Holocaust Literature
There are literally thousands of books written about the Holocaust. More are coming out every year. Our study and understanding of the Holocaust will never be complete, and it would be truly impossible to read everything that is available. This list attempts to give students a broad and basic sampling of what literature is available.
Memoirs and DiariesNight by Elie Wiesel
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust by Lucille Eichengreen An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein Dry Tears by Nechama Tec My German Question by Peter Gay Inside the Gas Chambers by Shlomo Venezia The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Berstein with Louise Loots Thornton Resistance and HeroismResistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Yisrael Gutman
They Fought Back edited by Yuri Suhl Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny by Charles Anflick Heros of the Holocaust by Ted Gottfried The Jews Against Hitler: Not as a Lamb by Lucien Steinberg Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany by Frank McDonough Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi Children and the HolocaustI Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
Escape: Children of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo Witness of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945 by Richard Lukas I Came Alone: Stories of the Kindertransports edited by Bertha Leverton and Shmuel Lowensohn The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak by Wiktoria Silwowska Saving Children: Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescue by Jack Werber Gender and the HolocaustBetween Dignity and Despair by Marion Kaplan
Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization by Elizabeth Harvey Women and the Holocaust edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman Love Carried Me Home by Joy Erlichman Miller Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust by Judith Baumel Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust by Elizabeth R. Baer Women’s Kommandos by Christian Bernadac Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women who Survived the Holocaust by Brana Gurewitsch Faith and the HolocaustMan's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications edited by John K. Roth and Michael Bernenbaum Faith After the Holocaust by Rabbi Eliezer Berkovitz A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth by Roger Gottlieb Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust by Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman and Gershon Greenberg Kol Dodi Dofek: Listen-My Beloved Knocks by Joseph Soloveitchik |
Historical SurveysWar and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh From Boycott to Annihilation by Avraham Barkai Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer The Holocaust: Origins, Implementations, and Aftermath by Omer Bartov The War Against the Jews by Lucy Dawidowicz Encyclopedia of the Holocaust edited by Israel Gutman Antisemitism and The Final SolutionProbing the Depths of German Antisemitism: German Society and the Persecution of the Jews 1933-1941 by David Bankier
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and the War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 by Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, the Jews and Ordinary Germans by Eric Johnson Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and The Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Other Victims of Nazi PersecutionHidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany, 1933-45 by Gunter Grau
The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Third Reich by Detlef Garbe Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich by Tina Campt The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis by Ina R. Friedman The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies by Guenther Lewy The Aftermath of the HolocaustEnd of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps by Jon Brideman
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany by Atina Grossmann The Evacuation, Dismantling and Liberation of KL Auschwitz by Andrzej Strzelecki The Bitter Road to Freedom by William Hitchcock Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases by Stephan Landsman Justice at Nuremberg by Robert Conot Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt Justice in Jerusalem by Gideon Hausner The Aftermath: Living with the Holocaust by Aaron Hass Holding on to Humanity -- The Message of Holocaust Survivors: The Shamai Davidson Papers by Shamai Davidson Living After the Holocaust: Reflections by Children of Survivors in America Understanding Holocaust DenialDenying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah Lipstadt
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt Holocaust Denial by Kenneth Stern In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say it? by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman |