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1972Cloth in Dustjacket, 4to, 430 pages, in Hebrew, Includes Illustrations, maps, Title on title page verso: Lithuanian Jewry, Published by The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel. Contents of VOl II: kerekh 2. Ha-Yehudim be-Lita me-1918 ? Ad 1941. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Lithuania -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Lithuania. OCLC lists 67 copies worldwide. Light edge wear to DJ and corners, overall very good condition. (HOLO2-98-19)
1934Paper-wrappers, 8vo, 87 pages, Submitted to the National Council, 4 copies on OCLC, Ex-library copy, some shelf wear, otherwise very good condition (HOLO2-98-20)
1966(FT) (FT) Cloth, 8vo, 215 pages, in Yiddish, with pictures, Title on title page verso: Drai: three, Biography of Pola Elster, Hersh Berlinski and Eliyahu Erlikh, who were all three ambitous, political and active in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. All three of them were killed in 1944. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. Covers worn, some staining to edges, hinge repair, otherwise very clean copy in very good condition (HOLO2-98-21xx)
1979Original Wrappers. 4to. [40] pages. 27 cm. Serial Publication. In French. Number 96, October-December 1979. The publication Le Monde Juif of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation was published from 1946 until 1996, succeeded by Revue d'histoire de la Shoah; this issue contains an essay on Emigration from the 3rd Reich to France between 1933 and 1939, an article and a rebuttal on the Silence of Pope Pius XII, Book Reviews, and a note on the The Foundation of French Judaism. Subjects: Juif - résistance (politique) - origines - 20e s. Jews - Periodicals. Light wear and light soiling to covers, otherwise clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-1)
1980Stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 77, [5], 24 pages. 25 cm. Serial Publication. The Center for Research and Studies on the History of the Second World War was founded on 13 December 1967. Its task was to take all necessary measures to collect, preserve and study documents or archives relating to the Second World War in Belgium, its antecedents, background and consequences [Moniteur Belge (Belgian law gazette) ], 10 February 1968, n° 29, p. 1259-1260) . Originally, the Center was attached to the General Archives and was placed under the direction of the Department of National Education. This issue of the Journal of the Center, Number 10, October 1980, contains the dossiers and expositions of the various committees at the Center, new additions to the Archives and Collections, Recent Publications and Conferences of the Center, A Chronicle on Resistance during the Second World War, Notes from over a dozen lectures at the Center, and a bibliography of recent publications related to Belgium in the Second World War. Includes 4 pages of photographic plates. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Belgium - Periodicals. Covers lightly soiled, with bumped outer edges. Clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-100-6)
1981Stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 54, 52 pages. 25 cm. Serial publication. The Center for Research and Studies on the History of the Second World War was founded on 13 December 1967. Its task was to take all necessary measures to collect, preserve and study documents or archives relating to the Second World War in Belgium, its antecedents, background and consequences [Moniteur Belge (Belgian law gazette) ], 10 February 1968, n° 29, p. 1259-1260) . Originally, the Center was attached to the General Archives and was placed under the direction of the Department of National Education. This issue of the Journal of the Center, Number 11, December 1981, contains the dossiers and expositions of the various committees at the Center, new additions to the Archives and Collections, Recent Publications and Conferences of the Center, A brief biography of the anti-nazi Cardinal Van Roey, Notes from over a dozen lectures at the Center, and a bibliography of recent publications related to Belgium in the Second World War. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Belgium - Periodicals. Light wear to covers. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-7)
1993Publishers cloth. 8vo. 536, 517 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In French. Two clothbound volumes housed in illustrated clamshell box. Title of the set: France During the Dark Years; individual volumes titled: From the defeat in Vichy and From Occupation to the Liberation. This two volume set, consisting of period documents and numerous essays from various specialists, constitutes one of the most important contemporary scholarly works on Vichy France. Jean-Pierre Azema is the author of several prominent historical works; a specialist of World War II, and more specifically of the Vichy Regime and the French Resistance; lecturer of history at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He was also one of the historians called as witness for the trial of Maurice Papon, (alongside Marc-Olivier Baruch, Robert O. Paxton and Philippe Burrin) ; as well as one of the authors of the film Lil de Vichy (The eye of Vichy) by Claude Chabrol. François Bédarida (1926-2001) was one of the best-known French