Stories of hope from the Holocaust. Memory is about choice. We can choose to remember the past in ways that provoke pain and stir our anger, or we can remember in ways that help us create the kind of world in which we most want to live.Nowhere is this choice more important than in connection to the Holocaust. And never has it been more important than now, because we are the first generation that will live without the presence of those who can tell us in their own words what they saw with their own eyes. These seventy-one firsthand stories from survivors of the Holocaust teach us to choose to remember for life, for their words are not about hatred and death but about ethics, decency, and love. Although the stories are arranged to accompany the weekly Torah readings and many of the Jewish holidays, they are just as meaningful when read on their own, in any sequence. The themes—journey, identity, resistance, community, refuge, and righteousness, to name but a few—are universal. And the lessons—about how to live more fully the life we are given—shine through.  

A collection of personal accounts conveys the experiences of Europeans during the Second World War, from the story of a young Jewish woman who strove to protect her baby sister to a Nazi's son who discovered a lifelong passion for the theater. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A second volume in the acclaimed history of the legendary banking dynasty chronicles the changing fortunes of the financial family during a turbulent era in world history, from their dramatic influence in nineteenth-century Europe to their gradual decline because of the failure to establish a sixth house in the world financial center of New York. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first historian with access to the long-lost Rothschild archive, bestselling author Niall Ferguson offers a myth-breaking in-depth portrait fo one of the most fascinating and powerful families in Europe. Hidden for nearly fifty yers in the KGB's special archive, the uncovered records cast new light on the banking family's rise to preeminence...read more

A richly rendered portrait of the Rothschild dynasty reveals for the first time the mechanics of this family's rise to financial prominence, with fresh details on its experiences in the Frankfurt ghetto and the aid it rendered to persecuted Jews throughout Europe. Reprint. NYT.

The first historian to gain access to the Rothschild archive, long hidden in the KGB's archives, presents a grand portrait of the members of Europe's most powerful banking family, tracing their influence on European finance, on political events, and on European Jewry. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A survivor begins an epic search for his wife through post-war Europe. Here is a memoir of the twentieth century?s greatest cataclysm, with a profound and illuminating difference. Casting light on the little-examined period of chaos immediately after World War II, it tells how, with unflagging courage and perseverance, one man and his wife recover freedom and individual dignity...read more

Product Description: The period from 1750 to 1870 was the formative age of the Jewish experience in modern Europe. The Jews completed their migration from segregation on the margins of early modern society to integration in the modern state, a process which encompassed the alteration of political and civil rights and the transformation of economic, social and demographic patterns...read more