Holocaust Reading
Real accounts of real faith during a long, dark night in recent Jewish history.
The books in this category bespeak unshakable faith and courage during a long and dark chapter in modern Jewish history. To browse our expanded category of Holocaust related reading, click HERE.
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This is a story of travails, survival and renaissance. It is the story of the Muzsayer Rebbetzin and her husband, scions of distinguished rabbinic and chassidic families in Hungary, families that exemplified scholarship, piety, generosity and aristocracy of merit. The Rebbetzin was a niece of the revered Satmar Rav zt”l, and this book also retells the story of his miraculous survival.
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The Unheeded Cry the gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred. By Abraham Fuchs (Author)
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Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl hatched imaginative plans to save millions of lives, but was thwarted by those who should have helped.
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In this book a distinguished Torah scholar-teacher and a colleague-disciple present a sweeping, moving, penetrating analysis of the human struggle to comprehend the Holocaust. It is rooted in the broad sweep of Torah thought, solidly based on a dizzying array of sources, and presented with passion and clarity. Rabbis Yoel Schwartz and Yitzchak Goldstein's collaboration has gained wide respect and acceptance in Israel, where this book originally appeared in Hebrew
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He could save his life and lose his soul.Or he could save his soul and lose his life. This is but one of the many challenges that confronted Maier Cahan, a young man with phenomenal courage and quick wits. And it's just part of his great and exciting story, retold here in a can't-put-down book that reads like a novel - but it really happened. It is a story of danger and survival. The story of a young man who would not surrender to despair - and who emerged triumphant. The radiance of his soul remained intact through the worst of times, and the scars on his body healed with time. Maeir's story happened during the Holocaust, but this is not a "conventional" Holocaust memoir. First of all, it is brilliantly written. Most of all, it is a story of the power of the human spirit, especially the flaming and enduring Jewish spirit that would not give in. This is a timeless book, a study in suspense, a case study in inspiration, and book that will make every reader proud to have come to know Maeir Cahan.
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Incredible accounts of people who demonstrated their best when life was at its worst. Recounts how faith and trust in the Creator sustained Jews under the greatest of pressures to "give up".
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