historians in Britain. He wrote many books about English history and society; he taught from 1950-56 at the Institut Français in South Kensington; he was director of the Maison Française in Oxford (1966-70) ; he was the secretary general of the International Committee of Historical Science from 1990 until recently; he lectured at universities throughout Britain; and as the founder and director of Paris's Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent from 1978-92, and subsequently, he wrote and edited many books and articles about the second world war and its effects on France, which are of the greatest interest to the British. Born in Lyons, but moving soon to Paris, where his father was professor of Italian at the Sorbonne, he studied at the Lycées Louis-le-Grand and Henri IV. As a student, the young Bédarida served in the Resistance and was associated with Témoignage Chrétien, the movement that was in the forefront of the attack on the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. (Obituary in the Guardian, 20 September 2001, written by Douglas Johnson) . Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - France. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - France. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Mouvements de résistance - France. Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) - France. France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945. France - History - 1914-1940. France - Histoire - 1940-1945 (Occupation allemande) France - Histoire - 1944-1945 (Libération) France - 1940-1945 (Occupation allemande) France - Politique et gouvernement - 1940-1945. Light shelf wear to box, with minor tear along top edge. Otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-100-10)
1999Paperback. 8vo. XXII, 214 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. In Nazi-occupied France, 4-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. As a relative of German Jews, she and her family are targeted for deportation. In the narrative, Ruth recounts her experiences as a young Jewish girl in war-torn France, and the courage of ordinary people from the French countryside who risked their lives to protect her and her family as they flee from one home to another, one step ahead of the Gestapo. Separated from her parents, Ruth spends the rest of the war in a Catholic convent and told to forget her parents and religion. A paper bag containing a few pieces of candy smuggled to her is her only clue that her parents are still alive. Years after the war, she returns to France and once again journeys into the countryside to find out what happened to the families that looked after her. (Back cover description) . Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust - France - Biography. Hidden children (Holocaust) - France - Biography. Jews - France - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Children - France. World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - France. France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945. Light shelf wear to covers, otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-100-11)
1994Paperback. 8vo. X, 306 pages. 24 cm. Second edition. With fourteen black and whites illustrations. From evidence gathered in France, Germany, and England, John F. Sweets has produced an insightful reappraisal of French life during the war at Clermont-Ferrand, the largest town near the occupational capital of Vichy [ ] Having thoroughly examined town archives, records, and manuscripts, the author reconstructs occupational commerce, education, media, and attitudes, maintaining that, contrary to popular opinion, the vast majority of French were far from collaborationist. Choices in Vichy France details the effects upon society of war, oppression, internment, rationing, aryanization, and propaganda, painting a portrait of the wartime French that lies somewhere between the extremes of outright resistance and enthusiastic collaborationism. With illustrative examples of what day-to-day life was like in the region for the German, the Jew, the Communist, and the fascist, as well as the French masses, this provocative book opens a remarkably clear window onto an era of history often fraught with misunderstanding and suspicion. (Publishers description) . Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - France - Clermont-Ferrand - Case studies. France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945. World War, 1939-1945 - France - Clermont-Ferrand. World War, 1939-1945 - France - Auvergne. Vichy-bewind. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - France - Clermont-Ferrand. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - France - Auvergne. Very good condition, like new. (HOLO2-100-12)
