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In the Garden of Beastsby Erik Larson
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”— New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome... more...
Aliciaby Alicia Appleman
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality. more...
I Have Lived a Thousand Yearsby Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2011; US$ 5.99A Simon & Schuster eBook more...
I Shall Liveby Henry Orenstein
Midpoint Trade Books 2010; US$ 15.99I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command.Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time in history and his constant struggle for survival as the Nazis move him and his brothers through five concentration camps. His description of their roles in the fake Chemical Commando sheds new light on an incredible and generally unknown event in the history of the Holocaust. This edition of I... more...
Eichmann in Jerusalemby Hannah Arendt; Amos Elon
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99Hannah Arendt?s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt?s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. more...
A Lucky Childby Thomas Buergenthal; Elie Wiesel
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague , tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. A LUCKY CHILD is a book... more...
The Children's House of Belsenby Hetty Verolme
Fremantle Press 2000; US$ 16.95Hettys family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Childrens House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the Little Mother, helping to care for not only her siblings, but the other children as well. In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable, largely untold stories of the Holocaust the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of children through these terrible years. more...
Hettyby Hetty Verolme
Fremantle Press 2010; US$ 9.95This is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust, a story of hope. It is a heartwarming tale that traces the extraordinary struggle and survival of a family through those terrible years. Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Childrens House, within Belsen concentration camp. Hetty became the Little Mother of the camp, helping to care for the other children. The Australian said the adult version of this book was a powerful and chilling account of the holocaust. The Australian Book Review called it profoundly... more...
The Diary of a Young Girlby Ann Frank
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 5.99The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people and translated into more than fifty-five languages. Doubleday, which published the first English translation of the diary in 1952, now offers a... more...
War and Genocideby Doris Bergen
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 23.99In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, the revised, second edition of War and Genocide discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide_purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space_and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including... more...