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The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
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Historical studies
- Bauer, YehudaYehuda BauerYehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
. Rethinking the Holocaust. Yale University Press; New Ed edition, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09300-4. - Bauer, YehudaYehuda BauerYehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
. Jews for Sale? Nazi–Jewish Negotiations 1933–1945. Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-300-06852-2. - Berenbaum, MichaelMichael BerenbaumMichael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust...
, A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis (1990) - Berkhoff, Karel C.Karel C. BerkhoffKarel C. Berkhoff is an associate professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.Berkhoff studied history and Russian studies at the University of Amsterdam, Soviet Studies at Harvard University and graduated in 1998 as a historian at the University of Toronto. He studies...
Harvest of Despair : Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (2004) - Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany (2004)
- Black, EdwinEdwin BlackEdwin Black is an American Jewish syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics...
. The Transfer AgreementThe Transfer AgreementThe Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine is a non-fiction book written by author Edwin Black, documenting the agreement between Zionist Jews and Adolf Hitler to help create a Jewish state in Palestine, in return for an end of a global...
(1984) - Black, EdwinEdwin BlackEdwin Black is an American Jewish syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics...
. IBM and the HolocaustIBM and the HolocaustIBM and the Holocaust is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporation International Business Machines and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the...
(2001) - Black, EdwinEdwin BlackEdwin Black is an American Jewish syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics...
. Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009. ISBN 0-914-15309-2. - Black, EdwinEdwin BlackEdwin Black is an American Jewish syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics...
. The Farhud: The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2010. ISBN 0-914-15314-5. - Braham, Randolph L., The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary 2 vols. Boulder:Social Science Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press) (rev. and enlarged, (1994) ISBN 0-8803-3247-6
- Broszat, MartinMartin BroszatMartin Broszat was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of the Third Reich. Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig and...
"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, (1985) ISBN 0-333-35272-6. - Browning, Christopher R. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004)
- Burleigh, Michael & Wippermann, Wolfgang The Racial State : Germany 1933-1945, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1991) ISBN 0-521-39114-8.
- Davidowicz, Lucy, The War Against the Jews : 1933-1945The War Against the JewsThe War Against the Jews is a 1975 book authored by Lucy Dawidowicz. The book researches the Holocaust of the European Jewry during World War II....
(1975). - Davies, NormanNorman DaviesProfessor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...
and Lukas, Richard C. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944, (2001, c1996) - Dean, Martin: Robbing the Jews - The Cofiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1935 - 1945, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Dwork, DeborahDebórah DworkDebórah Dwork, B.A., M.P.H., Ph.D., is an American historian. She is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Department of History, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dwork is the daughter of...
. Robert Jan Van PeltRobert Jan van PeltRobert Jan van Pelt is an author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto in Ontario and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has come to address...
, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (1996) - Dwork, DeborahDebórah DworkDebórah Dwork, B.A., M.P.H., Ph.D., is an American historian. She is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Department of History, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dwork is the daughter of...
and Jan Van Pelt, Robert. Holocaust: A History (2002) - Ehrenreich, Eric. "The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution" (2007) ISBN 978-0-253-34945-3.
- Evans, Suzanne. Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities (2004)
- Friedländer, SaulSaul FriedländerSaul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...
. Nazi Germany and the Jews : Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 (1998); Volume 2: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination. HarperCollins, 2007. - Friedlander, HenryHenry FriedlanderHenry Friedlander is a Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust....
. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (1997, c1995) - Gilbert, MartinMartin GilbertSir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
. Auschwitz and the Allies (1983, c198l) - Gilbert, MartinMartin GilbertSir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War (New York, 1985) ISBN 0-8050-0348-7 - Gilbert, MartinMartin GilbertSir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
. The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust, Routledge, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-415-28145-8 - Grau, Gunter & Shoppmann, Claudia. The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45 (1995)
- Gutman, IsraelIsrael GutmanIsrael Gutman is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His older sister died in the ghetto. After...
, Gutman, Yisrael, and Berenbaum, MichaelMichael BerenbaumMichael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust...
, eds. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp (1994) ISBN 0-2533-2684-2 - Heberer, Patricia. Children during the Holocaust (2011)
- Hedgepeth, Sonja & Saidel, Rochelle. Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust (2010)
- Hilberg, RaulRaul HilbergRaul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...
