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Holocaust Books in the Library
Holocaust : the Events and Their Impact on Real PeopleCall Number: 940.5318 WPPISBN: 9781405313308
Documenting WWII : The HolocaustCall Number: 940.5318 TONISBN: 9780750251211
The HolocaustCall Number: 940.5318 GRAISBN: 9780750226011
Questioning History : The HolocaustCall Number: 940.5318 LEVISBN: 9780750240840
AuschwitzCall Number: 940.5318 LAWISBN: 9780749644161
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Holocaust (Data Base Link)
- The Holocaust Historically, the English word holocaust referred to a sacrificial offering that was completed when burned to ashes; it seemed an appropriate term to describe the murder of 6 million Jews, many of whose bodies were burned completely in the death camp crematoriums. The Hebrew word shoah simply means "destruction" or "annihilation," a literal description of the fate of European Jewry during Hitler's reign of terror. The Holocaust ultimately culminated in the murder of approximately 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children. This number represented one-third of the world's Jewish population. The Jews who perished in the Holocaust were not simply casualties of war. They were systematically annihilated, by what Hitler and the Nazi regime called the Final Solution, or Endlosung.
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored prosecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, including Gypsies, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.
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Holocaust Books in the Library
The Holocaust by
The annihilation of Jews during WWII is perhaps the most widely known genocide in world history. (In fact, the term genocide was coined in the early 1940s as a result of the systematic killings of Jews during WWII.) This book takes a close look at this particular period of history, from Hitler s rise to power and the growth of anti-Semitism to the deportation and extermination of the Jews. It also discusses the end of the war, the Nuremberg trials, difficulties that survivors faced, and how the Holocaust continues to affect us today.
ISBN: 9781404218215Publication Date: 2008-08-01
The Holocaust by
Discusses Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews, life in the camps, resistance of the prisoners, and the topics of freedom, justice, and the remembrance of those who died.
ISBN: 9780737713824Publication Date: 2002-11-08
The Holocaust by
An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis, stands out as one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. Peter Neville surveys the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and examines the influence of anti-Semitic ideas on the Nazi Party. The author explores the tensions between the extermination programme and the German war economy; the development of the Jewish resistance; and the response of the Allies to the Holocaust. The final chapters consider of the Holocaust denial and assess the legacy of the Holocaust to the modern world. The Holocaust contains a selection of primary and secondary sources.
ISBN: 9780521595018Publication Date: 1999-06-24
