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  • The Weavers of Trautenau

    Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust

    by Janine P. Holc ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources.Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism

    Polish-Jewish Relations Today

    by Janine Holc ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory. Three cases are advocacy groups, each located in a different region of Poland—Lublin, Kraków, and Sejny—and each group is presented with attention to the local context and specific ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • The Beautiful Beast: The Life & Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese

    by Daniel Patrick Brown ...
    "The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Furies

    German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

    by Wendy Lower ...
    This "intriguing and chilling" WWII history follows thirteen ordinary German women who worked—and killed—on the Eastern Front ( Chicago Tribune).A National Book Award FinalistDrawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, Wendy Lower introduces thirteen women who took jobs in Nazi-occupied Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. She presents startling evidence that these women were more than ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

    Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

    by Christopher R. Browning ...
    "An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostEmploying the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities, and the neighboring Poles together into a chilling history of a little-known dimension of the Holocaust ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Between Dignity and Despair

    Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    by Marion A. Kaplan ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish History
    Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • A Small Town Near Auschwitz:Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

    Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers.The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Branded by the Pink Triangle

    by Ken Setterington ...
    A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • What We Knew

    Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

    by Karl-Heinz Reuband, Eric A Johnson ...
    **An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?“A very important book.” —Financial Times**The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Born in the GDR

    Living in the Shadow of the Wall

    by Hester Vaizey ...
    The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence

    An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust

    by Alana Fangrad ...
    Given the extensive body of Holocaust literature, it may be surprising to note that there is a distinct gap of reflection, analysis, and qualification in the area of sexual violence. The subject of sexual violence during the Holocaust, in particular, the sexual violation of Jewish women, is a subject that has been largely repressed and silenced. Thus, this thesis is an attempt to not only rectify ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor

    Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations

    Edited by Jürgen Matthäus ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use testimonies uncritically or selectively-mining them to support generalizations. This book represents a ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD