books: camp survivors
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Camp survivors
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps
Terrence Des Pres
Oxford University Press, USA
, 1980
Survivors live to witness
A close and penetrating look at how the survivors of the Nazi and Stalinist death camps came through such horror in human ways. Des Pres explodes the myths about the Jews going to their deaths "like sheep;" of survivors saving their own lives by becoming amoral; of ...
Of a Comb, a Prayer Book, Sugar Cubes, & Lice: Survivor of Six Concentration Camps
Shana Fogarty
ComteQ Publishing
, 2006
A moving account of a survivor's experience
I met the author, Shana Fogarty, at a book signing at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. After chatting with her, I bought the book for my son, who had just finished watching a production on the story of Anne Frank a few days before. I read Shana's interview with her ...
Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember The Nazi Occupation (Modern War Studies)
University Press of Kansas
, 2004
Seldom-Mentioned Facts About the Holocaust (sensu Universal)
Owing to obvious misunderstandings, the very title of this book needs clarification. The concept of "forgotten", not elaborated by Lukas, goes far beyond which side has done a better job of presenting its sufferings to the American public. It goes right to the heart of ...
Jewish Displaced Persons In Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950: The Unique Photo Album Of Zippy Orlin (Samuel and ...
University of Washington Press
, 2004
In 1986, fifty-one year-old Chaim Orlin visited the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, visibly exhausted from lugging a large, heavy photograph album. Orlin explained that he had intended to entrust this photograph collection to a historic archive for some time. The impressive thirty-three pound album had been composed by his sister ...
Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors (Genocide: a Critial ...
Transaction Publishers
, 1997
This looks like agreat book
i would love to read this book it looks very exciting! i have learned alot about the holocaust and i would like learn more! i am only a student in 8th grade but i feel sorry for all the people that had to suffer and if i could afford the book i would probley buy it ...
An Eye for an Eye
John Sack
John Sack
, 2000
Murder as revenge
Jews have said that God chose them to be the "light to the nations." Thus, they must act in an exemplary manner as God's emissaries. Their actual behavior, however, suggests that most Jews do not take this role to heart. In fact, by and large, when Jews have ...
A World Apart: The Journal of a Gulag Survivor
Gustav Herling
William Morrow & Co
, 1986
A harrowing and thought provoking story of courage and hope
Herling maintains a sombre note throughout the book, but he rarely judges or seeks revenge. Very similar to Primo Levi, Herling decides to portray the horror of a place where very few accounts survive in an almost detached account. He compliments matter-of-fact ...
The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors
Martin Gilbert
Holt Paperbacks
, 1998
a must read
There were times I almost could not continue to read the book. I pictured myself as the mother watching in horror, the child, the sister, the brother, and it all seemed real and unbelievable. But as with all Holocaust stories, if these fortunate, brave and lucky ...
Auschwitz: A New History
Laurence Rees
PublicAffairs
, 2006
Humans at the worst they can be
Most history books tend to get bogged down in their own data and dry writing style. What makes "Auschwitz" stand out as one of the most important books ever on the infamous concentration and death camp (there were both in many locations in Nazi Germany) is its ...
The Survivor
Terence Des Pres
Pocket
, 1977
the meaning of survival
Des Pres examines literature, extreme circumstances and in particular the death camps in Nazi Germany to find out what is a human being after being stripped of everything . I consider this book to be one of the most important in studies of this period and of the ...
Speaking the Unspeakable: Essays on Sexuality, Gender, and Holocaust Survivor Memory
Jonathan C. Friedman
University Press of America
, 2003
Testimonies from the survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation form the basis of this study of memory and trauma in relation to women's experiences and sexual behavior during Hitler's reign of terror.Testimonies from the survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation form the basis of this study of memory and trauma in relation to women's ...
Isabella: From Auschwitz to Freedom
Isabella Leitner
,
Irving A. Leitner
Anchor
, 1994
The most haunting book I've ever read
I first read this book when I was fifteen, and never for a moment has it left my subconscious. Even had I never reread it, I would still remember a lot of things about it in vivid detail, and when I do reread it, I am still taken on am emotionally haunting journey. ...
The Klausenberger Rebbe (Vol.1)
Targum Press
, 2003
Highly Inspirational Biography of an Amazing Man
The Klausenberger Rebbe: The War Years is part 1 of a two-part inspirational biography of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the Klausenberger Rebbe. Rabbi Halberstam was one of millions of Jews who was captured by the Nazis and held in their most notorious ...
Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival
Donald L. (ed.) Niewyk
The University of North Carolina Press
, 1998
Every student of the Holocaust knows the crucial importance of survivors' testimonies in reconstructing the crime. Most such accounts, however, were recorded years or even decades after the end of World War II. The survivor narratives that make up this volume, in contrast, were gathered immediately after the war. In 1946, Russian-born American ...
My Hometown Concentration Camp: A Survivor's Account to Life in the Krakow Ghetto and Plaszow Concentration ...
Bernard Offen
,
Norman G. Jacobs
Vallentine Mitchell
, 2008
If all memoirs read like this one...
The realm of Holocaust History and the realm of memoir come togther smoothly in 'My Hometown Concentration Camp.' The book is precise in its historical details without ever straying into uncessary digression. Mr. Bernard Offen provides details of his life that give the ...
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