Amsterdam Publishers

A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spiritIn these compelling, award-winning Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of...

This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are...

A powerful notebook laced with raw Holocaust memoriesShe lived through horror and survived to tell the stories of those less fortunate...Poland, 1943. Tragically orphaned Janina Hescheles recited poetry every night against the backdrop of Janowski...

Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the...

In her luminous and engrossing memoir, award-winning writer and teacher, Natalie Hess, takes us from a sheltered childhood in a small town in Poland, into, through, and after the horrors of the Holocaust.When her parents are rounded up and perish in...

Henny had just graduated from high school when the Germans invaded Lithuania. Her care-free life rapidly changed from a life of privilege to a living hell. Simply because she was Jewish.The horrors inflicted upon the Jews of Kovno, taken place in the...

A Jewish teenager. Four concentration camps. His family and home lost forever. This is his unforgettable story of survival.When the Nazis entered Poland in September 1939, Joseph lost his entire family and his Hevra. They were murdered because they...

How is the baton of experience passed from generation to generation? What is transmitted? Ardyn Halter explores the legacy of his late father Roman Halter's experiences of the Holocaust. What is received by the "Second Generation" and how can it be...

Louis and Jenni Böhm were a middle-class Jewish couple who established a thriving business and raised a family in a small country town in Upper Silesia in 1885. The book follows the fortunes of the family over a period of 70 years, during which their...

Anklage gegen den Wahnsinn des AntisemitismusVierzig Jahre danach erinnert sich ein in Polen aufgewachsener Jude an die Jahre der Verfolgung. Er beschreibt das Leben in Radzyn, einer typisch jüdischen Stetl-Gemeinschaft im damaligen polnischen...

Fascinating look into the life of a tortured GeniusUsing Van Gogh's letters as a primary source, the author discusses the artist's life, his approach to his work and his mental illness. The letters vividly show the artist's life was no bed of roses....