The Holocaust category by Amsterdam Publishers consist of all books by Holocaust survivors and Second and Third Generation survivors. There is a worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge, which is a growing problem as increasingly fewer Holocaust survivors are alive to share the lessons of the Holocaust. It is Amsterdam Publishers’ ambition to publish as many Holocaust books as possible to further knowledge about the Holocaust, so we never forget. For most of these Foreign Rights are available. All books available through Amazon, IngramSpark, Overdrive.
Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience
The story of a brave Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust in Lithuania and immigrated to the U.S.
More info →Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor and Classmate of Anne Frank
A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit
Anne Frank's classmate Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival in Bergen-Belsen during WW2 when she was imprisoned by the Nazis.
In these compelling, award-winning Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War. Together with her family and millions of other Jews she was imprisoned by the Nazis. At Bergen-Belsen she had a minimum chance of survival.
Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam. They met again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne Frank died. During these emotional encounters, Anne Frank revealed how the Frank family hid in the annex. She talked about their subsequent deportation, her experience in Auschwitz and her plans for her diary after the war.
This honest WW2 story, Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor and Classmate of Anne Frank, describes the hourly battle for survival under the brutal conditions in the camp imposed by the Nazi regime. It continues with her struggle to recover from the effects of starvation and tuberculosis after the war. Gradually she was able to restart her life, marry and build a family.
More info →Among the Reeds – The true story of how a family survived the Holocaust
Fascinating story of a Jewish family's survival during World War II in Eastern Europe, told by pediatrician who researched her own family tree.
The Dead Years Holocaust Memoirs
Joseph Schupack's poignant story offers a unique perspective on the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations. Proceeds benefit YadVashem.
More info →Outcry Holocaust Memoirs
Outcry is an explicit Holocaust survivor story told through the eyes of an old man forcing himself to relive years of intense suffering.
More info →Aufschrei gegen das Vergessen – Erinnerungen an den Holocaust
Ein sehr ergreifendes Buch, was zum nachdenken anregt. Aufschrei gegen das Vergessen ist mitreißend und sehr bewegend.
More info →Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs – A Candle and a Promise
Hank Brodt’s Holocaust memoirs are a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest times in the history of human civilization.
More info →Dead Years Holocaust Memoirs
Large Print Edition in font size 16 of Joseph Schupack's The Dead Years for the visually impaired in the Amsterdam Publishers Large Print Library.
More info →Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs – A Candle and a Promise
Large Print Edition in font size 16 of Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs for visually impaired in Amsterdam Publishers Large Print Library.
More info →Outcry Holocaust Memoirs
Large Print Edition in font-size 16 of Manny Steinberg's Outcry Holocaust Memoirs for the visually impaired and the elderly.
More info →Among the Reeds
Large Print Edition in font size 16 of Among the Reeds for the visually impaired in the Amsterdam Publishers Large Print Library.
More info →Living Among the Dead
Living among the Dead is the award-winning story of one remarkable young woman's journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath.
More info →Sounds from Silence
Having suffered Holocaust trauma as a child, Robert Krell’s childhood is defined by slience and hiding. Sounds from Silence is his courageous attempt to shed light on his own story.
More info →The Butterfly and the Axe
In this tragic tale, a young Ukrainian is ordered to kill Jews in order to be accepted by the Ukrainian Partisans, a dreadful ordeal he carries in secret to his death.
More info →American Wolf
Berlin 1941. 11-year-old Wolf escapes Nazi Germany, attempts to build an American identity, and finally returns to Germany as a young American intelligence officer during the height of the Cold War.
More info →Searching for Home
The story of a child survivor, a Jewish boy who is hidden in the Netherlands during WWII and after the war is returned to his parents at age three. His porcelain psyche is damaged and his closest companions are fear and distrust.
More info →Krisia’s Silence
Staying silent meant staying alive during the six years Krisia spent in ghettos and concentration camps. After surviving the Holocaust, she would remain silent for the rest of her life.
