Bibliography of The Holocaust
This is a selected bibliography and other resources for The Holocaust, including prominent primary sources, historical studies, notable survivor accounts and autobiographies, as well as other documentation and further hypotheses.
Primary sources
- Gemlich letter, 1919
- Special Prosecution Book-Poland, 1937–1939
- Ringelblum Archive, 1939-1943
- The Black Book, 1940
- Theresienstadt Papers, 1941-44
- Jäger Report, 1941
- The Polish White Book, 1941
- Einsatzgruppen reports, 1941–1942
- Grojanowski Report, 1942
- Wilhelm Cornides Report, 1942
- Wannsee Conference, 1942
- Riegner Telegram, 1942
- Protest!, 1942
- Raczyński's Note, 1942
- The Black Book of Poland, 1942
- The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, 1942
- Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations, 1942
- Stroop Report, 1943
- Korherr Report, 1943
- Katzmann Report, 1943
- Höfle Telegram, 1943
- Posen speeches, 1943
- Witold's Report, 1943
- The Black Book of Polish Jewry, 1943
- Auschwitz Protocols, 1944
- Vrba–Wetzler report, 1944
- Höcker Album, 1944-45
- Gerstein Report, 1945
- Harrison Report, 1945
- Auschwitz Report, 2006
Historical studies
- Bauer, Yehuda. Rethinking the Holocaust. Yale University Press; New Ed edition, 2002..
- Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale? Nazi–Jewish Negotiations 1933–1945. Yale University Press, 1994..
- Berenbaum, Michael, A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis
- Bergen, Doris, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
- Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair : Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule
- Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
- Black, Edwin. The Transfer Agreement
- Black, Edwin. IBM and the Holocaust
- Black, Edwin. Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009..
- Black, Edwin. The Farhud: The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2010..
- Braham, Randolph L.. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary 2 vols. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1981
- Braham, Randolph L. and vanden Heuvel, William. The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. Columbia University Press, 2011.
- Broszat, Martin. "Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘Final Solution’: An Assessment of David Irving’s Theses"" pages 73-125 from Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 13,1979; reprinted pages 390-429 in Aspects of the Third Reich edited by H.W. Koch, London: Macmillan, .
- Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942. With contribution by Jürgen Matthäus.
- Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Burleigh, Michael & Wippermann, Wolfgang The Racial State : Germany 1933-1945, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, .
- Chalmers, Beverley. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule, Surrey : Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, .
- Davidowicz, Lucy, The War Against the Jews : 1933-1945.
- Davies, Norman and Lukas, Richard C. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944,
- Dean, Martin: Robbing the Jews - The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1935 - 1945, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Dlugoborski, Waclaw and Franciszek Piper, eds. Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp, William Brand, trans. Oswiecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000, 5 vols.
- Dwork, Deborah. van Pelt, Robert Jan, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present
- Dwork, Deborah and van Pelt, Robert Jan. Holocaust: A History
- Ehrenreich, Eric. "The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution" .
- Evans, Suzanne. Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities
- Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews : Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 ; Volume 2: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination. HarperCollins, 2007.
- Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
- Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies
- Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War
- Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust, Routledge, New York, 2002.
- Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 1997.
- Grau, Gunter & Shoppmann, Claudia. The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45
- Gutman, Israel, Gutman, Yisrael, and Berenbaum, Michael, eds. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp
- Heberer, Patricia. Children during the Holocaust
- Hedgepeth, Sonja & Saidel, Rochelle. Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
- Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews, vol. 1-3
- Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945,
- The Holocaust Chronicle,
- Klempner, Mark. The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage
- Lewy, Gunter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
- Lusane, Clarence. Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experience of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African Americans in the Nazi Era
- Mayer, Michael Staaten als Täter. Ministerialbürokratie und 'Judenpolitik' in NS-Deutschland und Vichy-Frankreich. Ein Vergleich. Preface by Horst Möller and Georges-Henri Soutou München, Oldenbourg, 2010..
- Ofer, Dalia & Weitzman, Lenore. Women in the Holocaust
- Peukert, Detlev “The Genesis of the `Final Solution’ from the Spirit of Science” pages 234-252 from Reevaluating the Third Reich edited by Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1994.
- Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
- Poliakov, Léon. Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of the Jews of Europe
- Pringle, Heather. The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust. London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
- Ioanid, Radu. The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944
- Reitlinger, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945
- Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 2003.
- Satloff, Robert. "Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands"
- Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945.
- Schleunes, Karl A., .
- Stone, Dan, ed. The Historiography of the Holocaust. New York: Palgrave, 2004
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Historical Atlas of the Holocaust, Macmillan Publishing
- Waldstein Wilkes, Helen: Letters from the Lost, A Memoir of Discovery. 2009
- Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Selected survivor accounts
- Altman, I. Sokhrani moi pisma. .
