On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz. The fact that Pogozhev survived the appalling conditions in the camp is remarkable in itself. That he should also have taken part in one of the few successful escapes makes his gripping narrative rare indeed. His description of the esc...
La publication des Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell (2006) a projete sur l'avant-plan la figure inquietante du " salaud " (ou du " monstre ", ou du " bourreau ") prenant la parole. Cette figure n'est pas inedite. Au debut des annees cinquante, Robert Merle avait deja octroye le monopole narratif au monstre par excellence que fut Rudolf Hoess, le commandant d'Auschwitz. Meme un Jean-Paul Sartre, dans une nouvelle celebre parue en 1939, avait fait parler l'infame. D'autres ecrivains, a diverses...
Muy similar al personaje de uno de sus libros más populares, Andy Andrews es, ante todo, un Observador. A veces, todo lo que necesitas es un poco de perspectiva y Andy ha estado dando tal perspectiva a algunas de las empresas y organizaciones más influyentes del mundo, durante los últimos 20 años. Su capacidad para transformar a la gente mediante su propia comprensión y sus deseos, lo ha hecho ganarse el cariño de millones de personas. Si la verdad es lo que nos hace libres, ¿qué significa vivi...
The Cremation Furnaces of Auschwitz, Part 2
by Carlo Mattogno and Dr Franco Deana
Holocaust in the East (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag MontefioreWould you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?This is the unsung story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War.In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an upri...
Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938-1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of documents-including diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, reports, Jewish identity cards, and personal photographs-from Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe and beyond Europe's borders. The volume skillfully illuminates the daily li...
Legacies, Lies and Lullabies: the World of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor
by Esther V. Levy
146 Fotografias Antiguas de Los Campos de Concentracion y Exterminio Nazis
by Javier Gomez Perez
Arthur Dodd, a British soldier, spent two years of the Second World war in a beautiful village in Upper Silesia, Poland; to the Poles the place was known as Oswiecim. The Germans called it Auschwitz. Auschwitz was not just a camp for those that the Third Reich deemed "undesirables", hundreds of British Tommies were also incarcerated there and witnessed the atrocities meted out by Hitler's brutal SS. This is the true story of one of these spectators.
Between November 1945 and October 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg tried some of the most notorious political and military figures of Nazi Germany. Most histories of the prosecution of war criminals from World War II focus on these trials and the punishment meted out to the leaders of the Axis powers. But as Arieh Kochavi notes, the issue of punishing war criminals was widely discussed by the leaders of the Allied nations well before the end of the war. In this book, Kochav...
Magda Trocme (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend Andre Trocme (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles. Together, they worked heroically, and under dangerous circumstances, to prevent the deportation of thousands of people to Nazi concentration camps. Living in the small, mainly Protestant town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon in southern France, Magda and And...
Small Miracles of the Holocaust
by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal
In this magnificent work--timed with the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass)--the authors have collected more than 50 remarkable, uplifting twists of fate, or extraordinary coincidences, that occurred during the Holocaust.
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogroms in 1941, and most ordinary gentiles never atta...
After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those who converted to Nazism, and thus became not only Führer, but Messiah contends David Redles, who believes that millenarian sentiment was central to the rise of Nazism. As opposed to many works which de...
On the eve of World War I, ten-year-old Samuel Iwry and his family joined other Jewish refugees in fleeing Poland for Russia. At age twenty-nine, Iwry was forced to flee again - this time from the Soviets - and ended up in Shanghai, joining 20,000 Jewish refugees already there. The story of the diaspora caused by the Holocaust is well-known, but the Far Eastern dimension has come to light only very recently. Iwry's story unfolds in his own compelling words, conveying the harrowing details of fli...
THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAGOCCUPIED PARIS, 1944.A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower.Nazis march through the streets.And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work . . .At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but he has vanished without a trace. As the police delve into the doctor's past, a disturbing history of violence and corruption is uncovere...