This file is still (perpetually) under construction.
Bibliography
Week 1: Introduction
Arad, Yitzhak, et al., eds. Documents on the Holocaust, Selected Sources on
the Destruction of Jews in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Soviet
Union. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981.
Bauer, Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982.
Comprehensive historical account including material on Jewish
resistance, non-Jewish rescue attempts.
_____. The Holocaust in Historical Perspective. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1978.
Chartock, Roselle and Spender, Jack, eds. The Holocaust Years: Society on
Trial. New York: Bantam, 1978. Eighty-eight brief selections including
eyewitness accounts and memoirs.
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. New York: Bantam,
1976. Scholarly history of Nazi effort to exterminate Jews of Europe.
_____. A Holocaust Reader. New York: Behrman, 1976. Selection of original
documents grouped according to pre-1933, 1933-1938, 1939-1945.
Included are excerpts from diaries of German Jews, ghetto victims and
resistance fighters as well as S.S. memoranda, speeches and
legislation.
Eckardt, A. Roy with Alice L. Long Day's Journey Into Night. Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1982. Discussion of the impact and meaning of
the Holocaust within contemporary Christian and Jewish thought and
life.
Fleischmen, Eva, ed. Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era? Reflections of the
Holocaust. New York: Ktav, 1977. Theological reflections on the
Holocaust by prominent thinkers.
Friedlander, Albert H., ed. Out of the Whirlwind: A Reader of Holocaust
Literature. New York: Schocken, 1976.
Friedlander, Henry and Milton, Sybil, eds. The Holocaust Ideology,
Bureaucracy, and Genocide. Millwood, NY: Kraus International
Publications, 1980. An interdisciplinary collection of papers by
leading experts.
Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the
Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986. Factual
presentation documented by oral testimonies.
_____. Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982.
Graphic presentation of 316 maps tracing each part of Hitler's war
against
the Jewish people and other victims.
Grobman, Alex and Landes, Daniel, eds. Critical Issues of the Holocaust.
New York: Rossel Books, 1983. Articles commissioned by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center surveying the range of Holocaust scholarship.
Gutman, Yisrael and Rothkirchen, Livia, eds. The Catastrophe of European
Jewry. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976. Anthology of articles about the
Holocaust by twenty-five leading scholars.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New York: Holmes &
Meier, 1984. 3 vols. Revised and expanded version of 1961 edition.
Publisher preparing a general reader's edition of about 400 pages and
a student's edition of 350 pages.
Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1985. Text of the documentary. Included are interviews
with Polish peasants and railroad workers, German officials and
railroad bureaucrats, as well as with Jan Karski and Raul Hilberg.
Levin, Nora. The Holocaust, The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945.
New York: Schocken Books, 1973. Authoritative account of what happened
to the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust.
Levin, Nora. The Holocaust Years: The Nazi Destruction of European Jewry,
1933-1945. Florida: Frieger Publishing Co., Inc., 1990. Short history
with selected readings from primary source material.
Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History. Hanover, NH: University of New
England Press, 1987. Definitive assessment of the vast historical
literature on the Holocaust.
Meltzer, Milton. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust. New York:
Dell, 1977. Short, practical survey.
Poliakov, Leon. Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of
the Jews in Europe. New York: Holocaust Library, 1978. Comprehensive
survey of the Holocaust.
Rothschild, Sylvia, ed. Voices from the Holocaust. New York: New American
Library, 1981. Survivors of the Holocaust speak out. Culled from 650
hours of tapes of survivor testimony in various parts of the United
States.
Strom, Margot Stern and Parsons, William S. Facing History and Ourselves:
Holocaust and Human Behavior. Watertown, MA: Intentional Educations,
1982. Full curriculum including readings and activities.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical Atlas of the
Holocaust. New York: McMillan, 1996. An excellent and beautiful
historical atlas, color maps and informative textual interpretation.
Week 2: Stereotypes and Prejudices
Allport, Gordon W. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co., 1954. Classic work on prejudice. Details the roots,
variety, and expressions of prejudice and its impact on society.
_____. ABC's of Scapegoating. New York: ADL of B'nai B'rith, Pamphlet.
1959. Analysis of scapegoating, various types, with recommendations
for fighting its growth through education.
Edwards, Gabrielle I. Coping with Discrimination. New York: Rosen Group,
1986. Easy-to-read introduction to past and present discrimination,
causes, results. Suggests ways that students can work to end it.
Feldstein, Stanley. The Poisoned Tongue. New York: William Morrow, 1972.
Documentary history about various types of racist and anti-Semitic
literature.
Fromm, Erich. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. Greenwich: Fawcett,
1973. People's propensity for cruelty is discussed.
Mosse, George L. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism.
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Development of
stereotypes to racism to genocide.
Pascoe, Elaine. Racial Prejudice: Issues in American History. New York:
Watts, 1985. Lingering effects of prejudice and the struggle for
equality fought by African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and
Asians in the United States.
Week 3: Who are the Jews?
Ben-Sasson, H. H., et al. A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1976.
Dawidowicz, Lucy S., ed. The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in
Eastern Europe. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
Comprehensive anthology of the works of Eastern European Jews from the
late 19th to the early 20th century.
Eban, Abba and Bamberger, David. My People: Abba Eban's History of the
Jewish People. New York: Behrman, 1979.
Encyclopedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, Ltd., 1975.
Encyclopedia of Jewish History. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986.
Gilbert, Martin. Jewish History Atlas. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.,
1976.
Grayzel, Solomon. A History of the Jews. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1968.
de Lange, Nicholas. Atlas of the Jewish World. New York: Facts on File
Publications, 1984.
Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Margolis, Max L. and Marx, Alexander. A History of the Jewish People.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947.
Patai, Raphael. The Vanished Worlds of Jewry. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
Text and pictures describe changes in Jewish communities' history,
tradition, and folk life throughout Europe, Muslim lands of the Middle
East and North Africa resulting from Holocaust, flight from Muslim
lands, and "ingathering of the exiles" following the re-establishment
of the State of Israel.
Roth, Cecil. A History of the Jews. New York: Schocken, 1961.
Sachar, Howard Morley. The Course of Modern Jewish History. New York: Dell,
1977. Historical survey of Jews from the time of the French Revolution
to the present.
Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.
Images of Jewish life in Eastern Europe 1934-1939 preserved in
Vishniac's photographs.
Wigoder, Geoffrey. The Encyclopedia of Judaism. New York: Macmillan
Publishing Co., 1989. Most recent published reference work with 1,500
articles in a single volume.
Week 4: Classical and Christian Anti-Semitism
Arendt, Hannah. Anti-Semitism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
Arnold, Caroline and Silverstein, Herma. Anti-Semitism: A Modern
Perspective. New York: Messner, 1985. Comprehensive view of
anti-Semitism, its history, and forms of expression.
Bentley, Erich, ed. The Storm over "The Deputy." New York: Grove Press,
1964. Rolf Hochhuth's play, "The Deputy" indicts an historical
personality for his silence in the face of the inhumanity of culture
that persecuted the Jews. Bentley pulls together documents and
information for examination of the ensuing controversy.
Eckardt, A. Roy. Your People, My People. New York: Quadrangle, 1974.
Examines relationships between Christians and Jews, noting
particularly the relationships between anti-Semitism and Christian
teaching.
Falk, Harvey. Jesus The Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus.
New York: Paulist Press, 1985.
Flannery, Edward. The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of
Anti-Semitism. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1965. Study
of Christian anti-Semitism by a Catholic Priest.
Glassman, Samuel. Epic Survival: The Story of Anti-Semitism. New York:
Bloch, 1981. Survey since the 5th century B.C.E. showing that
anti-Semitism has changed little until the arrival of the Holocaust.
Glock, Charles Y. and Star, Rodney. Christian Beliefs in Anti-Semitism. New
York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Gold, Judith Taylor. Monsters and Madonnas: The Roots of Christian
Anti-Semitism. New York: New Amsterdam, 1988.
Hagner, Donald A. The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1984. An analysis and critique of the
modern Jewish study of Jesus.
Hay, Malcolm. The Foot of Pride. Boston: Beacon Press, 1951. Interesting
survey of anti-Semitism, strong on the Christian roots, by a Catholic
historian.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Age of Enlightenment. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1968.
Leaney, A. R. C. The Jewish & Christian World 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 (Volume
7 of the Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish & Christian
World). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Littell, Franklin. The Crucifixion of the Jews. New York: Harper & Row,
1975.
