Comprehensive Histories of the Holocaust 

 

Bauer, Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982. 

Bauer, Yehuda, Rethinking the Holocaust.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000

Bergen, Doris L. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Berenbaum, Michael, ed. The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. 

Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews, 1933--1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. 

Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Holocaust: A history.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. 

Gutman, Israel, editor in chief. The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990. 

Gutman, Israel, and Chaim Shatzker. The Holocaust and Its Significance. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 1984. 

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961 (definitive edition, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985).

Hellig, Jocelyn. The Holocaust and Antisemitism: A Short History.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.

Knopp, Guido, Hitler's Holocaust. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2001.

Laqueur, Walter ed., The Holocaust Encyclopedia.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001

MacKale, Donald M.  Hitler's Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II.  New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Marrus, Michael. The Holocaust In History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987.
Milgram, Avrham and Robert Rozett eds., The Holocaust, Frequently Asked Questions, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem and the Knesset, 2005 

Niewyk, Donald L., The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2000

Poliakov, Leon. Harvest of Hate. London: Best Seller Library, 1960 (French edition, copyright 1954). 

Reitlinger, Gerald. The Final Solution. New York: Beechurst Press, 1953 (second revised and augmented edition, London: Vallentine-Mitchell, 1968). 

Rozett, Robert  and Shmuel Spector eds., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.  New York: Facts on File, 2000

Spector, Shmuel ed., The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 2001

Wistrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust, New York: The Modern Library, 2001

Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry. New York: Oxford Press, 1990. 

  Antisemitism 
Bankier, David, ed., Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism, German Society and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999

Ben-Itto, Hadassa,  The lie that wouldn't die,   the Protocols of the Elders of Zion  ,  London,  Vallentine Mitchell, 2005.

Birnbaum, Pierre,  The anti-semitic moment, a tour of France in 1898,  New York     :Hill and Wang, 2003

Carroll, James, Constantine's sword, The church and the Jews; A history,  Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Chesler, Phyllis, The new anti-semitism, The current crisis and what we must do about it,   San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2003

Cohn, Norman. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1967. 

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Anti-Semitism: A History.  Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2002.

Gerstenfeld, Manfred (ed), Europe's crumbling myths,  The post-Holocaust origins of today's anti-Semitism, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003

Katz, Jacob. From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism 1700--1933. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Kertzer, David I, The Popes against the Jews, The Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-Semitism, New York: Knopf, 2001.

Massing, Paul W. Rehearsal for Destruction: A Study of Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. 

Mosse, George Lachmann. The Crisis in German Ideology. New York: Schocken Books, 1981 (first published, 1964). 

Parkes, James. Antisemitism. London: Vallentine, 1963. 

Poliakov, Leon. The History of Anti-Semitism. 4 vols. London: Elek Books, 1966--1985. 

Schoenfeld, Gabriel, The return of anti-semitism,  San Fransisco, Calif., Encounter Books, 2004

Trachtenberg, Joshua, The devil and the Jews :  the medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern antisemitism,  New Haven : Yale University Press, 1943

Weiss, John,  Politics of hate,  Anti-Semitism, history, and the Holocaust in modern Europe, Chicago, Ill. : I.R. Dee, 2003

Wistrich, Robert Solomon, Muslim anti-Semitism, a clear and present danger, New York : American Jewish Committee, 2002

Ben-Itto, Hadassa,  The lie that wouldn't die,   the Protocols of the Elders of Zion  ,  London,  Vallentine Mitchell, 2005.


  Racial Antisemitism 

Bankier, David (ed.) Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism, German Society and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2000

Mosse, George Lachmann. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. London: JM Dent, 1978. 

Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

  Nazism and Fascism

Allen, William Sheridan. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1930--1935. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965 (revised edition, New York: Franklin Watts, 1984). 

Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism. New York: Praeger, 1970.

Evans, Richard J.,  The Coming of the Third Reich ,  New York,  Penguin, 2004
Evans, Richard, The Third Reich in Power, New York: Penguin, 2005

Gellately, Robert, Backing Hitler, Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Mosse, George Lachmann. The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism. New York: H. Fertig, 1999.

Neumann, Franz. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism. New York: Harper, 1966 (originally published in 1944). 

Paxton, Robert O,. The anatomy of fascism ,New York,  Knopf, 2004.

Sternhell, Zeev. The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Weiss, John. Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. 

Paxton, Robert O,. The anatomy of fascism ,New York,  Knopf, 2004.

