“Where is God?” Sam Althaus chronicles his eye witness experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.  He asked that question while he was confined to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but he now understands that the atrocities were committed by evil people who were exercising their God-given free will to choose behavior.  

We learn about his suffering. We also learn about the rare SS Officer who actually helped the prisoners.  Each person’s attitude was crucial for survival.  Mr. Althaus states that “The agony was just too much to handle. You couldn’t change the circumstances but you could change how you reacted to the circumstances”.  In the words of Mr. Althaus, “It’s amazing that we managed to live”. 

Not only did he survive, he also thrived.  This writer has had the privilege of eating outstanding food at the Althaus Delicatessen.  Mr. Althaus also won victory over the Nazis by getting married and having a family of his own.  He was not exterminated; he did his part in assuring the continuation of the Jewish people.

Mark Nataupsky, Ph.D.
Founder and President, Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc.
and this Holocaust Teacher Resource Center

The Last Album
By Ann Weiss

Ann Weiss visited Auschwitz in 1986.  She was taken into a room that contained hundreds of family photographs that were intended for the same destruction as meted to the people in the pictures.  "The Last Album" preserves both the images and the stories of the people whose lives are represented in that cache of photographs.  "The Last Album" is a tribute to life as it existed in Europe before the Holocaust.

To Life: Stories of Courage and Survival
Told by Hampton Roads Holocaust Survivors, Liberators and Rescuers

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military
By Bryan Mark Rigg

Did Hitler personally approve of some Jewish men in the German army? That question was researched and then documented by Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg in his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers." Rigg also is part of the faculty for American Military University and he teaches Holocaust courses online.



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A Conspiracy of Indifference
The Raoul Wallenberg Story

Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime
1938-1945

This book contains a series of essays about the life and fate of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany. The book begins with Henry Friedlander's "Categories of Concentration Camp Prisoners." A web site (http://www.edition-temmen.com/) includes the detailed table of contents and other information like the Forward, a Time Table, and ordering information. This book is not available for purchase directly from any other Internet web sites.

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The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour
By David Kranzler

Syracuse University Press

This book reveals the previously unknown story of one of the greatest single rescue efforts during the Holocaust -- the rescue of more than 140,000 Jews of Budapest.

Winner of the 1998 Egit Prize (Histadrut) for the Best Manuscript on the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust Encyclopedia
Walter Laqueur, Editor
Judith Taylor Baumenl, Associate Editor

This important project provides both a reflective overview of the subject and an abundance of detail con-cerning major events, policy decisions, cities, and individuals associated with the Holocaust. Up-to-date and designed for easy use, the Encyclopedia presents thoughtful essays by many leading scholars in the field.

A general understanding of Hitler and Nazism is now taught at the high school level in American schools. But at a distance of five and a half decades, today's students and tomorrow's scholars will need a great deal of empathy, imagination, and information as they strive to understand the murder of millions that scarred the course of human affairs. Yale University Press is proud to bring forward this major scholarly undertaking, which will prove an essential tool for years to come for all readers in search of meaningful confrontation with history.

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Rethinking the Holocaust
by Yehuda Bauer

Contemplating the Holocaust
by Bernard H. Rosenberg and Chaim Z. Rozwaski

This book contains a series of essays on a wide variety of topics: from a survivor's very personal reflections and those of a son of survivors; to the nature of the media's response during the Shoah (Holocaust); and the quest for the meaning of the tragedy of life. The authors discuss the silence of the world during the war years, the lessons of the Shoah, the people died, the nature of Jewish resistance, and the Jews who survived the Shoah but are lost to the Jewish people.

Theological and Halakhic Reflections on the Holocaust
Edited by Bernhard H. Rosenberg
Co-edited by Fred Heuman

This collection of articles represents in great measure the theological response of centrist Jewish Orthodoxy a generation after the Holocaust, and represents a rejection of the "God's judgment theory." The book contains a wealth of material, some of them classic pieces long unavailable and many written for this volume by distinguished Jewish Orthodox thinkers.

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Rekindling the Flame
American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry,
1944-1948
Alex Grobman
Permission to publish by Alex Grobman

The author, Dr. Alex Grobman, is the former director of both the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies. He is president of the Brenn Institute, co-author of Denying History, editor of Defense of the Survivors: The Letters and Documents of Oscar A. Mintzer AJDC Legal Advisor, Germany, 1945-46, and Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust.

Rekindling the Flame is a critical and controversial study that examines not only the adequacy of the response by the US government and military to the Holocaust survivors, but also the American Jewish response. The book is a study of American Jewish chaplains in displaced persons' camps after WW II. Those chaplains were among the first liberators to meet the Holocaust survivors and to send reports about their findings. As a chronicle of the chaplains' activities, the book presents new information about a relatively neglected subject.

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Hiding Places:
A Father and His Sons
Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust
by Daniel Asa Rose
Published by Simon & Schuster

PACK OF THIEVES
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews
and Committed the Greatest Theft in History

by Richard Z. Chesnoff
Published by Doubleday Books
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