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The Abandonment of the Jewsby David S. WymanISBN 0394740777 (0-394-74077-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abandonment of the Jews'Book summary:It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945by David S. WymanISBN 1565844157 (1-56584-415-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945'Book summary:It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Alicia: My Storyby Alicia Appleman-JurmanISBN 0553282182 (0-553-28218-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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All But My Lifeby Gerda Weissmann KleinISBN 0809015803 (0-8090-1580-3)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirsby Elie WieselISBN 0805210288 (0-8052-1028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs'Book summary:The long-awaited memoirs of Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, tell the story of his happy childhood in the Carpathian Mountains, his subsequent years of hell in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and his post-war life in France, where he discovered his voice as a writer. Highly recommended. [via]
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0312282990 (0-312-28299-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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Anne Frankby Ruud Van Der Rol, Rian VerhoevenISBN 0140369260 (0-14-036926-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anne Frank Rememberedby Miep Gies, Alison Leslie GoldISBN 0671662341 (0-671-66234-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family'Book summary:She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope.
It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims.
From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. [via]
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 055356983X (0-553-56983-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex'Book summary:Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious, touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love of life. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex is a testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary genius and to the persistent strength of the creative spirit. [via]More editions of Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex:
Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary : A Photographic Remembranceby Ruud Van der Rol, Rian Verhoeven, Tony Langham, Plym Peters, Anna QuindlenISBN 0670849324 (0-670-84932-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Austerlitzby Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea BellISBN 0375756566 (0-375-75656-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Austerlitz'Book summary:Willkommen im Universum des W.G. Sebald. Der Besuch lohnt sich. Man tritt ein in den schmuckvollen Bahnhof von Antwerpen, einem Monument des belgischen Kolonialismus, wo der unbenannte Erzähler gerade mit einem Gefühl des Unwohlseins aus England ankommt. Nachdem er den großäugigen Tieren im benachbarten Nocturama einen kurzen Besuch abgestattet hat, spricht er im prunkvollen Wartesaal jenen Jacques Austerlitz an, der dort gerade zeichnet und fotografiert -- und ab nun der Held des Romans sein wird. Erst viele Jahre später und nach vielen Reisen quer durch Europa wird der -- inzwischen weiser und nachdenklicher -- gewordene Leser vor der Festung Breedonk bei Antwerpen entlassen.
Austerlitz ist ein sehr europäisches Buch, mit Aufenthalten in Wales, London, Prag, Theresienstadt, Marienbad und Paris. Ortsbeschreibungen verraten viel über die Austerlitzsche Seele. Als er in den 50er-Jahren einmal in Nürnberg aus dem Zug aussteigt und deutschen Boden betritt, beobachtet er Schuhwerk und Schweigsamkeit der vorübergehenden Menschen in den Fußgängerparadiesen. Die Architektur wird zum Seelenzustand, zu etwas, das psychologische Rückschlüsse zulässt -- für welche Art Mensch zum Beispiel haben die Architekten das Sicherheitssystem der Pariser Bibliothèque Nationale entwickelt?
Sebalds Sprache erinnert in ihrer Klarheit und Bestimmtheit gelegentlich an Thomas Bernhard, wenngleich die schlimmsten Ereignisse ohne Übertreibung beschrieben werden. Wo kommen die Waren her, die im Theresienstädter Laden auf den Tischen ausliegen? In diesem Buch ohne Kapitel oder Absätze sind Fotos ein wichtiger Bestandteil.
Statt des Exils beschreibt Sebalds Roman auf bewegende Weise die Suche nach der eigenen Vergangenheit. Wie kann Austerlitz die Heimat verlassen, wenn er sich an sie nicht erinnern kann, nicht mal weiß, wo sie gewesen ist? Der ausführliche Mittelteil des Buches beschreibt die Reise nach Prag, Theresienstadt und das dazugehörige dunkle Kapitel mitteleuropäischer Geschichte. Den Stillstand der Zeit zwischen Kindertransport (von Prag nach England, 1939, als Fünfjähriger) und der Abreise aus Prag mit wiedergefundener Identität in den 50er-Jahren.
