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After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust, by Eva Hoffman.
A series of contemplative essays on the Holocaust and the responsibility of the 'second generation' to preserve the legacy they have inherited from their relatives who survived the horrors of the Shoah.
All But My Life, by Gerda Weissmann Klein.
This is Gerda Weissmann's memoir of the six years she spent under Nazi tyranny, during which she spent three years in Nazi forced labor camp. This story also recounts her liberation and her meeting with Kurt Klein, the young man who was to become her husband. All But My Life is a horrific and heart wrenching story, yet it is also surprising uplifting. It is a classic of Holocaust literature.
All Or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-43, by Jonathan Steinberg.
An astute overview of how Nazi German and Fascist Italy differed in their treatment toward the Jews. Steinberg also examines what motivated some Italians to protect the Jews, while their German colleagues actively participated in the murders.
Anne Frank's Story - Her Life Retold for Children, by Carol Ann Lee.
A concise biography of Anne Frank, written especially for children. This work covers Anne's life from her birth, until her untimely death at the age of fifteen.
Auschwitz: A New History, By Laurence Rees.
A sweeping history Auschwitz, the notorious death camp. This account includes information garnered from more than a hundred interviews that Rees conducted with both camp survivors and Nazi perpetrators.
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank.
A chronicle of the two, futile years that Anne spent in hiding during the Holocaust.
Edith's Story: Courage, Love, and Survival during World War II, by Edith Van Hessen Velmans.
During World War II, Edith Van Hessen, a young Jewish girl from Holland, was forced to go into hiding to prevent her deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. She hid in plain sight - taking on the persona of a Christian and working as a maid. This is the story of her ordeal and the courageous people who helped to hide her.
Destined to Survive (Chapter 1), by Israel I. Cohen. (Book Excerpt)
Uplifting stories from the worst of times.
The Final Solution Is Life (Chapter 1), by Laura Dekelman and Rebbetzin Chana Rubin. (Book Excerpt)
A Chassidic Dyansty's Story of Survival and Rebuilding.
Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust, by Lyn Smith.
This book contains short narratives by more than 100 contributors, both Jewish and non-Jewish, about their experiences during the Holocaust.
Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem , by Hana Greenfield.
A chilling memoir of Greenfield's horrific experiences during the Holocaust, that found her in Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and working in Hamburg, Germany as a slave laborer. Also chronicles the fate of the Bialystock children.
Given Up For Dead, by Flint Whitlock.
A chilling history of the American GI's that were imprisoned in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga.
The Holocaust, by Martin Gilbert.
In this classic work of Holocaust literature, Martin Gilbert chronicles the near destruction of European Jewry at the hands of the Nazi death machine. Following a chronologically driven format, Gilbert deftly interweaves mind numbing statistics with eyewitness accounts to tell the story of what happened during the Holocaust, and how and why these events occurred.
IBM and the Holocaust, by Edwin Black
A compelling look at IBM's collaboration with Nazi Germany, and the impact which it had upon the course of the war, and more importantly, on the Holocaust.
The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust, by Heather Pringle.
An engrossing history of Ahnenerbe, the Nazi research institute that was used to fabricate 'scientific' evidence by purposely misinterpreting archaeological evidence, Aryanizing history, and by giving Nazi racial theories a 'scientific' white-wash, in order to support various Nazi theories and opinions.
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook, by Roderick Stackelberg and Sally A. Winkle
Contains a broad selection of primary texts, translated into English, such as the text of Konstantin von Gebsattel's 1913 essay, The Jewish Question.
Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans, by Eric A. Johnson
In this controversial book, Johnson looks at the role that the Gestapo, and Ordinary Germans, had in the mass murder of Jews during World War II.
Silent Rebels, by Marion Schreiber
The true story of the raid on the twentieth train that left the Mechelen transit camp carrying 1,618 Belgium Jews to Auschwitz.
Soldiers and Slaves - American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble, by Roger Cohen.
The unforgettable story of the 350 (mostly Jewish) American POWs, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, who were sent to the Nazi Concentration of Camp at Berga where they were forced to work as slave laborers.
Sources of the Holocaust, by Steve Hochstadt.
A source book containing 84 documents related to the Holocaust.
The Sun Will Rise (Chapter 1), by Miriam Dansky and E. Reifer. (Book Excerpt)
Parents Relive the War Years - The Struggle and The Survival.
To Survive Sobibor, by Dov Freiberg.
A gripping autobiography from one of the survivors of the Sobibor Revolt, who immigrated to Israel aboard the 'illegal' ship, Exodus, and who has lived in Israel since 1948. This book chronicles his life from his birth in Warsaw Poland in 1927 until his arrival in Israel.
We Are Still Here, by Rebecca Liebermann Nissel.
Memoirs of a Child of Survivors - A series of essays that chronicles the history of five-generations of one family that concentrates on the experiences of the author's parents during the Holocaust and their life in post-war Austria.
What We Knew - Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany, by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband.
Excerpts from forty interviews with Jewish survivors, and 'average' Germans who lived in Nazi Germany. Includes an analysis, by the authors, on what the average German knew about the Nazi atrocities that were taking place during World War II.
Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis, by Nicholas Stargardt.
A haunting history of the lives of both Jewish and non-Jewish children under Nazi rule.
The Youngest Partisan (Chapter 14), by A. Romi Cohen and Dr. Leonard Ciaccio. (Book Excerpt)
Biography of a young boy who fought the Nazis.

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