Evans, Richard J.,  The Coming of the Third Reich ,  New York,  Penguin, 2004

  Hitler 

Bullock, Allan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. London: Odhams, 1952. 

Fest, Joachim. Hitler. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. 

Jaeckel, Eberhard. Hitler in History. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1984. 

---. Hitler's Weltanschauung: A Blueprint for Power. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. 

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. London: Longman, 1991.

---. Hitler, 1889-1936, Hubris. London: Allen Lane, 1998. 

---Hitler, 1936-45, Nemesis.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2000

---. The Nazi Dictatorship. London: Edward Arnold, 1985. 

Kershaw, Ian Hitler, 1936-45, Nemesis.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2000

Lukacs, John. The Hitler of History. New York: Knopf, 1997. 

Rosenbaum, Ron. Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origin of His Evil. London: Macmillan, 1998.

  Development of the "Final Solution" 
 

Aly, Goetz and Susanne Heim.  Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of  Destruction.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.

Aly, Goetz. 'Final Solution': Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews. London: Arnold, 1999.

Bankier, David and Israel Gutman (eds.), Nazi Europe and the Final Solution.  Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003.

Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. London: The Bodely Head, 1991. 

Browning, Christopher. Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985. 

---. Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust.  New York:  Knopf,  2002.

 ---The origins of the Final Solution,   the evolution of Nazi  Jewish policy, September 1939 - March 1942 ,  London,   Heinemann, 2004.
---. The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 

Cesarani, David, ed. The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation. London: Routledge, 1994. 

Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 

Friedlaender, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. 

Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf, 1996. 

Herbert, Ulrich (ed.). National Socialist Extermination Policies, Contermporary German Perspectives and Controversies New York: Berghahn, 2000.

Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust.  New York:  Knopf,  2002.

Schleunes, Karl. The Twisted Road To Auschwitz. London: Deutsch, 1972. 

Browning, Christopher Robert,  The origins of the Final Solution,   the evolution of Nazi  Jewish policy, September 1939 - March 1942 ,  London,   Heinemann, 2004.

  The Murderers 
 

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: The Viking Press, 1963. 

Benz, Wolfgang. The Holocaust: A German Historian Examines the Genocide. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 

Cesarani, David,  Eichmann:  his life and crimes ,  London,  Heinemann, 2004

Hoehne, Heinz. The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS. London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. 

Johnson, Eric A., Nazi Terror, The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.  New York: Basic Books,1999

Klee, Ernst, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess. Those Were the Days: The Holocaust as Seen by the Perpetrators and Bystanders. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. 

Krausnik, Helmut, and Martin Broszat, et al. The Anatomy of the SS State. London: Collins, 1968. 

Lifton, Robert. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 1986. 

Lozowick, Yaacov. Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi SecurityPpolice and the Banality       of Evil.  London: Continuum, 2002.

Nicosia, Francis R and Jonathan Huener (eds.), Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices,  Legacies.  New York: Berghahn, 2002.

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 

Sereny, Gitta, and Albert Speer. His Battle With Truth. New York: Macmillan, 1995. 

Cesarani, David,  Eichmann:  his life and crimes ,  London,  Heinemann, 2004
Westermann, Edward, B., Hitler’s Police Battalions, Enforcing Racial War in the East, Lawrence Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2005

  Nazi Camps 

Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Extermination Camps. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 

Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. 

Dwork, Deborah. Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 

Feig, Konnilyn. Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981. 

Frankl, Viktor. From Death Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959 (revised and reissued as Man's Search For Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968). 

Gutman, Israel, and Michael Berenbaum, eds. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994. 

Gutman, Israel, and Avital Saf, eds. The Nazi Concentration Camps: Structure and Aim-The Image of the Prisoner-The Jews in the Camps. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1984. 

Karay, Felicja. Women in the Forced-Labor Camps. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Kogon, Eugene. The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them. London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. 

Langbein, Hermann,  People in Auschwitz ,  Chapel Hill,  University of North  Carolina Press, 2004 

Rees, Laurence  Auschwitz,   a new history ,  New York,  Public Affairs, 2005

Sofsky, Wolfgang. The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 

Rees, Laurence  Auschwitz,   a new history ,  New York,  Public Affairs, 2005.

Langbein, Hermann,  People in Auschwitz ,  Chapel Hill,  University of North  Carolina Press, 2004.

 

  Slave Labor and Jewish Assets
 

Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.  Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Eizenstat, Stuart E.   Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the      Unfinished Business of World War II.  New York: Public Affairs,  2003

Zweig, Ronald W .The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Second World War's Most Terrible Robbery.  London: Allen Lane, 2002.


