Photographs document the Holocaust, including the rise of Nazism, persecution of Jews in Germany, mass murders at the death camps, and Jewish armed resistance

The Pictorial History of the Holocaust

History

Yad Va-Shem, Rashut Ha-Zikaron La-Shoah Vela-Gevurah

World

Yad Vashem Pubns

The teaching of the history of the Holocaust is mandatory in many states in the U.S. as part of the secondary school curriculum. ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume resource that provides reliable, non-sensational information on this heinous and frightening period of recent history. Teachers will find it an invaluable instructional tool to help students confront, understand, and never forget the people lost, the lives forever torn apart, and the events that gave rise to the persecution. Yad Vashem, created by the Israeli Parliament in 1953 as the premier memorial for the Jewish people, contains the world's single largest repository of information on the Holocaust; its name is synonymous with the most extensive collection of published and unpublished documents on this subject in existence in one place. Written in association with Yad Vashem, this encyclopedia features eight essays on the Holocaust on such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish achievements and contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-Semitism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on the major subjects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs - many never before published in one resource - bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and attest to the invincibility of the human spirit. This book covers people such as: Irena Adamowicz, David Ben-Gurion, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Jacob Edelstein, Adolf Eichmann, Dwight David Eisenhower, Anne Frank, Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Cordell Hull, Josef Mengele, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XII, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Oskar Schindler, Joseph Stalin, Raoul Wallenberg, Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, and Kurt Waldheim. It covers nations such as Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Yugoslavia. It covers cities such as Antwerp, Berlin, Brussels, Luxembourg, Munich, Minsk, Nuremberg, Odessa, Paris, Prague, and Warsaw. It covers camps such as: Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Blechhammer, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Pawiak Prison, Plaszow, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Sobibor, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Strasshof, Stutthof, and Treblinka. Events: The Anschluss, Anti-Nazi Boycotts, the Barbie Trial, the Bermuda Conference, Death Marches, the Eichmann Trial, Slovak National Uprising, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It also covers organizations such as: American Jewish Conference, Christian Churches, Council for German Jewry, Deutsche Ausrustungswerke, French Police, the Gestapo, Hungarian Gendarmerie, Institut d'Etudes des Questions Juives, Iron Guard, Office of Special Investigations, Red Cross International, Relief Committee for the War-stricken Jewish Population, United Nations War Crimes Commission, War Refugee Board, the Wehrmacht, and World Jewish Congress and much more.

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Robert Rozett

Shmuel Spector

With the hand of a master, as in a detective story, Yossi Sarid describes the long search by Jozef-Petr-Pepiczek for his identity. But this is more than a personal quest; it is the quest of many Jews for their private and national identity. Yossi Sarid is a faithful mouthpiece for Pepiczek and for the family he lost and for the tortured Mengele twins and for the dwarfs who were tortured with them. Yossi Sarid, politician and poet, sees himself as the emissary of Petr-Pepiczek; precisely because Petr Grunfeld "was silent and kept his memories hidden", Sarid felt that it was his mission to take him out of hiding and commit his life story to Yad Vashem.

Pepiczek: He Didn't Know His Name

Biographies & Memoirs

Sarid, Yossi

Memoirs

Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Avraham Cytryn's Lodz Notebooks

Religion & Spirituality

Abraham Cytryn

Judaism

Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Chaim Hersh Kahan is from Elie Wiesel's hometown of Sighet, Transylvania. His happy pre-war childhood and yeshiva studies were followed by confinement in the ghetto, and transport to Auschwitz. He and his father survived selection by Mengele, followed by slave labor in Wolfsberg and Ebensee. Sustained by his father's spiritual strength, Kahan survived and was liberated.

The Fire and the Light

Kahan, Herman

Rutka Laskier, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in the town of Bedzin in Poland, died in Auschwitz in 1943. But she left behind a notebook in which she recorded her thoughts, fears and dreams. Some are the musings of any adolescent girl; others are the despairing cries of an individual caught in history's vortex. Now, after 60 years in the keeping of a friend, that notebook has been recovered - and it opens a unique, moving window into the everyday life of Polish Jews caught in the throes of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. Hailed as the "Polish Anne Frank," Rutka Laskier now speaks to us across the decades: a witness to evil, a voice for the silent, and a timeless symbol of resolve. The editors of "TIME" add annotations, photos, maps, and quotations that help bring this tragic era into compelling focus for today's readers.

RUTA'S NOTEBOOK - JANUARY-APRIL 1943

Laskier, Rutka

''The German army moved into the city [Paris] at seven the next morning; the Hechts had a margin of escape of only 19 hours!'' This book speaks of life as it once was in Bratislava, and its Jewish community, describes the Hecht family's trials and tribulations in escaping the horrors of the Nazis, their struggles in finding a new home, and their successful integration into the Canadian Jewish community from Bratislava, to Paris, to Nice, to Lisbon to Montreal after a harrowing three-year odyssey in war-stricken Europe.

Czech Mate: A Life in Progress: As Told to Joe King

Hecht, Thomas O.

Historical

Documents on the Holocaust

The Last Ghetto: Life in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944 (English and Hebrew Edition)

Military

Edition fac-similée d'un manuscrit et de dessins d'une Haggadah de Pessah du camp d'internement de Gurs, où les prisonniers Juifs avaient célébré la sortie d'Egypte derrière les barreaux. Le taux de mortalité était extrèmement élevé, en raison des conditions inhumaines de détention, du froid intense, de la mauvaise qualité de la nourriture, du bourbier permanent et des baraques qui étaient loin de servir d'abris. Au cours de l'été 1942, la majorité des prisonniers fut transférée à Drancy et de là à Auschwitz.

La Haggadah de Pessah du Camp de Gurs: Pessah 1941 (French Edition)

Bella Gutterman (Editor)

Naomi Morgenstern (Editor)

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