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Author : Hubert Butler
Publisher : Lilliput Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Children of Drancy written by Hubert Butler and published by Lilliput Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312370830
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Sarah's Key written by Tatiana de Rosnay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American journalist researches the notorious roundup of Parisian Jews and uncovers her French family's war-era secrets.
Author : Serge Klarsfeld
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814726624
Total Pages : 1932 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)
Download or read book French Children of the Holocaust written by Serge Klarsfeld and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 1932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features biographical information about 11,400 French children who were deported from France to the Nazi death camps, including their names, faces, and addresses.
Author : James McAuley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252544
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The House of Fragile Things written by James McAuley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.
Author : Danielle Bailly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438431988
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Children of France, 1940-1945 written by Danielle Bailly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of France's "hidden children" and of the French citizens who saved six out of seven Jewish children and three-fourths of the Jewish adult population from deportation during the Nazi occupation is little known to American readers. In The Hidden Children of France, Danielle Bailly (a hidden child herself whose family travelled all over rural France before sending her to live with strangers who could protect her) reveals the stories behind the statistics of those who were saved by the extraordinary acts of ordinary people. Eighteen former "hidden children" describe their lives before, during, and after the war, recounting their incredible journeys and expressing their deepest gratitude to those who put themselves at risk to save others.
Author : Haim Gouri
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330876
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Facing the Glass Booth written by Haim Gouri and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed historical account of Adolf Eichmann's trial that changed attitudes toward Holocaust survivors in Israeli society.
Author : Anne Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501105345
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Suzanne's Children written by Anne Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal). Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country’s leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life’s purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups. Then, under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups “kidnapped” hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers. Suzanne’s Children is the “dogged…page-turning account” (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. “Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details…and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews’ plight under the Occupation” (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. Nelson’s “heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular” (Library Journal).
Author : Michael Curtis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724811
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Verdict on Vichy written by Michael Curtis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, and the exact nature of France's role in the Vichy years is only now beginning to come to light. One of the main reasons that the Vichy history is difficult to tell is that some of France's most prominent politicians, including President Mitterand, have been implicated in the regime. This has meant that public access to key documents has been denied and it is only now that an objective analysis is possible. The fate of France as an occupied country could easily have been shared by Britain, and it is this background element, which enhances our fascination with Vichy France. How would we have acted under similar circumstances? The divisions and repercussions of the Vichy years still resonate in France today, and whether you view the regime as a fascist dictatorship, an authoritarian offshoot of the Third Reich or an embodiment of heightened French nationalism, Curtis's rounded, incisive book will be seen as the standard work on its subject for many years. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Paul R. Bartrop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Children of the Holocaust written by Paul R. Bartrop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference work highlights a number of disparate themes relating to the experience of children during the Holocaust, showing their vulnerability and how some heroic people sought to save their lives amid the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi regime. This book is a comprehensive examination of the people, ideas, movements, and events related to the experience of children during the Holocaust. They range from children who kept diaries to adults who left memoirs to others who risked (and, sometimes, lost) their lives in trying to rescue Jewish children or spirit them away to safety in various countries. The book also provides examples of the nature of the challenges faced by children during the years before and during World War II. In many cases, it examines the very act of children's survival and how this was achieved despite enormous odds. In addition to more than 125 entries, this book features 10 illuminating primary source documents, ranging from personal accounts to Nazi statements regarding what the fate of Jewish children should be to statements from refugee leaders considering how to help Jewish children after World War II ended. These documents offer fascinating insights into the lives of students during the Holocaust and provide students and researchers with excellent source material for further research.
