The Holocaust

AND THE WORLD CLOSED ITS DOORS: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
by David Clay Large. B&W era photo section. Condition: NEW 2003 Basic Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Remainder. Content: Max Schohl's family, including his wife and two teenage daughters, fled Germany for Yugoslavia in 1940. As a Jew, Max was no longer permitted to live and work in his own country. In 1942, Schohl was deported to Auschwitz, where he died the following year. His wife and daughters were sent back to Germany to work as slave laborers. They survived and finally were able to emigrate to the U.S. after World War II. Schohl's youngest daughter, Kathe, now 79 and living in Charleston, West Virginia, provided Large with letters and other documents chronicling the family's efforts to escape. Much of the book is in the form of letters, many of them between Max Schohl and Rudolf Hess. Large describes Germany in the 1920s and 1930s by saying "What I try to do in this narrative is to attach a specific human face and voice to the otherwise bloodless record of political calculations and bureaucratic regulations." More clearly than many other books, Large's account depicts the tragic abandonment of the Jews by Western nations. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BABI YAR (Uncensored Edition)
by A. Anatoli (Kuznetsov). Condition: Very Good 1977 Pocket paperback, 4th printing. Interior is clean & tight but tanning. Cover has a problem: medium-sized tag removal mark bottom front . Pale spine crease & tiny edgewear. Content: Published in Russia, but heavily censored, this edition marks the first time the book was printed from "the author's complete and uncensored text." Reviewer: "This book is a documented portrait of barbaric inhumanity that took place during the holocaust at a ravine called Babi Yar. It is a place that over 33,000 Jews were murdered and buried dead or alive. This book is told from the eyes of a young non- Jewish boy who lived in Kiev and witnessed the inhumane massacre that took place outside of his city. The book is well written and imposibble to put down. After reading this book, one can understand more about the Holocaust and about the chilling and incomprehensible behavior against the Jewish people." [1 copy available]
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BEYOND THE ASHES: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust
by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom. Condition: Very good 1993 A.R.E. Press (Virginia) Trade Paperback, second printing. Interior clean & tight & the cover has spine crease, pale shelfwear hinge crease, and small edgewear. Originally published in 1971 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Content: I have no idea if this is "real" or a case of wishful thinking, so I will give you a review. "I found this to be a unique and fascinating book, in its view of reincarnation from a Jewish perspective. Written in a clear, easy to read style, it shows how the belief developed in Judaism, and became part of the mystical Hassidic tradition in Eastern Europe that continues to this day, now world wide...and with the renewed interest in Kaballah, has become a teaching many consider valid. Rabbi Gershom relates several case histories of people who have vivid, haunting, memories of a past life during the Holocaust, causing phobias and other symptoms in their current life. Most cases are from people born in the '40s and '50s, and the rabbi gives reasons why these souls rushed back to experience an earthly incarnation again." Your call. [1 copy available]
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DENYING THE HOLOCAUST: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
by Deborah Lipstadt. New Preface. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Plume Trade Paperback, 17th printing (c. 2000). Tiny edge wear. Content: A forceful analysis of attempts to deny the Nazi Holocaust. Lipstadt (Religion/Emory University; Beyond Belief, 1985--not reviewed) traces the history of Holocaust revisionism and contends that it can no longer be ignored, showing how Holocaust-deniers, once dismissed as a lunatic fringe, have been growing in numbers and influence during the past 20 years. Citing groups like the Institute for Historical Review, publications like The Spotlight, politicians like David Duke, and academicians like Leonard Jeffries, Lipstadt presents numerous examples of attempts to prove that the extermination of six million Jews is a hoax; that only a few thousand Jews died in the camps from disease; that the Allied bombings of German cities were worse than any Nazi offense; and that the ``true victims'' of WW II were the German people. These distortions of recorded history, argues the author, threaten to undermine our Western rationalist tradition and to legitimize the politicization of history. To Lipstadt, the common thread among Holocaust deniers is a ``purely anti-Semitic diatribe'' portraying Jews as victimizers. Self-declared scholars like Arthur R. Butz (whose credentials are in electronics) claim that Jews used the world's sympathy after the war to ``displace'' another people, establish the nation of Israel, and ``steal'' billions in reparations from their German and Western ``cash cows.'' Lipstadt argues vehemently against giving revisionists a forum in the name of free speech or freedom of the press, and she details the efforts of California revisionist Bradley Smith, who pushed a ``Holocaust was a hoax'' campaign in college newspapers throughout the US. Lipstadt contends that ``the responses to Holocaust denial by both students and faculty graphically demonstrate the susceptibility of an educated and privileged segment to the kind of reasoning that creates a hospitable climate for the rewriting of history.'' An important, well-documented study that deserves attention. [1 copy available]
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THE GOLD TRAIN: The Destruction of the Jews and the Looting of Hungary
by Ronald W. Zweig. B&W era photos section. Condition: NEW 2002 William Morrow hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first American edition, first printing. Remainder. Content: At the onset of World War II, a large percentage of Hungarian Jews were fully assimilated and many were staunch Magyar nationalists. For the most part, they had been spared the rabid anti-Semitism so prevalent in Germany and Poland. Once hostilities began, the Hungarian strongman, Admiral Horthy, consistently resisted the efforts of his ostensible ally, Germany, to include Hungarian Jews in the Final Solution. In 1944, however, extreme right-wingers bowed to German pressure and ousted Horthy; Jews were stripped of their property and the deportation began. Zweig, a senior lecturer in Modern Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, recounts the Hungarian Jews' sad fate with eloquence and compassion, the slow but steady erosion of their security unfolding like a prolonged nightmare. The search for their stolen riches has the elements of a first-rate thriller. [1 copy available]
