{"title":"Journals, Diaries, and Letters","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-bookshop-in-berlin","title":"A Bookshop in Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrenkel, Françoise\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn “exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal) and “poignant” (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1921, Françoise Frenkel—a Jewish woman from Poland—fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin’s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrançoise’s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, A Bookshop in Berlin is a remarkable story of survival and resilience, of human cruelty and human spirit. In the tradition of Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, this book is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303444488226,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81L71ZaTZAL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1704830817"},{"product_id":"a-woman-in-berlin","title":"A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. \"With bald honesty and brutal lyricism\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eElle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. \"Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Plain Dealer,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Cleveland), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Woman in Berlin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baker \u0026 Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303445143586,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71HWN5iAY7L._SL1500.jpg?v=1705076431"},{"product_id":"as-if-it-were-life","title":"As If It Were Life: A WWII Diary From the Theresienstadt Ghetto","description":"\u003cp\u003eManes, Philipp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilipp Manes was an average, well-to-do middle-class Berlin merchant, who considered himself first and foremost a German, and then a Jew. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, together with his wife Gertud. Theresienstadt, initially intended for the Jews of Czechoslovakia, later became the \"showpiece\"ghetto of the Third Reich to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely. It was controlled by the SS but run by a council of Jewish elders, and presented to the Red Cross as an idyllic utopia with shops, cafes, concerts and theatre groups. Manes himself organized over 500 evening lectures. But in reality, Theresienstadt was a holding post for Jews being shipped to certain death, chiefly in Treblinka and Auschwitz. Manes wrote his first-hand account in the ghetto before his deportation to Auschwitz, where he and his wife were killed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManes' account is filled with careful and fascinating details of everyday life in those years, and delivers an accurate portrait of the ghetto, its inmates and practices, offering a new understanding of one of the most painful periods in the history of mankind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303446618146,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71NsPIb4l0L._AC_UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1705339960"},{"product_id":"dear-andrew","title":"Dear Andrew: Letters and Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor to His Grandson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndre Ross \u0026amp; Deborah Erna Oury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEndre Lovinger was only seventeen years old when the Nazis invaded Budapest, Hungary, in March 1944. Taken from his family at gunpoint to work on a Jewish Forced Labor Brigade, he eventually escaped and found himself on the run trying to keep one step ahead of the Nazis and certain death. After more than seventy years of buried memories, he finally opened up and shared his past in letters to his oldest grandson who was attending the Air Force Academy. In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Dear Andrew: Letters and Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor to his Grandson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Andrew Ross (Endre Lovinger) tells of his heartache and triumph in uncertain times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303448846370,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61V9n6LUOUL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706032499"},{"product_id":"fate-did-not-let-me-go","title":"Fate Did Not Let Me Go: A Mother’s Farewell Letter","description":"\u003cp\u003eOllendorff, Valli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne family's heartbreaking memento of the Holocaust. Just before her arrest and subsequent death at the hands of the Nazis, Valli Ollendorff confided her feelings in a letter to her middle son, who had escaped to America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303449993250,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/41AdCWnFjmL.jpg?v=1706117962"},{"product_id":"grasping-at-straws","title":"Grasping at Straws: Letters From the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteven Wasserman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Germany’s National Socialists came to power, hundreds of thousands of Jews were desperate to emigrate. As it became more and more difficult to obtain visas to leave, many Jews were willing to try anything and seized upon even the most tenuous and unlikely opportunities in their efforts to get out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere, Steven Wasserman introduces the Ichenhäusers, a thoroughly assimilated Jewish-German family with roots in the Cologne area dating back hundreds of years. They led rich lives there, enjoying the city's urban lifestyle and vibrant cultural life. In the early 20th century, three sons even served in the German army during the first world war. But when the Nazis arrived, they spared no Jews regardless of how long their families had lived in Germany and notwithstanding their service in the German military.