Joseph Mengele’s answer to Roma, the author, and to millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Written to fulfill a promise made in the darkest moment of human history, this simple and eloquent story is unique in that it spans the geography of the Nazi’s Final Solution. Rachel (Roma in Polish), the teenage daughter of a journalist, relays to us the experiences of a schoolgirl and her classmates under the German occupied Warsaw Ghetto. She is a witness and participant in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. After the Nazis smoke her out of hiding, she bravely faces the reality of the gas chambers and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Originally written in Polish, this is an eloquent and unforgettable account of survival.

    This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and German Men and Women, a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism.Volume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity--such as "The Storyteller" and "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, and Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work.

    ""This is Berlin"" gathers together two-and-a-half years worth of his daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War II, just as America and the world heard them. Here is a vivid, compelling, and urgent narrative, one of the great first-hand documents of the Second World War. An introduction by noted historian John Keegan and a preface by Shirer's daughter, Inga Shirer Dean, put Shirer's life and work into context. "It would be almost impossible to overstate the importance of William L. Shirer's broadcasts from Germany . . . Mr. Shirer's descriptions . . . read as well as they were heard 60 years ago." ("Dallas Morning News") "Shirer's broadcasts . . . are models of eloquence and subterfuge . . . any reader will find it hard to put down." ("Publishers Weekly," starred review) "His broadcasts . . . have an enduring freshness." ("Sunday Times")

    For 14-year-old evacuee Billy, the US invasion is heaven sent, but a concealed past threatens this new happiness.

    When Bill disappears in The River of Adventure, the children journey down a river through ancient desert lands to find him. Their search leads them to an ancient temple and a terrifying encounter.

    Widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on Schulz, Ficowski reconstructs the author's life story and evokes the fictional vision of his best-known works, The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Including many of Schulz's paintings and letters as well as new information on the Mossad's removal of Schulz's murals from Poland in 2001, this book will stand for years to come as the definitive account of the author's tragic life. Developed for publication by The Jewish Heritage Project's International Initiative for Literature of the Holocaust.

    Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity.   And yet there is no self-pity here, no bitterness, only an unfailing regard for the truth. Gallego’s story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child’s growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them.

    After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the vast mass of material and revised much of what he included, resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal spirit.More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious, witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and obsessed with death.

    This book presents a series of letters which offer an insight into the life of this woman under persecution in the Nazi regime.

    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.

    In this beautifully written biographical work, Paul Preston tells the forgotten war stories of four exceptional women whose lives were starkly altered by the war.The portraits in this provocative, yet objective volume mirror the war itself, with the left pitted against the right. On the left side are Margarita Neken, the revolutionary feminist, writer, and politician; and Nan Green, the communist nurse who left her children behind in England to fight against fascism alongside her husband in the International Brigades. On the right side are Mercedes Sanz Bachiller, the most powerful woman in the Francoist zone; and Priscilla Scott-Ellis, the wealthy English socialite who, lured to Spain by love, stayed on to help the fascist war effort as a nurse on the front lines.

    His father was German, his mother Czech of partly Jewish origin. Martin was an indifferent student, except for foreign languages, preferring to spend his time with friends, visiting night clubs, playing cards and in female company. He loved the city, the old buildings, and its history. In short, his life was one of pleasant irresponsibility until the Nazis annexed his town of birth and the border region into the German Reich. Life got even more complicated when they marched into Prague and the rest of Bohemia in March 1939. He was twenty then. Prague Winter is a memoir dealing with the life of a young man who gets caught in the cogwheels of the Prague Gestapo machine. It reads like a gripping adventure novel, except for the description of horror scenes. Martin's story explains the step by step tightening of the screw of Nazi terror. His three unsuccessful attempts to flee from Hitler's clutches end in the dreaded Small Fortress prison of Terezin. The story begins with the trial of an SS guard, a mass murderer, whom Martin encountered during his stay in the prison. The next chapters describe Martin's amusing activities before and at the beginning of WWII. But slowly and inexorably things change for the worse. Families of friends are first hit. One of his closest friends is deported. The father of another is killed in the Mauthausen concentration camp. The father of the third is arrested one night and executed the next day. Martin is arrested at work. He suspects it is for his association with an underground organization, but theGestapo releases him the same day. Some members of his organization are arrested and executed. At the same time he is called up to be sent to Germany for forced labor. He tries to flee, but is caught at the border with Switzerland and brought back to Prague to face interrogations. But he escapes from the prisoner transport and goes into hiding. In the end he is betrayed by an informer and again arrested. Escaped prisoners are usually killed after recapture. However, he is brought back to Prague for more interrogations by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the frightful Small Fortress prison to be worked to death. He falls sick; the end is fast approaching . But then a miracle happens. He is suddenly transferred to a cushy job. Why? He doesn't know. His sister even gets permission to visit him, an unheard of privilege. The end of war is approaching. He is spared from the last murderous excesses of the SS guards. He doesn't get infected by the raging typhus epidemic and is given a puzzling message by the second highest prison official just before the arrival of the Red Army. Martin returns to Prague just in time to witness the excesses of the street mobs against the remaining Germans and their collaborators. He realizes with disgust that base instincts are not characteristic of only one nation. Eventually, some months after the end of the war he discovers the background of the riddle of why he was rescued from the unmerciful fate of an individual whose future could have only been death. Martin is unhappy with the postwar political events in the country. He fears a Communist takeover and wangles an assignment as correspondent for the press agency in which he works inorder to defect. But before he can arrange it, he is recalled back to Prague just in time for the Communist putsch. He decides without delay to escape on skis over the mountains and at last reaches the West for good. This book is not simply an autobiography. Martin, the realist with a pronounced sense of humor, dissects the history of those dark years in which he was an involuntary participant, often in the perspective of his own experience, and on occasion simply as an observer. His style is factual and dry avoiding sentimentality. It is a story of an apolitical, fun-loving person who is grabbed out of his self-made niche and almost loses his life.