1987Publishers cloth. 8vo. XXII, 310, [2] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In this work Jacques Adler, a former member of the French resistance, asks: Are people powerless when confronted with a State determined to destroy them? Why didn't more Jews survive the Holocaust? How did we survive? Did we, the survivors, do all that we could, at the time, to help more people survive? In answering these questions, Adler examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The first part of the book analyzes the national composition of the Jewish population, its expropriation and daily life. The remaining chapters discuss the roles, activities, and policies of various Jewish organizations as they supported Jews in their search for survival, alerted the non-Jewish population to the terrible threat faced by every Jewish family, and acted as representatives of the Jewish people-a role that led to inevitable administrative cooperation with the Nazis and Vichy. Combining careful scholarship with a survivor's zeal to set the record straight, Adler gives an insider's account of resistance members, whose determination was born of the pain and anger that came from the loss of loved ones, whose political ideology sustained them even when they faced the threat of starvation and the loneliness of clandestine existence, and whose anguish was all the more intense because they belonged to that community in Paris that was selected as fodder for the "Final Solution. " Thoroughly researched and drawing upon previously unavailable materials, Adler presents an important portrait of communal solidarity and communal conflict, of heroes and those whose courage failed. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - France - Paris. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Paris. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - France - Paris. Union Générale des Israélites de France. Light shelf wear. Very good + condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-100-13)
1957Publishers cloth. 8vo. 252 pages. 22 cm. First edition. With 18 black and white plates. Subtitle: On the work of Sue Ryder on behalf of displaced persons in Germany. With plates, including portraits. A biography and history of the relief work done by Sue Ryder for Displaced Persons and Holocaust Suvivors. Born in Yorkshire in 1924, Sue Ryder served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Established by Winston Churchill in 1940, the SOE promoted and coordinated resistance activity in German occupied Europe. Her life's mission became clear after World War II. During the post-war reconstruction in Europe, she worked as a volunteer amongst displaced and stateless refugees. During this time she opened her first home, St Christopher's in Germany. It was designed as a haven for refugees, many of whom were survivors of concentration camps. On her return to England, she established the Sue Ryder Foundation with the aim to provide care where it is needed most. Sue Ryder was married for many years to war hero and fellow charity founder the late Leonard Cheshire VC, who died in 1992. Lady Ryder was made a life peer in 1978 and was a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1975. She also received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1957. (Sue Ryder Foundation) Subjects: Refugees. Britain. Biographies. Ryder. Social issues. Refugees. Organizations S. I. R. World War 1939-1945. German camps and prisons. Britain. Biographies. Ryder. Social issues. Refugees. Organizations S. I. R..World War 1939-1945. German camps and prisons. Outer edges lightly soiled, light wear to cloth. Without jacket. Very good condition. (HOLO2-100-15) XX
1980Publishers cloth. 8vo. XII, 217 pages. 24 cm. First edition. This volume assesses the composition and role of the German minorities throughout eastern central Europe before world war two; as the minorities, so called Volksdeutschen were used to legitimate nazi imperialist policy, the reception of these minorities to racist and imperialist aims is given critical, sociological, and scholarly treatment in the volume. One of the co-authors, Anthony Komjathy (1921-1998) was a leader in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and escaped Soviet forces, immigrating to the U. S. With his wife and daughter. He worked as a janitor in an apartment building while earning his master's and doctorate degrees at Loyola University of Chicago. He was born in Hungary and earned degrees at Ludovica Military Academy and the National War College of Hungary. Mr. Komjathy was decorated for his service in the Hungarian army during World War II. After the war, he served on the general staff of the Hungarian army until the early 1950s, when he was interned by the Communist regime. In the U. S. , he began teaching in 1967 at Barat College in Lake Forest. He joined the Dominican University faculty in 1978. At Dominican, he founded the Rosary Journal of History and Social Sciences, a publication made up of student contributions. Among the books he wrote were The Crises of France's East Central European Diplomacy, 1933-1938, The German Minorities and the Third Reich, One Thousand Years of Hungarian Art of War and Give Peace One More Chance! Revision of the 1946 Peace Treaty of Paris. (Obituary, Chicago Tribune, April 3rd, 1998) Subjects: Germans - Europe, Eastern - History. Germans - Europe, Central - History. National socialism. Geschichte 1918-1939. Geschichte 1918-1945. Europe, Eastern - Politics and government. Europe, Central - Politics and government. Light shelf wear to cloth, no dustjacket. Very good condition. (HOLO2-100-16)
1996Softbound. 8vo. 80 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. In German. Title translates as: Theres only one thing for the Jews - Destruction: The Image of Jews in German Soldiers Letters 1939-1944. This collection of a small selection of letters from the archive Sammlung Sterz in Stuttgart reveals the depraved limits of anti-semitism that can be found in some letters of regular Germany Army soldiers during the second world war. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Soldiers - Germany - Correspondence. Jews - Public opinion. Public opinion - Germany. Soldiers - Germany - Attitudes. Antisemitism. Near fine condition. (HOLO2-100-17)