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HANNA & WALTER: A Love Story
by Hanna and Walter Kohner with Frederick Kohner. Condition: Good+, 1985 Popular Library/Warner Books paperback, first printing. Edgewear, spine & hinge crease with book store stamp inside front cover. Remainder. Content: They met in 1935 - two young people from a small Czech town whose deams were the same as those of lovers everywehre. Then the dreams of Hanna Bloch and Walter Kohner were shattered by the rise of the Nazis, forcing the loves to flee their homeland - Walter to exile in California and Hanna to relatives in Holland. While Walter battled to bring Hanna to America, she was driven into a nightmare world of endless persecution and the horror of the concentration camp. But this is a love story with a happy ending and a moving tribute to the amazing power of the human spirit. [1 copy available]
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JUSTICE DELAYED: How Britain Became A Refuge For Nazi War Criminals (with New Afterword by the Author)
by David Cesarani. B&W era photo section. Condition: NEW 2000 Phoenix (UK) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: Britain--Nazi Germany's fiercest opponent and one that never fell to the enemy--turned into a home for the war's most terrible mass murderers and their collaborators. Through a picture, at once compelling and horrifying, of Clement Atlee's post war government and its immigration policy, it becomes clear that Eastern Europeans had favored status over non whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Despite protest from various members of Parliament, former members of the Waffen--SS and Nazi police units began new lives in England--some of whom became agents for the Eastern Bloc. Only in 1986, when the Simon Wiesenthal Center provided irrefutable evidence, was the stage set to remedy the situation. Cesarani is Director of Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library. He has written on Anglo-Jewish history, and the history of Zionism, and has written the official history of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper. From 1987-1991 he was consultant to the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group and was Principal Researcher of its 'Report on the Entry on Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators in the UK, 1945-50. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE LAST JEWS IN BERLIN
by Leonard Gross. Condition: Good 1983 Bantam paperback with spine & hinge crease, clipped bottom edge and light tanning. This book is not pretty, but we are offering it because it is an out-of-print (OP) book and it shouldn't be. Content: This is the powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust. The book provides wonderful narrative, compelling characters, and inspiring stories, recounting the variety of circumstances these Jews found themselves in. Some went into hiding, some passed themselves off as Gentiles, some collaborated with the resistance, and all managed to survive. Some had no help and were separated from loved ones, some managed to keep their families somewhat intact. Their struggles, defeats, and victories are inspiring and a testament to the nature of the human spirit. Wonderful read. [1 copy available]
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SHOAH: An Oral History of the Holocaust - The Complete Text of the Film
by Claude Lanzmann. Preface by Simone De Beauvoir. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 Pantheon Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first American edition. No problems, just pre-read. Content: The complete textspoken words and subtitlesof a recent documentary film on the Holocaust by French journalist and director Lanzmann is presented here in an unusual but grimly effective format. Doubtless seeing the film would be a vastly different experience, but the text carries a relentless strength and coherence of its own. Excerpts from interviews with a couple of dozen Jewish survivors, German officials and guards, Polish villagers and railway men, and contemporary historians in the United States, Israel, Germany, and Poland are juxtaposed, following the pattern of the film's scenes. The result is a powerful and unique impression of the Jewish tragedy drawn from the composite viewpoints of these radically different participants and observers. [1 copy available]
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THE STORM OVER THE DEPUTY: Essays and Articles About Hochhuth's Explosive Drama
edited by Eric Bentley. Condition: Gently pre-read (although no outward signs of such) 1964 Dell paperback, first printing. Interior clean with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: The Great debate that rocked the world. Millions of words have poured from pulpit and press, radio and television, in the impassioneed debate that has raged over Rolf Hochhuth's explosive drama, "The Deputy." The most thoughtful minds of our day have grappled with the burning issues raised by the play's charge of silence in the face of Evil. From this torrent of words, Eric Bently, noted critic...has selected the most important and enduring commentary, both pro and con, Catholic and non-Catholic, by many of the world's distinguished clergymen, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and critics. [An important debate in the 60s and today. "If you see an injustice and do nothing, you have condoned the injustice."] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: 1933 - 1945
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz. Condition: UNREAD 1981 Bantam paperback 7th printing. Tiny edgewear with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: This seminal classic historical work by scholar and teacher Lucy Dawidowicz is a stunning book that both graphically and systematically spells out the details of the horrifying war of annihilation forged against the European Jews by the Third Reich. In a world that seen so much published regarding this subject, this work stands as benchmark. Ms. Dawidowicz addresses herself to the most fundamental of questions regarding this unspeakable policy of ritual race murder; how could a modern, sophisticated and industrial country such as Germany have perpetrated such a deliberate reign of horror against a whole people simply because they were Jewish? The simple fact is that the Holocaust seems to have occurred because, for the first time in modern history, it was both politically and logistically possible. In other words, the Nazis had both the method and the impetus to do the unspeakable. One of those must-read books. [1 copy available]
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