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  • Inheritance of Memory

    Holocaust Survivors and Their Children Share Their Stories

    by John Kornfeld ...
    Inheritance of Memory brings together the voices of Holocaust survivors and their children in a deeply moving anthology of memoir and testimony.This kaleidoscope of family stories conveys what reading one story cannot: that the Holocaust nightmare unfolded in vastly different ways and at different times depending on where you lived in Europe; that Jews fiercely resisted Nazi persecution and eluded ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Children Who Survived the Final Solution

    By Twenty-Six Survivors

    by Twenty-Six Survivors ...
    Holocaust survivors who were children during the Nazi persecution wrote this collection of memoirs. Each story bubbled up spontaneously, without an interviewer's guidance; hence these represent the most permanent memories of their authors' childhood experiences. This book provides a rare vantage point to look into the diverse lives of children during the Holocaust.-Both professionals and adult ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims

    by Terese Pencak Schwartz ...
    Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    by Jemma J. Saunders ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto

    The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising

    by Elizabeth R. Hyman ...
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women—champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid Jews in hiding across occupied Poland and Eastern Europe.The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Was the Holocaust?

    by Gail Herman, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Jerry Hoare ...
    Series series What Was?
    A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Defiance

    The Bielski Partisans

    by Nechama Tec ...
    The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. In fact, many Jews struggled alone or with others against the terrors of the Third Reich, risking their lives against overwhelming odds for the slimmest chance of survival, or a mere glimpse of freedom ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Boy in the Suitcase

    Holocaust Family Stories of Survival

    by Sheryl Needle Cohn ...
    The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a different story of families throughout the world who have been affected by the Holocaust. This book also ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • The Book Smugglers

    Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

    by David E. Fishman ...
    The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion—including the readiness to risk one’s life ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Sang in Hushed Voices

    by Helena Jockel ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel thought only about how to save “her” children as she accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz. Her account of living and surviving in the camp is clear-eyed and poignant, sometimes recording the too-brief moments of beauty and kindness that accompany the unremitting cruelty. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD