Holocaust
(see also Anti-Gypsyism, Anti-Communism, Homophobia, Genocide, Germany: Nazi Regime, World War II: Europe, Zionism, Israel, Jewish Europe Before & After the Holocaust, Jewish American History, Life & Values)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Holocaust Museum (Houston).
Yad Vashem.
In the Library: Articles
Acocella, Joan. “A hard case,” New Yorker (6/17/02):162-170.
Friedrich, Otto. "The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1950-45," in his End of the World: A History (NY, 1982), pp. 279-334.
Gerlach, Christian. "The Wannsee Conference, the fate of German Jews, & Hitler's decision in principle to exterminate all European Jews," Journal of Modern History 70 (1998):759-812.
Meyer, Arno J. "Memory & history: on the poverty of remembering & forgetting the Judeocide," Radical History Review 56 (spr 93):5-22.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abzug, Robert H. Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans & the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (NY: Oxford, 1985).
Adler, Jacques. The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution: Communal Response & Internal Conflicts 1940-1944 (NY: Oxford, 1987).
Aly, Gotz & Susanne Heim. Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz & the Logic of Destruction (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 2003).
Aly, Gotz. “Final Solution”: Nazi Population Policy & the Murder of the European Jews (NY: Oxford, 1999).
Bankier, David (ed.) Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism: German Society & the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 (?: Berghahn, 2001).
Bartov, Omer. Murder in our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, & Representation (NY: Oxford, 1996).
Black, Edwin. IBM & the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany & America's Most Powerful Corporation (NY: Three Rivers, 2002).
Block, Gay & Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Change in the Holocaust (NY: Monthly Review, 1992).
Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler & the Final Solution (Hanover NH: U. Press of New England, 1991).
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (University Park PA: Pennsylvania State U, 1997).
Brostoff, Anita (ed.) Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust (Survivors Remember) (NY: Oxford, 2001).
Burleigh, Michael & Wolfgang Wipperman. The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945 (NY: Cambridge, 1991).
Carp, Martias. Holocaust in Romania: Facts and Documents on Annihilation of Romania's Jews 1940-1944 (Bucharest: Atelierele Grafice, 1946; reprinted by Simon Publications, 2000).
Clendinnen, Inga. Reading the Holocaust (NY: Cambridge, 1999).
Cohen, Rose Lehrer & Saul Issroff. The Holocaust in Lithuania: A Book of Remembrance (Hewlett NY: Gefen, 2002).
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (NY: Bantam, 1986).
Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in Death Camps (NY: Oxford, 1976).
Dorian, Emil. The Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944 (Jewish Publications Society of America, 1982).
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust (NY: Putnam, 1979). Stories of the sons & daughters of survivors.
Eizenstat, Stuart E. Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor & the Unfinished Business of World War II (NY: Public Affairs, 2003).
Felman, Shoshana & Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis & History (NY: Routledge, 1992).
Finkelstein, Norman. Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust (NY: F. Watts, 1985).
__________. The Holocaust Industry: A Reflection on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (NY: Verso, 2000).
Friesová, Jana Renée. Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor (Madison: U. Wisconsin, 200?).
Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1995).
Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (NY: Henry Holt, 2003).
Gilman, Sander. The Jew's Body (NY: Routledge, 1992).
Gottlieb, Roger S.(ed.) Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust (NY: Paulist, 1990).
Gross, Jan T. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 2001).
Herbert, Ulrich (ed.) National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Peerspectives & Controversies (?: Berghahn, 2001).
Hoffman, Eva. After Such Knowledge: Memory, History & the Aftermath of the Holocaust (NY: PublicAffairs, 2003).
Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows: Film & the Holocaust (NY: Cambridge, 2002).
Ioanid, Radu. The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews & Gypsies under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000).
Kertzer, Adrienne. My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature & the Holocaust (Orchard Park NY: Broadview, 2002).
Kremer, S. Lillian. Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory & Imagination (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1999).
Lang, Berel. Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History & Ethics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2003).
Laska, Vera (ed.) Women in the Resistance & in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1983).
Leff, Laurel. Buried by the Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper (NY: Cambridge, 2005).
Levi, Neil & Michael Rothberg (eds.) Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2003)
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity [1958] (trans. Stuart Woolf; NY: touchstonme, 1986).
__________. The Drowned & the Saved [1986] (trans. Raymond Rosenthal; NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988).
Lévy-Hass, Hanna. Diary of Bergen Belsen: The Story of How One Woman Survived the Holocaust (Chicago: Haymarket, 2007).
Lewy, Guenter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (NY: Oxford, 2000).
Longerich, Peter. The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution (?: Tempus, 2002).
Lukas, Richard C. Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish & Polish Children, 1939-1945 (NY, 1994).
Marcuse, Harold. Legacies of Dachau: The Uses & Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 (NY: Cambridge, 2001).
Morgan, Michael L. (ed.) A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination (NY: Oxford, 2000)
Moore, Bob. Victims & Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945 (NY: Oxford, 1997).
Ogilvie, Sarah A. & Scott Miller. Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers & the Holocaust (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 2006).
Phayer, Michael & Eva Fleischner. Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged
the Holocaust
(Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1997).
__________. The Catholic Church & the Holocaust, 1930-1965 (Bloomington: Indiana U, 2001).
Rees, Laurence. Auschwitz: A New History (NY: Public Affairs, 2005).
Rittner, Carol l & John K. Roth. Different Voices: Women & the Holocaust (NY: Paragon, 1993).
Roseman, Mark. The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee & the Final Solution (London: Allen Lane, 2002).
Rosner, Bernat & Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach. An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust (Berkeley: U. of California, 2003).
Rosner, Bernat & Frederic C. Tubach. An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust (Berkeley: U. California, 2002).
Ryback, Timothy W. The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau (NY: Vintage, 1999).
Sacco, Jack. Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion & the Liberation of Dachau (NY: Harper Collins, 2003).
Spiegelman, Art. Maus ll: A Survivor's Tale. And Here My Troubles Began (NY: Pantheon, 1993).
Tanay, Emmanuel. Passport to Life: Autobiographical Reflections on the Holocaust (?: Forensic, 2005).
Van Pelt, Robert Jan. The Case for Auschwitz. Evidence from the Irving Trial (Bloomington: Indiana U, 2002).
Velmans, Edith. Edith’s Story: The True Story of a Young Girl’s Courage and Survival During World War II (NY: Bantam, 2001).
Wardi, Dina. Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust (NY: Routledge,1992).
Whitely, Suzanne Mehler. Appel is Forever. A Child's Memoir (Detroit: Wayne State U, 1999).
Wisenberg, S.L. Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions (Lincoln: U. Nebraska, 2002).
Wyman, David S. & Rafael Medoff. A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America & the Holocaust (NY: New Press, 2002).
Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of the European Jewry 1932-1945 (NY: Oxford, 1990).
In the Library: Fiction
Bassani, Giorgio. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (trans. William Weaver; NY: Harcourt Brace, 1977).
Koestler, Arthur. Arrival & Departure (London, 1943).
Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl (NY: Knopf, 1989).
Wiesel, Elie. Night (NY: Bantam, 1960). Classic account of death camp horror.
__________. After the Darkness (NY: Schocken, 2002).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"After Auschwitz: Battle for the Holocaust" [2001], dir. Paul Yule, 50m. From Cinema Guild.
"The Counterfeiters" [2007], dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky, 106m. In video stores. A few Jewish men struggle to survive concentration camp by cooperating with Nazis' Operation Bernhard, aimed at flooding Allies with counterfeit money.
"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" [1970], dir. Vitorio di Sica, 95m. In video stores.
"Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg" [1990], dir. Kjell Grede, 118m. Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who provided visas to help many Hungarian Jews escape Nazis.
"Korczak" [1990], Andrzej Wajda, 115m. In video stores. Pediatrician/director of Jewish orphanage who stayed with his 200 charges & died with them during Nazi occupation.
"Life is Beautiful" [1998], dir. Roberto Benigni, ?m. In video stores.
"Paragraph 175" [2000], dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrie Friedman, 81m. Reconstructs gay life in Germany before & during Holocaust through interviews with concentration camp survivors.
"The Pianist" [2002], dir. Roman Polanski, 150m. In video stores. Jewish pianist survives with help from friends in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
"Schindler's List" [1993], dir. Steven Spielberg, 187m. In video stores.
"Shoah" [1985], dir. ?, ?m. From New Yorker Films.
"Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness" [2000], dir. Robert Kirk, 103m. In video stores. Documentary on Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who provided visas to save hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazis.
"Triumph of the Spirit" [1989], dir. Robert M. Young, 121m. In video stores.
"Who Shall Live & Who Shall Die?" [1982], dir. Laurence Jarvik,
90m. From Kino International. Role of US during 30s in deciding fate
of Jews.