The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education recommends the following resources to supplement your learning from Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education recommends the following resources to supplement your learning from Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
Adelson, Alan, and Robert Lapides, editors. Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community under Siege.
Amariglio, Erika Kounio. From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back.
Berg, Mary. The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Boas, Jacob, editor. We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust.
Czerniaków, Adam. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom.
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After.
Dobroszycki, Lucjan, editor. The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, 1941–1944.
Fenelon, Fania. Playing for Time.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition.
Glazar, Richard. Trap With a Green Fence.
Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz.
Hillesum, Etty. Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943.
Hoess, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.
Kaplan, Chaim Aron. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan.
Kermish, Joseph, editor. To Live with Honor and Die with Honor: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives “O.S.”
Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years.
Kor, Eva Mozes, and Lisa Rojany-Buccieri. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz.
Korczak, Janusz. Ghetto Diary.
Koren, Yehuda, and Eilat Negev. In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe: A Dwarf Family’s Survival of the Holocaust.
Kruk, Herman. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944.
Lagnado, Lucette Matalon, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames: Dr. Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz.
Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys.
Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity.
Lewin, Abraham. A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Millu, Liana. Smoke Over Birkenau.
Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
Niewyk, Donald, editor. Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives by Holocaust Survivors.
Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account.
Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum.
Rubinowicz, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz.
Rudashevski, Yitskhok. The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto, June 1941-April 1943.
Senesh, Hannah. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary.
Sierakowiak, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Łódź Ghetto.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus I-II: A Survivor’s Tale
Vrba, Rudolf. Escape from Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive.
Wiesel, Elie. Night.
Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs.
Zapruder, Alexandra, editor. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust.
Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.
Alt, Betty Sowers, and Sylvia Folts. Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europe.
Aly, Götz, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross. Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene.
Auschwitz/Birkenau State Museum. Auschwitz: A History in Photographs.
Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Bergen, Doris L. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust.
Browning, Christopher R.. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp.
Browning, Christopher R. Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony.
Browning, Christopher R. Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution.
Browning, Christopher R. Initiating the Final Solution: The Fateful Months of September—October 1941.
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.
Browning, Christopher R. The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution.
Burleigh, Michael, and Wolfang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945.
Cesarani, David. Eichmann: His Life and Crimes.
Cole, Timothy. Holocaust Landscapes.
Crowe, David. A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia.
Czech, Danuta. Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939–1945.
Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps.
Dlugoborski, Waclaw and Franciszek Piper, editors. Auschwitz 1940-1945, Volumes I-V.
Dwork, Debórah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present.
Fonseca, Isabel. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey.
Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.
Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939.
Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies.
Grau, Günter. Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany, 1933-45.
Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews.
Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.
Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
Klein, Dennis B., editor, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto.
Kogon, Eugen. The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them.
Langbein, Hermann. People in Auschwitz.
Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays.
Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film.
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.”
Mosse, George L. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism.
Neufeld, Michael J., and Michael Berenbaum, eds. The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?
Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals.
Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
Rees, Laurence. Auschwitz: A New History.
Roland, Charles G. Courage under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Route 66 Publishing. Auschwitz: 1940-1945.
Schleunes, Karl A. The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-1939.
Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
Sofsky, Wolfgang. The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp.
Spielberg, Steven. The Last Days: Based on the Film.
Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation.
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.
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