1995Later Archival Boards. 8vo. [5], 183, [2] pages. 21 cm. Serial Publication. In German. Title translates as: Working Information on Research Projects in the field of the History of German Jews and Antisemitism; Issue 16. Published by the Cologne Library for the History of German Jewry; an annual bibliography of research projects and publications which study the history of Antisemitism and German Jewry, issue 16 is specifically devoted to theses which research the economic exploitation of Jews in the Nazi Era. Subjects: Jews - History - Research - Germany - Directories. Antisemitismus. Germany - Ethnic relations - Research - Directories. Antisemitism - Germany - Bibliography - Catalogs. Germania Judaica (Cologne, Germany) - Catalogs. Institutional stamps on endpages, spine repaired. otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-100-19)
1995Softbound. 8vo. 448 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: 'Final solution': Nazi population policy and the murder of the European Jews. The author, Gotz Aly, born 1947, was an independent left-wing journalist for many years after being expelled from public institutions in 1976 under the Radicals Decree. In the last twenty years he has published a number of extensively researched volumes on the holocaust. His Final Solution analyses the direct linkage between the Nazi population movements and the extermination of the Jews. Making extensive use of Russian, German, and Polish archives, Aly has provided the most exact and detailed reconstruction of the Final Solution yet achieved. As well as looking at the ideological imperative in the Nazi state to solve the Jewish question and at Hitler's own role, Aly investigates the actions of those running the Reich Security Headquarters in Berlin and of those numerous lesser figures on the ground who were in the eye of the storm, grappling with the planning failures inherent in Nazi resettlement plans and experiencing mounting difficulties in trying to be rid of their Jews. Aly illustrates, through the evidence he builds into an overall mosaic, the lunacy of Nazi race policy, and the variety of agencies that went into the gradual shaping of a policy of all-out genocide. (American publishers description) . Gotz Aly, long a marginalized intellectual, in recognition of his precise historical research, was honored by the German President Horst Kohler with an appointment to the board of trustees of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes. Deportatie. Joden. Holocaust. Politieke besluitvorming. Germany - Population policy. Condition. (HOLO2-100-20)
1968Publishers cloth. 8vo. 364 pages. 23 cm. Second edition. In German. Title translates as: The Lifeboat is Full; Switzerland and the Refugees, 1933-1945. The title refers to a statement made by Federal Councillor Eduard von Steiger in 1942, when he justified closing Switzerlands borders by comparing the country to a life-boat that was already full. This volume details the personal stories and historical and legal encroachments which spelt doom for refugees attempting to obtain asylum in Switzerland. Subjects: Jewish Refugees. Switzerland. Generalities. 1939-1945 war. Switzerland. Biographies. Heinrich Rothmund. Switzerland. Public mind. Press (study) Switzerland. Domestic Policy. National Socialism. Switzerland. Domestic Policy. Jews. Switzerland. Refugees. 1933 to 1945. Vluchtelingen. Flüchtlingspolitik. Geschichte 1933-1945. Bookstamp of Fred W. Lessing (German Refugee and later chairman of Leo Baeck Institute) on endpage; fresh and clean. VG+ condition in good jacket. (HOLO2-100-22)
1987Publishers cloth. 8vo. 439 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: Letters of Rudolf Hess, 1908-1933. A collection of Rudolf Hesss early letters, from the time of his families move back to Germany in 1908, through the years of the first world war, his very early commitment to Nazism in the 1920s, his influence on Hitler, and the letters end with the beginning of the dictatorship in 1933. Published in the year of the death of Rudolf Hess and edited by his son, Wolf Hess, a life long supporter of his godfather Hitler. Subjects: War criminals - Germany - Correspondence. Nazis - Correspondence. Hess Rudolf - Briefsammlung 1908-1933. Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987 - Correspondence. Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945. Very good+ condition in vg jacket. (HOLO2-100-24)
1985Softbound. 8vo. 245 pages. 25 cm. First edition. Robert Ericksen here presents his interpretation of the work and thought of three of Germany's great Protestant theological thinkers who supported Adolf Hitler. It is a most revealing study. He attempts throughout the work to understand how these three could have lent support to Hitler. He reviews the social setting of the Weimar Republic, deals with what he calls the crisis of modernity, and offers an interpretation of Protestant theological developments prior to and during Hitler's rise. Then he proceeds to study the three in turn. Gerhard Kittel, perhaps the best known of the three because of his editorship of the massive Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, now available in English translation, knew ancient Judaism very well and spent much of his life polemicizing against Jewish thought and in support of a Christianity freed of Jewish elements. He always claimed not to be anti-Semitic, but simply to be doing scholarly work that revealed the sharp contrasts between Judaism and Christianity. Many scholars in Germany have also drawn the contrast too sharply, but Kittel cannot be freed of the charge of having found support in his scholarship for his Nazi position with regard to the Jews. Emmanuel Hirsch, immensely learned in Protestant theology and a thoroughgoing apologist for Nazism, accomplished feats of scholarly work, especially in the history of Protestant thought. It is easy enough to spot the points where his Nazi views appear, but much of his work continues to be of great value. Paul Althaus is perhaps the most tragic of the three figures. Long associated with the Erlangen approach to theology and a great interpreter of Martin Luther, his constructive theological work aimed at showing how important the community was for an understanding of Christianity, and how central this notion of peoplehood had been for ancient Israel and was for the early Christian community-points well recognized and underscored today. But he was able to wring from this understanding a contemporary viewpoint in support of Hitler's call for peoplehood, racial purity, and land. A fine and discerning theological emphasis was perverted into a position that accommodated the Hitler movement. After the late 1930s, it appears, Althaus wrote nothing further that could easily be used for political-propagandistic purposes by the Nazis. One reads such a study with a sense of deep sadness as well as with frequent outbursts of anger. One need not share the view of the author that any one of the three theologians under review actually made Nazism intellectually respectable. One can hardly escape the author's conclusion, however: we all have much to learn from a careful review of the life and work of the three, for such aberrations, alongside Nazism's unspeakable accompanying deeds, could occur again. (Theology Today, Volume 43, April 1986, book review by Walter Harrelson of Vanderbilt Divinity School) . Subjects: Theologians - Germany - Biography. Church and state - Germany - History - 1933-1945. Theologie. Protestantisme. Nationaal-socialisme. Kittel, Gerhard, 1888-1948. Althaus, Paul, 1888-1966. Hirsch, Emanuel, 1888-1972. Germany - Biography. Germany - Social conditions - 1933-1945. Germany; Social conditions; Attitudes of Protestant theologians, 1933-1945. Light shelf wear. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-100-25)
1963Clothbound. 8vo. 666 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Written by the Israeli writer and first IDF spokesperson Moshe Perlman (1911-1986) ; this volume is a detailed narrative account of the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, with an emphasis on the Israeli operatives who captured Eichmann, as well as the ensuing diplomatic battle and trial. Pearlman's book is considered the definitive account of the trial. Subjects: War crime trials - Jerusalem. War criminals - Germany. Secret service - Israel. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Allemagne. Généralités. Biographies. Adolf Eichmann. Allemagne. Politique intérieure. Affaires et Procès. Eichmann. Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 - Trials, litigation, etc. Light wear to cloth, no jacket. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-100-27)
1969Original Stiff Wrappers. 8vo. 184, [16] pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: Resistance in the Rhine and Ruhr, 1933-1945. Published by the Association of Victims of the Nazi regime of North Rhine-Westphalia, a post war association of German anti-fascist resistance members and concentration camp survivors, founded as a means of support for 250, 000 formerly persecuted political prisoners. The author, Karl Schabrod (1900-1981) was a pre-war radical woodworkers and journalist for a communist paper, he was arrested in 1934 for anti-fascist leaflets in Dusseldorf and imprisoned in the Börgermoor concentration camp. He was released, and arrested again for anti-fascist activities, and was sentenced to life imprisonment; he was liberated by Americans in 1945. He resumed his activities, helping rebuild the short lived activity of the post war German Communist Party in the Federal Republic, and was actively involved in the support network of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime. He was blacklisted by the Federal Republic in 1950, and worked as a carpenter, and remained politically active for the remainder of his life, spending another stint of nine months in jail in 1958 for being a communist actively seeking to become elected in the local parliament of North Rhine-Wesphalia. Schabrod wrote at least five volumes dealing with the resistance struggles and political prisoners in the anti-nazi struggle. In this volume, a general survey of the resistance in the Rhine and Ruhr region, encompasses not only the radical miners and proletarians who maintained literary and active struggle against the nazis throughout these years, but also details the open resistance in the region at the closing of the war, wherein many anti-nazi fighters waged open battle as the Ruhr pocket was being closed; many of these fighters being liquidated by the SS. Includes dozens of hand-drawn illustrations of underground newspapers and leaflets, assuredly lost and redrawn from memory by the author. Includes a large register of anti-nazi comrades killed in the struggle. Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement - Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia. Nationalsozialismus. Widerstand. Geschichte 1933-1945. North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) - History. Rheinprovinz. Ruhrgebiet. Light wear to covers, fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-29)
