Peter Anderson and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco ,*Franco's Famine: Malnutrition, Disease and Starvation in Post-Civil War Spain*. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Send us Fan Mail In the 1940s, Spain experienced a devastating famine that claimed the lives of at least 200,000 people due to hunger and malnutrition-related illnesses. This book provides a political...
29 Jan 59min
Daria Mattingly and John Vsetecka, eds., *The Holodomor in Global Perspective: How the Famine in Ukraine Shaped the World*. Hannover, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2025.
Send us Fan Mail Between 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainians were subjected to enforced starvation. This sorrowful famine, now referred to as the Holodomor, is recognized as one of the most atrocio...
23 Jan 1h 29min
Izabela Kazejak, *Jews in Post-War Wrocław and L’Viv: Official Policies and Local Responses in Comparative Perspective, 1945-1970s*. Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2023.
Send us Fan Mail This book examines the revival of Jewish communities in two post-war European cities – Wrocław (WOs-VOW), Breslau, which changed from Germany to Poland in 1945, and L'viv, which trans...
23 Jan 43min
Michael Halperin, *Out of the Storm: Holocaust to Hope*. Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2025.
Send us Fan Mail This memoir recounts the story of Alex and Mela Roslan, a typical yet brave Polish family, who assist Jewish brothers in fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto. They develop a strong relationship ...
8 Jan 1h 10min
Alexa Morris and Benjamin Parket, *The Courtyard: A Memoir.* Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam Publishers, 2025.
Send us Fan Mail This memoir about the Holocaust shows how people can be good even when faced with terrible evil. It's a powerful story of bravery and kindness. This book -- The Courtyard -- reminds u...
6 Jan 44min
Istvan Pal Adam, *Budapest Building Managers and the Holocaust in Hungary*. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Send us Fan Mail This is the first book, at least within the Hungarian context, that narrates the experiences of a larger group of ordinary individuals during the Holocaust. There were approximately 2...
6 Jan 54min
Gabriel Laufer, ed. and trans., *A Voice from the Lost Town of Trochenbrod: A Translation of Yisrael Beider’s Poems, Essays and Letters*. Gabriel Laufer, Andrew Cassel and Ellen Cassedy, trans. Newton, MA: Cherry Orchard Books, 2025.
Send us Fan Mail The obliteration of Trochenbrod, the sole Jewish town outside of Israel, stands as a largely neglected tragedy of the Holocaust. This book gathers a remarkable array of poems, essays,...
1 Jan 1h 4min
Laszlo Borhi, *Survival Under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes*. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2024.
Send us Fan Mail This book--*Survival Under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes*--presents a complex view of how people responded to government abuse of power during three horr...
23 Dec 20251h 41min
