The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials. Not as well known, however, are many other equally dramatic attempts to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods, or political benefits. In this riveting book, a leading Holocaust scholar examines these attempts, describing the cast of characters, the motives of the participants, the frustrations and few successes, and the moral issues raised by the negotiations. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined...
The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials. No...
Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on such basic issues as how to define and explain the Holocaust; whether it can be compared with other genocides; how Jews reacted to the murder campaign against them; and what the relationship is between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. The Holocaust says something terribly important about humanity, says Bauer. He analyzes...
Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and mean...
A former prisoner of the Gestapo, Kulka leads us through the horror of the Nazi death camps, describing such unbearable conditions as the over-crowded ghettos where Jewish minorities were left to starve, separation of families in cases where parents were brought to one concentration camp and children to another, and fear of an unknown fate such as the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Few people escaped from Auschwitz, and fewer survived such escape attempts. From personal experience as well as accounts from other survivors, Kulka details the only successful escape, led by Siegfried Lederer,...
A former prisoner of the Gestapo, Kulka leads us through the horror of the Nazi death camps, describing such unbearable conditions as the over-crow...
War die Shoah eine einzigartige geschichtliche Katastrophe? Inwieweit ist sie mit anderen Völkermorden der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vergleichbar? Der renommierte israelische Historiker Yehuda Bauer lässt sich von diesen Fragen zu einer neuen umfassenden Deutung der Shoah herausfordern, in der er Positionen klärt und Neubestimmungen unternimmt. Die Shoah ist für ihn, der sich allen Mystifizierungsversuchen widersetzt, ein aus der Vernichtungsideologie der Nazis erklärbarer Genozid - die dunkle Seite der Geschichte, die etwas ebenso Schreckliches wie Wichtiges über die Vergangenheit...
War die Shoah eine einzigartige geschichtliche Katastrophe? Inwieweit ist sie mit anderen Völkermorden der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vergleichbar? ...
"For the last fifty years I have been studying the genocide of the Jews, which we call the Holocaust. For the last thirty years I have been studying antisemitism, and for the last fifteen years genocide generally, and ways to prevent it. That is the prism through which I view Jewish history, past and present - I prefer to look at it from a contemporary point of view. That is also the way I view human history in general. It is quite possible that this view from the present to the past is decisively influenced by the fact that my professional life is determined by the most tragic and serious...
"For the last fifty years I have been studying the genocide of the Jews, which we call the Holocaust. For the last thirty years I have been studying a...
The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness - a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the State of Israel. Ironically, Professor Bauer demonstrates, events during this period stemmed in part from a belief in the power of the international Jewish community that never existed - but that motivated both the Germans and, after the war, the British.
This is a brief but absorbing study by one of the world's great experts on the Holocaust, who has drawn on a huge body of material to...
The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness - a development stretching over nearly 100 ...
