Books

Secondary Historical Surveys

• Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.
• Auschwitz/Birkenau State Museum. Auschwitz: A History in Photographs.
• Berler, Willy. Journey through Darkness: Monowitz, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald. Preface by Simon Wiesenthal. Trans. Martine Mitrani and Annette Charak. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004.
• Brett, Lily. The Auschwitz Poems. Illustrated by David Rankin. Brunswick, Australia: Scribe, 1986.
• Browning, Christopher. The Origins of the Final Solution.
• Croci, Pascal. Auschwitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.
• Czech, Danuta. The Auschwitz Chronicle.
• Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies.
• Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
• Gutman, Israel, and Bella Gutterman, eds. The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport.
• Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi era.
• Hilbert, Raul. Destruction of the European Jews.
• Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film.
• Lawton, Clive A. Auschwitz.
• Lewy, Guenter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies.
• Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.
• Marwell, David. Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death.”
• Neufeld, Michael J., and Michael Berenbaum, eds. The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?
• Piper, Franciszek. Auschwitz Prisoner Labor: The Organization and Exploitation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Prisoners as Laborers.
• Posner, Gerald and John Ware. Mengele: The Complete Story.
• Rees, Laurence. Auschwitz: A New History.
• Route 66 Publishing. Auschwitz: 1940-1945.
• Rubenstein, Richard. After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism.
• Rubenstein, Richard L., and John K. Roth. Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy.
• Spielberg, Steven. The Last Days: Based on the Film.
• van Pelt, Robert Jan. The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial.
• van Pelt, Robert Jan and Debórah Dwork. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present.

Memoirs and Survivor Writings

• Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
• Delbo, Charlotte. None of Us Will Return.
• Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After.
• Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz.
• Höss, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.
• Jacobs, Benjamin. The Dentist of Auschwitz.
• Kessel, Sim. Hanged At Auschwitz.
• Koren, Yehuda and Eilat Negev. In Our Hearts We Were Giants.
• Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz.
• Lengel, Olga. Five Chimneys.
• Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved.
• Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz.
• Millu, Liana. Smoke Over Birkenau.
• Muller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz.
• Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account.
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.
• Vrba, Rudolf. I Escaped from Auschwitz.
• Wiesel, Elie. Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea.
• Wiesel, Elie. Night.

For Young Readers

• Bunting, Eve. Terrible Things.
• Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl.
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.
• Volavkova, Hana. …I Never Saw Another Butterfly…

Films

• Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
• Choosing One’s Way: Resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Eyes From the Ashes: Archival Photos from Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Kitty: A Return to Auschwitz
• The Last Days
• Liberation of Auschwitz
• Shoah: Volumes I-V
• Son of Saul

Local Survivor Testimonies

• Tola Cukier
• Adela Dagerman
• Dora Edelbaum
• June Feinsilver
• Joseph Greenbaum
• Clara Grossman
• Bertha Gutovitz
• Lea Indyk
• Joseph Kanarek
• Ida Loeffler
• Sigmund Mandelbaum
• Mina Nisenkier
• Sam Nussbaum
• Bronia Roslawowski
• Olga Rothstein
• Otto Schick
• Lilly Segelstein
• Malvina Stras
• Walter Stras
• Alegra Tevet
• Sonia Warshawski
• Mania Weindling
• Leo Zemelman

Web Resources

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
• Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
• Auschwitz-Protocol
• Death Marches
• Virtual Tour of Auschwitz

For Educators

• Annotated Reading List
• Learning and Remembering about Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Mapping Auschwitz-Birkenau