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What We Knew

Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

by Karl-Heinz Reuband, Eric A Johnson ...

**An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?“A very important book.” —Financial Times**The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of ... Read more

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**An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?“A very important book.” —Financial Times**The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of
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Irena's Children

The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health
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The Second World War

by Antony Beevor ...

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest ... Read more

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A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest
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The Holocaust by Bullets

A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

by Patrick Desbois ...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: The story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of more than a million Ukrainian Jews.Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined ... Read more

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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: The story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of more than a million Ukrainian Jews.Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined
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The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

by Alan Rosen ...

"The most comprehensive to date treatment of these precious artifacts of the Holocaust's Jewish efforts to maintain religious observations and identity." — ChoiceCalendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that ... Read more

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"The most comprehensive to date treatment of these precious artifacts of the Holocaust's Jewish efforts to maintain religious observations and identity." — ChoiceCalendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that
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A Train in Winter

An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

by Caroline Moorehead ...

Series Book 1 - The Resistance Quartet
In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to ... Read more

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In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to
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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade ...

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl ... Read more

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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl
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Demonizing the Jews

Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

by Christopher J. Probst ...

"An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... Read more

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"An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German
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The Renoir Girls

A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal

by Catherine Ostler ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“Beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking… Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting’s shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart of both a single Jewish family and French society.” —The New York Times Book Review“Immensely rewarding...Ostler t... ... Read more

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“Beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking… Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting’s shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart of both a single Jewish family and French society.” —The New York Times Book Review“Immensely rewarding...Ostler t...
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American Jewry and the Holocaust

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945

by Yehuda Bauer ...

In this volume Yehuda Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of ... Read more

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In this volume Yehuda Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of
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Hitler's Private Library

by Timothy W. Ryback ...

A Washington Post Notable BookWith a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great RaceIn this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s ... Read more

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A Washington Post Notable BookWith a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great RaceIn this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s
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One Long Night

A Global History of Concentration Camps

by Andrea Pitzer ...

A "masterly" and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps ( The New Yorker )For over one hundred years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the ... Read more

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A "masterly" and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps ( The New Yorker )For over one hundred years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the
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Lies That Matter

A federal prosecutor and child of Holocaust survivors, tasked with stripping US citizenship from aged Nazi collaborators, finds himself caught in the middle

by Allan Gerson ...

The true story of a DOJ prosecutor's complicated quest to deport Nazis: "The lessons that Mr. Gerson learns, and shares, could not be more timely." —Seth Waxman, former US Solicitor GeneralAs the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought his professional assignment to investigate and deport those who persecuted his family and others like them would make his parents proud. ... Read more

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The true story of a DOJ prosecutor's complicated quest to deport Nazis: "The lessons that Mr. Gerson learns, and shares, could not be more timely." —Seth Waxman, former US Solicitor GeneralAs the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought his professional assignment to investigate and deport those who persecuted his family and others like them would make his parents proud.
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The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank ...

The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who ... Read more

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The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who
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From Broken Glass

My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

by Steve Ross, Glenn Frank ...

A "devastating . . .inspirational" memoir about finding strength during despair from the holocaust survivor who created the New England Holocaust Memorial ( The Today Show ).Steve Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz ... Read more

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A "devastating . . .inspirational" memoir about finding strength during despair from the holocaust survivor who created the New England Holocaust Memorial ( The Today Show ).Steve Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz
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Poland 1939

The Outbreak of World War II

by Roger Moorhouse ...

**A gripping history of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the true onset of World War II“Exemplary...About as good as military history can be.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times**For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The ... Read more

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**A gripping history of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the true onset of World War II“Exemplary...About as good as military history can be.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times**For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The
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Motherland

Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

by Fern Schumer Chapman ...

A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, StrangersFinalist for the National Jewish Book AwardIn 1938, when Edith Westerfeld was twelve, her parents sent her from Germany to America to escape the Nazis. Edith survived, but most of her family ... Read more

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A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, StrangersFinalist for the National Jewish Book AwardIn 1938, when Edith Westerfeld was twelve, her parents sent her from Germany to America to escape the Nazis. Edith survived, but most of her family
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The Holocaust

A New History

by Laurence Rees ...

“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

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“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest
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22 Cells in Nuremberg

In the Nazi Mind

by Douglas M. Kelley, Olivier Goulon ...

“WHY MY FATHER’S BOOK STILL MATTERS?BECAUSE HISTORY CAN REPEAT ITSELF”— Douglas M. Kelley, Jr.WHAT KIND OF MEN WERE THESE NAZI OVERLORDS?HOW DID THEY BECOME MONSTERS?WHY DID AN ENTIRE NATION EMBRACE EVIL?In the 22 cells of Nuremberg Prison, the architects of theHolocaust waited for their fate. Only one man walked freelyamong them: American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley.</... ... Read more

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“WHY MY FATHER’S BOOK STILL MATTERS?BECAUSE HISTORY CAN REPEAT ITSELF”— Douglas M. Kelley, Jr.WHAT KIND OF MEN WERE THESE NAZI OVERLORDS?HOW DID THEY BECOME MONSTERS?WHY DID AN ENTIRE NATION EMBRACE EVIL?In the 22 cells of Nuremberg Prison, the architects of theHolocaust waited for their fate. Only one man walked freelyamong them: American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley.</...
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Fear

Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

by Jan Gross ...

An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie WieselFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ... Read more

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An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie WieselFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE
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The Ravine

A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

by Wendy Lower ...

A photograph—a rare "action shot" documenting a family's murder during World War II—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar.In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual ... Read more

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A photograph—a rare "action shot" documenting a family's murder during World War II—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar.In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual
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The Devil's Diary

Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

by Robert K. Wittman, David Kinney ...

The Devil's Diary is the true account of the disappearance of Alfred Rosenberg's journal of Nazi ideology that shaped the genesis of the Holocaust.An influential figure in Adolf Hitler's early inner circle, Alfred Rosenberg made his name spreading toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany, publishing a bestselling masterwork of Nazi thinking at the dawn of the Third Reich.His diary was ... Read more

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The Devil's Diary is the true account of the disappearance of Alfred Rosenberg's journal of Nazi ideology that shaped the genesis of the Holocaust.An influential figure in Adolf Hitler's early inner circle, Alfred Rosenberg made his name spreading toxic ideas about the Jews throughout Germany, publishing a bestselling masterwork of Nazi thinking at the dawn of the Third Reich.His diary was
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Stained Glass

A Reflective History of Antisemitism

by Flora Cassen ...

In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe and the present to connect lived experience with the longer arc of Jewish history.Drawing on her upbringing in Antwerp’s Jewish community and her grandparents’ escape from Nazi-occupied Europe to the Belgian Congo, Cassen writes from within a past in which powerlessness rubbed shoulders ... Read more

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In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe and the present to connect lived experience with the longer arc of Jewish history.Drawing on her upbringing in Antwerp’s Jewish community and her grandparents’ escape from Nazi-occupied Europe to the Belgian Congo, Cassen writes from within a past in which powerlessness rubbed shoulders
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Into Enemy Arms

The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved

by Michael Hingston ...

The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom.In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth ... Read more

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The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom.In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth
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