. The Destruction of the European JewsThe Destruction of the European JewsThe Destruction of the European Jews is a book published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to be the first comprehensive historical study of the Holocaust. According to Holocaust historian, Michael R...
, vol. 1-3 (2003, c1961) - Hilberg, RaulRaul HilbergRaul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...
. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945, (1992) - The Holocaust Chronicle, (2001)
- Klempner, MarkMark KlempnerMark Klempner is a folklorist, oral historian and social commentator.-Early life:Klempner grew up in New York City, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997, and winning a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000, he received an M.A...
. The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage (The Pilgrim Press, 2006) ISBN 0-8298-16992 - Lewy, Gunter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (2001)
- Lusane, ClarenceClarence LusaneClarence Lusane is an African-American author, activist, lecturer and free-lance journalist. His most recent major work has been the publication of his book The Black History of the White House.-Background:...
. Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experience of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African Americans in the Nazi Era (2002) - Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals (1988)
- Peukert, DetlevDetlev PeukertDetlev Peukert was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar Republic. Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute...
“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 ISBN 0-8419-1178-9. - Mayer, MichaelMichael MayerMichael Mayer may refer to:* Michael Mayer , American theatrical and film director* Michael Mayer , German football player* Michael Mayer , German electronic musician...
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 (Studien zur Zeitgeschichte; 80). ISBN 978-3-486-58945-0. (Comparative study of anti-Jewish policy implemented by the Government in Nazi-Germany, by German occupational forces in France and by the semi-autonomic French Government in Vichy) - Ioanid, Radu. The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (2001)
- Ofer, Dalia & Weitzman, Lenore. Women in the Holocaust (1999)
- Satloff, Robert. " Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (Public Affairs, 2006)
- Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 (1992).
- Schleunes, Karl A. The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-1939 (1990, c1970)
- United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumUnited States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...
, Historical Atlas of the Holocaust, Macmillan Publishing (1996)
Selected survivor accounts
- Amery, JeanJean AméryJean Améry , born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II...
. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities (1998, c1980) - Beck, GadGad BeckGad Beck is a retired educator, author and gay Holocaust survivor.-Early life:Beck was born in Berlin, Germany, along with twin sister Margot, to a Jewish father and German mother who had converted to Judaism. The family lived in a predominately Jewish immigrant section of the city...
. An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (1999) - Delbo, CharlotteCharlotte DelboCharlotte Delbo, , was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.-Early life:...
. Auschwitz and After (1995) - Dittman, Anita. Trapped in Hitler's Hell. 2005. ISBN 0972151281
- Dunn, Krista Perry. The Courtship of Julian and Frieda: A True Story (2005, 2006), ISBN 1-4134-8641-X
- Frankl, Viktor EViktor FranklViktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy"...
. Man's Search for MeaningMan's Search for MeaningMan's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describing his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live...
(1997, c1984) - Gutman, IsraelIsrael GutmanIsrael Gutman is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His older sister died in the ghetto. After...
, Resistance : The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1998) - Heger, HeinzHeinz HegerHeinz Heger was the pen name used by Josef Kohout , an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor. Kohout had been imprisoned for his homosexuality, which the German penal code's Paragraph 175 made criminal...
. Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps (1994, c1980) - Klemperer, VictorVictor KlempererVictor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states—the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German...
. I Shall Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 2 vols., also published as I Will Bear Witness in the U.S. (2001, c1998) - Kluger, RuthRuth KlügerRuth Klüger is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She was born in Vienna and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother at the age of 11; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was...
. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2003) - Kogon, EugenEugen KogonEugen Kogon was a historian and a survivor of the Holocaust. A well-known Christian opponent of the Nazi Party, he was arrested more than once and spent six years at Buchenwald concentration camp. Kogon was known in Germany as a journalist, sociologist, political scientist, author and politician...
. Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager (1974) - Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943 (2007), Ivan R. Dee, Publisher ISBN 1-56663-740-6
- Lengyel, OlgaOlga LengyelOlga Lengyel was a Romanian woman who became a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.-Life and career:...
. Five chimneys: the story of Auschwitz. (1985, c1947) - Levi, PrimoPrimo LeviPrimo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
. If This Is a ManIf This Is a ManIf This Is a Man is a work by the Italian writer, Primo Levi, describing his 11 months—from February 21, 1944 until liberation on January 27, 1945—in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland, during the Second World War...
and The TruceThe TruceThe Truce is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It describes his experiences returning from the concentration camp at Auschwitz after the Second World War...
