Ergebnis für "holocaust" in Klassiker

Nach Ende des Krieges herrscht in Deutschland Schweigen, das Grauen der Konzentrationslager ist ein unbequemes Thema...

Ein Tagebuch, eigenhändig verfasst im jugendlichen Alter und dennoch ein Stück Weltliteratur - wer könnte das von sich behaupten? Nur jemand, der unter besonderen Umständen lebt und sie in aller Eindringlichkeit zu schildern weiß. Gut zwei Jahre nach Beendigung des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist das Buch erschienen, was nicht bedeutet, dass die Autorin ihn überlebt hätte. Das galt nur für ihren Vater, der vor dem Zugriff gerettete Aufzeichnungen an eine Öffentlichkeit weitergab, die massives Interesse daran zeigte.

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns...

Auf dem Weg zum wöchentlichen Rommétreff mit ihrer Schwester wird die sechzigjährige Elsa Tabori von den Nazis aufgegriffen und zusammen mit 4.000 anderen Juden in einen Viehwaggon Richtung Auschwitz gesteckt. Es ist die Courage, die Elsa das Leben rettet. Die Mutter des Autors trifft während ihrer skurrilen Deportation auf trottelige Hilfspolizisten, treudoofe Nazischergen und einen vegetarischen Philanthropen, bis sie schließlich - mit einem Tag Verspätung - doch noch zum Romméspiel erscheint.

The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books’ bestselling title, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It is now August 1933, and the deadly fervour of Hitler’s Nazi regime continues to spread across Germany. Michael Reader, a young Englishman, decides to visit his friends the...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns...

In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo.

A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany In this searing epistolary novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a...

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering...

"For busy, harried or distractible readers who have the time and energy only to skim the opening paragraph of a review, I'll say this as quickly and clearly as possible: The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key are masterpieces, and Hans Keilson is a genius..." —Francine Prose, The...

This unforgettable, very short fictional memoir relates the incredible suffering of Gershon and his Jewish family in Europe. The inspirational short, historical fiction story about a survivor, tells the remarkable courage and determination during his struggle to survive. With the onset of World War II, Gershon’s life changes completely. His loving family understands that their happiness has come to a brutal end when forced out of their home and into a ghetto. They have no idea what awaits them, but they know that doing nothing is not an option.