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  • The Neighbors Respond

    The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland

    Edited by Antony Polonsky, Joanna B. Michlic ...
    Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Polish Paradoxes

    Edited by Stanisław Gomułka, Antony Polonsky ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Paradox is no new feature of Polish political life. A Slavnation, fiercely Catholic, yet looking towards the non-Slavonic, largely non-Catholic west; a people whose sense of nationhood is uniquely strong, yet who have spent much of their history under foreign rule. Poland remains headline news, and her present is as full of paradoxes as her past. First published in 1990, Polish Paradoxes explains ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • My War against the Nazis

    A Jewish Soldier with the Red Army

    by Dr. Adam Broner ...
    Series series Fire Ant Books
    A poignant account of the perils and fortunes of an indomitable survivor of violence in Eastern Europe during World War II.In 1939, to escape Nazi occupation, 14-year-old Adam Broner and his older brother Sam left their home and family in Lodz, Poland, and made their way to the Soviet Union. Adam enlisted in the Red Army to join the fight against the Nazis but was sent to work in a Siberian coal ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Small Numbers, Big Presence: Jews in Poland after World War II

    by Antony Polonsky, Moshe Rosman, Stanisław Obirek, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Sławomir Jacek Żurek, Stanisław Krajewski, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Natalia Aleksiun ...
    Series Book 17 - Studies in Jewish History and Memory
    In this path-breaking book, he reflects on the evolution of Polish Jewry in these years against the background of its enormous contribution to Jewish religious traditions and its tragic fate in the Holocaust. A Jewish community, ‘small in numbers’ but with a ‘big presence’, continues to function in Poland. This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand this remarkable ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • My Brother's Keeper

    Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust

    Edited by Antony Polonsky ...
    In recent years, a lively debate has developed in Poland on the question of what responsibility the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil. This debate was sparked off by the showing in Poland of Claude Lanzmann's film, Shoah , which revealed how deeply-rooted anti-Jewish prejudice could still be found in the Polish countryside. Anti-semitism is ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Long Journey to Russia

    by Richard Fenigsen, Antony Polonsky ...
    "An extraordinary memoir.” Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945 “An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and also very funny, which I was not expecting.” Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia As the Nazi army swept into Eastern Europe in 1939, Richard Fenigsen, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rethinking Poles and Jews

    Troubled Past, Brighter Future

    by Natalia Aleksiun, Lawrence Baron, Havi Ben-Sasson, Guy Billauer, Stanislaw Krajewski, Joanna B. Michlic, Shana Penn, Antony Polonsky, Thaddeus Radzilowski, Helene Sinnreich, Carolyn Slutsky, Eli Zborowski, Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, John T. Pawlikowski ...
    Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry. Through the presentation of these negative images in ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

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  • A Special Brand of Courage

    A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Krystyna Louw ...
    The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes. ... Read more

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  • Children of Terror

    by Inge Auerbacher, B U Gilbride ...
    This book is an "Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015" from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category.Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are caught in a web of terror during World War II. These are their unforgettable true stories."War does not spare the innocent. Two young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, were ... Read more

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  • I Can Live No Longer: The Story of an Indomitable Man, the only Volunteer to Auschwitz.

    by Jeremy Kowalski ...
    He evaded death so many times it seemed it would never take him. The only man in history to go to Auschwitz as a volunteer, to form a resistance movement and document German atrocities. One of the few who succeeded in escaping. He sent drawings from there to his children and wrote letters to his wife, delivering them via the underground conspiracy along with reports. The British historian Michael ... Read more

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  • A Train in Winter

    An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 1 - The Resistance Quartet
    In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to ... Read more

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