- Améry, Jean. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities
- Beck, Gad. An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
- Blitz Konig, Nanette. Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor and Classmate of Anne Frank Amsterdam Publishers
- Buber-Neumann Margarete Under Two Dictators. Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
- Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After
- Dittman, Anita. Trapped in Hitler's Hell. 2005.
- Dunn, Krista Perry. ,
- Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning
- Gerrard, Mady Full Circle Publisher: KLPM Ltd
- Gutman, Israel, Resistance : The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Heger, Heinz. Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
- Kertész, Imre. "Fateless" or "Fatelessness" Hungarian "Sorstalanság" First published 1975
- Klemperer, Victor. I Shall Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 2 vols., also published as I Will Bear Witness in the U.S.
- Klüger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered First published in German weiter leben: Eine Jugend
- Kogon, Eugen. Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
- Kovaly, Heda Margolius, Under a Cruel Star
- Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
- Lengyel, Olga. Five chimneys: the story of Auschwitz.
- Levi, Primo. If This Is a Man and The Truce, published separately in the U.S. as Survival At Auschwitz and The Reawakening
- Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved
- Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers at Auschwitz
- Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
- Nyiszli, Miklós. Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
- Orenstein, Henry. "I Shall Live: Surviving against all odds, 1939-1945",
- Rekhtman, Moyshe. Here My Home Once Stood
- Rittner, Carol & Roth, John. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust
- Seel, Pierre. I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror
- Stojka, Ceija. We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni, also known as Wir leben im Verborgenen. Erinnerungen einer Rom-Zigeunerin
- Smith, Lyn, Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust, Ebury Press
- Steinberg, Manny Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs,, Amsterdam Publishers
- Vrba, Rudolf. First published as I Cannot Forgive by Sidgwick and Jackson, Grove Press, 1963, ; also published as Escape from Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive; latest edition I Escaped from Auschwitz, Barricade Books, 2002,.
- Weissmann Klein, Gerda. All But My Life
- Wiesenthal, Simon and James, Harry, et al. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
- Wetzler, Alfréd. Escape from Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol. Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Winter, Walter. Winter Time: Memoirs of a German Sinto who Survived Auschwitz
- Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Selected semi-autobiographical by survivors
- Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
- Fink, Ida. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
- Kertész, Imre. Fateless
- Spiegelman, Art. , volume 1: "My Father Bleeds History," volume 2: "Here My Troubles Began".
- Weil, Jiří. Life With a Star
- Wiesel, Elie. Night. Hill & Wang, 1960.
- Greenfield, Hana. Fragments of Memory
Other documentation
- Arad, Yitzhak, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
- Browning Christopher R., Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Carr, Firpo Wycoff Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945
- Czech, Danuta, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945
- Dean, Martin. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44
- Dippler, Christoph "The German Resistance and the Jews" pages 51–93 from Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 16, 1984.
- Lucjan Dobroszycki, The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944
- Gilbert, Martin, Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
- Fings, Karola and Kenrick, Donald The Gypsies During the Second World War, 2 vols.
- Gutman, Israel, Berenbaum, Michael, et al., Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, et al. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
- Hogan, David J. and Aretha, David, eds. The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures. Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 2000
- Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette - Ten Green Bottles: Nazi Occupied Vienna to Shanghai
- Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eliat, In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe - A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust
- The Protest of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
- Oppenheimer, Deborah and Harris, Mark Jonathan, Into the Arms of Strangers : Stories of the Kindertransport
- Pressac, Jean-Claude, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers
- van Pelt, Robert Jan. The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial
- Steger, Bernd and Wald, Peter. Hinter der grüne Pappe: Orli Wald im Schatten von Auschwitz – Leben und Erinnerungen
- Vromen, Suzanne. Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis
Hypotheses and historiography
- Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
- Bloxham, Donald. The Final Solution: A Genocide
- Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Goldhagen, Daniel J.,
- Dippel, John V. H. Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why so many German Jews made the tragic decision to remain in Nazi Germany
- Feig, Konnilyn, Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
- Finkelstein, Norman G.. Ruth Bettina Birn, A nation on trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth
- Kershaw, Ian, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, London: Hodder Arnold,
- Tom Lawson, Debates on the Holocaust, 2010
- Leff, Laurel Buried By The Times: The Holocaust And America's Most Important Newspaper, Cambridge University Press, hardcover, 426 pages,
- Linden, R. Ruth. Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust
- Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
- Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History
- Mason, Timothy "Intention and Explanation: A Current Controversy about the Interpretation of National Socialism" pages 3–20 from The Nazi Holocaust Part 3, The "Final Solution": The Implementation of Mass Murder Volume 1 edited by Michael Marrus, Mecler: Westpoint, CT
- Niewyk, Donald L. Holocaust: Problems & Perspective of Interpretation
- Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life
- Rosenbaum, Alan S. Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide
- Troncoso, Sergio. The Nature of Truth
- Weiss, John. Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany
- Wolffsohn, Michael Eternal Guilt? : Forty years of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations, New York : Columbia University Press, .
