He was known as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason.
the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders
1991
"The Good Old Days" reveals startling new evidence of the inhumanity of recent twentieth century history and is published now as yet another irrefutable response to the revisionist historians who claim to doubt the historic truth of the Holocaust.
University Press a German soldier's memoir of the Eastern Front
Bidermann, G. H. (Gottlob Herbert)
2000
A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, this book conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.
a Holocaust survivor recounts his life in Italy during World War II
Wolff, Walter
1999
The neglected story of how the Italian people courageously expressed their basic humanity and goodness despite the Nazi opposiiton. Walter's youthful innocence died during the rioting of Kristallnacht.
An inspiring story about Luba Tryszynska who single-handedly saved 54 children from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Features interviews with Luba as well as surviving children.
Testimonies - some of the earliest ever recorded - and rare archival footage reveal the Nazi era through the memories of those who were there: a Hitler youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters, death camp survivors, American POW's, liberators.
Steeped in rivers of Jewish blood and tears, this book is a triumph of the spirit for it reveals that the tortured and murdered Jews were not passive, inert and resigned victims of fate, but rather men, women and children full of the verve and courage of life. In their lives and in their deaths they rose to a transcendent level of heroism and supreme self-sacrifice.
In one of the most soul-stirring and inspiring memoirs of the Holocaust ever written, Isabella (Katz) Leitner describes the deportation of her family to Auschwitz and their year-long imprisonment in one of the death camps in Nazi Germany. Isabella's youngest sister and mother are sent to their deaths upon arrival. For the remaining members of the Katz family, each day becomes a desperate endeavor to survive, as the four sisters struggle fiercely to buoy each other's spirits and strength.
The astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came about will astound the reader.
The man who told a great deal during the summer of 1973 tells more, recounting his own scheming rise in the Nixon White House and the maneuverings, intrigues, blackmailing, betrayals, double lives, and moral blankness of his superiors.