Parkes, James. Anti-Semitism. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969. Balanced
attempt to trace the Christian roots of modern anti-Semitism in the
late Classical and early Medieval period.
Parkes, James. The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in the
Origins of Anti-Semitism. New York: Atheneum, 1969. Traces classical
and Christian anti-Semitism.
Poliakov, Leon. The History of Anti-Semitism, Vols. I and II. New York:
Vanguard Press, 1965.
Prager, Dennis and Telushkin, Joseph. Why the Jews? The Reason for
Anti-Semitism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Trachtenberg, Joshua. The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of
the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1943. An excellent study of the demonic aspects of
Christian anti-Semitism.
Yinger, J. Milton. Anti-Semitism: A Case Study in Prejudice and
Discrimination. New York: ADL, 1964. Force of prejudice and
anti-Semitism depicted in a scholarly account.
Week 5: Modern Anti-Semitism
Arendt, Hannah. Anti-Semitism. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968.
Arendt shows the central importance of anti-Semitism to the ideology and of
concentration camps in the organization of the totalitarian system.
Cohn, Norman. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy
and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Brilliant investigation of Nazi anti-Semitism. Scholarly study traces
the fabrication and dissemination of the forgery known as The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and argues that the Nazi racialist
doctrine is a secularized version of medieval demonological
anti-Semitism.
Friedman, Saul S. The Oberammergau Passion Play: A Lance Against
Civilization. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press,
1984.
Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans and the Jewish Question. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1984.
Mosse, George. Germans and Jews. New York: Fertig, 1970. Collection of
essays that probes the intellectual roots of German totalitarianism
with special emphasis on the role of anti-Semitism and the position of
German Jews.
Pulzer, P. G. J. The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and
Austria. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964. Brief history of anti-Semitism
in German lands. Includes the more virulent Austrian variety.
Samuel, Maurice. The Great Hatred. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1948. Traces the
connection between Christian and Nazi Jew-hatred.
_____. Blood Accusation. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1966. Narrative about one
of the most famous "blood ritual" trials occurring in Czarist Russia.
Schorach, Ismar. Jewish Reactions to German Anti-Semitism 1870-1914. New
York: Columbia University Press, and the Jewish Publication Society,
1972. First scholarly attempt to probe the Jewish reactions to modern
anti-Semitism.
Tal, Uriel. Christians and Jews in Germany: Religion, Politics and Ideology
in the Second Reich, 1870-1914. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1975. Major scholarly study of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany
before the first World War.
Tcherikover, Victor. Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. New York:
Atheneum, 1985.
Week 6: Adolf Hitler and German Nazism
Arendt, Hannah. Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1968.
Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.
Written by one of the best contemporary German historians. Discusses
the careers of many leading Nazis.
Flood, C. B. Hitler: The Path to Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1984.
Grunberger, Richard. Hitler's S.S. New York: Dell, 1971. Paper.
Comprehensive study of the background, psychology and practices of the
S.S.
Grunberger, Richard. The Twelve-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi
Germany, 1933-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Heiden, Konrad. Der F_ehrer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944.
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943.
Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1947. Presents the thesis that the German films of
the 1920s were filled with premonitions of the totalitarianism of the
1930s, and that Hitler arose as the resolution of the psychological
dilemnas reflected in these films.
Langer, Walter. The Mind of Adolf Hitler. New York: Signet Books, 1972. The
first psychological profile of Hitler, commissioned by the U.S.
Intelligence Service of the 1940s.
Toland, J. Adolf Hitler. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. The author used
interviews of people connected with Hitler for this extensive study.
Trevor-Roper, H. The Last Days of Hitler. London: Collier, 1962.
Waite, Robert G. L. The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. New York: New
American Library, 1977. Waite built on Langer's work in this
psychological study.
Week 7: Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian State
Abel, Theodore. The Nazi Movement. New York: Atherton, 1966.
Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single
German Town, 1930-35. Chicago: The U. of Chicago Press, 1965.
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. 2nd rev. ed., Cleveland and
New York: World (Meridian Paperbacks), 1958. Analysis of the genesis
and nature of Nazi and Stalin totalitarianism.
Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Fest, Joachim C. The Face of the Third Reich, Portraits of the Nazi
Leadership. New York: Pantheon, 1970.
