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  • Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries

    Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity

    by Amy Simon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.It re-centers the daily experiences of psychological and physical violence that made up ghetto life and that ultimately led victims to use their diaries as a place of agency to ... Read more

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  • Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century, from the author of the international bestseller, On Tyranny**.**Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens, and kept killing them during and ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ... Read more

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  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    by Jemma J. Saunders ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Saul Friedländer, Orna Kenan ...
    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.The book's first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who ... Read more

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  • Resistance

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    by Israel Gutman ...
    The "exhilarating" definitive account of the 1943 uprising in Poland's capital, named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Observer ( Los Angeles Times).No act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. It was an event of epic proportions in which a group of relatively unarmed, untrained Jews ... Read more

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  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    History & Memory

    by Jeremy Black ...
    "A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust." — Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany's military ambitions, historian Jeremy M ... Read more

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  • Hitler and the Holocaust

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    Series Book 8 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in Germany and Austria in the early twentieth century. He looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in ... Read more

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