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Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
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Melissa Muller · 330 pages
Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Muller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Tilar J. Mazzeo · 317 pages
A New York Post Best Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1942
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Erica Fischer · 274 pages
Out of the vacuum created by history's scant attention to Nazi persecution of homosexuals comes a unique and maddeningly tragic story of love between two women of startling contrast. Aimee & Jaguar is the first book of its kind: it tells, through Rashomon-like firsthand accounts, of the horrors - and the joys shared by Felice Schragenheim, who did not survive the war, and Elisabeth Wust, who lived
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Robert Gerwarth · 364 pages
"Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Anne-Marie O'Connor
Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece -- the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S.
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
Aili McConnon, Andres McConnon · 336 pages
Road to Valor is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II.
Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis
Ian Kershaw · 1,162 pages
The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. In this volume, Ian Kershaw introduces Adolf Hitler at the apex of his power, idolized by millions of Germans for bringing the nation out of economic catastrophe. The Nazi party, the armed forces, the industrial cartels, and the civil servants are all "working towards the Führer." Meanwhile, Hitler is poised to realize h
The Envoy
Alex Kershaw · 310 pages
The epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps.
Surviving Hitler: The Unlikely True Story of an SS Soldier and a Jewish Woman
O. Hakan Palm · 227 pages
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
Michael Korenblit · 310 pages
Tells the story of two Polish teenagers, whose love survived the Nazi occupation and imprisonment at Auschwitz.
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
Gitta Sereny · 757 pages
Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obta
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story
Rich Cohen · 272 pages
Dancing With the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
Paul Glaser · 299 pages
"The ... story of the author's aunt--a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive World War II by teaching dance to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author's own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots"--Dust jacket flap.
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold · 252 pages
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refuge
Memories Of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Girlhood Friend
Alison Leslie Gold · 135 pages
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan Tomasz Gross · 242 pages
On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts as well as physical evidence into a comprehensive reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but hidden t
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan · 130 pages
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colon · 160 pages
Drawing on historical sites, archives, expertise, and the unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Carefully researched for historical authenticity, the book includes numerous panels featuring images that have been adapted from photographs of Anne and her family. --from publisher des
Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat · 348 pages
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Susan Goldman Rubin · 40 pages
Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children. Her secret list of the children's real identities was kept safe, buried in two jars under a tree in war-torn Warsaw. An inspiring story of courage and compassion, this biography includes a list of resources, source notes, and an index.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 176 pages
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."--Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg,1933. By the ti