Herzstein, Robert E. Adolf Hitler and the German Trauma, 1913-1945: An
Interpretation of the Nazi Phenomenon. New York: Perigee-Putnam, 1974.
_____. The War That Hitler Won. New York: Putnam's, 1978. Goebbels'
propaganda machinery and terrorization of the mass mind of Germany.
Hillgruber, Andreas. Germany and the Two World Wars. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1982. Exploration of disputed guilt of Germany in
starting two world wars, including Hitler's part.
Komjathy, Anthony and Stockwell, Rebecca. German Minorities and the Third
Reich. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980.
Kruger, Horst. The Crack in the Wall, Growing Up Under Hitler. New York:
Fromm International, 1982.
Lilge, Frederic. The Abuse of Learning: The Failure of the German
University. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
Merkl, Peter H. The Making of a Stormtrooper. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1980. How stormtroopers contributed to Hitler's
takeover of Germany and of Europe.
Mosse, George L. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the
Third Reich. New York: Schocken, 1981 (1964). -
____-. Nazi Culture. New York: Schocken, 1981 (1966). Raab, Earl. The
Anatomy of Nazism. New York: ADL, 1961. Brief account of the
background, philosophy, and elements of Nazism.
Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism. New York: Farrar, Straus,
and Giroux, 1970. Suppression of primary biological needs and impulses
of humans over years leads to irrational character structure in
fascism.
Reitlinger, Gerald. The S.S.: Alibi of a Nation 1922-1945. New York: Viking
Press, 1968. Origin and function of the S.S. during World War II by an
eminent German historian.
Rhodes, Anthony. Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II. New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1980. All forms of propaganda used by the
Allied and Axis powers during World War II described and illustrated.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi
Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. History as observed by
perceptive journalist.
Taylor, Telford. Sword and Swastika: Generals and Nazis in the Third Reich.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg
Trials records history of the German army in the Third Reich.
Weinstein, Fred. The Dynamics of Nazism: Leadership, Ideology and the
Holocaust. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
Wheeler-Bennett, John W. The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics,
1918-1945. London: Macmillan, 1953.
Zeman, Z. A. B. Nazi Propaganda. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Week 8: The First Steps Leading to the "Final Solution"
Abel, Theodore. Why Hitler Came to Power. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press,
1986.
Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single
German Town, 1930-35. Chicago: The U. of Chicago Press, 1965.
Altshuler, David S. Hitler's War Against the Jews: The Holocaust. New York:
Behrman House, 1978. For young readers, adapted from Lucy Dawidowicz's
War Against the Jews.
Beyerchen, Alan D. Scientists Under Hitler. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1982.
Breitman, Richard. German Socialism and Weimar Democracy. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1981. Study integrating the history of the German
Social Democratic Party and the Weimar Republic. The S.D.P.'s ability
to control events was greatly weakened by its conflicting loyalties to
Marxism and to the Republic.
Conway, John S. The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945. New York:
Basic Books, 1968.
Craig, Gordon A. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1964. Role of the army in German history and
its negative influence on political reform during the 19th century.
Extensive documentation, particularly of the secret rearmament program
of the 1920s and the military's role in the Nazi era.
Dobkowski, Michael N. and Wallimann, Isidor. Towards the Holocaust: The
Social and Economic Collapse of the Weimar Republic. Wesport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1983.
Engelmann, Bernt. In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich.
New York: Pantheon, 1986.
Graber, G. S. The History of the S.S. New York: Grosset and Dunlop, 1978.
Gurian, Waldemar. Hitler and the Christians. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936.
Grunberger, Richard. The Twelve-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi
Germany, 1933-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Hale, Oron J. The Captive Press in the Third Reich. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1964.
Pinson, Koppel S. Modern Germany: Its History and Civilization. New York:
Macmillan, 1954.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi
Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Snyder, Louis L. Hitler's Third Reich, a Documentary History. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1981.
_____., ed. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Valuable one-volume handbook.
Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's
Crimes Against the Jewish People. New York: Yiddish Scientific
Institute, 1946.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Week 9: World War II and The Holocaust
Abel, Theodore. The Nazi Movement. New York: Atherton, 1965.
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. A Holocaust Reader. New York: Behrman House, 1976.