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGrasping at Straws\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e recounts the lives of the Ichenhäusers as they sought to escape. Their story is told mainly through letters written by family members before and during the war, as well as letters which family friends wrote of their efforts to escape. These documents portray the tragic decisions that determined their fates. Follow these captivating, heart-rending first-person accounts to history, made even more compelling by the photographic record that has been carefully preserved and presented in over 100 images.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy compiling their stories in this readable volume, Wasserman has done a service for his family, historians, and all compassionate readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303451500578,"sku":"","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/614n5xp-BML._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706547035"},{"product_id":"helgas-diary","title":"Helga's Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeiss, Helga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terezín, Helga’s uncle hid her diary in a brick wall. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezín and deported to Auschwitz, there were only one hundred survivors. Helga was one of them. Miraculously, she was able to recover her diary from its hiding place after the war. These pages reveal Helga’s powerful story through her own words and illustrations. Includes a special interview with Helga by translator Neil Bermel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303451861026,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61cUsYaLviL._SL1200.jpg?v=1706562940"},{"product_id":"letters-and-dispatches","title":"Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944: The Man Who Saved Over 100,000 Jews","description":"\u003cp\u003eWallenberg, Raoul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLetters and Dispatches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLetters and Dispatches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has in full.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303455694882,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/41QWAQRPDPL.jpg?v=1707424883"},{"product_id":"letters-from-nuremberg","title":"Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eDodd, Christopher J.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of 1945, soon after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, Thomas J. Dodd, the father of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, traveled to the devastated city of Nuremberg to serve as a staff lawyer in this unprecedented trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks to his agile legal mind and especially to his skills at interrogating the defendants—including such notorious figures as Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Albert Speer, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Rudolf Hess—he quickly rose to become the number two prosecutor in the U.S. contingent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the course of fifteen months, Dodd described his efforts and his impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. The letters remained in the Dodd family archives, unexamined, for decades. When Christopher Dodd, who followed his father’s path to the Senate, sat down to read the letters, he was overwhelmed by their intimacy, by the love story they unveil, by their power to paint vivid portraits of the accused war criminals, and by their insights into the historical importance of the trials.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong with Christopher Dodd’s reflections on his father’s life and career, and on the inspiration that good people across the world have long taken from the event that unfolded in the courtroom at Nuremberg, where justice proved to be stronger than the most unspeakable evil, these letters give us a fresh, personal, and often unique perspective on a true turning point in the history of our time. In today’s world, with new global threats once again put-ting our ideals to the test, Letters from Nuremberg reminds us that fear and retribution are not the only bases for confrontation. As Christopher Dodd says here, “Now, as in the era of Nuremberg, this nation should never tailor its eternal principles to the conflict of the moment, for if we do so, we will be shadowing those we seek to overcome.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303455727650,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61tibyV4_cL._SL1200.jpg?v=1707424998"},{"product_id":"postal-indiscretions","title":"Postal Indiscretions: The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorowski, Tadeusz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a brief life deeply and traumatically disrupted by two years in concentration camps as a political prisoner, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was tragically destined to become one of the most eloquent witnesses to the Holocaust in Poland. His recollections and stories, the most famous of which is \u003cem\u003eThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen\u003c\/em\u003e, document in stark historical, literary, and personal terms the experience of the camps and its cost to humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe correspondence in this volume expands on the insights of Borowski's published work and extends to the less-documented aftermath of the Holocaust in postwar Poland and East Germany. The volume opens with Borowski's letter to his mother from Pawiak Prison the day after his arrest and closes with an unsigned telegram informing his parents of his suicide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis English edition also contains new material in the form of additional letters from the private collection of the family of Anatol Girs. Illustrated throughout with photographs and reproductions, the letters to and from family members, friends, and literary figures offer an indispensable picture of the world in the wake of the Nazis - and of the indelible stain that experience left upon the literature, politics, and life of Eastern Europe, in particular upon one gifted and doomed writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43185984765986,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43185984798754,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81PnNMmlerL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707508785"},{"product_id":"salvaged-pages","title":"Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003eZapruder, Alexandra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book’s history and impact. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303459987490,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/51nYWC3He8L.jpg?v=1707761049"},{"product_id":"stolen-voices","title":"Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003eFilipovic, Zlata\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZlata Filipovic’s diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children affected by military conflict. In\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStolen Voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, from World War I to the struggle in Iraq that continues today. Profoundly affecting testimonies of shattered youth and the gritty particulars of war in the tradition of Anne Frank, this extraordinary collection— the first of its kind—is sure to leave a lasting impression on young and old readers alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303460708386,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/610wKVieWoL._SL1200.jpg?v=1707767088"},{"product_id":"survival","title":"Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003eDimant, Ita\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIta Dimant’s gripping diary is a detailed account of her experiences during the Holocaust. She describes the chaotic living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto and her dramatic escape to the ‘Aryan’ side. She wrestles repeatedly with the burden of losing close friends and family, revealing her emotional responses to the unfolding tragedy. As one ghetto after another is liquidated, she becomes a courier carrying vital information and supplies between Polish cities. Ita must rely on her wits, skillful deception, and a few trusted friends, as she seeks to evade the noose closing around her. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303460839458,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71Hf3JGuYbL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707767160"},{"product_id":"surviving-the-holocaust-the-kovno-ghetto-diary","title":"Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eTory, Avraham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe diary incorporates Avraham Tory’s collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. It depicts in grim detail the struggle for survival under Nazi domination, when—if not simply carted off and murdered in a random “action”—Jews were exploited as slave labor while being systematically starved and denied adequate housing and medical care. Through it all, Tory’s overriding purpose was to record the unimaginable events of these years and to memorialize the determination of the Jews to sustain their community life in the midst of the Nazi terror.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf the surviving diaries originating in the principal European Ghettos of this period, Tory’s is the longest written by an adult, a dramatic and horrifying document that makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary history. Tory provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of Ghetto leaders to protect Jews. Martin Gilbert’s masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303461101602,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61690ppH-YL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707767589"},{"product_id":"the-diary-of-a-young-girl","title":"The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank, Anne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscovered in the attic where she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1942, as Nazis occupied Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the secret upstairs rooms of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, Anne’s account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42777941770274,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mass Market","offer_id":42777941803042,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71O7_oS69YL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706558713"},{"product_id":"the-diary-of-dawid-sierak","title":"The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto","description":"\u003cp\u003eDawid Sierakowiak, Alan Adelson (Editor), Kamil Turowski (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us.\" This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion, and starvation--the Holocaust syndrome known as \"ghetto disease.\" After the liberation of the Łódź Ghetto, his notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. Off mountain climbing and studying in southern Poland during the summer of 1939, Dawid begins his diary with a heady enthusiasm to experience life, learn languages, and read great literature. He returns home under the quickly gathering clouds of war. Abruptly Łódź is occupied by the Nazis, and the Sierakowiak family is among the city's 200,000 Jews who are soon forced into a sealed ghetto, completely cut off from the outside world. With intimate, undefended prose, the diary's young author begins to describe the relentless horror of their predicament: his daily struggle to obtain food to survive; trying to make reason out of a world gone mad; coping with the plagues of death and deportation. Repeatedly he rallies himself against fear and pessimism, fighting the cold, disease, and exhaustion which finally consume him. Physical pain and emotional woe hold him constantly at the edge of endurance. Hunger tears Dawid's family apart, turning his father into a thief who steals bread from his wife and children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe wonder of the diary is that every bit of hardship yields wisdom from Dawid's remarkable intellect. Reading it, you become a prisoner with him in the ghetto, and with discomfiting intimacy you begin to experience the incredible process by which the vast majority of the Jews of Europe were annihilated in World War II. Significantly, the youth has no doubt about the consequence of deportation out of the ghetto: \"Deportation into lard,\" he calls it. A committed communist and the unit leader of an underground organization, he crusades for more food for the ghetto's school children. But when invited to pledge his life to a suicide resistance squad, he writes that he cannot become a \"professional revolutionary.