Author : Katja Happe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110687739
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945 written by Katja Happe and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In summer 1942 the Germans escalated the systematic deportations of Jews from Western and Northern Europe to the extermination camps. In most of the countries under German control, the occupying forces initially focused on arresting foreign and stateless Jews, thereby securing the cooperation of local authorities. However, before long the entire Jewish population was targeted for deportation. This volume documents the parallels and differences in the persecution of Jews in occupied Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the period from summer 1942 to liberation; it records the implementation of the systematic deportation and murder of Jews from Western and Northern Europe, and it also records the rescue of more than 5,000 Danish Jews. In letters and diary entries the persecuted Jews describe their attempts to flee, life in hiding, the transit camps, and deportation transports that often took several days. In Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands, Bob Cahen, himself an inmate, recorded in his diary the arrival in the camp of 17,000 Jews from across the Netherlands in October 1942: ‘People arrived here herded like livestock. Some were buried beneath their luggage, others without any possessions at all, not even properly dressed. Women in poor health who had been hauled out of bed in thin nightgowns, children in undergarments and barefoot, the elderly, the ill, the infirm – more and more new people came to the camp.’ The sources in the volume show how the perpetrators attempted to dupe their victims regarding the destination of the transports, and how Jewish organizations attempted to alleviate the suffering of the deportees. The documents additionally illustrate how the resistance movement gained momentum during this period. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/
Author : Carmen Callil
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279251
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Bad Faith written by Carmen Callil and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen Callil’s riveting and sometimes darkly comic narrative reveals Darquier as a self-obsessed fantasist who found his metier in propagating hatred—a career he denied to his dying day—and traces the heartrending consequences for his daughter Anne of her poisoned family legacy. A brilliant meld of epic sweep and psychological insight, Bad Faith is a startling history of our times.
Author : Clodagh Finn
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071717560X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book A Time to Risk All written by Clodagh Finn and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered. The children called her 'Miss Mary', and they remember her kindness still. She gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to help them escape the convoys bound for Auschwitz. Turning her back on a brilliant academic career, Mary Elmes ventured into a war zone to help children in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she fled Franco's forces but continued to work with refugees in France when the Second World War broke out. In 1942, when it became evident that Jews were being deported to their deaths, she smuggled children to safety in the boot of her car. She was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo, but went straight back to work after her release. When the war was over, Mary married and settled down, never speaking about what she had done. Her story was forgotten. In A Time to Risk All her remarkable story is finally remembered as it should be. 'A compelling portrait of an unsung Irish heroine of two wars' Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor, Sunday Independent 'Brings to light the life of Mary Elmes, showing a remarkable, independent and courageous woman whose compassion knew no borders.' Yvonne Altman O'Connor, Culture and Education Director, Irish Jewish Museum
Author : Laurence Rees
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610398459
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust written by Laurence Rees and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war -- the Nazis ultimately wanted every Jew to die. Her mother was one of millions who lost their lives because of a racist regime that believed that some human beings simply did not deserve to live -- not because of what they had done, but because of who they were. Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well. He also reveals that there was no single overarching blueprint for the Holocaust. Instead, a series of escalations compounded into the horror. Though Hitler was most responsible for what happened, the blame is widespread, Rees reminds us, and the effects are enduring. The Holocaust: A New History is an accessible yet authoritative account of this terrible crime. A chronological, intensely readable narrative, this is a compelling exposition of humanity's darkest moment.
Author : Kerry Wallach
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271098236
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Traces of a Jewish Artist written by Kerry Wallach and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biography recovers Szalit’s life and presents a stunning collection of her art. Szalit was a sought-after artist. Highly regarded by art historians and critics of her day, she made a name for herself with soulful, sometimes humorous illustrations of Jewish and world literature by Sholem Aleichem, Heinrich Heine, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, and others. She published her work in the mainstream German and Jewish press, and she ran in artists’ and queer circles in Weimar Berlin and in 1930s Paris. Szalit’s fascinating life demonstrates how women artists gained access to Jewish and avant-garde movements by experimenting with different media and genres. This engaging and deeply moving biography explores the life, work, and cultural contexts of an exceptional Jewish woman artist. Complementing studies such as Michael Brenner’s The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany, this book brings Rahel Szalit into the larger conversation about Jewish artists, Expressionism, and modern art.