More info →Aftermath
In Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents, Berkovits brings a fresh perspective on the motivations and courage of a family who abandoned their former lives to forge a brighter future.
More info →Bipolar Refugee
The frank account of a Holocaust survivor who fought to create a life freed from her past while battling bipolar disorder.
More info →Wolf. A Story of Hate
Wolf's story is relevant today, as it resonates with decent human beings who are concerned about morally corrupt leadership and self-serving corporations.
More info →Defying Death on the Danube
Defying Death on the Danube is a must-read story of strength, survival, and resiliency.
More info →Flower of Vlora
Covering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a lively, funny and tense first person account of Dr. Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania, and how they were saved from the Nazis by Muslim Albanians.
More info →In the Wake of Madness
A powerfully intimate family portrait, this memoir tells the remarkable story of a Jewish family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and provides a unique window into the Jewish diaspora.
More info →Save My Children
Save My Children by Leon Kleiner will inspire people to never give up on life and to fight to survive against the most improbable odds.
More info →A Doorway to Heroism
The story of Richard Stern, whose photograph - showing a rare Jewish protest in Nazi Germany - hangs in multiple German museums. He was the author's Great Uncle.
More info →Monsters and Miracles
Few methods of examining the roots of antisemitism are more revealing than the study of folklore and stereotypes. This is critical to understanding why the Holocaust happened.
More info →Burying the Ghosts
She escaped Nazi Germany only to have her life torn apart by the woman she saved from the camps: her mother
More info →Heart Songs – A Holocaust Memoir
In Heart Songs - A Holocaust memoir, the author traverses the landscape of memory, love and loss and breathes new life into the stories of her grandmother, aunt and cousin, who perished in the camps, and her father, who escaped and became one of "The Ritchie Boys".
More info →Holocaust Memories
An historical account of escaping genocide as a young Jewish boy in Slovakia, often walking through woods or catching trains with no particular destination in mind, only the will to survive.
More info →My March Through Hell
Reflecting on her miraculous survival of the Holocaust and the Volary death march, Halina Kleiner attributes her survival to a series of lucky occurrences. “You could say that I won the lottery repeatedly until the game finally stopped”.
More info →Beyond Borders
The extraordinary memoir of a living veteran, who was witness and protagonist of World War II and the Diaspora of millions of Jews forced to migrate across borders. It is also the story of a boy growing into a man, whose identity is shaped in wartime, as he ponders on war values, idealism, national identity, migration, first love, and family ties.
More info →Shoes of the Shoah
Heart-wrenching account of a young woman enduring Nazi atrocities in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
More info →The Shoemaker’s Son
The Shoemaker’s Son tells the true story of two Jewish families’ fights to survive under Soviet and Nazi rule and their struggles to rebuild in the aftermath.
More info →Good for a Single Journey
A salient consideration of the Jewish plight during and after WWII.
More info →Before the Beginning and After the End
The Nazis and their collaborators found diverse ways of diminishing, humiliating, and ultimately murdering Jews. Despite the horrors experienced during the Holocaust, survivors could find strength through one another and by finding meaning in their lives, denying the evil madman the victory he desired.
More info →Defiant German – Defiant Jew
Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real time, and shares his story of Jewish resistance in this shocking WW2 diary.
More info →Painful Joy
Two Holocaust Survivors and their multi-dimensional Journey of Love and Loss.
More info →The Glassmaker’s Son
The Glassmaker’s Son sees Peter Kupfer traveling to Germany to reconnect with a history that his father was anxious to forget.
More info →The Engineers
The real story of a family man's unbreakable journey through the Holocaust. A memoir 80 years in the making.
More info →One-Way Ticket from Westerbork
One-Way Ticket from Westerbork is dedicated to those who got onto the trains from Westerbork in the Netherlands. 56,700 deportees were destined for Auschwitz alone.
More info →I Give You My Heart
A masterful rendering of the grim reality of war, blending together both prose and poetry as Wendy Holden tells her story.
More info →Zaidy’s War
Giving back to others becomes a way for this survivor to come to terms with the destruction his family, friends, and people faced.
More info →Winterlight
Winter Light is about a sequence of serendipitous rescues—an emotional rags-to-riches story spanning decades through the milestones of an unexpectedly fortuitous life. At its core stands a little girl buffeted by huge historical events which she didn’t live through personally but which marked her forever.
More info →If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died
This true story highlights in a personal and poignant way how traumas caused by the Nazis can have devasting effects even for survivors who managed to flee this evil regime in time.
More info →The Redhead of Auschwitz
This bestselling Holocaust story is about a redheaded girl from Crasna who was skin and bones but determined to go back home and live.
More info →The Apprentice of Buchenwald
A detailed, beautifully written story about the author's grandfather’s experiences before, during and after the Holocaust.
More info →I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name
Ten gripping stories from the Holocaust, with survivors miraculously defying the odds, emerging to triumph over evil, and ultimately living long and meaningful lives in Florida.
More info →Hidden in Berlin
This deeply saddening yet touching memoir is not only about the horrific Nazi regime and how it affected both Lilo and Ernst, but it is also a memoir to recognize and thank the heroic people who put themselves in danger to save their lives.
More info →From Auschwitz with Love
Fortune and Fate played a role in the miraculous survival of the Jewish sisters at Auschwitz.
More info →Not a Real Enemy
A powerful and true survival story of loss, sacrifice, and the courage to keep fighting for freedom.
More info →Dark Shadows Hover
At age twelve, Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew living in Yugoslavia during World War II, escapes transport to a Croatian death camp, only to be found in the mountains of Bosnia joining Tito’s Partisan resistance movement fighting the Nazis.
More info →The Man Across the River
Zvi Wiesenfeld recounts the experiences of his grandfather Yankel and his family who lived in Czernowitz, Romania during a time of increasing antisemitism and the horrors of WWll which caused irreplaceable loss and suffering. The Man Across the River is an emotional but important story of the inhumane actions that occurred in a country which supported the Nazi regime, and the profound effects it had on its victims.
More info →Sabine’s Odyssey
This is the story of Sabine Fröhlich and the horrific suffering her family was subjected to during the Nazi regime.
More info →The Journey of a Hidden Child
The Journey of a Hidden Child charts the strenuous efforts of a son trying to piece together his family’s story during WWII.
More info →Out from the Shadows
Growing up with an angry father and a distant mother, the author knew they had survived the Holocaust, but without a full understanding of what this really meant, or what it had truly cost them.
More info →Separated Together
Learn about history through the lens of this inspirational, award-winning account that serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.
More info →Creating Beauty from the Abyss
A Search For Artistic Freedom in the Shadow of the Holocaust.
More info →Running for Shelter
A gripping Holocaust story for Young Adults, based on a true survivor story, filled with joy and sorrow.
More info →Spark of Hope
Luba’s story begins in the small village of Ciechanowiec, rural Poland. The author takes us on an emotional journey through her childhood in a tightly knit Jewish community. She goes on to describe the Nazi invasion of Poland and her harrowing years in hiding from the Nazis.
More info →The Story Keeper
A memoir ultimately without a time and ultimately without a place. It’s a story of families across generations of peace and of war, of homes that become lost and hopes that are kept, and a belief in a future that’s better than the present.
More info →Land of Many Bridges
Told with great care and sensitivity, Land of Many Bridges is a second-generation Holocaust memoir that is at its core is about the love within a family.
More info →The Silk Factory
A memoir about the Holocaust, generational trauma, and the process of discovering how little we know.
More info →Hiding in Holland
One of the lucky few! In this riveting memoir, daughter (Shulamit Reinharz) and father (Max Rothschild) join forces to explain how Max resisted and outlived the Nazi-occupation of Holland.
More info →Dancing with my Father
The award-winning memoir of a daughter uncovering the truth about her father's past in WWII Viennna.
More info →The Cello Still Sings
A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of secrets kept, of personal discovery, and of the power of music to heal and to unite.
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