\" He owes his strength and life to the care of his family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303462871074,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/810zZvTDkyL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707922634"},{"product_id":"the-last-consolation-vanished","title":"The Last Consolation Vanished: Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eGradowski, Zalmen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Consolation Vanished\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eZalmen Gradowski was in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSonderkommando \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish prisoner given the unthinkable task of ushering Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, transporting their corpses to the crematoria, and destroying all evidence of their murders. Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS soldiers; when they discovered the horror of their assignment, some of them committed suicide or tried to induce the SS to kill them. Despite their impossible situation, many Sonderkommandos chose to resist in two interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski did both, by helping to lead a rebellion and by documenting his experiences. Within 120 scrawled notebook pages, his accounts describe the process of the Holocaust, the relentless brutality of the Nazi regime, the assassination of Czech Jews, the relationships among the community of men forced to assist in this nightmare, and the unbearable separation and death of entire families, including his own. Amid daily unimaginable atrocities, he somehow wrote pages that were literary, sometimes even lyrical—hidden where and when one would least expect to find them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe October 7th rebellion was completely crushed and Gradowski was killed in the process, but his testimony lives on. His extraordinary and moving account, accompanied by a foreword and afterword by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, is a voice speaking to us from the past on behalf of millions who were silenced. Their story must be shared.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42432278462498,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42432278495266,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/715qzf-4LZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707933436"},{"product_id":"the-warsaw-diary-of-adam-czerniakow","title":"The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom","description":"\u003cp\u003eCzerniakow, Adam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942—on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat—a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored “mayor” of the Warsaw Ghetto. His personal dealings with the German authorities bring to this daily record of events a depth of knowledge, accuracy of detail, and panorama of view that was possible to no other participant in the epic prelude to the final doom of the largest captive Jewish community in Eastern Europe. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto’s terminal agony. It is one of the most important diaries to emerge from the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303466999842,"sku":"","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61Us1w2hioL._SL1264.jpg?v=1707946781"},{"product_id":"do-not-forget-me-three-jewish-mothers-write-to-their-sons-from-the-thessaloniki-ghetto","title":"Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Leon Saltiel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews much as they had across the rest of occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDo Not Forget Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together these remarkable pieces of correspondence, shocking accounts of life in the ghetto with an emotional intensity rare even by the standards of Holocaust testimony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41350813777954,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/SaltielDo.jpg?v=1706032813"},{"product_id":"corrie-ten-booms-prison-letters","title":"Corrie Ten Boom's Prison Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen Boom, Corrie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1944, as an act of resistance and commitment to their Christian faith, Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Dutch Jews from the Nazi regime. Eventually, Corrie and her family were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Scheveningen and the concentration camp, Vught. While imprisoned, she communicated with her loved ones through letters filled with stories of unimaginable trials, resilience and her unfailing faith in the Lord. This collection of deeply moving letters represents the only tie between Corrie, her loved ones and the outside world. It is a testament to her love and devotion to Christ and is an inspiration to all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41357627195426,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61wMD9vrnKL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706027682"},{"product_id":"we-are-witnesses-five-diaries-of-teenagers-who-died-in-the-holocaust","title":"We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoas, Jacob\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible. We see David Rubinowicz struggling against fear and terror. Yitzhak Rudashevski shows us how Jews clung to culture, to learning, and to hope, until there was no hope at all. Moshe Ze'ev Flinker is the voice of religion, constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy. Eva Heyman demonstrates the unquenchable