  The Ghettos 

Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation. New York: Macmillan, 1972. 

  The Polish Government-in-Exile 

Engle, David. Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943--1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. 

---. In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939--1942. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

  Jewish Response in Eastern Europe 

Altshuler, Mordechai. Soviet Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust: A Social and Demographic Profile. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Centre for Research of East-European Jewry, 1998. 

Arad, Yitzhak. Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews of Vilna in the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1980. 

Cholavsky, Shalom. The Jews of Bielorussia during World War II. Amsterdam: 
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. 

---. Soldiers from the Ghetto. San Diego: AS Barnes, 1980. 

Gutman, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939--1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. 

Krakowski, Shmuel. The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland 1942--1944. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1984. 

Levin, Dov. Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis 1941--1945. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985. 

  The Ukraine and Belarus

Aster, Howard, ed. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective. Edmonton, Can.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1990.

Dean, Martin. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and the Ukraine, 1941--1944. New York: St. Martins Press, 2000.

Ehrenburg, Ilya, and Vasily Grossman. The Black Book. New York: Holocaust 
Library, 1981. 

Kuznetsov, Anatoly. Babi Yar. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967. 

Spector, Shmuel. The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews 1941--1944. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1990. 

  France 
 

Adler, Jacques. The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution: Communal Response and Internal Conflicts 1940--1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 

Cohen, Richard. The Burden of Conscience: French Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 

Lazare, Luciene. Rescue as Resistance: How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 

Marrus, Michael, and Robert Paxton. Vichy France and the Jews. New York: Basic Books, 1981. 

Poznanski, Renee. Jews in France during World War II. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, 2001.

Zuccotti, Susan. The Holocaust, The French and the Jews. New York: Basic Books, 1993. 

  The Netherlands and Belgium

Colijn, G. Jan, ed. The Netherlands and Nazi Genocide: Papers of the 21st Annual Scholars Conference. Lewiston: The Edward Mellen Press, 1992. 

de Jong, Louis. The Netherlands and Nazi Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. 

Michman, Dan, ed. Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998.

Moore, Bob. Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940--1945. London: Arnold, 1997. 

Presser, Jacob. The Destruction of the Dutch Jews. New York: EP Dutton, 1969. 

  Scandinavia 

Abrahamsen, Samuel. Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective. New York: Holocaust Library, 1991. 

Rautkillo, Hannu. Finland and the Holocaust: The Rescue of Finland's Jews. New York: Holocaust Library, 1987. 

Yahil, Leni. The Rescue of Danish Jewry: Test of a Democracy. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1969. 

  Italy 

Carpi, Daniel. Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1994. 

Michaelis, Meir. Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian Relations and the Jewish Question in Italy, 1922--1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 

Zuccotti, Susan. The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival. New York: Basic Books, 1987. 

  The Balkans 

Bar-Zohar, Michel. Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1998.

Chary, Fredrich. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution 1940--1944. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. 

Mazower, Mark. Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941--1944. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 

--- Salonica, City of Ghosts,  Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, New York : Knopf, 2005

  German Jewry 
 

Angress, Werner. Between Fear and Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third Reich. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. 

Baker, Leonard. Days of Sorrow, Days of Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews. New York: Macmillan, 1978. 

Barkai, Avraham. From Boycott to Annihilation: The Economic Struggle of German Jews, 1933--1943. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989. 

Elon, Amos. Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.

---. Renewal and Destruction, 1918--1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 

Gay, Peter. Freud, Jews and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. 

Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Kulka, Otto Dov, and Paul Mendes-Flohr, eds. Judaism and Christianity Under the Impact of National Socialism, 1919--1945. Jerusalem: The Historical Society of Israel, 1987. 

Mosse, George Lachmann. German Jews Beyond Judaism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985. 

Mosse, Werner Eugene. The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820--1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 

Nywiek, Donald. The Jews in Weimar Germany. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 

Poppel, Stephen. Zionism in Germany: The Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1897--1933. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977. 

Pulzer, Peter. Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848--1933. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. 

Reinharz, Yehuda. Fatherland or Promised Land: The Dilemma of the German Jew, 1893--1914. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1975. 

Reinharz, Yehuda, and Walter Schatzberg, eds. The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. 

Richarz, Monika, ed. Jewish Life in Germany: Memoirs from Three Centuries. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1991. 

Schorsch, Ismar. Jewish Reactions to German Anti-Semitism, 1870--1914. New 
York: Columbia University Press, 1972. 

