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Forthcoming September 2026 Reading Hitler’s Victims
Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War
Pilsworth, E.
The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Forthcoming June 2026
The Hunted
The Holocaust through the Experiences of Twenty European Jews
Welch, S.
A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single year in the protagonists’ lives, placing personal decisions within the context shifting Nazi policies.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
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Published August 2024
The Global Pontificate of Pius XII
War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958
Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)
Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post-war historiography.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2021
Defeating Impunity
Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914
Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)
Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published December 2020
Recognizing the Past in the Present
New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)
This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)
This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published November 2019
The Anatomy of the Holocaust
Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship
Hilberg, R.
Pehle, W. H. & Schlott, R. (eds)Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published September 2019
Nearly the New World
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Newman, J.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2019
Escapees
The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
von Fransecky, T.
Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Mobility Studies
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Published November 2018
Probing the Limits of Categorization
The Bystander in Holocaust History
Morina, C. & Thijs, K. (eds)
This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2017
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Kangisser Cohen, S., Fogelman, E., & Ofer, D. (eds)
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts, with a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published December 2016
Microhistories of the Holocaust
Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)
Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published August 2015
Topographies of Suffering
Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Rapson, J.
Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic. Balancing scrutiny with the way their violent histories are remembered globally, these sites emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes in which difficult pasts can be comprehended in the present.
Subjects: Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2014
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Grodin, M. A. (ed)
Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published September 2014
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
New Transnational Approaches
Goda, N. J. W. (ed)
For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published May 2014
The Dark Side of Nation-States
Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
Ther, P.
“Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.” · Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult
“A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.” · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Subjects: Genocide History History (General)
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Published June 2013
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma
Reassessment and Commemoration
Weiss-Wendt, A. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published August 2012
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Stone, D. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published November 2009
The 'Final Solution' in Riga
Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
Angrick, A., Klein, P. & Brandon R.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published May 2007
Robbery and Restitution
The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe
Dean, M., Goschler, C. & Ther, P. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published July 2005
Gray Zones
Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Petropolous, J. & Roth, J. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published December 2004
Networks of Nazi Persecution
Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
Feldman, G. & Seibel, W. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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