THE HOLOCAUST: HISTORY & HEROES – NONFICTION

Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII chronicles the improbable relationship between fallen Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and ambitious U.S. Army physician Douglas Kelley, which becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II. In The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising, Holocaust historian Elizabeth Hyman shines a long overdue spotlight on Zivia Lubetkin, Vladka Meed, Dr. Idina “Inka” Blady-Schweiger, Tema Schneiderman, and Tossia Altman, who helped lead the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and aided Jews in hiding across occupied Poland and Eastern Europe. From 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews escaped discrimination and violence in Eastern Europe, many sailing from Hamburg, Germany. In The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I, Steven Ujifusa spotlights three titans of business – Jacob Schiff, Albert Ballin, and J.P. Morgan – who, despite their often contradictory goals, made the life-saving exodus possible.

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Buy The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII – El-Hai

Buy The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising – Hyman

Buy The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I – Ujifusa