As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other single Nazi leader aside from Hitler, his name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the Third Reich. His wide-ranging powers meant that he bore equal responsibility for the repression of the German people...
While much has been written about the Catholic Church and the Holocaust, little has been published about the hostile role of priests, in particular Jesuits, toward Jews and Judaism. Jesuit Kaddish is a long overdue study that examines Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Shoah and the development of a new understanding of the Catholic Church’s relation to Judaism that culminated with Vatican II’s landmark decree Nostra aetate. James Bernauer undertakes a self-examination as a member of the...
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film ""An engrossing and memorable tale.""Jewish Book World ""The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange beyond belief."" --The Times (London) International acclaim for Solomon Perel's Europa Europa ""The wrenching memoir of a young man who survived the Holocaust by concealing his Jewish identity and finding unexpected refuge as a member of the Hitler Youth. ""It is a Holocaust memoir that is moving, strai...
Articles identify and describe individuals and events connected with the persecution of Jews and others across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Fifty years after W. W. II, the Holocaust is still continually in the news. Examining the Holocaust in our culture and in our psyches, Cesarani questions why, as the new millennium dawns, Jews and non-Jews alike remain so fascinated by it.--Cesarani reviews not only what is thought to have happened under the Nazis but how Europe and America responded to the events both at the time and over the past fifty years. --While other atrocities are forgotten, Cesarani shows how the Holocaust has been for...
The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry (Holocaust Handbook, #29)
by Walter N. Sanning
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucial topic.' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defea...
Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staff strive to commemorate and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most people's experiences. At the same time they are often portrayed by theologians, artists and philosophers in ways that are already known by the public. Museumadministrators and curators have the challenging role of finding a creative way to present Holocaust exhibits to avoid cliched or dehumanising portrayals of victims and...
A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the...
Life-saving acts of heroism by ordinary people in the face of Nazi tyranny
The Destruction of the Ukrainian Jewry During World War II (Symposium S., v. 81)
by Michael Gesin
Twenty-three adult survivors of the Holocaust share their childhood war-time experiences in this book. It tells of the loss of their early years and the struggle to rebuild their lives after the war. There is Kristine, who hid in the sewers of Lvov for 14 months; Rosa, who hid in an impoverished farmhouse, sleeping on a clay pallet behind a stove; Renee, who posed as a Catholic and was kept in a convent by nuns who knew her secret; and Richard, who, with his family, lived in a closet for 13 mont...