The
Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
by Martin Goldsmith
Writing this book must have required enormous courage; reading it is
overwhelming, especially for anyone personally connected to the events
it describes. Martin Goldsmith, best known as the host of NPR's Performance
Today, is the American-born son of two German-Jewish musicians who escaped
the Holocaust. He anchors the Holocaust to the story of his own family,
whom he never knew because most of them perished in Hitler's death camps.
Goldsmith accompanies them through their lives in Nazi Germany, with its
ever-tightening persecution and repression of the Jews, and on their nightmarish
journey to the gas chambers. He follows his parents through their early
musical training, their blossoming love, courtship, and marriage--making
them seem like a normal, happy young couple--to their miraculous rescue
and escape to America. Edith Eisler - Amazon.com
Paperback - 346 pages 1 edition (August 17, 2001)
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471078646
A
Hero of Our Own : The Story of Varian Fry
by Sheila Isenberg
Varian Fry helped thousands of Jewish refugees including such well-known
figures such as Marc Chagall, Andre Breton and Hannah Arendt escape from
Vichy France.
Hardcover - 368 pages (October 30, 2001)
Random House; ISBN: 0375502211
IBM
and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and
America's Most Powerful Corporation
by Edwin Black
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final
Solution? That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust,
the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's
Hitler's Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is
less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less
provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit
Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest
customer on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made
Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company
pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly
brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the
'blitz' in the krieg."
The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith
punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust
Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith
was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data. Black says the Hollerith
and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated
a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains
fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire
war effort. Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could
IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians?
Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous
evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.
The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York
know about IBM Germany's work, and when? Black documents a scary game of
brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line
between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler. He shamefully delayed
returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the
Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany. (Hitler
was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler
Could Have Won World War II.)
Black has created a must-read work of history. But it's also a fascinating
business book examining the colliding influences of personality, morality,
and cold strategic calculation. --Tim Appelo - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 519 pages (February 12, 2001)
Crown Pub; ISBN: 0609607995
Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Listed under Children of the Holocaust
The Boys : The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors
by Martin Gilbert
Listed under Children of the Holocaust
Between
Two Streams : A Diary from Bergen-Belsen
by Abel J. Herzberg, Jack Santcross (Translator)
Hardcover - 256 pages (May 1997)
St Martins Pr (Short); ISBN: 1860641210
The
Buchenwald Report
Translated by David A. Hackett
One of the most remarkable and important documents to emerge from the
Holocaust and World War II, The Buchenwald Report is a deposition against
the monstrous crimes of the Nazis--damning testimony provided by their
victims in a final act of defiance. Shockingly, not long after the war
ended The Buchenwald Report was almost lost forever. Only selected portions
were entered as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. Professor Eugen Kogon,
a prisoner at Buchenwald who assisted the Army specialists in conducting
their interviews and writing the report, made use of the material gathered
as a background source for his classic book, The
Theory and Practice of Hell, but subsequently his copy was accidently
destroyed. Thus the complete report was never published, and both the original
document and a precious handful of copies gradually disappeared. Recently
- more than four decades later - a single, faded carbon copy was discovered,
apparently the only one still in existence. It is translated from German
and presented here in book form for the first time.
Paperback: 424 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.27 x
9.05 x 6.01
Publisher: Westview Press; ; (October 1997)
ISBN: 0813333636
After
Long Silence : A Memoir
by Helen Fremont
Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was
an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were
Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names
were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the
secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades,
recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival.
Paperback - 349 pages (February 2000)
Delta; ISBN: 0385333706
Death Dealer : The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Rudolf Hoss
Listed under Auschwitz
The
Destruction of the European Jews (Third Edition)
by Raul
Hilberg
Book Description:
The Destruction of the European Jews is widely considered the landmark
study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive
account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred
discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of
Holocaust studies. This revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic
work extends the scope of his study and includes 80,000 words of new material,
particularly from recently opened archives in eastern Europe, added over
a lifetime of research. It is the definitive work of a scholar who has
devoted more than fifty years to exploring and analyzing the realities
of the Holocaust.
Spanning the twelve-year period of anti-Jewish actions from 1933 to
1945, Hilberg's study encompasses Germany and all the territories under
German rule or influence. Its principal focus is on the large number of
perpetrators -- civil servants, military personnel, Nazi party functionaries,
SS men, and representatives of private enterprises -- in the machinery
of death.
Hardcover from Yale University Press
Book Published: 15 March, 2003
The
Destruction of the European Jews
by Raul Hilberg
Paperback Student ed edition (September 1985)
Holmes & Meier Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0841909105
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Dictionary
of the Holocaust
Biographic, Geographic, and Terminology Reference
by Eric Joseph Epstein and Philip Rosen
Covers all aspects of the Holocaust--people, places, and events, with
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Europa, Europa
by Solomon Perel
Listed under Polish Holocaust books
Holocaust
Journey : Travelling in Search of the Past
by Martin Gilbert
Hardcover - 288 pages (November 1997)
Columbia Univ Pr; ISBN: 0231109644
The
Holocaust : A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
by Martin Gilbert
A compelling book on an ugly subject, The Holocaust may be the finest
book available for those who want a general understanding of how the rise
of the Nazis in Germany impacted the Jewish people--as well as those who
want to learn exactly what was at stake in the Second World War. When The
Holocaust was first published in 1986, Elie Wiesel gave it a glowing review,
writing, "This book must be read and reread." It occasionally seems like
a numbing catalog of unspeakable horrors, but how else does one write a
comprehensive history of such a great tragedy? Gilbert is an accomplished
author with a frighteningly long list of books to his credit; this is among
his best. Amazon.com
A definitive history of the Jews of Europe during World War II. "He
weaves the cold facts with the nightmarish oral histories into a masterly
chronological narrative."--Peter Hay, Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.05 x 8.96 x 6.00
Publisher: Henry Holt (Paper); ; Reprint edition (May
1987)
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
Listed under Children of the Holocaust
The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944 : The Missing Center
by Andrew Ezergailis
Listed under Latvia
I
Will Bear Witness : A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Like Anne Frank, but with a more adult understanding of political fanaticism
and human weakness, he makes the abstract horror of genocidal persecution
very intimate, very personal, and very real. --Wendy Smith, Amazon.com
Paperback - 519 pages Vol 1 (October 1999)
Modern Library; ISBN: 0375753788
I
Will Bear Witness 1941-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years, Vol. 2
by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator)
The diaries of a Jewish intellectual who lived through all of the sufferings
inflicted by the Nazi regime. He escaped with his Aryan wife from Dresden
during the chaos which followed the allied bombing raids of Dresden. Dropbears.com
Paperback: 576 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x
8.10 x 5.23
Publisher: Modern Library; ; (April 3, 2001)
ISBN: 0375756973
Journey into Terror: Story of the Riga Ghetto
by Gertrude Schneider
Listed under Latvia
The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
Listed under Nazi Medicine
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the
horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely
on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's
generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography.
Paperback: 109 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.37 x
6.88 x 4.15
Publisher: Bantam Books; ; Reissue edition (April 1,
1982)
ISBN: 0553272535 |
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Perpetrators
Victims Bystanders : The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945
by Raul Hilberg
Paperback - 352 pages (September 1993)
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060995076
The
Holocaust : The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
(Studies in Jewish History)
by Leni Yahil
Paperback Reprint edition (October 1991)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195045238
The
Reawakening
by Primo Levi
Paperback Reprint edition (July 1996)
Collier Books; ISBN: 0684826356
The
Path to Genocide : Essays on Launching the Final Solution
by Christopher R. Browning
Paperback Reprint edition (September 1995)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0521558786
Schindler's
List (Schindler's Ark)
by Thomas Keneally
Winner of the Booker Prize
As a fellow Australian I am perhaps biased, but of the many books I
have read on the subject I consider this the best. Db |
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Schindler's
Legacy : True Stories of the List Survivors
by Elinor J. Brecher
Jill Freedman (Photographer)
Paperback (November 1994)
Plume; ISBN: 0452273536
Women
in the Holocaust
by Dalia Ofer (Editor), Lenore J. Weitzman (Editor)
Hardcover - 384 pages (May 1998)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300073542
Ideology
of Death : Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany
by John Weiss
Paperback - 444 pages 1st elepha edition (October 1997)
Ivan R Dee, Inc.; ISBN: 1566631742
The
Origins of Nazi Genocide : From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
by Henry Friedlander
Paperback - 448 pages Reprint edition (September 1997)
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807846759
Facing
the Extreme : Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
by Tzvetan Todorov
Abigail Pollak (Translator), Arthur Denner (Translator)
Paperback - 320 pages Reprint edition (April 1997)
Henry Holt
(Paper); ISBN: 0805042644
The
Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945
by Masha Greenbaum
Karski : How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
by E. Thomas Wood
Listed under Polish Holocaust books
Into
That Darkness : An Examination of Conscience
Gitta Sereny
Paperback / Published 1983
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka
(the largest of the extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a
man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final
solution.
The Warsaw Ghetto : A Christian's Testimony
by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Stainslaw Lem
Listed under Polish Holocaust books
The
End of Days : A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews
from Spain
by Erna Paris
Hardcover: 327 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x
9.36 x 6.36
Publisher: Prometheus Books; ; (September 1995)
ISBN: 1573920177
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold
stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark
that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within
hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla
to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account
to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life
through the eyes of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors
her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles
Ellen's family out of the country. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newbery
Medal. Amazon.com
Listed under Children's Books
Between Dignity and Despair
: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
(Studies in Jewish History)
by Marion A. Kaplan
Kaplan's sensitive narrative, supported by a host of letters, memoirs,
and interviews, aims to give a balanced account of German Jewry under
the Nazi regime. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 288 pages (May 1998)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195115317
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Stalin's Secret Pogrom : The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee (Annals of Communism)
by Joshua Rubenstein
The 1952 secret trial and execution of a group of Soviet Jews who had
protested Nazi atrocities on Soviet soil.
Hardcover - 527 pages (May 1, 2001)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300084862
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The
Fragility of Goodness : Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
by Tzvetan Todorov, Arthur Denner (Translator)
With the exception of Denmark, Bulgaria was the only country allied
with Nazi Germany that did not annihilate or turn over its Jewish population.
Here a prominent French intellectual with Bulgarian roots accounts for
this singularity. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 224 pages (May 1, 2001)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691088322
The Jews and the Poles in World War II
by Stefan Korbonski
Listed under Polish Holocaust books
The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews,
and other Civilians in the East, 1939-1944
Omer Bartov, Hamburg Institute
Listed under Eastern Front
Atlas of the Holocaust
by Martin Gilbert
Providing a complete study of the repression and horrific suffering
of the Jews throughout Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, this atlas is a vital
and important record to set against the growing trend of neo-Nazism. In
a series of 316 maps, together with photographs, the author shows the harrowing
history of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe during World
War II.
Hardcover - 282 pages Rep edition (May 1993)
William Morrow & Company; ISBN: 0688123643
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Righteous Gentile : The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of
the Holocaust
John Bierman
Paperback / Published 1996
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The Politics of Memory : The Journey of a Holocaust Historian
by Raul Hilberg
Hardcover - 208 pages (September 1996)
Ivan R Dee, Inc.; ISBN: 1566631165
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Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto
by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Historical Atlas of the Holocaust : The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
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The Theory and Practice of
Hell
The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
by Eugen Kogon
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