Author : Jacques Adler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195043065
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution written by Jacques Adler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Jacques Adler, a former member of the French resistance, asks: "Are people powerless when confronted with a State determined to destroy them? Why didn't more Jews survive the Holocaust? How did we survive? Did we, the survivors, do all that we could, at the time, to help more people survive?" In answering these questions, Adler examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The first part of the book analyzes the national composition of the Jewish population, its expropriation and daily life. The remaining chapters discuss the roles, activities, and policies of various Jewish organizations as they supported Jews in their search for survival, alerted the non-Jewish population to the terrible threat faced by every Jewish family, and acted as representatives of the Jewish people--a role that led to inevitable administrative cooperation with the Nazis and Vichy. Combining careful scholarship with a survivor's zeal to set the record straight, Adler gives an insider's account of resistance members, whose determination was born of the pain and anger that came from the loss of loved ones, whose political ideology sustained them even when they faced the threat of starvation and the loneliness of clandestine existence, and whose anguish was all the more intense because they belonged to that community in Paris that was selected as fodder for the "Final Solution." Thoroughly researched and drawing upon previously unavailable materials, Adler presents an important portrait of communal solidarity and communal conflict, of heroes and those whose courage failed.
Author : Cathy L. Young
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499024894
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Fatal Affair & Heaven's Last Child written by Cathy L. Young and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Affair soft read takes its readers to terrifying emotionally new heights with its thrilling chilling attraction gone wrong. Dillon Sheldon the owner and founder of Crashers Grocery store fulfill his dream and hire the young, glorious African-American, Mississippian Charlene Rene Youngblood whos married to successful Jester Youngblood. Although married Dillons so driven by his lustful curiosity attraction to black women he purposely hire Charlene, to work for him intending to experience a passionate romantic intimate sizzling affair with her. Their daily encounters bring them into an affair but after several months Dillon ends it leaving Charlene devastated, psychotic and pregnant. Dillon realizes their affair was a mistake and he hoped theyd return to their normal lives. But Charlenes obsessed and possessed and refuses to free him even if it means bloodshed and death. This twisted love affair gone wrong is eminently thrilling, exciting, emotionally stimulating, strikingly provoking and much more! Theres a thin line between life and death. We always believe were right in our own eyes. Being in love could lead to heartache and tears. Heavens Last Child is eminently striking and thought provoking this extraordinary story challenges its readers to take a closer look at race, hatred, love, forgiveness, choices and the power of prayer. Heaven Gardenia is an extraordinary forty year old African-American whos faced with enormous loss including the loss of her four daughters to their fathers. She believes her daughters is all she have but soon understand she have more to gain. After a night of intimacy with her new boyfriend Nate Burns she become ill and believes shes going through menopause but soon discovers shes pregnant by him. Racial tension from his side of the family soon split them a part Heavens left to raise Sky alone but accepts her ex-husband Luke Gardenia back into her life believing shes making the right decision. Heavens devastated when she realizes his racial hatred is deeper than what she thought and taking him back was a mistake. Lukes on a mission to kill her baby because hes by a Caucasian man. Heaven must choose between her only son Sky and Luke her ex-husband from her past. Incredibly powerful Will the villain fulfill his desire or will it crumble? Who will Heaven choose Luke or Sky? This narrated and scripted literature is a part of the Grandmas Rose collection of books.
Author : Harold J. Goldberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Daily Life in Nazi-Occupied Europe written by Harold J. Goldberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily Life in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides readers with information about political and military affairs, economic life, religious life, intellectual life, and other aspects of daily life in those countries occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. By the end of 1940, the Nazis controlled most of Europe, and in 1941 they invaded the Soviet Union to complete their mission of domination. The pattern of human resistance to the occupation was equally widespread-in every country, at least a significant minority of the population fought for human dignity. Why did so many risk their lives and refuse to accept defeat? This book goes beyond the impact of the occupation on different European countries, examining that impact on individuals who, regardless of what country they lived in, faced a desperate search for food and the constant threat of death. This volume is intended to help readers to see the variety of struggles that contributed to the defeat of the oppressive occupation imposed by the Nazis. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the fact that there were as many types of daily lives as there were individuals under the occupation and that every person in the war had a unique experience.