1940Publishers cloth. 8vo. 288 pages. 21 cm. Seventh Edition. In German. Title translates as: German Foreign Policy, 1933-1940. This volume on German foreign policy was written by the noted German professor of international law Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven (1878-1942) , an anti-semite and nazi legal theorist, presented with numerous awards and honorary posts by Hitler and Goehring. This volume by one of Hitlers professors is an exposition which fully supports and legitimates the foreign policy of conquest, annexation, and wars of the third reich; as of 1942 this work was dispatched as an official Nazi publication given to German Army soldiers. Subjects: Anti-semitism. Allemagne. Politique extérieure. 1933. Außenpolitik. Geschichte 1933-1940. Germany - Foreign relations - 1933-1945. Europe - Politics and government - 1918-1945. Deutschland. Institution stamps on endpages, pages aged, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-31)
1984Hardbound. 8vo. 248 pages. 25 cm. First English edition. Translation of: Shoah u-mashma`utah. Translated from the Hebrew by Priscilla Fishman. A textbook style approach to the events of the Holocaust beginning with the major events occuring in Europe between the two world wars. Profusely illustrated with over 100 illustrations and four maps. Examines the difference between traditional anti-Semitism and racial anti-Semitism. Professor Gutman is Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem and Deputy Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. Born in Warsaw in 1923, he belonged to the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) during the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. From 5 May 1943 until 5 May 1945, he was a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Mathausen concentration camps. From 1945 1971, he was an active member of the Sheerit Hapletah, and was one of the founders of the Aviv Kibbutz in Italy. He moved to Mandate Palestine following the war and was a member of Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan. He was one of the founders of the Anielewicz Remembrance Center, Moreshet. Gutman testified at the Eichman trial in Jerusalem. Upon receiving his MA and PhD degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he later held the Max and Rita Haber Chair in Modern Jewish History. He currently is member of the Yad Vashem Academic Committee and the Executive Committee of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, and is member of the Academic Research Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His numerous publications include: The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars; Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two; The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943; Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp; and Nazi Europe and the Final Solution. He is recipient of the Salonika Prize for Literature, the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies, and the Polish Unification Prize. Gutman received honorary doctorates from Warsaw University in 1995 and from Brandeis University in 2009. (Yad Vashem) Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust. Judenvernichtung. Light shelf wear to covers, otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-100-35)
1991Publishers cloth. 8vo. XIX, 216 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. It also sheds light on the forms and functions of memory as victims relive devastating experiences of pain, humiliation, and loss. Drawing on the Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, Lawrence L. Langer shows how oral Holocaust testimonies complement historical studies by enabling us to confront the human dimensions of the catastrophe. Quoting extensively from these interviews, Langer develops a technique for interpreting them as we might a written text. He contrasts written and oral narratives, noting that while survivor memoirs by authors such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo transform reality through style, imagery, chronology, or a coherent moral vision, oral testimonies resist these organizing impulses and allow instead a kind of unshielded truth to emerge, just as powerful in its impact as the visions taking shape in written memoirs. He argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experience and that to burden it with accolades about the indomitable human spirit is to slight its painful complexity and ambivalence. Finally he explores the perplexing task of establishing a meaningful connection between consequential living and inconsequential dying, between moral striving and the sprit of anguish and sense of a diminished self that pervades these haunting Holocaust testimonies. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Personal narratives - History and criticism. Holocaust survivors - Psychology. Holocaust. Getuigenverklaringen. Holocauste, 1939-1945 - Récits personnels - Histoire et critique. Survivants de l'Holocauste - Psychologie. Uberlebender. Psychisches Trauma. Zeugenaussage. Judenvernichtung. Very good + condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-100-36)
