Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

Avraham Perlmutter is pas tien jaar oud als zijn leven voorgoed verandert.

In 1938 bereiken de nazi’s Avrahams geboortestad Wenen. Wanhopig om hun zoon te redden, sturen zijn ouders hem naar Nederland, maar het binnenvallende Duitse leger volgt een korte tijd later. Tijdens de daaropvolgende oorlogsjaren trotseert de jonge Avraham arrestaties, gewaagde ontsnappingen, onderduiken en hartverscheurende verliezen. Daarnaast ervaart hij echter ook de goedheid van vele Nederlanders die hem helpen ontsnappen.

Het overleven van de Holocaust vergt schranderheid, moed,...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South Africa, India, and parts of the United States by the Zwi Migdal, a notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters.

Isabel Vincent, acclaimed author of Hitler's Silent Partners, tells the remarkable true story of three such women--Sophia Chamys, Rachel Liberman, and Rebecca Freedman--who, like so many others, were desperate to escape a hopeless future in Europe's teeming urban ghettos and...

November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding. Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of action--rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them...

In this respect, Israel is similar to other new states whose political institutions directly derive from the nationalist movements that...