The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
As Long As I Hope to Live by Claudia Carli
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: near fine
Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, ...Show more
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousand ...Show more
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
$37.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he's still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansk ...Show more
Goodbye Shanghai: A Memoir by Sam Moshinsky
$59.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
During the first seventeen years of his life, spent in Shanghai, Sam experienced wars, changing regimes, different currencies and a variety of schools that reflected the evolving political landscape. In a world obsessed with conflicting nationalism, his family survived as stateless residents, neither su ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: near fine
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: near fine
The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home. The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror ...Show more
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone ...Show more
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
House of Glass - The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ... I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece' Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment ...Show more
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters w ...Show more
Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy by Ami Ayalon; Anthony David (As told to); Dennis Ross (Foreword by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
A highly decorated Israeli military officer, leader, and former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet, sees the light on what his country must do to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspe ...Show more