Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust

Die judische Erfahrung der Vertreibung aus dem vertrauten kulturellen, sprachlichen und sozialen Milieu zur Zeit des Dritten Reichs und die Versuche, unter den Bedingungen des Exils damit umzugehen, konnen in vieler Hinsicht als paradigmatisch fur entsprechende Erfahrungen von Millionen von Fluchtlingen und Migranten in unseren Tagen angesehen werden. In einer im April 2011 vom German Department der Hebraischen Universitat Jerusalem veranstalteten Konferenz wurden an Texten deutsch-judischer Exilanten die verschiedensten Identitatskonstruktionen und Zugehorigkeitsmodelle untersucht, die...

An acclaimed writer on her mother s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York s Garment District in the 1930s, "My Mother s Wars" is the memoir Lillian Faderman s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her...

It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels, there to live for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods that washed some of them away, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. Their only support was a sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them if they ran out of...

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the genius-forger who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various causes around the world."
- TED.com

A detailed and touching story traversing a century in clandestine shadow crossings,...

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the genius-forger who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various causes around the world."
- TED.com

A detailed and touching story traversing a century in clandestine shadow crossings,...

In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eyes in America were focused on the war in Europe or distracted by the elevated mood sweeping the country in the final days of the Great Depression. But when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, all of that changed. December 1941 takes readers into the moment-by-moment ordeal of a nation waking to war.

Best-selling author Craig Shirley celebrates the American spirit while reconstructing the events that called it to shine with rare and piercing light. By turns...

"Elaine Siegel presents us with the fascinating story of her survival as a Jewish child in Nazi Berlin. Full of detail and laced with pungent observations of the adults around her, Siegel's memoir recreates the child's view of, and emotional reactions to, the Nazi coming to power with astuteness and clarity." -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College Product Description

"We spied on our families, just like the Hitler Youth had exhorted us to do, but not to catch them in the midst of illicit or illegal acts. We had a different purpose: We...