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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...
My Brother's Keeperby Antony Polonsky
Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00What responsibility do the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil? In a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust Polonsky gathers together the most important arguments in this debate. more...
Hitler Made Me A Jewby Nadia Gould
Boson Books 2000; US$ 7.50"In the evening they took us to the railroad station. They told us not to speak to anyone or even to one another. We were mute and deaf. There was a notice with our passports that explained we could not speak. This was the most excruciating train ride. We had to keep from talking and giving ourselves away. Every time someone opened the door of our train compartment I died of fright. This feeling has remained with me, and anything that has to do with telling an untruth to an official causes me anxiety, as if my life depends on the lie. I still fear I will be found out, uncovered and shot on the spot." I wrote this book at a time when there was much controversy over whether the Holocaust had really happened. I was so upset by articles... more...
Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identityby Ken Koltun-Fromm
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 26.35"Koltun-Fromm's reading of Hess is of crucial import for those who study the construction of self in the modern world as well as for those who are concerned with Hess and his contributions to modern thought.... a reading of Hess that is subtle, judicious, insightful, and well supported." -- David Ellenson Moses Hess, a fascinating 19th-century German Jewish intellectual figure, was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist. Ken Koltun-Fromm's radical reinterpretation of his writings shows Hess as a Jew struggling with the meaning of conflicting commitments... more...
"That Time Cannot Be Forgotten"by Emil Georg Sold; Ivan Fehrenbach; Paul Friedhoff
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 23.95In a gripping exchange of letters written in the closing years of the 20th century, two men struggle to come to terms with the signal event of their time, the Holocaust. Born in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany in the early part of the 20th century, both bore witness to the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust. But their perspectives were entirely different. Emil Sold was a Catholic who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Paul Friedhoff, a Jew, escaped from Hitler's Germany and fled to the United States. The two men never met. When he was sent a book written by Sold about ... more...
Scholem, Arendt, Klempererby Steven E. Aschheim
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 22.35Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times Steven E. Aschheim The way three prominent German-Jewish intellectuals confronted Nazism, as revealed by their intimate writings. Through an examination of the remarkable diaries and letters of three extraordinary and distinctive German-Jewish thinkers -- Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer -- Steven E. Aschheim illuminates what these intimate writings reveal about their evolving identities and world views as they wrestled with the meaning of being both German and Jewish in Hitler's Third Reich. In recounting how their personal and... more...
Female, Jewish, and Educatedby Harriet Pass Freidenreich
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 27.95Female, Jewish, and Educated presents a collective biography of Jewish women who attended universities in Germany or Austria before the Nazi era. To what extent could middle-class Jewish women in the early decades of the 20th century combine family and careers? What impact did anti-Semitism and gender discrimination have in shaping their personal and professional choices? Harriet Freidenreich analyzes the lives of 460 Central European Jewish university women, focusing on their family backgrounds, university experiences, professional careers, and decisions about marriage and children. She evaluates the role of discrimination and ... more...
Terms of Survivalby Robert Wistrich
Routledge 1995; US$ 163.00This book provides the only thouroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Wistrich has drawn together a collection of authors from the US, Europe & Israel to analyse the immense changes that have happened since 1945. more...