1993Softbound. 8vo. XIV, 263 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Publishers description: An elderly Chassidic rebbe sits in a wheelchair surrounded by his devoted followers. Suddenly one of them whispers in his ear, Oberleutenant Birnbuam send regards. The rebbe looks up and motions for the circle to split for a tall, lanky man he saw more than thirty years earlier. To the mans Shalom Aleichem, the rebbe replies, Yasher Koach. Yasher Koach for what you did for us in Landsberg. The storekeeper in Meah Shearim asks, Arent you Oberleutenant Birnbaum? Before his startled customer can even reply, he is engulfed in a warm embrace, as the storekeeper shouts to his amazed wife and son, This man was our liberator! Some people seem born to lead more interesting lives than others. Meyer Birnbaum is one of them. Relive with him the crunching poverty of Brooklyn during the Depression. Experience his spiritual awakening in Young Israel, Americas first baal teshuvah movement. Meet R Elchonon Wassserman, R Yitzchak Hutner, and Mike Tress through the eyes of an American teenager. Encounter the anti-Semitism of the American Army: Christian missionaries in sheeps clothing, court-martial for wearing a yarmulke, fellow officers complaints about fighting the Jews War. Be there at the liberation of Buchenwald and Ohrduff. Hear the Klausenberger Rebbe rekindle the flame of emunah and bitachon in his overwhelming Kol Nidre drashah the first Yom Kippur after the liberation. Gun running for the Hagannah Teaching Israeli youngsters skills they will soon put to use in Israels War of Independence Photographing corpses in Israeli morgues to bring the autopsy scandal to the attention of the world Chauffeuring Mirrer Rosh Yeshivah Rabbi Beinush Finkel and countless others to the daily sunrise minyan at the Kosel Raising sixteen children of his own and providing a home to many others. These are but a few of the chapters in Meyer Birnbaums fascinating life. Subjects: Jews - New York (State) - New York - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust survivors - Germany. Orthodox Judaism - New York (State) - New York. Jews, American - Israel - Biography. Birnbaum, Meyer, 1918- condition. Previous owners signature on title page, outer edges lightly soiled, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-39)
1986Softbound. 8vo. XI, 261 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Poems and fiction by Herman Taube, with a foreword by Elie Wiesel and watercolors by Steffi Rubin. Herman Taube was born in Lodz, Poland in 1918. Orphaned at an early age, he was brought up by Mirle and Gershon Mandel, his grandparents. Gershon ran a small shop that produced soap and candles. Herman attended a yeshiva (school for study of the Torah) prior to WWII. Gershon hoped his grandson would become a rabbi, but Herman instead began nursing in 1937. Herman was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, thus marking the start of WWII. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the blitzkrieg, (lightning war) . The Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland according to the German-Soviet Pact on September 17, 1939. Herman, along with the retreating Polish Army, was captured by the Soviet forces after crossing the Bug River. While officers and those of higher rank were sent to Katyn and later executed, lower ranking soldiers were sent to Siberia, a harsh area of the Soviet Union where gulags (Soviet work camps) were located. German forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Based on an agreement between the Soviet government and the Polish government in exile, all Polish citizens held in Soviet camps were to be released (in part, to create a Second Polish Army in exile) . Upon his release, Herman went to Uzbekistan to join the Second Polish Army. He worked as a medic in Uzbekistan for two years until his unit moved to the eastern front. In June 1944 Herman was injured when the ambulance he was riding in drove over a land mine. After recuperating Herman was sent to the headquarters of the Second Polish Army, newly stationed in Lublin, the former Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. Herman worked in the Majdanek hospital, caring for the liberated prisoners who were left behind when the retreating Nazis liquidated the camp. Shortly thereafter Herman was sent to work in a hospital in Pomerania where he worked until the end of the war. After the war Herman married Susan Strauss, a fellow survivor. The two immigrated to the United States in 1947. Herman is the author of more than twenty novels and books of poetry and has worked as a writer and journalist for over 60 years. Herman and Susan live in the Washington, DC area and volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (USHMM) Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poetry. Very light shelf wear to covers. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-100-40)
