Résultats pour "holocaust" dans Armée et guerre

Hundert Jahre Glücklichsein: Der über hundertjährige Holocaust-Überlebende Eddie Jaku erzählt, wie er in dunkelsten Stunden zu Freude, Dankbarkeit und Hoffnung fand - ein Jahrhundertleben und eine aufrüttelnd-anrührende Geschichte voller Weisheit. Über all die Jahre hinweg habe ich eines gelernt: Das Leben ist schön, wenn du es schön werden lässt. Ich möchte Dir meine Geschichte erzählen. - Eddie Jaku. Eddie Jaku wird 1920 in Leipzig geboren und wächst als Sohn einer jüdischen Mittelschichtsfamilie auf.

Dark skies and barbed wire fences were all Bluma Plaskovsky saw as she stepped down from the train onto the main platform of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the Wehrmacht’s decimation of her hometown, Bluma and what remained of her family were finally put on the long, harsh train ride through inhuman conditions that seemed to last an eternity.

David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a firsthand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel.

Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1944. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called “a dying hell”—the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Inseparable is the vivid account of one family’s struggle to survive the Holocaust.

Als Wilhelm Brasse (1917-2012) mit 22 Jahren in das Stammlager Auschwitz eingeliefert wird, ahnt er nicht, dass er als gelernter Fotograf zum Dokumentarist des Grauens wird. Seine Aufgabe ist es, die KZ-Insassen zu fotografieren. Menschen, die kurze Zeit später in den Gaskammern umgebracht werden. Menschen, die von Josef Mengele zu "medizinischen Forschungsarbeiten" missbraucht werden und denen die Todesangst ins Gesicht geschrieben steht. Hätte er die Arbeit verweigert, wäre das sein eigenes Todesurteil gewesen.

In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz...

In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one man had the courage to fight the odds . . . An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish...

As World War II progressed, the Okma family took six Jewish refugees into their house, hiding them in a secret room behind their fireplace. The youngest daughter, Kieks, joined the Resistance, delivering illegal newspapers, guiding British parachutists around The Hague and preparing safe houses for Special Forces who were dropped in from England.