, published separately in the U.S. as Survival At Auschwitz and The Reawakening (1995) - Levi, PrimoPrimo LeviPrimo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
. The Drowned and the SavedThe Drowned and the SavedThe Drowned and the Saved is a book of essays on life in the Nazi Vernichtungslager by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, drawing on his personal experience as an inmate of Auschwitz. Whereas If This is a Man was autobiographical The Drowned and the Saved is an attempt at an...
(1985) - Filip MüllerFilip MüllerFilip Müller was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp....
. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers at Auschwitz (1999, c1979) - Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land (1985)
- Nyiszli, MiklosMiklos NyiszliMiklós Nyiszli was a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nyiszli, along with his wife and young daughter, were transported to Auschwitz in June 1944...
. Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account (2001) - Orenstein, HenryHenry OrensteinHenry Orenstein is a poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Verona, New Jersey, United States....
. "I Shall Live: Surviving against all odds, 1939-1945" (1987), ISBN 0-8253-0441-5 - Rittner, Carol & Roth, JohnJohn K. RothJohn K. Roth is an American-based author, editor, and, for over 30 years, professor of philosophy of religion at Claremont McKenna College. In 1988 he was named CASE U.S. National Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching....
. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (1998) - Seel, PierrePierre SeelPierre Seel was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.-Biography:...
. I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror (1995) - Smith, Lyn, Forgotten Voices of the HolocaustForgotten Voices of the HolocaustForgotten Voices of the Holocaust is a collection of interviews with victims of the Holocaust as well as people who collaborated with or worked directly for the Nazi regime. The Imperial War Museum commissioned Lyn Smith to work with them on their sound archive...
(2005), Ebury Press ISBN 9780091898267 - Vrba, RudolfRudolf VrbaRudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, who came to public attention during the Second World War when, in April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland with the first...
. First published as I Cannot Forgive by Sidgwick and Jackson, Grove Press, 1963, ISBN 0-394-62133-6; also published as Escape from Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive; latest edition I Escaped from Auschwitz, Barricade Books, 2002, ISBN 1-56980-232-7. - Weissmann Klein, GerdaGerda Weissmann KleinGerda Weissmann Klein is an author, humanitarian, historian, inspirational speaker , naturalized citizen and Holocaust survivor. For over six decades she has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration, love and humanity...
. All But My Life (1995) - Wiesenthal, SimonSimon WiesenthalSimon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....
and James, Harry, et al. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1998, c1997) - Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1993)
- Winter, Walter. Winter Time: Memoirs of a German SintoSintiSinti or Sinta or Sinte is the name of a Romani or Gypsy population in Europe. Traditionally nomadic, today only a small percentage of the group remains unsettled...
who Survived Auschwitz (2004)
Selected semi-autobiographical by survivors
- Borowski, TadeuszTadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature and had much influence in Central European society.- Early life :...
. This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1992, c1967) - Fink, IdaIda FinkIda Fink 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was an Israeli Polish-language Jewish author who wrote about the Holocaust.-Biography:Ida Fink was born in Zbaraż, Poland in 1 November 1921. Her father was a physician, and her mother worked as a teacher in a local school. She was a student of...
. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1995, c1987) - Kertész, ImreImre KertészImre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
. Fateless (1996, c1992) - Spiegelman, ArtArt SpiegelmanArt Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, volume 1: "My Father Bleeds History," volume 2: "Here My Troubles Began" (2 volumes bound in one, Comic book format; story is of author's father, a survivor, 1997, c1986-1991). - Weil, JiříJirí WeilJiří Weil was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star , and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof , as well as many short stories, and other novels....
. Life With a Star (1998, c1964) - Wiesel, ElieElie WieselSir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
. NightNight (book)Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father, Shlomo, in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War...
(1982, c1972) - Greenfield, HanaHana GreenfieldHana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to concentration camps in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.She is the author of Fragments of Memory . Her book is a memoir with a collection of articles written over a period of a few years...
. Fragments of Memory (1998, c1998)
Other documentation
- Arad, YitzhakYitzhak AradYitzhak Arad , is an Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993...
, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (1999, c1987) - Browning Christopher R., Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland(1998, c1992)
- Carr, Firpo Wycoff Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945 (2003)
- Czech, Danuta, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 (1999)
- Dean, Martin. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 (1999)
- Dippler, Christoph "The German Resistance and the Jews" pages 51–93 from Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 16, 1984.
- Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.), The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 (1987, c1984)
- Gilbert, MartinMartin GilbertSir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
, Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1987, c1985) - Fings, Karola and Kenrick, Donald (ed.) The Gypsies During the Second World War, 2 vols. (1999)
- Gutman, IsraelIsrael GutmanIsrael Gutman is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His older sister died in the ghetto. After...
, Berenbaum, MichaelMichael BerenbaumMichael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust...
, et al. (ed.), Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, et al. (ed. bd.) Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (1998, c1994) - 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 (2004)
- 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 (2005)
- The Protest of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
- Oppenheimer, Deborah and Harris, Mark Jonathan (ed.), Into the Arms of Strangers : Stories of the Kindertransport (2001, c1998)
- Pressac, Jean-ClaudeJean-Claude PressacJean-Claude Pressac was a French chemist and pharmacist who later became a published authority on the Holocaust of World War II....
, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers (1989) - van Pelt, Robert JanRobert Jan van PeltRobert Jan van Pelt is an author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto in Ontario and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has come to address...
. The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial (2002) - Steger, Bernd and Wald, Peter (ed.). Hinter der grüne Pappe: Orli WaldOrli WaldOrli Wald was a member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany. She was arrested in 1936 and charged with high treason, whereupon she served four and a half years in a women's prison, followed by "protective custody" in Nazi concentration camps until 1945, when she escaped...
im Schatten von Auschwitz – Leben und Erinnerungen (2008) - Vromen, Suzanne. Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis (2010)
Hypotheses and historiography
- Agamben, GiorgioGiorgio AgambenGiorgio Agamben is an Italian political philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception and homo sacer....
. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (1999) - Arendt, HannahHannah ArendtHannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilEichmann in JerusalemEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a book written by political theorist Hannah Arendt, originally published in 1963...
(1994, c1963) - Goldhagen, Daniel J.Daniel GoldhagenDaniel Jonah Goldhagen is an American author and former Associate Professor of Political Science and Social Studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust, Hitler's Willing Executioners and...
, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1997) - Dippel, John V. H. Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why so many German Jews made the tragic decision to remain in Nazi Germany (1996)
- Finkelstein, Norman G.. Ruth Bettina Birn, A nation on trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (1998)
- Leff, Laurel Buried By The Times: The Holocaust And America's Most Important Newspaper, Cambridge University Press (2005), hardcover, 426 pages, ISBN 0-521-81287-9
- Linden, R. Ruth. Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (1995)
- Lipstadt, DeborahDeborah LipstadtDeborah Esther Lipstadt, Ph.D. is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University...
. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1994) - Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History (1989, c1987)
- Mason, TimothyTimothy MasonTimothy Wright Mason was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany.-Life and work:He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971–1984 and was twice married. He helped to found the...
"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 (1997, c1992)
- Novick, PeterPeter NovickPeter Novick is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life...
. The Holocaust in American Life (1999) - Rosenbaum, Alan S. (ed.) Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide (2001, c1996)
- Troncoso, SergioSergio TroncosoSergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories and novels.Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew up in Ysleta, an unincorporated neighborhood or colonia, on the east side of El Paso...
. The Nature of TruthThe Nature of TruthThe Nature of Truth is a novel by Sergio Troncoso first published in 2003 by Northwestern University Press. It explores righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust.-Plot summary:...
(2003) - Weiss, John. Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (1997)
- Wolffsohn, MichaelMichael WolffsohnMichael Wolffsohn is an Israeli-born German historian. Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and today is Israel. His parents were German Jews who fled in 1939....
Eternal Guilt? : Forty years of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations, New York : Columbia University Press, (1993) ISBN 0231082746.
Selected filmography
- America and the Holocaust The American Experience. 1994, 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation, ISBN 1-59375-235-0
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', BBC. 2005.
- Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust 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 (now Belarus); 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 GarofaloJaneane GarofaloJaneane Garofalo is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene.-Early...
. - Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the KindertransportInto the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the KindertransportInto the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench. It tells the story of the kindertransport, an underground railroad that saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children...
- 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 dwarfismDwarfismDwarfism is short stature resulting from a medical condition. It is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches , although this definition is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder....
: 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. - Memory of the Camps, as shown by PBS Frontline
- Night and FogNight and Fog (film)Night and Fog is a 1955 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was...
, 1955, directed by Alain ResnaisAlain ResnaisAlain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
, narrated by Michel BouquetMichel BouquetMichel Bouquet is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1947. He was born in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* La petite chambre * Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars...
. - One Survivor RemembersOne Survivor RemembersOne Survivor Remembers is a 1995 documentary short film by Kary Antholis in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.A production of HBO and the...
is a 1995 Oscar-winning documentary (40 minutes) in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann KleinGerda Weissmann KleinGerda Weissmann Klein is an author, humanitarian, historian, inspirational speaker , naturalized citizen and Holocaust survivor. For over six decades she has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration, love and humanity...
describes her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. - Paper clipsPaper Clips ProjectThe Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee city of Whitwell who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project and evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count,...
- Paragraph 175Paragraph 175Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions the provision also criminalized bestiality. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the law.The statute was amended several...
is an 81 minute documentary directed by Rob EpsteinRob EpsteinRob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is a director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt....
and Jeffrey FriedmanJeffrey Friedman (filmmaker)Jeffrey Friedman is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt....
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. - ShoahShoah (film)This page is about the film by the name of Shoah. For other uses, see Shoah Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann about the Holocaust...
is a nine-hour documentary completed by Claude LanzmannClaude LanzmannClaude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne...
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 quality of the undertaking suffers from sloppy translations. - The Sorrow and the PityThe Sorrow and the PityThe Sorrow and the Pity is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the French Resistance and collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from...
, 1972, directed by Marcel OphülsMarcel OphulsMarcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max 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
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume 1 (First released in June 2009).
- Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not" a Holocaust primer.
- UK Holocaust Centre Owned and run by the Aegis Trust An independent international organisation dedicated to eliminating genocide
- Resources > Holocaust. The Jewish History Resource Center, Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Includes the extensive Holocaust Encyclopedia and large collections of maps and photos, one of the most comprehensive sites.
- Yad Vashem- Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Extensive archives with searchable databases of victims, photos, extremely comprehensive
- The Ghetto Fighters' House (museum and study center in Israel) Searchable online archives on the Holocaust and Jewish resistance
- The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes And Villains.
- The Holocaust Children
- Never Again! an online memorial
- The Holocaust "children's voices from beyond"
- The Holocaust Chronicle. The full 800 page book online, with photos and search features.
- The Holocaust Chronology (PBS)
- Holocaust History, general site with large Q&A section
- Shoah Education Project Web- Introduction to the Holocaust
- World Holocaust Forum "Let My People Live!"
- Short Stories About the Holocaust
- The Journey, by surgeon E. T. Rulison, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., 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 (i.e., Nazi) Croatia Published by the Yugoslav Embassy, Washington, DC, 1947
- Holocaust table: The partition of the 6 million figure: Holocaust with tunnel systems, bunker constructioning and Stalin deportations etc. (neutral site with the new Gorbatchev documents included)
- Documents on the Holocaust at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
- The Kindertransport A study of the kindertransport and testimonies from the children who took part in it.
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center An international Jewish human rights organization
Sites in languages other than English
- Project AladdinProject AladdinProject Aladdin is a multi-faceted cultural initiative launched in March 2009 under the patronage of UNESCO with the aim of countering Holocaust denial and all forms of racism and intolerance, while promoting intercultural dialogue, particularly among Muslims and Jews...
http://www.projetaladin.org/en/homepage.html (Site with extensive resources in Arabic, Persian, French and Turkish) - Holocaust na terenie regionu bialskopodlaskiego w czasie II wojny światowe (Polish)
Memorials
- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
- Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre in Newark, England
- European Holocaust Memorial
- Florida Holocaust Museum
- German Government's Memorial To Jews Murdered During Holocaust
- Holocaust Awareness Museum & Educational Center of Philadelphia; America's First Holocaust Museum
- Holocaust Museum Houston
- Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center Museum
- The New England Holocaust MemorialNew England Holocaust MemorialThe New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It is dedicated to the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.-Information:...
is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. - The Oregon Holocaust MemorialOregon Holocaust MemorialThe Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. Located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park, the memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004...
is an outdoor memorial in Oregon dedicated to all those killed in the Holocaust. - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Virginia Holocaust Museum
- Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Particular groups involved in The Holocaust
- Africans in the Nazi Camps. Section from Rewriting The Footnotes — Berlin and the African Diaspora, by Paulette Reed-Anderson.
