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  • Children's Exodus

    A History of the Kindertransport

    by Vera K. Fast ...
    In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport spared thousands of Jewish children from the terror of the Third Reich and provided them with host families in Britain. "Children's Exodus" ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Planting the Garden

    An Annotated Archival Bibliography of the History of Women in Manitoba

    This bibliography of archival sources on the history of women in Manitoba, includes material pre-1867 right until 1970s. It categories sources into general three parts focussed on identity, work and activities, and mentality, faith, and reform. Exploring women from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, it provides inroads into researching women roles in agriculture, business, education and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

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  • The Jews: Story of a People

    Story of a People

    by Howard Fast ...
    A vivid and eminently readable story of Jewish history covering 4,000 years, and including extensive illustrations and historical photographsHoward Fast, the bestselling author of Spartacus, tells the sweeping story of the Jewish people and Judaism over four millennia, from their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses, to the kings David and Solomon, through the Diaspora and the unthinkable ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Furies

    German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

    by Wendy Lower ...
    This "intriguing and chilling" WWII history follows thirteen ordinary German women who worked—and killed—on the Eastern Front ( Chicago Tribune).A National Book Award FinalistDrawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, Wendy Lower introduces thirteen women who took jobs in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. She presents startling evidence that these women were more than ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Auschwitz

    True Tales From a Grotesque Land

    Translated by Roslyn Hirsch ...
    “From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.” With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1

    A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

    The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Boy in the Suitcase

    Holocaust Family Stories of Survival

    The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a different story of families throughout the world who have been affected by the Holocaust. This book also ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Joy Runs Deeper

    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Bronia and Josio (Joseph) grew up in Kozowa, a shtetl filled with lively culture, eccentric characters and extended family. When Bronia met Josio, she was charmed by his confidence and fearlessness. Separated when Josio was drafted into the army, reunited amid the chaos of war, their connection endured as their persecution intensified. When everything they held dear was lost, together they built a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Bright Room Called Day

    by Tony Kushner ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • If Only It Were Fiction

    by Elsa Thon ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Strong-willed and ambitious, sixteen-year-old Elsa Thon is working as a photographer’s apprentice when the Nazis occupy her town of Pruszków, Poland in 1939. Every ounce of her will and ingenuity is called into play as she moves from ghetto to ghetto, throws in her lot with a Zionist youth group and is recruited by the Jewish underground. Despite her deep belief that destiny is determining her ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Motherland

    Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

    A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, StrangersFinalist for the National Jewish Book AwardIn 1938, when Edith Westerfeld was twelve, her parents sent her from Germany to America to escape the Nazis. Edith survived, but most of her family ... Read more

    $7.99 USD