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The Last Album by Ann Weiss

Ann Weiss visited Auschwitz in 1986.  She was taken into a room that contained hundreds of family photographs that were intended for the same destruction as meted to the people in the pictures.  "The Last Album" preserves both the images and the stories of the people whose lives are represented in that cache of photographs.  "The Last Album" is a tribute to life as it existed in Europe before the Holocaust.

Holocaust Wall Hangings by Judith Weinshall Liberman

Holocaust Wall Hangings is an unusual book. It combines reproductions of unique, multimedia artworks about the Holocaust, with analytical essays about these works written by three noted scholars, each from a different perspective: The Holocaust and Holocaust art; Art history and Jewish art

To Life: Stories of Courage and Survival Told by Hampton Roads Holocaust Survivors, Liberators and Rescuers

Students tend to remember history when it relates to their own lives. To Life is a book of the personal stories of Holocaust survivors, Holocaust rescuers, and Holocaust liberators. Each story reflects the personal memory of a person who lived through the Holocaust. Through these stories, the reader can gain insight into to responses of humans to an inhumane situation.

Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on such basic issues as how to define and explain the Holocaust; whether it can be compared with other genocides; how the Jews reacted to the murder campaign against them; and what the connection is between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

Contemplating the Holocaust by Bernard H. Rosenberg and Chaim Z. Rozwaski

This book contains a series of essays on a wide variety of topics: from a survivor's very personal reflections and those of a son of survivors; to the nature of the media's response during the Shoah (Holocaust); and the quest for the meaning of the tragedy of life. The authors discuss the silence of the world during the war years, the lessons of the Shoah, the people died, the nature of Jewish resistance, and the Jews who survived the Shoah but are lost to the Jewish people.

Theological and Halakhic Reflections on the Holocaust Edited by Bernhard H. Rosenberg Co-edited by Fred Heuman

This collection of articles represents in great measure the theological response of centrist Jewish Orthodoxy a generation after the Holocaust, and represents a rejection of the "God's judgment theory." The book contains a wealth of material, some of them classic pieces long unavailable and many written for this volume by distinguished Jewish Orthodox thinkers.

Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons 

Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust by Daniel Asa Rose

In this luminous and large-hearted odyssey, Rose introduces the Holocaust and its lessons to a new generation and, in the process, heals his childhood wounds in a way that will resonate with all readers, Jew and non-Jew alike, who are interested in their own hidden places.

Facing The Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone Arnold Liebster

Facing the Lion is an autobiography by Simone Liebster. This is the first memoir of a Holocaust survivor who is a Jehovah's Witness. She details her life before the war and the impact of Nazi oppression on her world. This is a story of standing up for your beliefs in the face overwhelming pressure.

Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry,1944-1948 by Alex Grobman

Rekindling the Flame is a critical and controversial study that examines not only the adequacy of the response by the US government and military to the Holocaust survivors, but also the American Jewish response. The book is a study of American Jewish chaplains in displaced persons' camps after WW II. Those chaplains were among the first liberators to meet the Holocaust survivors and to send reports about their findings. As a chronicle of the chaplains' activities, the book presents new information about a relatively neglected subject.

Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany by Cynthia Crane Ph.D.

Cynthia Crane gives us universal stories of hope and survival that transcend time, race, religion, class, and gender. She helps us to feel the experiences of ten women, children of Jewish-Christian marriages, whose families were persecuted under Hitler's Third Reich.

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military 

By Bryan Mark Rigg

Did Hitler personally approve of some Jewish men in the German army? That question was researched and then documented by Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg in his book Hitler's Jewish Soldiers. Rigg also is part of the faculty for American Military University and he teaches Holocaust courses online.

A Conspiracy of Indifference: The Raoul Wallenberg Story by Alan Gersten

A book containing new and controversial material about Raoul Wallenberg, a hero of the Holocaust who saved 100,000 Jews, has just been published. Titled A Conspiracy Of Indifference: The Raoul Wallenberg Story, by Alan Gersten, the book reveals that for half a century the United States, which had recruited Wallenberg, abandoned the Swedish diplomat.

Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime by Several Writers

This book contains a series of essays about the life and fate of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany. The book begins with Henry Friedlander's "Categories of Concentration Camp Prisoners."

The Man Who Stopped The Trains To Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, And Switzerland's Finest Hour By David Kranzler

This book reveals the previously unknown story of one of the greatest single rescue efforts during the Holocaust -- the rescue of more than 140,000 Jews of Budapest.

Pack Of Thieves: How Hitler And Europe Plundered The Jews And Committed The Greatest Theft In History by Richard Z. Chesnoff

It was the largest organized robbery in history--the detailed, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied, and neutral. Now, for the first time, prizewinning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff details the full scope of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art, and property that began in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler, continued through the Holocaust and the Third Reich's occupation of Europe, and culminated in a postwar cloaking campaign that stretched from Scandinavia to the Balkans to Iberia.