The original subtitle of Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom (1894)—“the basis for a modern worldview”—points to the lifelong project with which he was engaged.
Outside of the Nazi hierarchy, Odilo Globocnik is the most culpable in the planned and almost successfully executed attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe. The crime of mass murder far outweighs the less significant, but nevertheless considerable, offenses of robbery and human trafficking, for obvious reasons. Globocnik was guilty of them all.
"When my father was a little boy in Vienna, he told Anna Freud this dream: He is walking on the rim of the white gravel path that leads around the oval pond in the upper part of the Belvedere Gardens. The birds are singing, the sun is out ... Then a blue-black machine with a brilliant array of handles and shafts comes into sight... The machine ......
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about ......
The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944
After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. ......
Reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations' War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II.
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the
Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for general readers that considers the perspectives of all the central groups involved—Jews, ......
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about ......
A powerful, provocative work that draws from historical testimony, narrative history, and constructive Christian theology and philosophy, this project centers on the vulnerable Jesus Christ- a God who takes on the burden of the human condition and freely suffers alongside and for human beings.
In this compelling book, Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite holds a frank conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann.. Her searching exchanges with Dieckmann illuminate the most profound questions we have as we struggle to understand the causes and consequences of the Holocaust.
This book describes the pogroms of Polish Jews by their Polish neighbors in some dozen small towns and villages in Eastern Poland in the years 1941-42. The book draws on eyewitness testimony by surviving victims, bystanders, and perpetrators themselves to describe the horrific events that occurred throughout the region.
How much did DietrichBonhoeffer know of theHolocaust, and what did he do tohelp the Jews? Should Bonhoefferbe considered one of the "Righteousamong the Nations"? In this welcome sequel tohis acclaimed The BonhoefferPhenomenon, Stephen Haynestakes up these vexing andcontroversial questions. While Bonhoeffer spoke outagainst mistreatment of the ......
In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by ......
In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by ......
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Fuehrer--Adolf Hitler. In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a ......