Selected filmography
- America and the Holocaust The American Experience. 1994, 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation,
- ', BBC. 2005.
- ' is a 57-minute documentary from 1999 which tells the stories of three Jewish teenagers who resisted the Nazis: Faye Schulman, a photographer and partisan fighter in the forests of Poland ; Barbara Rodbell, a ballerina in Amsterdam who delivered underground newspapers and secured food and transportation for Jews in hiding; and Shulamit Lack, who acquired false papers and a safe house for Jews attempting to escape from Hungary. The movie was produced and directed by Barbara Attie and Martha Goell Lubell, and narrated by Janeane Garofalo.
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- Liebe Perla is a 53-minute documentary that documents Nazi Germany's brutality towards disabled people through the exploration of a friendship between two women with dwarfism: Hannelore Witkofski of Germany and Perla Ovitz, who at the time of filming was living in Israel. Perla Ovitz was experimented on by Joseph Mengele during the Nazi regime. The film was made by Shahar Rozen in Israel and Germany in 1999, and it is in German and Hebrew with English subtitles.
- ', as shown by PBS Frontline
- Night and Fog, 1955, directed by Alain Resnais, narrated by Michel Bouquet.
- One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 Oscar-winning documentary in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
- Paper clips
- Paragraph 175 is an 81-minute documentary directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman that discusses the plight of gays and lesbians during the Nazi regime using interviews with all of the known gay and lesbian survivors of this era, five gay men and one lesbian.
- Shoah is a nine-hour documentary completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985. The film, unlike most historical documentaries, does not feature reenactments or historical photos; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss.
- The Sorrow and the Pity, 1972, directed by Marcel Ophüls.
- Swimming in Auschwitz is a 2007 documentary which interweaves the stories of six Jewish women who were imprisoned inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. The women all survived and tell their stories in person in the documentary; at the time of its filming they were all living in Los Angeles.
General Sites
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- , H-Net discussion list for scholars and advanced students
- a Holocaust primer.
- Owned and run by the An independent international organisation dedicated to eliminating genocide
- . The Jewish History Resource Center, Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- . Includes the extensive Holocaust Encyclopedia and large collections of maps and photos, one of the most comprehensive sites.
- . Extensive archives with searchable databases of victims, photos, extremely comprehensive
- Searchable online archives on the Holocaust and Jewish resistance
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- an online memorial
- . The full 800 page book online, with photos and search features.
- , General site with large Q&A section, as well as works by Jean-Claude Pressac
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- , first-hand account and photographs of the 51st Evacuation Hospital during World War II
- "The Case of Archbishop Stepinac: How the Catholic Clergy Helped Run Ustashe Croatia"; Published by the Yugoslav Embassy, Washington, DC, 1947; reprinted at http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/stepinac1.htm
- A study of the kindertransport and testimonies from the children who took part in it.
- An international Jewish human rights organization
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- http://www.holocaustcentre.org.nz/
Sites in languages other than English
- Yad Vashem in , , , , and
- Project Aladdin
Memorials
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- The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.
- The Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial in Oregon dedicated to all those killed in the Holocaust.
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Particular groups involved in The Holocaust
- . Section from Rewriting The Footnotes — Berlin and the African Diaspora, by Paulette Reed-Anderson.
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus.
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Holocaust education
- The artwork, developed for Black is a Color, is meant to depict the heroic posture humanity has assumed in this post-Holocaust world, and present it to both humanity and God. For humanity it should serve as a reminder of the worth of their actions, and for God a testament to the worth of God's creations.
- . The Holocaust Education Development Programme is run by the Institute of Education, University of London and jointly funded by the Pears Foundation and the Department for Children, Schools and Families with support from the Holocaust Educational Trust. Its overarching aim is to help teachers teach about the Holocaust in effective and thought-provoking ways.
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Documentation and evidence
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- photos of victims, camps, liberation
Other topics
- - global human rights and development network looks at genocide from a variety of perspectives
- the man in the center of Orthodoxy's rescue activities.
Other
- , a documentary film and website.
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- , describing Holocaust survivor Lola Mozes’ experiences as a child in Nazi camps. By Chris Hedges in Truthdig. , Hedges interviews Lola Mozes as she recounts her experience living in Nazi-occupied Poland, three-part video interview, The Real News
- , describing the writings of inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto who buried their accounts of the ghetto as German forces were liquidating the Jewish population of the ghetto. By Chris Hedges in Truthdig
- . "A US Army doctor helped free the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, meticulously documenting his experiences in letters home to his wife. Hidden for the remainder of his life, the letters have resurfaced, and with them, questions about the G.I.’s we know only as heroes." The New Republic
- Máximo, João Carlos, "Não Há Aves em Sobibor", Chiado Editora..