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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

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The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

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History on Trial My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier — Deborah E. Lipstadt

History on Trial My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier

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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

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Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations — Jurgen Matthaus

Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations

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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

The SS Alibi Of A Nation, 1922-1945 — Gerald Reitlinger

The SS Alibi Of A Nation, 1922-1945

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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials — Jennifer Barrett

The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials

Jennifer Barrett

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Hell Before Their Very Eyes American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 — John C. McManus

Hell Before Their Very Eyes American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945

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Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland The Practice of Authenticity — Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland The Practice of Authenticity

Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Fragments Under Glass — Rebecca Siegel

Fragments Under Glass

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Roman’s Journey — Roman Halter

Roman’s Journey

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Hitler’s Savage Canary A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II — David Lampe

Hitler’s Savage Canary A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

The Architect of Genocide Himmler and the Final Solution — Richard Breitman

The Architect of Genocide Himmler and the Final Solution

Richard Breitman

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Holocaust 2 The “Not So Holy” Holyland — Charles A. Campagne

Holocaust 2 The “Not So Holy” Holyland

Charles A. Campagne

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

The Light of Days The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos — Judy Batalion

The Light of Days The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Trapped in Hitler’s Hell A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah’s Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust — Anita Dittman

Trapped in Hitler’s Hell A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah’s Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Not All Was Lost — Irene Bessette

Not All Was Lost

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Black Earth The Holocaust as History and Warning — Timothy Snyder

Black Earth The Holocaust as History and Warning

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

50 Children One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany — Steven Pressman

50 Children One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

Steven Pressman

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

Little Bird of Auschwitz How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family — Alina Peretti

Little Bird of Auschwitz How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family

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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank — Carol Ann Lee

The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

Themes: Holocaust • Modern • 20th Century

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