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  • The Montreal Shtetl

    Making Home After the Holocaust

    by Zelda Abramson, John Lynch ...
    As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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    The Montreal Shtetl

    Making a Home after the Holocaust

    by Zelda Abramson, John Lynch ...
    Narrated by Margot Dionne ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 29 min

    As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • A Small Town Near Auschwitz

    Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane ... Read more

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  • Branded by the Pink Triangle

    by Ken Setterington ...
    A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger

    Revised Edition

    by Carolyn Gammon, Israel Unger ...
    Series series Life Writing
    At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Jews

    A People's Journey

    by Gerald Tulchinsky ...
    The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Not Like Us

    How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

    by Richard Pells ...
    Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Mordecai Richler

    Leaving St Urbain

    by Reinhold Kramer ...
    Series Book 3 - Arts Insights Series
    Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Simon Taylor, Tom Stammers ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting critical thinking exercises focused on evaluation of the evidence used by the two historians. For Goldhagen, a chief reason for German actions was ... Read more

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  • After Auschwitz

    One Man's Story

    by Hermann Gruenwald, Bryan Demchinsky ...
    Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century. He offers a vivid portrayal of growing up affluent and Jewish in class-conscious Hungary in the interwar period and of the initial promise and disillusioning reality of Hungarian communism. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD