Enslow Holocaust Title Included Among Pennsylvania State Library Association's Top 2012 Nonfiction Titles

Author James M. Deem's Auschwitz: Voices From the Death Camp continues to receive acclaim from library professionals. The 128-page work was included on the Pennsylvania School Library Association's "PSLA Top 40 (or so) 2012 Titles" nonfiction and professional book list. The book features primary source materials and first-person accounts of the concentration camp's construction, subsequent daily activities, and the murder of more than one million prisoners.

Deem's book, part of Enslow's "The Holocaust Through Primary Sources" series, is available in a paperback edition for $9.95. A library-bound edition of Auschwitz: Voices From the Death Camp is also available directly from Enslow Publishers for $23.95; that price represents a 25% discount from Enslow's list price for this title.

The book is also available from your preferred vendor, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27 is designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this year's theme is "Rescue during the Holocaust: The Courage to Care."

Through the powerful words of Holocaust victims—the survivors and the murdered—bystanders, and perpetrators, the books in our The Holocaust Through Primary Sources series highlight a variety of individual experiences describing major events of the Holocaust. Gripping primary source accounts give the text a strong emotional element and keep the reader interested. Filled with color photos of primary source artifacts and black-and-white period photos, each book contains stories from men, women, and children.

 As the Warsaw ghetto in Poland went up in flames in April 1943, Jewish fighters fought bravely for twenty-seven days against Nazi soldiers. With deportation to a death camp all but certain, young Jews in the ghetto decided not to go quietly. Although the Nazis defeated the Jewish resistance group, the spirit of the uprising lived on. For Jews living in Europe during the Holocaust, survival was often the only form of resistance. But Jews in ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan groups across Europe did fight back. Told through the words of teen resisters, author Ann Byers details the stories of courageous young people who fought back against Nazi Germany in our second Holocaust series, True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust.You can read a free chapter clicking here.

E-books available for purchase

Over the next few days we hope to introduce you to some of our new e-books. We will be adding more to the retailers sites as they are ready.

The Holocaust Through Primary Sources series, targeted toward the middle school reader, captures a variety of major events of the Holocaust, using first-person accounts. Through the words of the victims, bystanders, and perpetrators, individual experiences are told in detail. Unknown as well as well-known Holocaust figures are also looked at.

All six titles in this series (Auschwitz, Kristallnacht, Liberation, Rescuing the Danish Jews, Saving Children from the Holocaust, and The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Kobo.

The library and paperback versions of these titles are also available on enslow.com or through your preferred vendor.

The Holocaust Through Primary Sources: Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht: The Nazi Terror That Began the Holocaust, from Enslow Publishers' award-winning series of books, "The Holocaust Through Primary Sources", is now available as a paperback through Blue Wave Classroom.  Author James M. Deem's freshly researched, primary source-based of Kristallnacht is now readily available for use in the classroom.

Blue Wave Classroom offers a free educator's guide for Kristallnacht (available here) as well as State Standard and Common Core correlations (available here).

The original Library Edition of Kristallnacht can be found on Enslow Publishers' website here.