Author : Catherine Gong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1499083572
After interviewing a Holocaust survivor who took clandestine photographs of the Kovno Ghetto at great risk, a graduate student stumbles over a diary chronicling the same time and place during Nazi occupation. She soon discovers that photographer, George Kaddish is one of only two known Jewish photographers who recorded ghetto life, but most importantly she learns that hope and humanity still exist.
Author : Yves Plasseraud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004298916
Irena Veisaitė is held in deep esteem throughout her country. This volume is an attempt to relate the difficult journey of her remarkable life against the backdrop of the complex history of Lithuania and its Litvaks (Lithuanian Jews). After being rescued by Christian Lithuanian families and having survived the Holocaust Irena Veisaitė devoted herself to study and creative work. She was a memorable lecturer, respected theatre critic, associate film director, and also founder and chairman of the Open Society Fund (Soros Foundation) which made an invaluable contribution to the process of democratisation in Lithuania. Irena Veisaitė made it her life’s work to speak up for dialogue and mutual understanding and believes that even in the most difficult circumstances it is possible to preserve one’s humanity. Having lived through some of the major atrocities of the twentieth century, her insistence on the need for tolerance has inspired many.
Author : J. Burds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1137388404
In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.
Author : Encyclopaedia Judaica
Publisher :
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1349217891
This book is the first to deal with the impact on the Jews of the area of the sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and 1941 affected the development of Polish-Jewish relations under Nazi rule and in the USSR. The role of these conflicts both in the Anders army and in the Communist-led Kosciuszko division and 1st Polish Army is investigated, as well as the part played by Jews in the communist-dominated regime in Poland after 1944.
Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 0195077237
He then examines the pacifist reaction in interwar France to show how it contributed to a climate of collaboration with dictatorship and mass murder.
Author : Cecil Roth
Publisher :
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Anna Shternshis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190223103
Based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia. It reveals how postwar Soviet Jews came to view their Jewish identity as an obstacle-a shift in attitude with ramifications for contemporary Russian Jewish culture and the broader Jewish diaspora.
Author : Eliezer Berkovits
Publisher : Hebrew Publishing Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
A study of religious faith and its role in Judaism through examination of the persistence of faith in the most trying circumstances, during the Holocaust. Discusses issues such as the preservation of human dignity (creation in God's image), the authenticity of existence, confronting the final truth, living vs. surviving. Relates many instances of Jewish observance, contending that "the authentic Jew" acted from a position of spiritual freedom. The believing Jew knows that evil will not prevail, but the Jews made a mistake when they did not organize en masse during the Holocaust period to fight it. Although Judaism is anti-militaristic, and preaches tolerance and respect for life, the moral duty to stand up and fight against evil should be incorporated into Judaism's value system.
Author : Solly Ganor
Publisher : Kodansha America
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781568363523
The author recounts his experiences in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, and describes his rescue from Dachau at the end of the war.