Tal, Uriel. Christians and Jews in Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. 

  Austria, Hungary and Romania 

Ben-Tov, Arieh. Facing a Holocaust in Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in Hungary 1943--1945. Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1988. 

Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler's Austria. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, þ2000

Braham, Randolph L., ed. The Destruction of Romanian and Hungarian Jews during the Antonescu Era. Boulder, CO: The City University of New York, 1997. 

---, ed. The Holocaust in Hungary: Fifty Years Later. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 

---. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981 (revised edition, 1994). 

Carp, Matatias, Holocaust in Romania, Facts and Documents on the Annihilation of Romania's Jews, 1940-1944.  Safety Harbor, Fla.: Simon, 2000

Cesarani, David, ed. Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary 1944. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 

Cohen, Asher. The Hehalutz Underground. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 1986. 

Cole, Tim, Holocaust City,  The making of a Jewish ghetto, New York :Routledge, 2003

Ioanid, Radu, The Holocaust in Romania, Chicago: IR Dee, 1999.

Katzburg, Nathaniel. Hungary and the Jews, 1920--1943. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1981. 

  Slovakia 

Campion, Joan,  In the Lion's Mouth, Gisi Fleischmann and the Jewish Fight for Survival.  New York: University Press of America, 1987

Frieder, Emmanuel. To Deliver Their Souls: The Struggle of a Young Rabbi during the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust Library, 1987. 

Fuks, Abraham. The Unheeded Cry. Brooklyn: Mesorah Publications, 1984. 

Toth, Dezider, ed. The Tragedy of Slovak Jews: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Banska Bystrica, 25th to 27th March, 1992. Banska Bystrica: Datai, 1992. 

Campion, Joan,  In the Lion's Mouth, Gisi Fleischmann and the Jewish Fight for Survival.  New York: University Press of America, 1987

  Czech Republic 

Bondy, Ruth. "Elder of Jews," Jacob Edelstein of Theresienstadt. New York: Grove Press, 1989.
Rothkirchen, Livia, The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia Facing the Holocaust: Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2005 

  Jewish Rescue Attempts 

Bauer, Yehuda. American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Joint Distribution Committee, 1939--1945. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. 

---. The Holocaust in Historical Perspective. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. 

---. The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1979. 

---. Jews For Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933--1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. 

Kranzler, David H., The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour.  Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000

Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Conference on Manifestations of Jewish Resistance, Jerusalem, April 7--11, 1968. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1968. 

Morrison, David. Heroes, Antiheroes and the Holocaust: American Jewry and Historical Choice. 2nd ed. Jerusalem: Gefen, 1999.

Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe, 1933-1945: Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalem, April 1--7, 1977. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979. 

Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalem, April 8--11, 1974. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1977. 

  Jewish Partisans 

Tec, Nechama. Defiance: The Belski Partisans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 

  Allied Response 

Arad, Gulie Ne'eman, America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism.  Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2000

Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933--1948. New York: Random House, 1983. 

Aronson, Shlomo,  Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews ,  Cambridge,  Cambridge  University Press, 2004.

Baumel Judith Tydor. Unfulfilled Promise: Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Children in the United States, 1934--1945. Juneau: Denali Press, 1990. 

Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. 

Breitman, Richard, and Alan Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933--1945. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 

Cohen, Michael. Retreat from the Mandate: The Making of British Policy, 1936--1945. London: Elek, 1978. 

Feingold, Henry. The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust. New Brunswick. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970. 

Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. 

Kushner, Tony. The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. 

Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: An Investigation in the Suppression of Information about Hitler's "Final Solution." London: and Nicolson, 1980. 

Lipstadt, Deborah. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust. New York: The Free Press, 1986. 

Nicosia, Francis. The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. London: IB Taurus, 1985. 

Ofer, Dalia. Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939--1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 

Porat, Dina. The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939--1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. 

Sherman, A. J. Island of Refuge: Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich, 1933--1939. London: Elek, 1973. 

Sompolinsky, Meier. Britain and the Holocaust: The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership? Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999.

Wasserstein, Bernard. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939--1945. London: Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1979. 

Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust. New 
York: Pantheon Books, 1984. 

---. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938--1941. 
Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968. 

Zweig, Ronald. Britain and Palestine during the Second World War. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1986. 

Aronson, Shlomo,  Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews ,  Cambridge,  Cambridge  University Press, 2004.