hunger for life that sustained her until the very last moment. And finally, Anne Frank reveals the largest truth they all left for us: Hitler could kill millions, but he could not destroy the human spirit. These stark accounts of how five young people faced the worst of human evil are a testament, and an inspiration, to the best of the human soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41517804060706,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71vilrRY9AL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707837279"},{"product_id":"the-journal-of-helene-berr-1","title":"The Journal of Hélène Berr","description":"\u003cp\u003eBerr, Hélène\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRanging from 1942 to her family's 1944 deportation, the personal journal of the daughter of a prominent Jewish family describes two years of life in war-time Paris under Nazi occupation, writing not only of the harsh realities of being a Jew in Vichy France but also of her love of literature and music, the beauty of Paris, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42970510786594,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/61bTm8xhxqL._SL1500.jpg?v=1722538116"},{"product_id":"words-to-outlive-us-eyewitness-accounts-from-the-warsaw-ghetto","title":"Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichal Grynberg (Editor), Philip Boehm (Translator, Introduction)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir—a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts—follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district. The life of the ghetto appears here in striking detail: the frantic exchange of apartments as the walls first go up; the daily battle against starvation and disease; the moral ambiguities confronting Jewish bureaucracies under Nazi rule; the ingenuity of smugglers; and the acts of resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten inside the ghetto or in hiding outside its walls, these extraordinary testimonies preserve voices otherwise consigned to oblivion: a woman doctor whose four-year-old son is deemed a threat to the hideout; a painter determined to complete his mural of Job and his trials; a ten-year-old girl barely eluding blackmailers on the Aryan side of the city. Stunning in their immediacy, the urgent accounts recorded here provide much more than invaluable historical detail: they challenge us to imagine the unimaginable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43027157647394,"sku":"","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71iQL0iNDEL._SL1500.jpg?v=1723479373"},{"product_id":"notes-from-the-valley-of-slaughter-a-memoir-from-the-ghetto-of-siauliai-lithuania","title":"Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania","description":"\u003cp\u003eAharon Pick (Author), Gabriel Laufer (Translator), Andrew Cassel (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes from the Valley of Slaughter\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar, and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost poetic personal testament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePick's journal covers the tumultuous late 1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and the catastrophic German invasion and occupation, during which more than 90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered. Pick was among a handful of Šiauliai Jewish physicians spared execution and allowed to work for the occupiers. Although Pick succumbed to illness in spring 1944, shortly before the ghetto was liquidated, his son Tedik buried the manuscript before fleeing the ghetto, retrieved it after liberation, and carried it with him to Israel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes from the Valley of Slaughter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone of only a handful of diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43279757574178,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81WItd0FmBL._SL1500.jpg?v=1731944061"},{"product_id":"what-i-saw-reports-from-berlin-1920-1933","title":"What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Roth (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator, Introduction)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its \"nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance\" (Jeffrey Eugenides, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty―a memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and chaos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, like no other existing work, records the violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43744877871138,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71UtkPOweuL._SL1200.jpg?v=1744818013"},{"product_id":"a-voice-from-the-lost-town-of-trochenbrod-a-translation-of-poems-essays-and-letters-by-yisrael-beider","title":"A Voice from the Lost Town of Trochenbrod: A Translation of Poems, Essays and Letters by Yisrael Beider","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeider, Yisrael (Author) , Laufer, Gabriel (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe destruction of Trochenbrod, the only exclusively Jewish town outside of Israel, is a mostly overlooked Holocaust tragedy. This book pulls together a collection of extraordinary poems, essays, and letters by Yisrael Beider, a son of Trochenbrod and a descendant of generations of rabbis tracing back to the MAHARAL. Beider perished in the Holocaust, but these writings survived to become rare documents to emerge from Trochenbrod. Although Beider published portions of his work in prominent Hebrew and Yiddish papers, most of his work remains unknown. This translation assembled the entire surviving collection to shed light on Beider’s literary and historical work, and to provide an eyewitness account of life in Trochenbrod and western Ukraine between the two world wars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43805816881186,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/9798887196626.jpg?v=1747069679"}],"url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/collections\/journals-diaries-and-letters.oembed","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}