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  • Bound for Theresienstadt

    Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp

    Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe. Tens of thousands of inmates perished at the camp and many more were sent from there to die at Auschwitz and Treblinka.Presented in a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Surviving Theresienstadt

    A Teenager's Memoir of the Holocaust

    by Vera Schiff ...
    After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Touted as the "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes, as well as to deceive Red Cross inspectors, it was in fact a holding camp for famous Jews--in case the world was to inquire. For most, however, it was the last stop on the way to the gas chambers. Those "lucky" enough to remain alive faced ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lost to the Shoah

    Eight Lives

    It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but the individuals who were the subjects of its unrelenting Nazi brutalities. Written by a survivor about the people she knew and cared for, these eight stories fight against the depiction of Jews as victims and victims only, and individualize a tragedy that is too often abstracted into dates and statistics.Amidst the dramatic narrative, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • A Doctor in Auschwitz

    by Edward Watson ...
    With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as many Jews as they could and place them into concentration camps. “A Doctor in Auschwitz” is a harrowing tale of survival. It follows one Jewish doctor who was spared and forced to perform experiments on his fellow prisoners. This is a first-hand account of his often brutal assignments, sparing no details.With ... Read more

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  • Prague Winter

    A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

    “A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles TimesDrawn from her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Perfect Nazi

    Discovering My Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation

    A unique and highly personal history of Nazi Germany, supported throughout by documents and transcripts.In 1993 Martin Davidson discovered that his German grandfather, who seemingly spent the war as an unassuming dentist in Berlin, had been a Nazi. And a thoroughly committed one, too: he had joined the Bund as a child, graduated to the brownshirts, and signed up for the party as soon as it had ... Read more

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  • Hitler: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.What made a failed Austrian artist into the most reviled and destructive personality of the twentieth century? Where did the seeds of his rabid anti-Semitism lie? How did a marginalized loner become such a moving force in Germany? How could a nation have fallen for such a fanatic? What made him so determined to bring about war?Through ... Read more

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  • The Nuremberg Trials

    The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity

    by Paul Roland ...
    'Roland's compelling account is highly readable.'Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Professor of History, University of ExeterAnyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. When Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve years of increasing repression, how were those responsible to be punished? Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels took their own ... Read more

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  • Voices from the Holocaust

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror.While some of the eye-witnesses are well ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims

    Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of ... Read more

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  • Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards

    by Ian Baxter ...
    Series series Images of War
    "A chilling study of the . . . recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates."—Inscale.orgThe conversion of human beings into murderers and individuals routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty are bound to be shocking. But it happened under the Third Reich on a massive scale.This book follows the development of concentration ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Chimneys

    A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    by Olga Lengyel ...
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus