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  • Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday

    by Maurice Rajsfus ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell, Phyllis Aronoff ...
    Two books by Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, who shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust.In the first volume, "Operation Yellow Star," Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival documents, demonstrating the extent of police collaboration with the Vichy regime and how it facilitated ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vél d'Hiv Raid

    The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo

    by Maurice Rajsfus ...
    Translated by Levi Laub ...
    Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris sporting arena, the Vélodrome d'Hiver.For most of the Jews, this detention without water, food, or sleep was the first horrific step toward death in the concentration camps. Using recently ... Read more

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  • From Holocaust to Harvard

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  • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

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    Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from ... Read more

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  • Giants

    The Dwarfs of Auschwitz

    by Eilat Negev ...
    During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their small stature earned them fame - and, ironically, ultimately saved their lives. As Hitler's war descended, the Ovitz family - seven of whom were dwarfs - was plunged into the horrors of the ... Read more

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  • The Other Schindlers

    Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust

    by Agnes Grunwald-Spier ...
    Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the ... Read more

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  • My Silent Pledge

    A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance

    by Sidney J Zoltak ...
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    A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things. His story about a family that struggled and endured, the generosity of those who saved them against all odds, and a vow never to forget is a remarkable journey through the Holocaust into a rich and full life. At eight, Sidney loses a middle class home and goes from the slow death of the ghetto ... Read more

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  • Hitler and the Holocaust

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
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    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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    by Robert K. Wittman, David Kinney ...
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  • The Patagonian Hare

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    The unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellectual Claude LanzmannBorn to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He and his father were soldiers of the underground until the end of the war, smuggling arms and making raids ... Read more

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  • Fear

    Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

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