Austerlitz versucht, "das Bild der von dem Wanderer durchquerten beinahe schon in der Vergessenheit geratenen Landschaft" heraufzubeschwören. Dabei empfindet er ein Gefühl des Widerwillens und des Ekels. Die Exkurse zu den verschiedensten Themen sind wertvolle Anregungen und wichtiger Teil dieser seelischen Landschaft. Was bleibt, ist die Frage: Werden im Nocturama nach Feierabend die Lichter eingeschaltet, damit die Tiere schlafen können? --Richard Foster [via]
Cageby Ruth Minsky SenderISBN 068981321X (0-689-81321-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Cageby Ruth M. SenderISBN 0027818306 (0-02-781830-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Dawnby Elie Wiesel, Frances FrenayeISBN 0809037726 (0-8090-3772-6)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn'Book summary:Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn--and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart--and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Israel." [via]
Destruction of the European Jewsby Raul HilbergISBN 0841909105 (0-8419-0910-5)
Softcover, Holmes & Meier Pub
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A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2by Victor Klemperer, Michael ChalmersISBN 0375502408 (0-375-50240-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2'Book summary:The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941by Victor Klemperer, Martin ChalmersISBN 0679456961 (0-679-45696-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941'Book summary:When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), honored as a frontline veteran of World War I, was a distinguished professor at the University of Dresden. A scant few months later he was merely a Jew, protected from deportation to a death camp only by his marriage to an Aryan. He suffered every other indignity to which German Jews were subjected, from losing his job to having his driver's license revoked to being denied permission to own a pet, and all are recorded with bitter clarity in his diary entries, which cover the years 1933 to 1941. (A second volume continuing through 1945 will be published in English in 1999.) The German edition of this book caused a sensation when it was published in 1995, and it's easy to see why: the relentless, quotidian nature of Nazi racism comes through forcefully in Klemperer's litany of daily humiliations and insults, a painful chronicle of situations in which readers can readily imagine themselves. Like Anne Frank, but with a more adult understanding of political fanaticism and human weakness, he makes the abstract horror of genocidal persecution very intimate, very personal, and very real. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Etty Hillesum: An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerborkby Etty Hillesum, Eva HoffmanISBN 0805050876 (0-8050-5087-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Etty Hillesum: An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork'Book summary:For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.[via]More editions of Etty Hillesum: An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork:
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943by Arnold J. Pomerans, Etty Hillesum, Klaas A. D. SmelikISBN 0802839592 (0-8028-3959-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943'Book summary:Commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, "Etty" is the only complete, unabridged edition of the letters and diaries of a singular hero - and victim - of the Nazi Holocaust. This fascinating, profound, and often moving body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum began her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years contains arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and - most significantly - spiritual growth. In addition to her ongoing search for God and truth, one of the most noted and instructive features of Etty's development was her recognition of, and her struggle to overcome, the disorder within her own being. It was her success in finally transcending her own sense of captivity within that allowed her to rise above cruel and fearsome circumstances without. Indeed, in the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Letters that she wrote to friends during her internment at the Westerbork transit camp poignantly describe the day-to-day horrors that the Jewish prisoners faced. Nonetheless, Etty's courage and determination remained strong, allowing her to rise above the hate around her and express her irrepressible faith in humanity. As she wrote in her last letter, thrown from the train that took her to her death at Auschwitz, "We left the camp singing." Through this splendid edition of Etty's writing, edited by Klaas A. D. Smelik and translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this remarkable woman. [via]
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Etty, a Diary, 1941-43by Etty HillesumISBN 0224021214 (0-224-02121-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Storyby Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal LazanISBN 068814294X (0-688-14294-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story'Book summary:"By the time WWII ended in Europe, the Blumenthal family--Marion, her brother Albert, and their parents--had lived in a succession of refugee, transit, and prison camps for more than six years, not only surviving but staying together....This gripping memoir is written in spare, powerful prose that vividly depicts the endless degradation and humiliation suffered by the Holocaust's innocent victims, as well as the unending horror of life in the camps. It's also an ennobling account of the triumph of the human spirit, as seen through a child's eyes."--Kirkus Reviews [via]
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Fugitive Piecesby Anne MichaelsISBN 0679776591 (0-679-77659-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Pieces'Book summary:Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces. This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies. [via]
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The History of Loveby Nicole KraussISBN 0393328627 (0-393-32862-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Love'Book summary:Nicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling this tangled web could easily give way to complete chaos. However, under Krauss's watchful eye, these twists and turns only strengthen the impact of this enchanting book.
The History of Love spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. ("I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty.") Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer vacillates between wanting to memorialize her dead father and finding a way to lift her mother's veil of depression. At the same time, she's trying to save her brother Bird, who is convinced he may be the Messiah, from becoming a 10-year-old social pariah. As the connection between Leo and Alma is slowly unmasked, the desperation, along with the potential for salvation, of this unique pair is also revealed.
