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A Delayed Life
Dita Kraus Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories an viac

A Nation on Trial
Ruth Bettina Birn   Norman Finkelstein A devastating refutation of the book that claimed all Germans supported execution of the Jews during the Holocaust. Now, in A Nation on Trial, two leading critics challenge Goldhagen's findings and show that his work is not scholarship at all. With compelling cumulative effect, viac

After Auschwitz
Eva Schloss A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was depo viac

Auschwitz
Pascal Croci The horrors and brutality of the Holocaust are captured in this gripping graphic novel, which follows the story of a couple, Kazik and Cessia, who lose a daughter at Auschwitz and barely survive the concentration camp themselves, in a historical saga based on the reminiscences of viac

Beatrice and Virgil
Yann Martel This is the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel. It ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. It also involves a howler monkey, a donkey, an e viac

Courage to Dream
Neal Shusterman   Andrés Vera Martínez Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner. National Jewish Book Award finalist. Neal Shusterman, Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner. National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andres Vera Martinez present a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through sur viac

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a viac

Helga's Diary
Helga Weiss "The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank". (Daily Telegraph). First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice...In 1941, viac

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944
Lauren Tarshis   lvaro Sarraseca A beautifully rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Álvaro Sarraseca. In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken awa viac

I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant
Miklós Nyiszli Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust “This is the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.” New York Review of Books. “Many words have been written about the atrocitie WHEN THE NAZIS INVADED Hungary in 1944, they shipped virtual viac

I’m Calling the Police
Irvin David Yalom Když se minulost a léta potlačované bolestné vzpomínky na holocaust v Budapešti začaly drát do vědomí, Berger měl možnost obrátit se na svého blízkého přítele, renomovaného psychiatra a terapeuta Irvina Yaloma. Ten nejen že jako první naslouchal hrůzným zážitkům, které Berger zaž viac

Last Stop Auschwitz
Eddy de Wind Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour b viac

Mila 18
Leon Marcus Uris It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, pai viac

Neighbours
Jan Tomasz Gross Destruction of Jewish community in Jedwabne in Poland in 1941 carried out by local Polish population - the neighbors of the victims. viac

Number the Stars
Lois Lowry Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves viac

One Hundred Miracles
Zuzana Růžičková   Wendy Holden The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the N viac

Parallel Journeys
Eleanor Ayer She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different viac

Rodovaya Pamyat
Olga Prilutskaya Povídka zachycující popis pocitů autorky z objevu, že byl její děda zavražděn nacisty v koncentračním táboře. viac

Seven Responses to the Holocaust in American Fiction
Stanislav Kolář Tato monografie sleduje, jakým způsobem reagovala americká próza na holocaust, a všímá si různorodosti přístupu amerických spisovatelů k této temné stránce lidských dějin. Kniha přináší analýzu sedmi známých i méně známých děl americké holocaustové literatury. Pozornost je věno viac

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak The internationally bestselling story of a young girl in Nazi Germany who steals books, now a major motion picture starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been b viac

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. viac

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank 70th Anniversary Edition In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her viac

The Earth Is Singing
Vanessa Curtis My name is Hanna Michelson. I am fifteen. I am Latviat. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend. When he holds my hand, everything feels perfect. I'm trainingto be a dancer. But none of that matters now. Becaus viac

The Golden Peacock
Lauren B. Grossman Combine a mystery, the Holocaust, a love story, an unexpected kinship between women of two generations, and the result is this poignant novel, THE GOLDEN PEACOCK. Successful author, Rainee Allen, is experiencing writer's block. Rummaging through her desk, she comes across a s viac

The Holocaust: Origins, History and Aftermath c.1920-1945
Thomas Cussans The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable – the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile documents that have been carefully selected to remind readers that the horrifying s viac

The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio G. Iturbe Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge viac

The Men With Pink Triangle
Heinz Heger For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who su viac

The White Hotel
Donald Michael Thomas Set in 1919, the book's first three movements consist of the erotic fantasies and case history of an imagined female patient of Sigmund Freud, Frau Anna G, a semi-successful opera singer referred to him for analysis[3] and treatment of chronic psychosomatic pains in her left brea viac

When Time Stopped
Ariana Neumann In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. ‘The darkest shadow is ben viac

Where She Came From
Helen Epstein After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great-grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women viac