Holocaust Holiday

Author : Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1642937819
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Holiday written by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this alternately humorous and horrifying memoir, a Jewish father schleps his reluctant children around Europe on a hard-charging tour of Holocaust sites and memorials in order to impress on them the profound evil of Hitler’s war against the Jews and the importance of combatting genocide. In 2017, renowned author and celebrity rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, decided to take his family on a European holiday. But instead of seeing the sights of London or Paris, he took his reluctant—and at times complaining—children on a harrowing journey though Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw, and many other sites associated with Hitler’s genocidal war against the Jews. His purpose was to impress upon them the full horror of the Holocaust so they would know and remember it deep in their bones. In the process, he and his children learn a great deal about the scope and nature of the European genocide and the continuing effects of global hatred and anti-Semitism. The resulting memoir is an utterly unique blend of travelogue, memoir and history—alternately fascinating, terrifying, frustrating, humorous, and tragic. “It is my honor to contribute a foreword to his important book, in which Rabbi Shmuley Boteach details the excruciating journey he took with his wife and children in the summer of 2017 to the killing fields of Europe, a pilgrimage which every person of conscience should attempt at least once in their lifetime. It is our universal obligation to dedicate ourselves to the memory of the martyred six million, just as it is our obligation to confront and defeat genocide wherever it rises.” —From the foreword by Amb. Georgette Mosbacher

Author : Laurel Holliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439121974
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children in the Holocaust and World War II written by Laurel Holliday and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, here are children's experiences—all written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. The diarists include a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. In the Janowska death camp, eleven-year-old Pole Janina Heshele so inspired her fellow prisoners with the power of her poetry that they found a way to save her from the Nazi ovens. Mary Berg was imprisoned at sixteen in the Warsaw ghetto even though her mother was American and Christian. She left an eyewitness record of ghetto atrocities, a diary she was able to smuggle out of captivity. Moshe Flinker, a sixteen-year-old Netherlander, was betrayed by an informer who led the Gestapo to his family's door; Moshe and his parents died in Auschwitz in 1944. They come from Czechoslovakia, Austria, Israel, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, England, and Denmark. They write in spare, searing prose of life in ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs, of fear and courage, tragedy and transcendence. Their voices and their vision ennoble us all.

Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590465885
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel's Story written by Carol Matas and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Author : Stephen R. Sipila
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523760435
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa's List written by Stephen R. Sipila and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his elves unionize against him, Santa Claus doesn't know how he is going to make enough toys for all the children of the world before Christmas time. He soon finds a solution when he is offered the opportunity to join the Nazi party and set up his workshop at Auschwitz and make use of the slave labor there. But as Santa Claus witnesses the horrors and atrocities of Auschwitz he begins to realize his own prejudice and inhumanity and starts to question whether the patron Saint of children should be running a death camp. Santa is a violent, womanizing drunk and drug addict with severe sexual issues and a bad attitude who has grown cynical about the holidays. Once his elves leave him, with the exception of his one frequently abused dwarf, Marvin, he sets out working at Auschwitz only to then learn a lesson from a bunch of German children who have befriended some escaped Jews that will teach Santa Claus the true meaning of tolerance and Christmas joy. This is basically a dark morbid comedy about what Santa Claus would do if he were a brutal Nazi running a death camp. Not for the easily offended or disgusted.

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of Remembrance written by United States Holocaust Memorial Council and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060085606
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Candle written by Eve Bunting and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one family the traditional Hanukkah celebration has a deeper meaning. Amidst the food and the festivities, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose begin their story -- the one they tell each year. They pass on to each generation a tale of perseverance during the darkest hours of the Holocaust, and the strength it took to continue to honor Hanukkah in the only way they could. Their story reaffirms the values of tradition and family, but also shows us that by continuing to honor the tragedies and the triumphs of the past there will always be hope for the future.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483297756
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Six Days of Destruction written by Elie Wiesel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you do not take up this text to pray, take it as a book to be studied. Once you have read these stories, they will not leave you, for they are part of human history." (From the Introduction by Albert Friedlander). The Six Days of Destruction is a religious text for use in both Jewish and interfaith services for Yom Ha-Shoah; it also stands on its own as a work of great poignancy. The six stories were written by Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel, with liturgies by Rabbi Albert Friedlander. The book opens with prefaces by Cardinal Basil Hume, Bishop Richard Harries and Lord Jakobovits, and is illustrated with a collection of drawings by inmates of the Nazi concentration camps, introduced by Elisabeth Maxwell and Roman Halter.

Author : Irving Greenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451644272
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Way written by Irving Greenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “enriching” and “profoundly moving” by Elie Wiesel, The Jewish Way is a comprehensive and inspiring presentation of Judaism as revealed through its holy days. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Rabbi Irving Greenberg explains and interprets the origin, background, interconnections, ceremonial rituals, and religious significance of all the Jewish holidays, including Passover, Yom Kippur, Purim, Hanukkah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Israeli Independence Day. Giving detailed instructions for observance—the rituals, prayers, foods, and songs—he shows how celebrating the holy days of the Jewish calendar not only relives Jewish history but puts one in touch with the basic ideals of Judaism and the fundamental experience of life. Insightful, original, and engrossing, The Jewish Way is an essential volume that should be in every Jewish home, library, and synagogue.

Author : Anna Hájková
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190051787
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Ghetto written by Anna Hájková and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age, ethnicity, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezín, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility, agency and its boundaries, and belonging.

Author : Chil Rajchman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361049
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Jew of Treblinka written by Chil Rajchman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.