The poetry of her prose, along with an uncanny ability to embody two completely original characters, is what makes Krauss an expert at her craft. But in the end, it's the absolute belief in the uninteruption of love that makes this novel a pleasure, and a wonder to behold. --Gisele Toueg [via]
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Sufferingby Norman G. FinkelsteinISBN 185984488X (1-85984-488-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering'Book summary: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.It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed. [via]
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The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945by Leny YahilISBN 0195045238 (0-19-504523-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945'Book summary:When The Holocaust first appeared in Israel in 1987, it was hailed as the finest, most authoritative history of Hitler's war on the Jews ever published. Representing twenty years of research and reflection, Leni Yahil's book won the Shazar Prize, one of Israel's highest awards for historical work. Now available in English, The Holocaust offers a sweeping look at the Final Solution, covering not only Nazi policies, but also how Jews and foreign governments perceived and responded to the unfolding nightmare.
The Holocaust is astonishingly comprehensive. Yahil weaves a gripping chronological narrative that stretches from the Norwegian fjords to the Greek islands, from Amsterdam to Tehran--and even Shanghai. Her writing is balanced, objective, and compelling, as she systematically explores the evolution of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe, probing its politics, planning, goals, and key figures. Yahil uses her command of the many relevant languages to marshal an impressive array of documentary and statistical evidence, driving her narrative forward with telling details and personal accounts--such as a survivor's description of her perseverance during a death march, or the story of the Struma, a boat that sank with over 700 Jewish refugees when the British refused to receive it in Palestine.
Along the way, she destroys persistent myths about the Holocaust: that Hitler had no plan for exterminating the Jews, that the Jews themselves went peacefully to the slaughter. Though Yahil finds that Nazi policies were often inconsistent, particularly during the years before the war, she conclusively demonstrates that Hitler was always working toward a final reckoning with world Jewry, envisioning his war as a war against the Jews. The book also recounts numerous uprisings and acts of resistance in ghettos and concentration camps, as well as the activities of Jewish partisan units. Yahil describes the work of Jews in America, Palestine, and world organizations on behalf of Hitler's victims--often in the face of resistance by the Allied governments and neutral states--and explores the factors that affected the success of rescue efforts.
The Holocaust is a monumental work of history, unsurpassed in scope and insightful detail. Objective yet compassionate, Leni Yahil brings together the countless diverse strands of this epic event in a single gripping account. [via]More editions of The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945:
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaustby Livia Bitton-JacksonISBN 0689823959 (0-689-82395-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klempererby Victor KlempererISBN 0297818422 (0-297-81842-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer'Book summary:The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes, this covers the period from Hitler's election to the beginning of the holocaust. [via]
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I Will Bear Witnessby Martin Chalmers, Victor KlempererISBN 0375756973 (0-375-75697-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Will Bear Witness'Book summary:The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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I Will Bear Witnessby Victor KlempererISBN 0375753788 (0-375-75378-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Will Bear Witness'Book summary:When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), honored as a frontline veteran of World War I, was a distinguished professor at the University of Dresden. A scant few months later he was merely a Jew, protected from deportation to a death camp only by his marriage to an Aryan. He suffered every other indignity to which German Jews were subjected, from losing his job to having his driver's license revoked to being denied permission to own a pet, and all are recorded with bitter clarity in his diary entries, which cover the years 1933 to 1941. (A second volume continuing through 1945 will be published in English in 1999.) The German edition of this book caused a sensation when it was published in 1995, and it's easy to see why: the relentless, quotidian nature of Nazi racism comes through forcefully in Klemperer's litany of daily humiliations and insults, a painful chronicle of situations in which readers can readily imagine themselves. Like Anne Frank, but with a more adult understanding of political fanaticism and human weakness, he makes the abstract horror of genocidal persecution very intimate, very personal, and very real. --Wendy Smith [via]
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If Not Now, When?by Primo LeviISBN 0140188932 (0-14-018893-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Not Now, When?'Book summary:Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside "The Period Table" and "If This is a Man" as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of our times. [via]
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943by Etty HillesumISBN 0671745557 (0-671-74555-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Millionby Daniel Mendelsohn, Matt MendelsohnISBN 0060542977 (0-06-054297-7)
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Mila 18by Leon UrisISBN 0553241605 (0-553-24160-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mila 18'Book summary:It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.
