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  • Holocaust Testimonies

    Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

    Edited by Boaz Cohen, Wolf Gruner, Miriam Offer, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ...
    Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany

    by Wolf Gruner ...
    A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the HolocaustDrawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book tells the story of five Jewish people—a merchant, a homemaker, a real estate broker, and two teenagers—who ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Resisting Persecution

    Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

    Edited by Wolf Gruner, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in Contemporary European History
    Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective petitions in the face ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

    Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

    by Wolf Gruner ...
    Series Book 28 - War and Genocide
    Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany

    by Wolf Gruner ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book tells the story of five Jewish people—a merchant, a homemaker, a real estate broker, and two teenagers—who bravely resisted persecution and defended themselves in Nazi Germany. These stories have not been told until now, and each case is one of many, as Gruner shows by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Dignity and Despair

    Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    by Marion A. Kaplan ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish History
    Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Becoming Hitler

    The Making of a Nazi

    by Thomas Weber ...
    An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Complicity in the Holocaust

    Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany

    by Robert P. Ericksen ...
    In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

    Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

    by Götz Aly ...
    An analysis of why the effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe happened in Germany instead of other European nations with stronger histories of anti-Semitism."Gripping reading. . . . The lavish evidence Aly heaps on—from both self-revealing anti-Semites, and acutely prescient Jewish writers—is incredible." — The New York Times Book ReviewWhy the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mothers in the Fatherland

    Women, the Family and Nazi Politics

    by Claudia Koonz ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust

    A Prelude to Genocide

    Edited by Professor John J. Michalczyk, Professor Michael S. Bryant, Dr Susan A. Michalczyk ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Holocaust
    For decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time, Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaustsees celebrated international scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler's venomous attack on ... Read more

    $26.49 USD