Author : Raphael Lemkin
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1584775769
"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
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Author : Robert J. Hanyok
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486481271
This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.
Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307426238
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Alice Pettigrew
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781905351114
The ground-breaking report Teaching About the Holocaust in English Secondary Schools: An empirical study of national trends, perspectives and practice explores when, where, how and why the Holocaust is taught in state-maintained secondary schools in England.The challenges and issues identified have been used to design and develop the world's first research-informed programme of teacher professional development in Holocaust education. The landmark national research that underpins this report employed a two-phase mixed methodology. This comprised an online survey which was completed by more than 2,000 respondents and follow-up interviews with 68 teachers in 24 different schools throughout England. The report is the largest endeavour of its kind in the United Kingdom in both scope and scale. The authors hope it will be of considerable value to all those concerned with the advancement and understanding of Holocaust education both in the UK and internationally.
Author : Menachem Kaiser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1328506460
A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.
Author : Kelvin Crombie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2023-01-29
Category :
ISBN : 9780645086614
The Holocaust - the indiscriminate murder of six million Jewish people - is without a doubt the biggest crime in human history.This crime did not happen in a vacuum. There had to have been a receptive environment and many receptive accomplices in order to achieve the Nazi goal of murdering eleven million Jewish people.The subject is indeed very serious, very heavy and very deep. This small booklet Seven Phases of the Holocaust is an attempt to briefly explain a complicated and complex narrative. It does not attempt to fully explain 'why', as it is beyond the ability of the human mind to fully comprehend the perpetration of such evil. This booklet, though, does attempt to explain 'how' it happened. It looks at seven overlapping phases or stages, beginning with the development of the Nazi world-view and ending with their attempts to totally destroy all vestiges of Jewish life in Europe - and elsewhere.Everyone whose bloodline was Jewish was under the sentence of death, including the tens of thousands of Jewish Christians and those who were fully assimilated into the host societies.The subject of the Holocaust is not just about the greatest crime in human history, it has serious implications for us today, as the culture which led to the Holocaust is still here.
Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253355997
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites—previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust—make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
Author : Doris Martin
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439256060
This is the amazing true story of how an entire Jewish family of seven persons miraculously survived the Holocaust in Poland.
Author : Daniel Blatman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0674059190
Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope. In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Hunting through archives throughout the world, Daniel Blatman sets out to explain—to the extent that is possible—the effort invested by mankind’s most lethal regime in liquidating the remnants of the enemies of the “Aryan race” before it abandoned the stage of history. What were the characteristics of this last Nazi genocide? How was it linked to the earlier stages, the slaughter of millions in concentration camps? How did the prevailing chaos help to create the conditions that made the final murderous rampage possible? In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi regime. It combines micro-historical accounts of representative massacres with an overall analysis of the collapse of the Third Reich, helping us to understand a seemingly inexplicable chapter in history.