Delarue, Jacques. The Gestapo, A History of Horror. New York: Morrow, 1964.
Deuel, Wallace R. People Under Hitler. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942.
Deutsch, Harold C. Hitler and His Generals, the Hidden Crisis,
January-June, 1938. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974.
Goebbels, Joseph. The Goebbels Diaries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1948.
Green, Gerald. The Holocaust. New York: Bantam Books, 1978. From 1933 to
1945 a Jewish physician and his family are brutalized by the Nazis in
this novel which was based on the television series.
Kamenetsky, Ihor. Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe. New Haven, CT:
College and University Press, 1961.
Kruger, Horst. The Crack in the Wall, Growing Up Under Hitler. New York:
Fromm International, 1982.
Merkl, Peter H. Political Violence Under the Swastika: 581 Early Nazis.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Poole, Kenyon E. German Financial Policies, 1937-1939. New York: Gordon
Press, 1977.
Schoenburger, Gerhard. The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in
Europe, 1933-1945. New York: Bantam, 1973.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi
Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Thalmann, Rita and Feinermann, Emanuel. Crystal Night. New York: Coward,
McCann & Geoghegan, 1974; Holocaust Library, 1980. Planning,
implementation, and responses of some major powers to Kristallnacht.
Week 10: The "Final Solution"
Abrahamson, Irving, ed. Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie
Wiesel. New York: Holocaust Library, 1985, 3 volumes. Selections from
lectures and writings of Elie Wiesel.
Altshuler, David A. Hitler's War Against the Jews: The Holocaust. New York:
Behrman House, 1978.
Apenszlak, Jacob, ed. The Black Book of Polish Jewry: An Account of the
Martyrdom of Polish Jewry Under Nazi Occupation. New York: Fertig,
1982 (1943).
Arad, Yitzhak, et al, eds. Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on
the Destruction of Jews in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Soviet
Union. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981.Collection elaborated by narrative.
Blackbook of Localities Where Jewish Population Was Exterminated by the
Nazis. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1965.
Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other
Stories. (Translated from the Polish). New York: Viking Press, 1967.
Collection of short stories showing the horrors of Auschwitz.
Chartock, Roselle and Spencer, Jack, eds. The Holocaust Years: Society on
Trial. New York: Bantam, 1978. Collection of readings on the
Holocaust.
Chary, Frederick B. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. Story of the
Bulgarian Jews, most of whom escaped the Holocaust.
Cohen, Dr. Elie A. Human Behavior in the Concentration Camp. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1953. Psychological study of concentration camp
prisoners and the S.S. as well as medical aspects¢disease
and experimentation.
Czerniakow, Adam. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow. New York: Stein &
Day, 1979; Scarborough, 1982. Czerniakow, chairman of the Warsaw
Judenrat, kept a secret journal documenting the agony of the Warsaw
ghetto before its half-million people were annihilated.
Delbo, Charlotte. None of Us Will Return. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. One
woman's struggle for survival in a death camp.
Des Pres, Terence. The Survivor, an Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Donat, Alexander. The Holocaust Kingdom, A Memoir. New York: Holt, Rinehart
& Winston, 1965.
_____, ed. The Death Camp Treblinka. New York: Holocaust Publications,
1979.
Eisenberg, Azriel. The Lost Generation: Children in the Holocaust.
Princeton, NJ: Pilgrim, 1982.
_____. Witness to the Holocaust. Princeton, NJ: Pilgrim Press, 1981.
Documents, testimonies, and memoirs of Jews and Christians.
Fisher, Josey G., ed. The Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the
Holocaust. Westport: Meckler Corp., to be published 1990. Fifteen
first-hand accounts of growing up during the Holocaust, from the Gratz
College Holocaust Oral History Archive.
Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Doubleday, 1967. Gilbert,
Martin. Final Journey. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979. Fate of Jews
in various European communities.
_____. Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982.
Over 300 detailed maps are combined with photographs to show the
massive scope of Hitler's "final solution".
Glatstein, Jacob, ed. Anthology of Holocaust Literature. Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1977. Informative range of writings by
eyewitnesses and survivors.
Hersch, Giselle and Mann, Peggy. "Giselle, Save the Children!" Pasadena,
CA: Everest House, 1980. Autobiography of Holocaust survival through
Auschwitz.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. New York: Penguin, 1983. Cunning German
industrialist saved Jews from the gas chambers.
Klein, Gerda Weissman. All But My Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 1971.
Autobiography of teenaged slave laborer under the Nazis.
Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About
Hitler's "Final Solution". Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella. New York: Dell, 1978. A memoir of
the author's experiences at Auschwitz sensitively told.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. New York: Collier, 1958. Italian
chemist recounts his personal experience in Auschwitz.
Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of
Genocide. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986.
Manvell, Roger. S.S. and Gestapo. New York: Ballantine, 1969. How the S.S.
and Gestapo functioned in the death camps and in the East.
Mermelstein, Mel. By Bread Alone. Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1979.
Survivor's account of his experience in a series of concentration
camps.
Muller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz. New York: Stein & Day, 1979. Member of
the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz tells his story of survival after
working three years at the gas chambers.
Oberski, Jona. Childhood. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. Young Dutch
child survives Westerbrook and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
Poliakov, Leon and Sabille, Jacques. Jews Under the Italian Occupation. New
York: Fertig, 1983 (1955).
Presser, Jacob. The Destruction of the Dutch Jewry. New York: Dutton, 1969.
Reitlinger, Gerald R. Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews
of Europe, 1939-1945. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1961 (1953).
Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel
Ringelbaum. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. Historian in the ghetto keeps
contemporary eye-witness account.
Sandberg, Moshe. My Longest Year: In the Hungarian Labor Service and in the
Nazi Camps. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1968.
Sereny, Gitta. Into that Darkness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Insight
into behavior of Nazi camp commandants, operation of the death camps
and the Nazi "Euthanasia Program".
Siegel, Aranka. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary
1939-1944. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. Hungarian teenage
girl survives ghetto life, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen.
Wells, Leon W. The Death Brigade. New York: Schocken, 1980 (1946).
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang. Avon Books, 1972. Personal
account of Wiesel's years in concentration camps and the loss of his
family.
Zyskind, Sara. Struggle. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1989. Chronicle
of a Polish teenage boy and his life in Poland before 1939, life in
the ghetto, life in Auschwitz.
Week 11: Reactions to the Holocaust: Resisters, Rescuers, and Bystanders
Ainsztein, Reuben. Jewish Resistance in Nazi Occupied Europe, with an
Historical Survey of the Jew as Fighter and Soldier in the Diaspora.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Detailed evidence of Jewish underground
in the ghettos and concentration camps.
_____. The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. New York: Schocken, 1979.
Anger, Per. With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest. New York: Schocken, 1981.
Arad, Yitzhak. Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews
in Vilna in the Holocaust. New York: Ktav, 1981.
Arnold, Eliot. A Kind of Secret Weapon. New York: Scribner, 1969. How
ordinary people in Denmark fight the Nazi occupation of their country.
Atkinson, Linda. In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944.
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1985. Young Hungarian woman who
emigrated to Palestine in 1939, returned by parachute to Hungary
during the Holocaust on a rescue mission, was captured and executed by
the Nazis.
Bar Oni, Bryan. The Vapro. Chicago: Visual Impact, Inc., 1976. Survival of
a young girl as a Jewish partisan in Polish forests near her home.
Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw and Lewin, Zofia, eds. Righteous Among Nations: How
Poles Helped the Jews, 1939-1945. London: Earlscourt Publications,
1969.
Bauer, Yehuda. Flight and Rescue: Brichah, The Organized Escape of the
Jewish Survivors of Eastern Europe, 1944-1948. New York: Random House,
1970. How almost 300,000 Jewish survivors were saved through an
underground movement.
Bernheim, Mark. Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak. New
York: Dutton, 1988. Biography of Janusz Korczak, who chose to follow
his orphans first into the Warsaw ghetto and then to Treblinka.
Costanza, Mary S. The Living Witness: Art in the Concentration Camps and
Ghettos. New York: Free Press, 1982.
Feingold, Henry L. The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and
the Holocaust, 1938-1945. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1970. Failure of U.S. foreign policies to deal with the realities of
the Holocaust.
Flannery, Edward H. The Anguish of the Jews. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Flender, Harold. Rescue in Denmark. New York: Holocaust Library, 1963.