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Milkweedby Jerry SpinelliISBN 0440420059 (0-440-42005-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milkweed'Book summary:Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinelli (Maniac McGee, Stargirl) paints a vivid picture of the streets of the Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a curious, kind, heartbreakingly naïve orphan with many names. His name is Stopthief when people shout "Stop! Thief!" as he flees with stolen bread. Or it's Jew, "filthy son of Abraham," depending on who's talking to him. Or, maybe he's a Gypsy, because his eyes are black, his skin is dark, and he wears a mysterious yellow stone around his neck. His new friend and protector Uri forces him to take the name Misha Pilsudski and to memorize a made-up story about his Gypsy background so that no one will mistake him for a Jew and kill him. Misha, a very young boy, is slow to understand what's happening around him. When he sees people running, he thinks it's a race. Nazis (Jackboots, as the children call them) marching through the streets appear to him as a delightful parade of magnificent boots. He wants to be a Jackboot! (Uri smacks him for saying this.) He compares bombs to sauerkraut kettles, machine guns to praying mantises, and tanks to "colossal gray long-snouted beetles." The story of Misha and his band of orphans trying to survive on their own would have a deliciously Dickensian quality, if it weren't for the devastation around them--people hurrying to dig trenches to stop Nazi tanks, shops exploding in flames, the wailing of sirens, buzzing airplanes, bombs, and human torture. Spinelli has written a powerfully moving story of survival--readers will love Misha the dreamer and his wonderfully poetic observations of the world around him, his instinct to befriend a Jewish girl and her family, his impulse to steal food for a local orphanage and his friends in the ghetto, and his ability to delight in small things even surrounded by the horror of the Holocaust. A remarkable achievement. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
Moments of Reprieveby Primo LeviISBN 0140188959 (0-14-018895-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Edith Hahn BeerISBN 068817776X (0-688-17776-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust'Book summary:Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a 'J'. Soon Edith was taken away to a labour camp and when she returned home after months away she found her mother had been deported. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, she fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her and, despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. In this account, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Russian Army and sent to Siberia, Edith was bombed out of her house and had to hide at night with her daughter in a closet while drunken Russian soldiers raped women in the streets. [via]
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Susan Dworkin, Edith Hahn BeerISBN 068816689X (0-688-16689-X)
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Polandby Jan T. GrossISBN 0691086672 (0-691-08667-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 080213422X (0-8021-3422-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painted Bird'Book summary:Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to. [via]
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- Painted Bird: ISBN 0553265202 (0-553-26520-2)
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Softcover, Transaction Pub Large Print - The Painted Bird: ISBN 0394604334 (0-394-60433-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Painted Bird: ISBN 0395242916 (0-395-24291-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Painted Bird: ISBN 0613180755 (0-613-18075-5)
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Shoahby Claude LanzmannISBN 2213016127 (2-213-01612-7)
Hardcover, Fayard
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Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaustby Claude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Elie WieselISBN 0394743296 (0-394-74329-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 0553586386 (0-553-58638-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from the Secret Annex'Book summary:The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.
Hiding from the Nazis in the Secret Annex of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Annes story, however. This book rounds out the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Newly translated, complete, and restored to the original order in which Anne herself wrote them in her notebook, Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of Anne Franks lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cadys Life. [via]More editions of Tales from the Secret Annex:
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Thread Of Graceby Mary Doria RussellISBN 0449004139 (0-449-00413-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thread Of Grace'Book summary:Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.
Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.
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Time's Arrowby Martin AmisISBN 0679735720 (0-679-73572-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow'Book summary:Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history. [via]
Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of the Offenseby Martin AmisISBN 0224030930 (0-224-03093-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow, Or, The Nature of the Offence'Book summary:Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history. [via]
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The Upstairs Roomby Johanna Reiss, Phyllis A. GreenISBN 1561376574 (1-56137-657-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Upstairs Room'Book summary:A Life in Hiding
When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse.
Most people thought the war wouldn't last long. But for Annie and Sini -- separated from their family and confined to one tiny room -- the war seemed to go on forever.
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week-tulips in the spring, roses in the summer-stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being cap-tured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse.
Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. "It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well," those families said. "What can happen?" They did not know, and they could not imagine.... But millions of Jews found out.
Mrs. Reiss's picture of the Oosterveld family with whom she lived, and of Annie and Sini, reflects a deep spirit of optimism, a faith in the ingenuity, backbone, and even humor with which ordinary human beings meet extraordinary challenges. In the steady, matter-of-fact, day-by-day courage they all showed lies a profound strength that transcends the horrors of the long and frightening war. Here is a memorable book, one that will be read and reread for years to come.
[via]1973 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 19711975 (ALA)
Best Books of 1972 (SLJ)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)
1973 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
Children's Books of 1972 (Library of Congress)
The Buxtehude Bulla Prize 1976 (German Award for Outstanding Children's Book Promoting Peace)
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Upstairs Room: ISBN 0690851278 (0-690-85127-8)
Hardcover, Ty Crowell Co - The Upstairs Room: ISBN 0694056103 (0-694-05610-3)
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The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0671725203 (0-671-72520-3)
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Se Non Ora, Quandoby Primo LeviISBN 8806054015 (88-06-05401-5)
Hardcover, Einaudi
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Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 8497932951 (84-9793-295-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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