"Facsimile edition of a handwritten Passover Haggadah from the Gurs detention camp, where Jewish prisoners celebrated the Festival of Freedom behind barbed wire. Mortality was extremely high under inhuman conditions of freezing cold, quicksand, poor food and barracks that hardly provided shelter. In the summer of 1942, most of the inmates were transported to Drancy and from there to Auschwitz.
"The Haggadah as written with paintings by ..."
""[The book] makes several important contributions to scholarship in the field of Holocaust studies...[Readers] will find a wealth of valuable information made accessible to the English reader for the first time." · American Historical Review By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, ..."
"Klara Rosenfeld was born in 1924 in Lwow, Poland. This book chronicles her experiences of life under the Soviets, the German occupation, life in the ghetto, her rescue by an Italian soldier and her escape to a convent in Italy. After the war Klara was located by the Jewish Brigades and united with other Jewish survivors in a 'kibbutz' in Parma. In 1946 she joined more than a thousand survivors on the ship Antzo Sireney, bound for Palest ..."
Fighting for her People Zivia Lubetkin, 1914-1978 by BellaGutterman Hardcover, 534 Pages, Published 2015 by Yad Vashem Publications ISBN-13: 978-965-308-487-2, ISBN: 965-308-487-9
"Standing out in the training communes of the Zionist youth movement Freiheit, in Byten, Poland, Zivia Lubetkin became one of its foremost activists. With the onset of WWII, she turned into a courageous leader in the Zionist underground in the Soviet Union and in the Warsaw ghetto, as well as during the Polish uprisings and in the efforts to rehabilitate the Holocaust survivors."
"Este álbum acompaña al lector por la historia en Yad Vashem. No es tan solo historia de los judíos como de la humanidad toda, a través de historias personales, documentos, obras de arte, películas y millares de fotografías de un mundo que ya no existe. Parte del material se publica aquí por primera vez."
Testimonianza Memoria della Shoah a Yad Vashem (Italian Edition) by BellaGutterman, Avner Shalev Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2013 by Yad Vashem Publications ISBN-13: 978-965-308-433-9, ISBN: 965-308-433-X
"Il complesso museale di Yad Vashem è stato progettato per rispondere alle variabili necessita delle diverse generazioni e per fungere da ponte tra il mondo distrutto e la vita che è ripresa. Il complesso raccoglie le vaste conoscenze accumulate nella ricerca sulla Shoah e colloca in primo piano l'individuo e il mosaico di quella che era la vita ebraica prima della Shoah. Questo volume guida il lettore attraverso gli eventi seguendo lo s ..."
"A facsimile edition of the New Year prayer service handwritten from memory by Hungarian Cantor Naftali Stern on pieces of paper torn from cement sacks in the Wolfsberg Labor Camp, part of the infamous Gross-Rosen slave labor complex, in which conditions were especially difficult. Yet even under the harshest conditions, the Jews continued to celebrate the holy days."
"It may have been the magic touch of the "angel of history," or just a simple miracle, that led to the survival of the rare photographic document, the "Auschwitz Album", to be donated to the photo archives of Yad Vashem. This Album is unique in the entire world. It documents, in about two hundred photos from every direction and from every angle, the process of arrival, the enlisting, the selection, the confiscation of property and the pr ..."
""Dolayisiyla bizim icin ozgurluk saati bile agir ve boguk caldi ve ruhumuzu sevincle ama yine de aci veren bir utanc duygusuyla... ayni zamanda da kederle doldurdu, cunku bunun asla olmamasi gerektigini, artik hicbir seyin gecmisimizi silecek kadar iyi ve saf olamayacagini ve zulûm yaralarinin sonsuza kadar icimizde kalacagini hissediyorduk." Primo Levi, Ateskes"
"Die Geschichte eines TransportsGebundenes BuchDas Auschwitz-Album ist ein einzigartiges Dokument. Es zeigt aus der Perspektive der Täter einen einzigen Tag eines im Mai 1944 in Auschwitz angekommenen Transports ungarischer Juden.Systematisch fotografiert ein SS-Mann die Menschen und hält alle Stationen dieses Tages von der Ankunft über die Selektion bis hin zum Warten vor den Gaskammern emotionslos fest. Diese Aufnahmen stellt er dann z ..."