Life In The Warsaw Ghetto

Author : Gail B. Stewart
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Warsaw Ghetto written by Gail B. Stewart and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between November 1940 and May 1943 the ghetto was "home" to more than a half million people imprisoned here by the Nazis. The Nazis planned to execute most of them in the death camps but conditions in the ghetto were so terrible that many people died there.

Author : Eric J. Sterling
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815608035
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust written by Eric J. Sterling and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. These essays concern various aspects of Jewish daily life and governance, such as the Judenrat, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, religious life, housing, death, smuggling, art, and the struggle for survival while under siege by the Nazi regime. Written by survivors of the ghettos throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, this collection contains historical and cultural articles by prominent scholars, an essay on Holocaust theatre, and an article on teaching the Holocaust to students.

Author : Jim Shepard
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771079990
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Aron written by Jim Shepard and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard, a deeply affecting novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it. For readers of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, Kenneally's Schindler's List; Szpilman's The Pianist; Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces; Markus Zusack's The Book Thief; the works of Pimo Levi and Elie Weisel and Michael Chabon. When we meet Aron, he is a beguiling and perceptive and not always happy young boy coming into awareness of himself and his family's struggles. When soon they are driven from the countryside into Warsaw, their lives are changed forever. Aron and a group of boys and girls risk their lives scuttling around the ghetto, smuggling and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, while they are hunted by blackmailers and Jewish and Polish and German police, as gradually things catastrophically worsen, people begin to disappear, and survival is threatened on all sides. Eventually, Aron comes to know Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish doctor famous for his advocacy of children's rights, whose orphanage was relocated to the ghetto once the Nazis swept in. In the end, he and the children he takes care of, Aron among them, are brought to the station to be put on a train to Treblinka. The Book of Aron is a breathtaking novel of extraordinary craft, humanity, and masterful storytelling. Fearless, and devoid of sentimentality, it looks squarely into the face of unspeakable suffering, evil and lawlessness, revealing the persistence and strength of the human spirit despite all odds and the redemptive power of love. It is nothing less than a masterpiece.

Author : Juergen Stroop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stroop Report written by Juergen Stroop and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Jack Mayer
Publisher : Long Trail Press
ISBN 13 : 098411131X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Jar written by H. Jack Mayer and published by Long Trail Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

Author : Śimḥah Rotem
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093766
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter written by Śimḥah Rotem and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the struggle against the Nazi takeover of Warsaw and provides an account of the author's activities as head courier for the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organization.

Author : Katarzyna Person
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754092
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warsaw Ghetto Police written by Katarzyna Person and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions. Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author : Samuel D. Kassow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307793753
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Will Write Our History? written by Samuel D. Kassow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling, Samuel D. Kassow's Who Will Write Our History? tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people.

Author : Charles G. Roland
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courage Under Siege written by Charles G. Roland and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Roland, a physician and historian, provides the first history of the medical disaster that took place in the Warsaw ghetto.

Author : David G. Roskies
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245351
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto written by David G. Roskies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices—young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists—and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction,” these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.