- SS-Brigadeführer Franz Walter Stahlecker's "coffin map" EstoniaEstoniaEstonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
, LatviaLatviaLatvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
, LithuaniaLithuaniaLithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
, BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
. - Deathly Silence: Everyday People in the Holocaust (By Plater Robinson)
- The Experiences of Jewish Women in the Holocaust
- Histories, Narratives and Documents of the Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)
- Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 (see also Lesbians and the Third Reich)
- Nazi Persecution of the Disabled: Murder of “The Unfit”
- Rescuers during the Holocaust
Holocaust education
- An artistic portrayal of the Holocaust and its significance (Artist: Stan Lebovic) 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 G-d. For humanity it should serve as a reminder of the worth of their actions, and for G-d a testament to the worth of G-d's creations.
- The Holocaust Education Development Programme (HEDP). The Holocaust Education Development Programme (HEDP) is run by the Institute of Education (IOE), University of London and jointly funded by the Pears Foundation and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) with support from the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). Its overarching aim is to help teachers teach about the Holocaust in effective and thought-provoking ways.
- Millersville University Annual Holocaust Conference
- "Remember Our Faces"--Teaching about the Holocaust.
- Belief in God After the Holocaust
- Rut Matthijsen Excerpt: A Holocaust Rescuer Discusses How the Holocaust Might Best Be Taught
Victim information and databases
- The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names - Yad Vashem
- Breakdown of Jewish population by country, before and after WWII
- Detailed breakdown of Holocaust victim statistics
- Info on victim tracing services
- Links to sites listing victims and survivors from specific German communities and concentration camps
- Info on archive of 128,000 victim records (currently under construction)
- Info on archive of 56,000 victim records from Berlin
- Online searchable database of 55,000 victim records from Berlin
- Links to several online searchable victim databases
- Link to searchable online victim database of 2,700 from Stutthof
- Link to searchable online victim database from Augsburg
- Link to searchable online victim database from Bingen
- Lists of people from Gerau region noted by the Nazis for being insufficiently Aryan; Nazi murder victims listed at the bottom
- Lists of Jews sent from Hamburg, organized by concentration camp
- Lists of Jews sent from Hanover
- Lists of Jews sent from Hattingen
- Lists of victims from Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (Hessen)
- Hohenschönhausener Victims of the Holocaust
- Names of 173 Jewish victims from Kaiserslautern
- List of Krefelder Jews who died in institutes, prisons or camps, or suicide during WWII
- Death Lists from concentration camps near Muehldorf am Inn
- Searchable list of 2300 victims from Nuremberg
- List of Jews from Speyer rounded up by Nazis with notation regarding their fate
Documentation and evidence
- C-SPAN Booktv: Interview with Geoffrey Megargee editor of "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945"
- Detailed answers to Holocaust denial from the Nizkor ProjectNizkor ProjectThe Nizkor Project is an ongoing Internet-based project run by B'nai Brith Canada which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial. It was founded by Ken McVay as a central Web-based archive for the large numbers of documents made publicly available by the users of the newsgroup alt.revisionism...
- Documents on the Holocaust
- Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and its Denial
- Canadian War Museum World War II Newspaper Archives - The Holocaust
- Memorial to those who suffered at the eleven Kaufering concentration camps, located in the general area of Landsberg and Kaufering, Germany.
- http://isurvived.org photos of victims, camps, liberation
Other topics
- OneWorld.net's Perspectives Magazine: Preventing Genocide (April/May 2006) - global human rights and development network looks at genocide from a variety of perspectives
- Oskar Schindler - His List Of Life
- The Secular Word "HOLOCAUST": Scholarly Sacralization, Twentieth Century Meanings
- Chaim Yisroel Eiss the man in the center of Orthodoxy's rescue activities.
Other
- from the Underground:Eyewitness accounts of Russia's Jewish resistance during World War II A documentary film and website.
- Post Holocaust Research Study focusing on Third Generation Holocaust Survivors
- Album Reveals Behind-Scenes Activities at Auschwitz
- Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp