Search Results: Militaria / Holocaust from Ainsworth Books

Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1580620604 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, stated first.; B&W Illustrations; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 298 pages; "During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were deported from the Balkan states to labor and extermination camps in Germany and Poland. Bulgaria, with a Jewish population of only 50,000, sided with Hitler's government early on, its king having become convinced that only with German aid could he successfully press his territorial claims to land lost to Greece and Romania. Yet, in the face of constant German demands, Bulgaria's government refused to deport the nation's Jewish citizens. Instead, as the Bulgarian-born Israeli politician Michael Bar-Zohar writes in this fine contribution to Holocaust studies, "the Bulgarian Jews became the only Jewish community in the Nazi sphere of influence whose number… Read More

New York: Verso. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 1781680787 . Only slight wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1 inches; 168 pages; From the front DJ flap: "Boy 30529 tells the story of a child who at the age of twelve lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a respectable Czech family, Felix's early years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938, his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late, and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers." .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 077109583X . Gift notation and glue remnants on front free end paper ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright, solid book.; 8.74 X 5.75 X 0.98 inches; 339 pages; "On 21 July 1942, the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew. Life for fifteen-year-old Clara Kramer would never be the same. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, three families found perilous refuge in a hand-dug cellar. Hers was one of them.Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mrs. Beck had been the families’ maid. Mr. Beck was alcoholic and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life to keep his charges safe. But survival under his protection proved to be anything but predictable. Whether it was his nightly drinking sessions with officers of the SS in the room just above or his torrid affair with one of the hiding women, it seemed that Clara and the others often had… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 031338391X . Light creasing head of spine ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine dustjacket. DJ in mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Photographs; 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.8 inches; 184 pages; "...tells the story of the only secret organization in occupied Europe set up for the sole purpose of saving Jews. The first book on the subject in English, it details the danger and complexity behind Zegota rescue attempts, clarifying the relationship of the Germans, who had total control; the Poles, who were relegated to sub-human status and treated as slave labor; and the Jews, designated nonhuman and collectively condemned to death. Illuminating the moral dilemmas that arose as one life was pitted against another under the lawless apartheid conditions created by the Nazis, Code Name: Zegota explores the critical situation in occupied Poland and the personalities that responded to desperate… Read More

New York: Pegasus. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 1605986925 . Date written in small letters top front free end paper ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Photographs; 9.10 X 6.40 X 1.30 inches; 323 pages; "The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War IINobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771045573 . Only slight wear to book and dust jacket. ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 8.35 X 5.59 X 0.94 inches; 228 pages; "Part detective story, part biography, this is the fascinating tale of Hilmar and Odette, both born illegitimately in Germany before the Second World War, both half-Jewish, both brought up by “Aryan” families.Eric Koch, having discovered that his well-to-do family has two skeletons in the closet (Odette is his half-sister and Hilmar is his step-cousin), embarks on a search into his family history and into the very different fates of these two “Half-Jews” who grew into adults as the Nazi party came to power.Hilmar’s adoptive mother discovers he is a Jew, and (despite his being a dutiful, even loving, son) when the opportunity arises denounces him to the Gestapo. Hilmar’s… Read More

Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550545957 . Boards and DJ show very light shelf wear. 1 inch closed tear top front of DJ. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.9 inches; 480 pages; "In 1996, prominent Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert embarked on a fourteen-day journey into the past with a group of his graduate students from University College, London. Their destination? Places where the terrible events of the Holocaust had left their mark in Europe. From the railway lines near Auschwitz to the site of Oskar Schindler’s heroic efforts in Cracow, Poland, Holocaust Journey features intimate personal meditations from one of our greatest modern historians, and is supported by wartime documents, letters, and diaries—as well as over fifty photographs and maps by the author—all of which help interweave Gilbert’s trip with his… Read More

Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Pub Co. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802826865 . Only slight wear top of spine. ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 9.34 X 6.56 X 1.10 inches; 277 pages; "One of the most dramatic untold stories of Christian rescue of Jewish children during the Holocaust, this book is at the same time a totally frank account of the life and feelings of a teenage girl struggling to survive the Holocaust on her own--and of how the effects of that experiences reverberated through her life and on into the lives of her descendants. No matter how or why one reads it, this is a story of survival that will not be soon forgotten." .

Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. Only light wear to faded blue card covers. Small stain top page edges by spine ; A tight solid book. Does not include Parts 2 & 3 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; A series of studies covering the history of the various concentration camps and their effects on the people who passed through their gates. This book deals specifically with the Camp Hospital at Auschwitz and gives a number of personal accounts of the experiences of various individuals. .

Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. Only light wear to faded blue card covers. ; A tight solid book. Does not include Part 1 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages; A series of studies covering the history of the various concentration camps and their effects on the people who passed through their gates. This book deals specifically with the medical experiments. Many of the 'doctors' are identified and their eventual punishments that they received after the trials. .

Warsaw: International Auschwitz Committee. Very Good+. 1971. Softcover. Spine faded, only light wear to blue card covers. ; A tight solid book. Does not incude Part 2 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; A series of studies covering the history of the various concentration camps and their effects on the people who passed through their gates .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771013132 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, small corner bump and light moisture mark on bottom front pastedown, DJ has transferred moisture mark same area, does not bleed through to front. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.6 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 306 pages; "The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris — about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the “boy with the grey eyes,” The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words:… Read More

Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1553652223 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 400 pages; "In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957." .

Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0896047067 . DJ has minor creasing and short tear on top back. Dedication page and Contents page are creased. ; A bright, solid book.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 164 pages; A publication of the conference proceedings in Washington in January 2000 regarding the experiences of displaced Jews after the end of World War II. .

Free Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0029066603 . Price clipped dust jacket shows general edge wear, dime size chip top front panel and tear with creasing bottom back panel. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.40 X 7.60 X 1.10 inches; 240 pages; Many prisoners in the death camps used various forms of art to ease the horror of their surroundings. Artwork has been gathered from personal and museum collections to stand as a witness to their experiences. .

Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9652295299 . Glossy pictorial paper covered boards show some bruising top of spine. Previous dealers stamp on front pastedown. ; A bright, solid book.; 9.3 X 6.9 X 1.0 inches; 230 pages; "On March 9, 1942, the Jewish community of Mielec, Poland, ceased to exist. The Nazis dismantled the entire town in a single day, executing the elderly, deporting the able-bodied for slave labor, and transporting the rest to the Lublin district, where they were later murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. The Germans had taken over a Polish aircraft factory on the outskirts of Mielec, where they manufactured Heinkel 111 bomber planes for the Nazi war machine. Following the March 9, 1942, deportation, the factory complex became part of the Mielec Nazi slave labor camp, later a concentration camp. Using rare photographs and records, Nazi documents, witness statements, survivor interviews,… Read More

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1982. 1st. Hardcover. 0919630316 . Short closed tear top front panel of DJ, slight general wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Photographs; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 336 pages; Canada, the compassionate, blackened its own name before, during and after WWII. Many thousands of refugees applied for refugee status and were refused. Only 5000 were admitted during the period from 1933-1948. Abella and cowriter Harold Troper analyze the circumstances .

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385487630 . Only slight wear; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped, bright, solid book ; B&W Photographs; 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.2 Inches; 325 pages; It was the largest organised robbery in history - the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied and Neutral. .... details the full scope of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art, and property that began in Germany with the rise of Hitler, continued through the Holocaust and Occupation of Europe and culminated in a post-war cloaking campaign that stretched from Scandinavia to the Balkans. Chesnoff, who was among the first newsmen to break the story that Swiss banks were still hoarding the assets of Holocaust victims, travelled to eleven countries to research this compelling story of human greed. With direct access to hitherto classified files and through exclusive interviews… Read More