Geographies of the Holocaust Book

Geographies of the Holocaust

  • Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release Date : 2014-09-19
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 261
  • ISBN 10 : 9780253012319
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Geographies of the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

“[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives.” —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built on six innovative case studies, it brings together historians and geographers to interrogate the places and spaces of the genocide. The cases encompass the landscapes of particular places (the killing zones in the East, deportations from sites in Italy, the camps of Auschwitz, the ghettos of Budapest) and the intimate spaces of bodies on evacuation marches. Geographies of the Holocaust puts forward models and a research agenda for different ways of visualizing and thinking about the Holocaust by examining the spaces and places where it was enacted and experienced. “An excellent collection of scholarship and a model of interdisciplinary collaboration . . . The volume makes a timely contribution to the ongoing emergence of the spatial humanities and will undoubtedly advance scholarly and popular understandings of the Holocaust.” —H-HistGeog “An important work . . . and could be required reading in any number of courses on political geography, GIS, critical theory, biopolitics, genocide, and so forth.” —Journal of Historical Geography “Both students and researchers will find this work to be immensely informative and innovative . . . Essential.” —Choice

The Origins of the Holocaust Book

The Origins of the Holocaust

  • Author : Michael Robert Marrus
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release Date : 1989-01-01
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 737
  • ISBN 10 : 9783110970494
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download The Origins of the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

Diese Reihe bietet erstmals eine Basissammlung von Faksimiles englischsprachiger historischer Artikel zu allen Aspekten der Vernichtung der europäischen Juden. Die große Anzahl von annähernd 300 Aufsätzen aus 84 Zeitschriften und Sammlungen ermöglicht den Lesern, sich einen Überblick über diesen Themenkomplex zu verschaffen. Die Reihe beginnt mit einem Rückblick auf die Wurzeln des Antisemitismus und einer Darstellung der verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Methoden zur Erforschung des Holocaust. Die Reihe endet mit der Dokumentation der Befreiung der Konzentrationslager und mit Aufsätzen zu den Kriegsverbrecherprozessen. Der Erscheinungszeitraum umfasst die Jahre 1950 bis 1987, zu den Verfassern gehören beispielsweise Jakob Katz, Saul Friedländer, Eberhard Jäckel, Bruno Bettelheim und Herbert A. Strauss.

Staying Human Through the Holocaust Book

Staying Human Through the Holocaust

  • Author : Teréz Mózes
  • Publisher : University of Calgary Press
  • Release Date : 2005
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 414
  • ISBN 10 : 9781552381397
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Staying Human Through the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

Teréz Mózes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race. Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Teréz and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives. In June 1944, Teréz and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Teréz and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945. Staying Human Through the Holocaust, originally titled Beverzett kotáblak ("Shattered Tablets"), was published in Hungarian in 1993 and in Romanian in 1995. Told in a direct and riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest and most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual and historical point of view.

Lessons of the Holocaust Book
Score: 4
From 1 Ratings

Lessons of the Holocaust

  • Author : Michael R. Marrus
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release Date : 2016-01-27
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 216
  • ISBN 10 : 9781442630086
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Lessons of the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes. In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the notion that there are definitive lessons to be deduced from the destruction of European Jewry. Instead, drawing on decades of studying, writing about, and teaching the Holocaust, he shows how its “lessons” are constantly challenged, debated, altered, and reinterpreted. A succinct, stimulating analysis by a world-renowned historian, Lessons of the Holocaust is the perfect guide for the general reader to the historical and moral controversies which infuse the interpretation of the Holocaust and its significance.

The Holocaust Book

The Holocaust

  • Author : Laurence Rees
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release Date : 2017-04-18
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 552
  • ISBN 10 : 9781610398459
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download The Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war -- the Nazis ultimately wanted every Jew to die. Her mother was one of millions who lost their lives because of a racist regime that believed that some human beings simply did not deserve to live -- not because of what they had done, but because of who they were. Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well. He also reveals that there was no single overarching blueprint for the Holocaust. Instead, a series of escalations compounded into the horror. Though Hitler was most responsible for what happened, the blame is widespread, Rees reminds us, and the effects are enduring. The Holocaust: A New History is an accessible yet authoritative account of this terrible crime. A chronological, intensely readable narrative, this is a compelling exposition of humanity's darkest moment.

