Jewish Studies

The Holocaust

Inside a Gestapo Prison: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942–1944

Edited and translated by Irene Tomaszewski

A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

And Life Is Changed Forever: Holocaust Childhoods Remembered

Edited by Martin Ira Glassner and Robert Krell

Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of children who lived through it, this collection offers an inspiring assortment of perspectives on survival.

Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925–1945—A Memoir

Gilbert Michlin  •  Translated by Leon Lewis

English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.

Facing the Glass Booth: The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Haim Gouri

A riveting account of the Adolph Eichmann trial by an award-winning journalist and writer who covered the 1961 event.

Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust

Edited by Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg

An innovative contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, this set of interdisciplinary essays undertakes a gendered analysis of both Jewish and non-Jewish women as perpetrators, victims, rescuers, survivors, and postwar artists.

Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin

Barbara Lovenheim

Available for the first time in an American English version, Survival in the Shadows is the inspiring and acclaimed account of seven Jews and their survival against all odds while inside Nazi Berlin.