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"The establishment and subsequent liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience, yet, remarkably, a full history of the ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts, and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English." "In this bookthe authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, detailing the daily experience of its thousands and thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation in 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the structure of the Judenrat. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka in July 1942 and the famous uprising in April 1943. Detailed original maps identify the locations of businesses, social institutions, medical facilities, and more, while biographical notes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography complete this masterful work of restoration."--BOOK JACKET.

Memoires van de Amerikaanse oud-minister van Buitenlandse Zaken over haar leven na haar ambtsperiode (1997-2001) onder president Clinton.

De uitvindingen van Nikola Tesla blijken onderdeel te zijn van één grote uitvinding. Nick probeert de verkochte uitvindingen terug te krijgen, maar het Accelerati-genootschap zit hem op de hielen. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Bloemlezing van polemische teksten van westerse filosofen, van Plato tot Sartre.

A devastating, day-by-day record of life in the second-largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi Europe--a community that was reduced from 163,177 people in 1941 to 877 by 1944. Compiled by inhabitants of the ghetto and illustrated with more than seventy haunting photographs, the Chronicle is a document unparalleled among writings on the Holocaust.
"A remarkable piece of testimony. To read it is to pay the dead the small tribute of remembrance, and to be devastated by a picture of a particular and terrible hell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto tears at the mind and heart and leaves a dark and numbing rage in the center of the soul."--Chaim Potok, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Fascinating, disturbing."--Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review
" Dobroszycki] has done a major service not only to historians and students of the Holocaust, but to all those, both Jews and non-Jews, who are interested in how a tyrannical regime can exploit, starve, and deceive tens of thousands of intelligent, articulate people in time of war."--Martin Gilbert, The New York Review of Books
"Sober yet unforgettably vivid."--S.S. Prawer, Times Literary Supplement
"A milestone in Holocaust studies. Its wealth of information and accuracy, and the systematic manner in which it was compiled, makes in an unequalled source on the history of the destruction of European Jewry."--Alexander Zvielli, The Jerusalem Post Magazine
"Well worth reading as a record of extremes of human experience."--Majorie Meehan, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry
"Dr. Dobroszycki is a survivor of the ghetto. He is also a trained historian with a sophisticated, finely honed mind. No one knows as much about these records as he does. No one understands them better."--Raul Hilberg
Lucjan Dobroszycki is a historian at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yeshiva University.

Als een 12-jarige jongen het strenge regime van een katholiek weeshuis ontvlucht, komt hij in de criminaliteit terecht.

The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became "non-persons." As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be given of the Spanish Holocaust-ranging from judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. The story of the victims of Franco's reign of terror is framed by the activities of four key men-General Mola, Quiepo de Llano, Major Vallejo Najera, and Captain Don Gonzalo Aguilera-whose dogma of eugenics, terrorization, domination, and mind control horrifyingly mirror the fascism of Italy and Germany.Evoking such classics as Gulag and The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds crucial light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history.

Als Gerard Kremer in 1941 huismeester wordt van een kantoorpand aan de Westermarkt 2 (Huize Labor) in Amsterdam, om de hoek van wat we nu kennen als het Achterhuis, heeft hij nog geen idee welke rol hij zal gaan spelen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Door omstandigheden en omdat hij zijn ogen niet wil sluiten voor wat er gebeurt, belandt hij langzamerhand in het verzet. Als in de daaropvolgende periode de Wehrmacht een deel van het pand bezet houdt voor geheime activiteiten en Gerard daarbij nog besluit Joodse onderduikers te huisvesten, speelt hij gevaarlijk spel. Dat wordt hem bijna fataal.0Een waargebeurd verhaal over "De kruidenier van de Westermarkt", die door zijn unieke positie illegaal voedsel kon verstrekken aan de omgeving van het Achterhuis. 0Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen. Het werpt tevens een geheel nieuw licht op het verraad van het Achterhui.

From Keith Lowe, author of the criticall acclaimed Inferno comes an 'extraordinary, disturbing and powerful' (Daily Mail) new history, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II.The Second World War left Europe in chaos. Landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people killed. Across most of the continent, the institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport,local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and the European population hovered on the brink of starvation.In this groundbreaking study of the years that followed the war, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality and the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. Based on original documents, interviews and scholarly literature in eight different languages, Savage Continent is a window on the brief, chaotic period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. 'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Excellent', Independent 'Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind', ScotsmanKeith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.

Bloemlezing met spannende korte verhalen van 53 verschillende Nederlandstalige auteurs.

Analytische annotatie. Twee novellen.

Geschiedenis van de positie van en de zorg voor werkneemsters in de Philipsfabrieken vanaf 1891.

De held Odysseus uit de Griekse Oudheid blijkt een mens met gebreken.

Autobiografisch relaas van een jeugd voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog in het hoogontwikkelde Groot-Hongaarse Rijk en van verblijven daarna in Frankfurt, Parijs en Londen.

Dirk De Wachter toont aan hoe weinig verschil er is tussen patiënten en nietpatiënten. Hoe psychiatrie de spiegel is van de wereld waarin we leven. - Zijn we allemaal ziek? - Moeten we de hele wereld genezen? - En vooral: was het vroeger allemaal beter? Tegenwoordig is iedereen borderline: vroeger was borderline onbekend, nu is het de meest gehanteerde diagnose. Een toegankelijk boek met een maatschappijkritische visie geïnspireerd door Michel Houllebecq.

Herinneringen aan 1944-1948, de laatste vier jaar die de auteur (1900-1989) in zijn vaderland Hongarije doorbracht.

Verhandeling over de politieke rol van Lord Londonderry voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Visie van een Britse journalist op het Nederlandse voetbal.

De Amerikaanse schrijfster van detectiveromans (geb. 1921) beschrijft haar werkwijze in het algemeen en bij het schrijven van haar roman: The glass cell.

"Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis" is een historische reconstructie van het eerste deel van zijn leven. Ze baande zich een weg door alle rookgordijnen die in de loop van de tijd rond Bernhard zijn opgetrokken en reisde door de geschiedenis van Europa, op zoek naar de verloren wereld waaruit hij voortkwam en naar de jongen die hij ooit was.

Het leven van een Vlaamse jongen in de jaren 1939-1947, waarin tevens een beeld wordt gegeven van het leven in Vlaanderen in een periode van oorlog, collaboratie en strijd om het overleven.

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The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).

“Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns

“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.

“A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).