Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to
supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact
quarantine, and perform triage.

Amid all contemporary discussion of ethical issues in science, many ethicists, historians,
Holocaust specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical decisions.

This is a chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness-a
court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors.

Describes the medical experiments performed by a German doctor on twenty Jewish children taken from Nazi concentration camps.

Gideon Hausner had been Attorney General of Israel for only two weeks when, on May 23, 1960, Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion informed a stunned Knesset that Adolf Eichmann had been found and would be
brought to trial for his crimes against the Jews.

During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their
fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated.

Spanning the period from 1907 to 1933, it offers a unique perspective on the rise of Hitler and the growing
influence of Nazism, and anticipates much of what was to unfold in the ensuing years.

The story of the Nazis, their extravagant spectacles, and their extreme cruelty.

This book is the full-length biography of the Jewish German trial lawyer Hans Litten. During a trial in 1931 of four Nazi Stormtroopers, Hans Litten grilled Adolf Hitler in a merciless three-hour cross examination forcing him into multiple contradictions and left him in a humiliating rage.

In this remarkable social history of the Third Reich, Detlev J. K. Peukert surveys how ordinary citizens
evaded or accepted Nazi policies of repression, terrorism, and racism. Peukert discusses not only the
popular consensus that supported Nazism but also the opposition of the German middle class, working
class, and youth.

Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill-and as much deception-as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space
travel, he had a closer full of secrets that would have shocked his colleagues and millions of admirers if
they had been told during his lifetime.

This study of the Nazi policy of cruelty, sadism, and extermination against the Jews, the Slavs, and other "enemies" of the Germans, is a very important document for several reasons.

This is not a book about Hitler but about the ghost of Hitler. It is an attempt to chart the course of an
evolving myth, one that has its origins in the political history of Europe of half a century ago and is today
enjoying a thriving afterlife within the imagination of much of the Western world.

A compilation of articles about Hitler's personality, the reasons for the Nazi rise to power, and Nazism in theory and practice.

This is the story of the men and women and children who fought during the war, fought from the death
camps, fought from the ghettos-- and of the survivors who continued to fight when the official war was over, and who have never ceased to fight.

How occupied Denmark rose as a nation to save the Danish Jew from Nazi extermination.

In 1933, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker,
accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young
children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting
refugee crisis.

Far from submitting helplessly to their horrific fate, many Jews did fight back. And far from defending
only themselves and their families, they made a substantial contribution to the European Resistance
movements which prepared the ground for the defeat of Nazism.

This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule

A compilation of articles about Hitler's personality, the reasons for the Nazi rise to power, and Nazism in theory and practice.

Germany, 1954. Jozef grows up in a happy household - so it seems. But his father Gerhard still harbours disturbing National Socialism ideals, while mother Catharina is quietly broken. She cannot feign happiness for much longer and rediscovers love elsewhere. Jozef is uncertain and alone. Who is he? Are Gerhard and Catharina his real parents?

London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother's hidden secrets-including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment's walls. Paris, 1942: The Germans may occupy the City of Lights, but glamorous Estelle Allard flourishes in a world separate from the hardships of war. Yet when the Nazis come for her friends, Estelle doesn't hesitate to help those she holds dear, no matter the cost. As she works against the forces intent on destroying her loved ones, she can't know that her actions will have ramifications for generations to come. Set seventy-five years apart, against a perilous and a prosperous Paris, both Estelle and Lia must unearth hidden courage as they navigate the dangers of a changing world, altering history-and their family's futures-forever

In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. Based on Magda's own personal account and completed by her daughter's extensive research, this awe-inspiring story offers us incredible insight into human nature under the pressure to survive, the power of resilience, and the goodness that can shine through even in the most horrific of conditions

In making sense of the disparity between Island and mainland, Inclusion unravels the deep history of the U.S. "sabotage psychosis," dissecting why many continental Americans still believe Japan succeeded at Pearl Harbor because of the unseen hand of Japanese saboteurs. Contrary to the explanation of hysteria as the cause of the internment, Inclusion documents how a high-level plan of mass removal actually was pitched to Hawaiʻi prior to December 7, only to be rejected

The inspiring story of a little girl caught in the vortex of one of history’s great horrors. Plucked from deep rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her family’s eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport—one of the few routes to safety and survival for many children who were to lose their parents in the Holocaust.

A gripping account of Irena Sendler, who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II

As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women―wives, daughters, mothers―encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. By examining women’s unique responses, their incredible resourcefulness, their courage, and their suffering, the book enhances our understanding of the experiences of all Jews during the Nazi era.

The book contains articles by some of the most prominent scholars in the field who tell the stories of women who were humiliated, tortured and murdered; their eternally etched-in-the-memory stories of struggle and survival. This collection of articles is based on two international conferences on women in the Holocaust, held in recent years at Beit Berl Academic College, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel. The editor, Esther Hertzog, is a daughter of Holocaust survivors, who never spoke about the subject at home. She discovered a feminist perspective on the Holocaust at a conference at Oxford she attended, almost by chance, seven years ago. That experience motivated her to speak with her mother and document their conversations in the article that appears herein.