 meters long, the museum bores like a triangular beam through the Har Hazikaron, or Mount of Remembrance. It juts out from the hillside at either end, allowing visitors to enter and look out. This spectacular architecture is the setting for a lavish and impressive exhibition commemorating the Holocaust. The structure is the culmination of Moshe Safdiea (TM)s work in Israel. The architect, a student of Louis Kahn who began his career with the sensational residential complex Habitat at the 1967 Montreal Worlda (TM)s Fair, maintains offices in Boston, Toronto, and Jerusalem. The museum, its architecture, and its series of interior spaces with their carefully designed exhibition facilities are documented in an indepth photo essay and illustrated with texts and plans.
To Bear Witness
Author: Belah GuṭermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Stolen Youth
Author: Isabelle ChokoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Presents five memoirs of Jewish women who, in their youth, survived the Holocaust; in each case the role of the family, especially the parent-child relation, was central. Contents:
How was it Humanly Possible?
Author: Irena SteinfeldtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An educational guide for high school or college students, as well as for the general reader. Dwells, in particular, on the views of the perpetrators - their actions, thoughts, worldviews, and motivations. Discusses, also, the Jewish victims and relates the activities of four rescuers of Jews. Focusing on Germans, deals with prejudice, propaganda, and youth culture; mass murder; deportation; transports as seen by a perpetrator and a victim; high officials in the extermination camp system (Höss, Stangl, and Gerstein); and bystanders and rescuers. The approach is interdisciplinary - involving documents, testimonies, photographs, and works of literature and art.
Such a Beautiful Sunny Day ...
Author: Barbara EngelkingPublisher:
ISBN: 9789653085411
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Jews seeking refuge in the Polish countryside, 1942-1945.
The Forest, My Friend
Author: Donia RosenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
