Product Description: One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany...read more

Product Description: Charles Gelman was a teenager when eternal night fell on his town in Poland. It was June 1941 and the Holocaust had finally reached Kurenits, near the Soviet border. Gelman lost his family , and felt the cold, dead hand of the "Final Solution" even as its victims continued to hope...read more

Product Description: The Holocaust's atrocities and losses are foremost in most people's minds, but this volume highlights the Jews who summoned the courage to stand up and fight. This compelling volume gives a history leading up to Holocaust and the terror inflicted by the Nazis during World War II...read more

Discusses what resistance the Jews put up before to the Holocaust and persecution by the Nazi party, including hiding, uprisings, formal military and underground groups, and sabotage.

Product Description: Leon Kahn, a Polish Jew and Canadian philanthropist, gives us a different kind of Holocaust memoir. He shares the little known story of the family groups of Jews and partisan fighters, composed of Poles and Russians from Siberia, who roamed the forests outside the towns in search of food and weapons...read more

The author, who passed as a Gentile throughout the war, shares wartime observations and describes his experiences with the Italian resistance movement

Product Description: Rich Cohen, author of the acclaimed Tough Jews, again narrates a little-known episode of Jewish history, this time altering what we thought we knew about the Holocaust.Abba Kovner, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak-comrades, lovers, friends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the World War II accomplishments of a daring team of Jewish guerrillas, led by Abba Kovner and his chief lieutenants, two teenage girls, Vitka Kempner and Ruzka Korczak, their struggle in the ghetto and in the Baltic forests, their plan for revenge against the Nazis, and their efforts to build new lives for themselves as part of the new state of Israel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Although much has been written about the resistance to the Holocaust, public discussion still almost exclusively focuses on the resistance of male non-Jews. This reader seeks to redress the imbalance by looking at resistance from the perspective of the victims, almost exclusively Jewish and, in some cases, female...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Profiles 166 men and women who struggled to save Jews from German aggression during World War II, and includes brief biographies of major Nazi figures

This volume contains a collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender. The book is divided into seven sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the discourse between gender and identity. Following a historical introduction delineating the basic framework for understanding women's experiences during and shortly after the Holocaust, the book explores the major research trends evincing themselves since the end of World War II. The topics examined include various aspects of women's experiences during the war years, such as leadership, martyrdom, and social interaction in times of crisis. Other essays illuminate Holocaust heroism through a gender sensitive approach, while an additional section, Postwar Life and Representation, focuses upon gender in a multicultural post-Holocaust society. The book's final section explores the historical/didactic aspect of Holocaust gender study by examining how The Diary of Anne Frank can be used as an educational tool. Here we see how Holocaust gender issues transcend the socio-historical framework in order to become part of the cultural heritage transferred down to later generations. The book concludes with an epilogue and an extensive multi-lingual bibliography of sources and studies dealing with various gender-related aspects of the Holocaust. Several of the essays originally appeared in historical journals or conference proceedings and have been updated and expanded for inclusion in this present volume.

Provides a reference guide to the principal figures, ideology, and events during the Nazis' attempt to eliminate Jews during World War II (view table of contents)

The author, who passed as a Gentile throughout the war, shares wartime observations and describes his experiences with the Italian resistance movement (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The reactions of the Free World both Jewish and non-Jewish to the Holocaust were diverse. What was the position of the Zionists toward the Holocaust? Did those governments who were able to offer assistance do so? Why didn't Jews flee while they were still able to? These questions and others are explored...read more

The author recounts his experiences living in Nazi Berlin under forged papers and participating in the city's underground movement (view table of contents)

Product Description: Testimonies of survivors document an heroic prisoner uprising at a small Nazi death camp in Poland

Describes Hitler's rise, the extermination of Europe's Jews, and the slow emergence of resistance, and includes first-hand accounts of ghetto life and death-camp terror (view table of contents)

Product Description: The articles in this volume portray the range and diversity of the Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Vividly describes the courage, strategy, and loyalty of the Jews in accounts of the activity of resistance groups in the ghettos and labor and concentration camps. Bibliogs

Product Description: Book by Gutman, Israel