  Neutral Governments and the Holocaust 

Favez, Jean-Claude. The Red Cross and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Haessler, Alfred. The Lifeboat is Full: Switzerland and the Refugees, 1933--1945. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969. 

Koblik, Steven. The Stones Cry Out: Sweden's Response to the Persecution of the Jews, 1933--1945. New York: Holocaust Library, 1988.

Levin, Itamar. The Last Deposits: Swiss Banks and the Holocaust Victims' Accounts. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Ziegler, Jean. The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1998. 

  Churches and the Holocaust 

Cornwell, John. Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. New York: Viking, 1999.

Friedlaender, Saul. Pius XII and the Third Reich: A Documentation. New York: Knopf, 1966. 

Lapide, Pinachas, The Last Three Popes and the Jews. London: Souvenir Press, 1967

Phayer, Michael, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2000

Morley, John. Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust, 1939--1943. New York: Ktav, 1980. 

Rittner, Carol et al. eds. The Holocaust and the Christian World, Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future, London: Kupard, 2000

Phayer, Michael, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2000

Rittner, Carol et al. eds. The Holocaust and the Christian World, Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future, London: Kupard, 2000

Zuccotti, Susan, Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2000



  Righteous Among the Nations 

 

Fogelman, Eva. Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 

Gilbert, Martin.  The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust.  London:      Doubleday, 2002

Oliner, Samuel. The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. New York: Free Press, 1988. 

Paldiel, Mordecai. The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1993. 

Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 

Tschuy, Theo, Dangerous Diplomacy, The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 2000

  Selected Diaries and Memoirs 

The Diary of Eva Heyman. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1974. 

Appelfeld, Aharon, The Story of a Life, New York: Schocken, 2004

Fenelon, Fania. The Musicians of Auschwitz. London: M. Joseph, 1977.

Friedlaender, Saul. When Memory Comes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. 

Geva, Thomas. Youth in Chains. Jerusalem: R Mass, 1958. 

Hart, Kitty. I Am Alive. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1961. 

Hillsum, Etty. Etty: A Diary 1941--1943. London: J. Cape, 1983. 

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. New York: Collier Books, 1971. 

Mechanicus, Philip. Waiting for Death: A Diary. London: Calder and Boyers, 1968. 

Mueller, Filip. Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. 

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. 

Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. London: Hamilton, 1964. 

Rousset, David. The Other Kingdom. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. 

Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Diary, Avraham Tory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1992. 

The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. 

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. 

Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 

  Selected Literature and Poetry 

Appelfeld, Aharon. The Age of Wonders. Boston: David B. Godine, 1981. 

---. The Immortal Bartfuss. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. 

---. Katerina. New York: Random House, 1992. 

---. Unto The Soul. New York: Random House, 1994. 

Begley, Lewis. The Man Who Was Late. New York: Knopf, 1993. 

---. Wartime Lies. New York: Knopf, 1991. 

Bellow, Saul. Mr. Sammler's Planet. London: Penguin, 1972. 

Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: Viking Press, 1967. 

Fink, Ida. The Journey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. 

Hersey, John. The Wall. London: H. Hamilton, 1960. 

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

---. If Not Now When. New York: Summit Books, 1985. 

---. The Mirror Maker. New York: Schocken Books, 1989. 

---. The Periodic Table. New York: Schocken Books, 1984. 

Plath, Sylvia. Crossing the Water. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 

---. Winter Trees. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 

Wiesel, Elie. The Accident. New York: Hill and Wang, 1962. 

---. Dawn. London: MacGibbon, 1961. 

---. The Fifth Son. New York: Warner Books, 1985. 

---. The Gates of the Forest. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. 

---. Legends of Our Time. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 

  The Holocaust in Literature and the Arts 

Amishai-Maisels, Ziva. Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993.
Avisar, Ilan, Screening the Holocaust, Cinema's Images of the Unimaginable, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988
Baron, Lawrence, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present, the Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema, Lanham, Md.: Rowan and Littlefield, 2005

Doneson, Judith E., The Holocaust in American Film, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Ezrachi, Sidra Dekoven. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 

Flam, Gila. Singing For Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Gilbert, Shirli, Music in the Holocaust, Confronting Life in Nazi Ghettos and Camps, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005
Haggith, Toby and Joanna Newman eds., Holocaust and the Moving Iimage, Representations in Film and Television since 1933, London: Wallflower Press, 2006

Karas, Joza. Music in Terezin 1941--1945. New York: Beaufort Books, 1985. 

Langer, Lawrence. Admitting the Holocaust: Collective Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 

---. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975. 

---. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. 