The Holocaust Industry Book

The Holocaust Industry

  • Author : Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release Date : 2000
  • Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Pages : 168
  • ISBN 10 : UOM:39015056453775
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download The Holocaust Industry Ebook PDF/EPUB

In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements.

The Holocaust in Greece Book

The Holocaust in Greece

  • Author : Giorgos Antoniou
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date : 2018-11
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 397
  • ISBN 10 : 9781108474672
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download The Holocaust in Greece Ebook PDF/EPUB

This new account of the Holocaust in Greece elaborates on the involvement of Christian society in the persecution of Jews.

Why Explaining the Holocaust Book
Score: 5
From 2 Ratings

Why Explaining the Holocaust

  • Author : Peter Hayes
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release Date : 2017-01-17
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 10 : 9780393254372
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Why Explaining the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust. Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions—yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basic—yet vexing—questions that remain: why the Jews and not another ethnic group? Why the Germans? Why such a swift and sweeping extermination? Why didn’t more Jews fight back more often? Why didn’t they receive more help? While responding to the questions he has been most frequently asked by students over the decades, world-renowned Holocaust historian and professor Peter Hayes brings a wealth of scholarly research and experience to bear on conventional, popular views of the history, challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. He argues that there is no single theory that “explains” the Holocaust; the convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time led to catastrophe. In clear prose informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of Holocaust literature in English and German, Hayes weaves together stories and statistics to heart-stopping effect. Why? is an authoritative, groundbreaking exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history.

Shelter from the Holocaust Book

Shelter from the Holocaust

  • Author : Atina Grossmann
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release Date : 2017-12-04
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 314
  • ISBN 10 : 9780814342688
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Shelter from the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Holocaust and Human Behavior Book

Holocaust and Human Behavior

  • Author : Facing History and Ourselves
  • Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
  • Release Date : 2017-03-24
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 734
  • ISBN 10 : 1940457181
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Holocaust and Human Behavior Ebook PDF/EPUB

Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today

European Mennonites and the Holocaust Book

European Mennonites and the Holocaust

  • Author : Mark Jantzen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release Date : 2021-01-26
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781487525545
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download European Mennonites and the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.

Witness revised edition Book

Witness revised edition

  • Author : Anonim
  • Publisher : Second Story Press
  • Release Date : 2020-06-12
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 152
  • ISBN 10 : 9781772601510
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Witness revised edition Ebook PDF/EPUB

This updated edition of Witness, which includes a new Afterword with an address by Steven Spielberg, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. For over 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. Witness is a compilation of firsthand accounts from the survivors who have participated in March of the Living programs, together with responses from the people, young students in particular, of many faiths and cultures worldwide who have traveled with the group over the years. In the new edition each photograph of a survivor, rescuer, or WWII liberator is embedded with an invisible barcode that, via mobile phone, connects the reader to the video testimony of the individual pictured. 75 videos housed on the USC Shoah Foundation or March of the Living websites can be accessed this way. The new edition has also been enriched with compelling new liberation stories and additional content honoring those who rescued Jews during WWII. Along with the new Afterword, the book includes a Preface featuring Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II, and words from Barack Obama that remind us how important “witnesses” are to a true understanding of history and how we behave to one another today and in the future.

The Holocaust Book
Score: 5
From 1 Ratings

The Holocaust

  • Author : Jack Fischel
  • Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
  • Release Date : 1998
  • Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Pages : 262
  • ISBN 10 : 0313298793
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download The Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

Provides a history of the Holocaust during World War II focusing on the destruction of European Jews, and discusses the historical importance of the Holocaust from a contemporary perspective; includes a chronology of events, biographies of major figures, and a selection of primary documents.

Denying the Holocaust Book
Score: 5
From 1 Ratings

Denying the Holocaust

  • Author : Deborah E. Lipstadt
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release Date : 2012-12-18
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9781476727486
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Denying the Holocaust Ebook PDF/EPUB

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the “true victims” of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe. But as time goes on, they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas, and now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how—despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence—this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, “independent” research centers, and official publications that promote a “revisionist” view of recent history. Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value-relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge. Thus the movement has an unsuspected power to dramatically alter the way that truth and meaning are transmitted from one generation to another.

Black Earth Book
Score: 4.5
From 11 Ratings

Black Earth

  • Author : Timothy Snyder
  • Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
  • Release Date : 2015-09-08
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 480
  • ISBN 10 : 9781101903469
DOWNLOAD BOOK
Download Black Earth Ebook PDF/EPUB

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.