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“raphael lemkin”

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  • Totally Unofficial

    The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

    by Raphael Lemkin, Donna-Lee Frieze ...
    Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world’s understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word “genocide” and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Remember Us

    My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

    by Vic Shayne, Martin Small ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

    by Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden ...
    "[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers WeeklyMarthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their ... Read more

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  • Gazing at the Stars

    Memories of a Child Survivor

    by Eva Slonim ...
    'These events, the persecution of my people, have become part of the collection of facts that people now call "history". I lived these facts every day. They are part of my memory.'In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum, Eva's parents were ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 1924

    The Year That Made Hitler

    by Peter Ross Range ...
    This biography delves into the fateful year of Hitler's imprisonment, in which he wrote the manifesto that would propel him to power.Before his terrible rise to power on the world stage, Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason for organizing the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. He spent much of the following year in prison. This was the time of his final transformation into the self-proclaimed ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Children of Armenia

    A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice

    by Michael Bobelian ...
    An illuminating and powerful chronicle of the historical, yet oft-forgotten, Armenian genocide and its devastating aftermath.From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the “starving Armenians,” the promises to hold the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diary of a Young Girl with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which was written while Anne was confined to a series of hidden rooms in a warehouse in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Along with her mother, father, older sister Margot and four other Jews, Anne ... Read more

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  • A Bright Room Called Day

    by Tony Kushner ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune ... Read more

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  • Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

    Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Rochelle G. Saidel ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust. This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • As If It Were Life

    A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    by Philipp Manes ...
    In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich. This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely. The ghetto was run by a council of Jewish elders, and organized like an idyllic ... Read more

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  • Anti-Semitism

    A Disease of the Mind

    by Theodore Isaac Rubin ...
    A groundbreaking work on the psychodynamics of bigotry and anti-Semitism.As a child, Ted Rubin could not understand why some people hated him and his family only because they were Jews. He soon discovered that other groups were hated and that bigotry was a dangerous disease that destroys its hosts as well as its victims.As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin learned that anti-Semitism and other deep-seated ... Read more

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  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    by Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenberg Marx ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart — Judy Abrams in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg Marx in Czechoslovakia — are only children when they are thrown into the turmoil and terror of World War II. At seven, Judy’s mother leaves her at a convent where she must adopt a new Christian identity. Eva is first sent away at two, then again at six, in disguise and tearful. Separated from their parents, forced ... Read more

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