---. Preempting the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

---. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. 

Rosenfeld, Alvin. A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980. 

Roskies, David. Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. 

Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays, 1958--1966. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. 

---. The Portage to San Cristobal of AH. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. 

Young, James. Writing and Re-Writing the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990. 

  Collective Memory 

Friedlaender, Saul. Memory, History and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. 

Katz, Steven. The Holocaust in Historical Context, Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 

Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Young, James. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Their Meaning. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 

  Philosophy and Theology 

Berkovits, Eliezer. Faith After the Holocaust. New York: Ktav, 1973. 

---. With God in Hell: Judaism in the Ghettos and the Death Camps. New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1979. 

Braiterman, Zachary. (God) after Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Cohen, Arthur A. The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust. New York: Crossroad, 1981. 

Fackenheim, Emil. God's Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections. New York: New York University Press, 1970.
Katz, Steven  T. ed., The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology, New York: New York University Press, 2005 

---. The Jewish Return to History: Reflections in the Age of Auschwitz and the New Jerusalem. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. 

---. The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim: A Reader. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 

---. To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994. 

Katz, Steven. Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought. New York: New York University Press, 1985. 

Rubenstein, Richard. After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 

Schweid, Eliezer. Wrestling Until Day-Break: Searching for Meaning in the Thinking of the Holocaust. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. 

Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Fate and Destiny, From Holocaust to the State of Israel.  New York: Ktav, 2000

  Holocaust Denial 

Evans, Richard J. Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust and the David Irving Trial. New York: Basic Books, 2001

Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: Plume Books, 1994. 

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre. Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 

  War Crimes Trials and Criminals 

Finkielkraut, Alain. Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 

Gilbert, Gustave Mark. Nuremberg Diary. New York: Farrar, 1947. 

Harel, Isser. The House on Garibaldi Street. New York: Bantam Books, 1976. 

Ryan, Allan. Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984. 

Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1992. 

Wittmann, Rebecca, Beyond justice:  the Auschwitz trial,  Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2005

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Murderers Among Us. London: Heinemann, 1967. 

Zuroff, Efraim. Occupation: Nazi-Hunter, The Continuing Search for the Perpetrators of the Holocaust. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1994.

Yablonka, Hanna,  The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann ,  New York,  Schocken,  2004.

  Holocaust Survivors, Their Post-War Experiences and Psychology
 

Gay, Ruth. Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews after World War II.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002

Lavsky, Hagit.  New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950.  Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State  University Press, 2002.

Mankowitz, Zeev W.  Life Between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bar-On, Dan. Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Baumel, Esther Judith Tydor. Kibbutz Buchenwald: Survivors and Pioneers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Bloxham, Donald, Genocide on Trial.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gay, Ruth. Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews after World War II.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002

Gilbert, Martin. The Boys: Triumph over Adversity. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. 

Gill, Anton. The Journey Back from Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors. London: Grafton Books, 1988. 

Greenspan, Henry, On Listening to Holocaust Survivors, Recounting and Life History. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998

Hass, Aaron. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Second Generation. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Karpf, Ann. The War After: Living with the Holocaust. London: Heinemann, 1996. 

Lavsky, Hagit.  New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950.  Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State  University Press, 2002

Mankowitz, Zeev W.  Life Between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Yablonka, Hanna. Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel after the War. London: Macmillan, 1999.

Historiography

Lang, Berel, Post-Holocaust,  Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History, Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 2005
Dan Michman, Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective; Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches and Fundamental Issues, London: Valentine Mitchell, 2003.
Robert Rozett, Approaching the Holocaust: Texts and Contexts, London: Vallentine Mitchell, þ2005
Dan Stone (ed.), The historiography of the Holocaust, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Gender Studies

Baumel, Esther Judith Tydor, Double Jeopardy, Gender and the Holocaust, London :Vallentine Mitchell, 1998
Fuchs, Esther, ed, Women and the Holocaust, Narrative and Representation, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999
Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman eds., Women in the Holocaust, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
Saidel-Wolk, Rochelle G., The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Children and Youth

Dwork, Deborah, Children with a Star, Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991
Gershon, Karen ed.,We Came as Children, a Collective Autobiography,  London: Gollancz, 1966
Laqueur, Walter, Generation Exodus, The Fate of Young Jewish refugees from Nazi
Germany, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001
Stargardt, Nicholas, Witnesses of War, Children's Lives under the Nazis, London: J. Cape, 2005
Zapruder, Alexandra ed., Salvaged Pages, Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust,. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002

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