Friedman, Philip. Their Brothers' Keepers: The Christian Heroes and
Heroines Who Helped the Oppressed Escape the Nazi Terror. New York:
Crown, 1957.
Friedman, Saul S. No Haven for the Oppressed. Detroit: Wayne State U.
Press, 1973.
Goldstein, Charles. The Bunker. New York: Atheneum, 1973. How one man
survived both the Warsaw ghetto and the Warsaw uprising by living four
months in a bunker.
Gutman, Yisrael and Zuroff, Efraim, eds. Rescue Attempts During the
Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1977; New York: Ktav, 1979.
Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference,
Jerusalem, April 8-11, 1974.
Hallie, Philip P. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. New York: Harper & Row,
1979. People of the village of Le Chambon, France, led by their
pastor, rescue Jews from the Nazis.
Hochhuth, Rolf. The Deputy. New York: Grove Press, 1964. Role of Pope Pius
XII during the Holocaust depicted in a controversial play.
Hoffman, Judy. Joseph and Me: In The Days of the Holocaust. Hoboken: Ktav
Publishing House, 1979. Experiences of two Jewish children living in
hiding with Christian Dutch foster families during World War II.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. New York: Penguin, 1983.
Kluger, Ruth and Mann, Peggy. The Last Escape: The Launching of the Largest
Secret Rescue Attempt of All Times. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973.
How a woman organized rescue of Jews by boats on the Danube and in the
Mediterranean.
Kowalski, Isaac. A Secret Press in Nazi Europe: The Story of a Jewish
United Partisan Organization. New York: Central Guide Publishers,
1969. Resistance in Vilna and surrounding areas of Lithuania.
Kuper, Jack. Child of the Holocaust. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Child's will to survive poignantly depicted in autobiography of a
nine-year-old Jewish boy hiding with peasants to escape Nazi death
squads in Poland.
Lambert, Gilles. Operation Hazalah. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974.
Thousands of Hungarian Jews helped by young Zionists to escape
massacre in the closing days of World War II.
Latour, Anny. The Jewish Resistance in France (1940-1944). New York:
Schocken, 1981.
Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About
Hitler's "Final Solution". Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of
the Holocaust 9133-1945. New York: The Free Press (Macmillan), 1986.
Scholarly study of the American press and the Holocaust. Judicious
indictment of American indifference in both government and the press
to the destruction of European Jewry.
Lustig, Arnost. Darkness Casts No Shadow. New York: Avon Books, 1977.
Thrilling novel about an escape from a Nazi death train.
Marrus, Michael R. Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century.
New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Marrus, Michael R. and Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France and the Jews. New
York: Schocken Books, 1983.
McCarthy, Edward V., Jr. The Pied Piper of Helfenstein. New York:
Doubleday, 1975. Hundreds of children are rescued from Nazi
concentration camps.
Mystery. Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. New York: Schocken, 1979.
Memoir of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who served as a Jewish
resistance courier and paymaster, using false identity papers.
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the
Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Morley, John E. Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews During the Holocaust
1939-1943. New York: Ktav, 1980. Using previously unpublished
materials from the Vatican archives, Morley presents
country-by-country analysis.
Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy.
New York: Random House, 1968; Hart, 1975. How the United States and
Britain deliberately obstructed attempts to rescue European Jews from
Hitler's "Final Solution".
Novitch, Miriam. Sobibor, Martyrdom and Revolt. New York: Schocken, 1980.
Papanek, Ernst and Linn, Edward. Out of the Fire. New York: Morrow, 1975.
Austrian psychologist saves Jewish children in southern France during
World War II.
Perl, William R. The Holocaust Conspiracy: An International Policy of
Genocide. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989. Extensive
documentation is used to prove deliberate action on the part of many
nations that kept millions of those destined for murder, prisoners in
a hostile Europe.
Porter, Jack N., ed. Jewish Partisans, a Documentary of Jewish Resistance
in the Soviet Union During World War II. 2 vols. Washington, DC:
University Press of America, 1982.
Prager, Moshe. Sparks of Glory. New York: Shengold, 1974. Rabbis and others
provide support during the Holocaust.
Rashke, Richard. Escape from Sobibor, the Heroic Story of the Jews who
Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Rittner, Carol and Myers, Sondra. The Courage to Care. New York: New York
University Press, 1986.
