New Arrivals

These are some recent additions to the Holocaust Center's library:

	Rutka's Notebook Rutka Laskier, a young girl from Bedzin, Poland, kept a diary for a few months in 1943. The outside world slowly closed down on her, but these few sheets of paper - some 60 handwritten pages in a notebook - reflect the entire universe of an adolescent Jewish girl in the shadow of death. The last entry is from 24 April 1943. Rutka’s friend Stanislawa Sapinska would visit Rutka Laskier while checking on her house, which had been confiscated by the Nazis so that it could be included in the ghetto, and in which the Laskier family resided. The two became friendly and when Rutka told her that she felt she would not survive, Stanislawa offered to hide the diary in the basement under one of the floorboards. At the end of the war, Stanislawa returned to the house and found the hidden diary. Since the end of the war, until last year, Stanislawa kept the existence of the diary secret. Rutka’s Notebook, published by Yad Vashem, includes a foreword by Rutka’s sister, Dr. Zahava Scherz, a historical introduction by Dr. Bella Gutterman, and the diary itself, written between January and April 1943. From Yad Vashem press release.
	The Zookeeper's Wife By Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity, sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds. Using Antonina's diaries, other contemporary sources and her own research in Poland, Ackerman takes us into the Warsaw ghetto and the 1943 Jewish uprising and also describes the Poles' revolt against the Nazi occupiers in 1944. This suspenseful beautifully crafted story deserves a wide readership. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
	Nazi Games By David Clay Large The year 1936 saw "the Nazi's first big international show-their coming-out party on the world stage," when Berlin hosted the summer Olympics. In this comprehensive examination of the 1936 Olympic Games, historian Large explores everything from Berlin's bid to secure the games-amongst much political jockeying and threats of international boycott-to politicized training regimes, shocking mistreatment of Jewish and black athletes and, finally, the tense contest itself. What emerges is a captivating, chilling portrait of the Nazi propaganda machine, the international response to it and the swirl of global forces that would soon plunge the world back into war. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
	Erased: Vanishing Traces of jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine By Omer Bartov In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. From Princeton University Press

Other new arrivals

• Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 by Goetz Aly
• Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child's Survival in the Partisans by Miriam Brysk
• To Survive Sobibor by Dov Freiberg
• A Teenager in Hitler's Death Camps by Benny Gruenfeld
• Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War by Aristotle A. Kallis
• The Third Reich: Charisma and Community by Martin Kitchen
• Sobibor by Michael Lev
• Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
• Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past, edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot
• The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communities in Poland, Volumes 1 and 2, by Arnon Rubin
• The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories , edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman
• Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story, edited by Rochelle G. Saidel
• Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp by Jules Schelvis
• William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony by William and Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanly
• Nazi Idealogy and the Holocaust, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
• Imprisoned for their Fath: Jehovah's Witnesses in KL Auschwitz by Teresa Wontor-Cichy

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