holocaust

A collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender.

A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish G.I. and many of the victims of the camps.

In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, poor Jewish cafe owner Jakob Heym accidently overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces. To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants - spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed, and optimism is reborn. The Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.

Hitler's Reich spawned a welter of organizations that conducted espionage and counterespionage. As was often the case in the Nazi bureaucracy, these secret services rarely cooperated with one another and frequently worked at cross-purposes. The leaders of these clandestine organizations were complex, ambitious men who vied for power, scarcely hesitating to discredit a rival in the Machiavellian struggle for supremacy in the German shadow world.

In the waning months of the war, German measures against the Dutch grew more and more harsh. Raids increased in frequency and ferocity. House-to-house searches flushed out suspected Resistance members, who were deported to work camps or shot. The Nazis starting mining the nation's remaining dikes in preparation for a last ditch stand. In April they blew up the great polder of Wieringermeer, rendering thousands of people homeless.

The battered Axis survivors who escaped the Allied net in North Africa withdrew across 100 miles of water to Sicily, where they dug in to wait for their enemy. The Mediterranean was now an Allied sea, and the Anglo-American forces were massing a mighty, battle-hardened armada to spearhead a new campaign against the Axis in its home territory - Italy.

A young girl walks 3,000 miles across Nazi-occupied Europe in search of her parents and is befriended by wolves. This inspiring story, full of passion, terror and courage is a classic in the manner of Anne Frank's Diary, with the difference that in this tale the narrator survives.

This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.

On September 25, 1944, shortly after the ground fighting reached German soil for the first time, Adolf Hitler ordered the formation of a Volkssturm, or People's Army. Hitler's decree automatically made every semi-healthy male civilian between the ages of sixteen and sixty a member of the new force.

The title of this book was inspired by a historical event known as the Wannsee Conference. These "learned men" who gathered around a table and sipped brandy as they planned the annihilation of a people were laden with credentials. Graduates of the best universities in Central Europe, they were - by all usual standards - highly intelligent and quite successful pillars of their community.