Rose, Leesha. The Tulips Are Red. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1979.
Caring for over one hundred people in hiding by teenage Jewish girl in
the Dutch resistance.
Ross, Robert W. So It Was True: The American Protestant Press and the Nazi
Persecution of the Jews. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1980. Events of the Holocaust as portrayed in newspaper articles
across the U.S.
Samuels, Gertrude. Mottele. New York: Signet, 1976. Boy's experiences with
the partisans in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Scholl, Inge. Students Against Tyranny: The Resistance of the White Rose,
Munich, 1942-1943. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.
Famous German student resistance movement to Nazism.
Schneider, Gertrude. Journey Into Fear: Story of the Riga Ghetto. New York:
Ark House, 1980.
Stadtler, Bea. The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance. West
Orange, NJ: Behrman, 1975.
Steiner, Jean-Fran_ois. Treblinka. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.
Documentary novel about the Treblinka death camp, including the
revolt.
Suhl, Yuri, ed. They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi
Europe. New York: Schocken, 1975. Thirty-three cases of resisters.
Syrkin, Marie. Blessed Is The Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1948.
Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in
Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Sociological study of human behavior during the Holocaust examines 500
case studies of Christian Poles who risked their lives to help.
Thomas, Gordon and Witts, Max Morgan. Voyage of the Damned. New York: Stein
and Day, 1974. Story of the voyage of the ship the St. Louis.
Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat. New York: Stein & Day, 1977. Definitive study of
the role of Jewish communal leaders in the ghetto.
Weisberg, Alex. Desperate Mission. New York: Criterion Books, 1958. Joel
Brand's mission to save Hungarian Jews in 1944 involving a "blood for
trucks" exchange with Adolf Eichmann.
Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust,
1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. Definitive work detailing
how the United States refused to help rescue the Jews of Europe until
very late in the war.
Yahil, Leni. The Rescue of Danish Jewry. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1969.
Week 12: The Aftermath: The Nuremberg Trials and Subesequent War Crimes
Trials
Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People. New York: Duell,
Sloan & Pearce, 1946.
Blum, Howard. Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America. New York:
Quadrangle, 1977. Targeting Nazis, some of them war criminals, coming
to the U.S. and getting citizenship by not disclosing their Nazi
backgrounds.
Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben. New York: Free
Press, 1978.
Bower, Tom. Barbie, Butcher of Lyons. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
_____. The Pledge Betrayed: America and Britain and the Denazification of
Postwar Germany. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. Analysis of why
denazification failed.
Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. German
Crimes in Poland. 2 vols. New York: Fertig, 1982. Wealth of material
on Jewish and other victims of the Nazi occupation, particularly on
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Chelmno, Belzec, Stuffhof, Ravensbruck,
the Warsaw uprising, Soviet POWs, and more.
Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg: The First Comprehensive Dramatic
Account of the Trial of the Nazi Leaders. New York: Harper & Row,
1983.
Eichmann Trial. The Attorney General of Israel vs. Adolf, Son of Adolf Karl
Eichmann. Jerusalem: Ministry of Justice, 1962. English translation of
trial minutes.
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and
Daughters of the Survivors. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1979.
Farago, Ladislas. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1974.
Ferencz, Benjamin B. Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest
for Compensation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Hausner, Gideon. Justice in Jerusalem. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Israeli prosecutor of Eichmann tells his story.
Jackson, Robert H. The Nuremberg Case. New York: Knopf, 1947. U.S. member
of the panel of judges at Nuremberg describes the trial.
Klarsfeld, Beate. Wherever They May Be! New York: Vanguard, 1975. Account
of the pursuit of war criminals, especially Barbie, by Mrs. Klarsfeld,
a German Christian.
Mason, Henry L. The Purge of Dutch Quislings: Emergency Justice in the
Netherlands. The Hague: Nejhoff, 1952.
Murphy, Brendan. The Butcher of Lyon: The Story of the Infamous Nazi, Klaus
Barbie. New York: Empire Books, 1983. First published account of
Barbie's capture in 1983.
Noble, Iris. Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal. New York: J. Messner, 1979.
Survivor Wiesenthal has dedicated his life to seeking out Nazi
criminals and bringing them to justice.
Robinson, Jacob. And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight. New York:
Macmillan, 1965.