1. Selected Book Titles:

The Destruction of the European Jews (Third Edition) [2003 - by Raul Hilberg; Yale Univ Pr.] Sources of Holocaust Research: An Analysis [2001 - by Raul Hilberg; Ivan R. Dee, Publisher] A History of the Holocaust (Revised Edition) [2002 -by Yehuda Bauer, Nili Keren; Franklin Watts] The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War [1987 - by Martin Gilbert; Henry Holt] The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History, Winner of the Shazar Prize for Jewish history, Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, Translated from Hebrew) [1991-by Leni Yahil; Oxford University Press] Holocaust: A History [2002 - by Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt, Robert Jan, Van Pelt; W.W. Norton & Co.] The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution [1995 - by Henry Friedlander; Univ of North Carolina Pr.] See also Dr. Stuart D. Stein's Review and Joerg Bottger's Review To Bear Witness: Holocaust Remembrance at Yad Vashem [2005 - Edited by Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem Publ.] The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust Series) [2004 - by Christopher R. Browning, Jurgen Matthaus (Contributor); Univ of Nebraska Press] See also this Review from The Observer The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation and Aftermath (Rewriting Histories) [2000 - by Omer Bartov; Routledge Press] Death and Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany, c.1900-1945 [1994 - by Michael Burleigh; Cambridge University Press] The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 [1991 - by Lucy S. Dawidowicz; Bantam Publ. , Reissue edition] Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis [1989 - by Robert N. Proctor; Harvard Univ Pr.] See also the Book Review by William E. Sedelman The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women [2000 -- by Nanda Herbermann / Translated by Hester and Elizabeth R. Baer; Wayne State University Pr.] The Drowned and the Saved [1989 - by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator), Erroll McDonald (Editor); Vintage Books] Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry [1968 - by Jacob Presser / Translated by Arnold Pomerans; Wayne State University Pr.] The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide [2000 - by Robert Jay Lifton (Introduction); Basic Books] Mengele: The Complete Story [2000 - by Gerald L. Posner, John Ware, Michaael Berenbaum (Introduction); Cooper Square Pr.] The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps [1980 - by Terrence Des Pres; Oxford University Press] The Diary of Anne Frank - The Critical Edition [1989 -Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation; Doubleday New York, NY] I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust [1999 - by Livia Bitton-Jackson; Mass Market Paperback]     Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account *Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was carted off to Auschwitz along with the rest of his family sometime in early 1944. He volunteered to be the assistant to Dr. Josef Mengele--the so-called "Angel Death"--because he was a doctor and had very good insight into pathology. He was a Sonderkommando, a man of the living dead that did the disgusting job of disposing of the bodies of gas chamber victims. In Nyiszli's case, he was given a pathologist's job of performing autopsies on freshly killed cadavers. Miraculously, he survived the terrors of the camp because Mengele refused to have him killed (all Sonderkommandos were killed after four months and replaced by others, for the SS wanted no survivors to tell tales) for there were very few doctors who were as good and skilled as Dr. Nyiszli. Therefore, he wrote about all of his experiences in this book after he was a free man. [1993 - by Miklos Nyiszli, Richard Seaver, Tibere Kramer; Arcade Pub.] Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers *One of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it was Filip Müller, a twenty years old Jew, that was sent to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942. A month later, he found himself inside Crematorium II of Auschwitz, ordered to undress the bodies of the dead, and load them into the ovens. [1999 - by Filip Muller, Helmut Freitag, Susanne Flatauer (Editor), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yehuda Bauer; Ivan R Dee, Inc] Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp *Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, is probably the most comprehensive volume on Auschwitz in print. Essays by leading scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States document the history of the camp, the technology and magnitude of the genocide that occurred there, profiles of the inmates and the Nazis who ran the camp (such as Joseph Mengele), the underground resistance that arose, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. It's not a book to read straight through because of the sheer volume of information (more than 600 pages of text) and the horror of its contents. But it's the best resource for answering a wide variety of questions about the camp, especially those raised by the many excellent memoirs by the survivors. --Michael Joseph Gross [1998 - by Israel Gutman (Editor), Michael Berenbaum (Editor), Yisrael Gutman (Editor); Indiana University Press, Reprint edition] The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir [1995 - by Benjamin Jacobs; University Press of Kentucky] ----------> see, the online posting in Section 2 below The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life [2002 - by Hedi Fried, Michael Meyer (Translator); Univ of Nebraska Press] Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting [2004 - by Ruth Linn; Cornell University Press]     On 7 April 1944 a Slovakian Jew, Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg), and a fellow prisoner, Alfred Wetzler, succeeded in escaping from Auschwitz-Birkenau. As block registrars both men had been allowed relative (though always risky) freedom of movement in the camp and thus had been able to observe the massive preparations underway at Birkenau of the entire killing machine for the eradication of Europe's last remaining Jewish community, the 800,000 Jews of Hungary. The two men somehow made their way back to Slovakia where they sought out the Jewish Council (Judenrat) to warn them of the impending disaster.      The Vrba-Wetzler report was the first document about the Auschwitz death camp to reach the free world and to be accepted as credible. Its authenticity broke the barrier of skepticism and apathy that had existed up to that point. However, though their critical and alarming assessment was in the hands of Hungarian Jewish leaders by April 28 or early May 1944, it is doubtful that the information it contained reached more than just a small part of the prospective victims&emdash;during May and June 1944, about 437,000 Hungarian Jews boarded, in good faith, the "resettlement" trains that were to carry them off to Auschwitz, where most of them were gassed on arrival.      Vrba, who emigrated to Canada at war's end, published his autobiography in England nearly forty years ago. Yet his and Wetzler's story has been carefully kept from Israel's Hebrew-reading public and appears nowhere in any of the history texts that are part of the official curriculum. As Ruth Linn writes, "Israeli Holocaust historiography was to follow the spirit of the court's policy at the Eichmann trial: silencing and removing challenging survivors from the gallery, and muting questions about the role of the Jewish Council in the deportations."      In 1998 Linn arranged for publication of the first Hebrew edition of Vrba's memoirs. In Escaping Auschwitz she establishes the chronology of Vrba's disappearance not only from Auschwitz but also from the Israeli Holocaust narrative, skillfully exposing how the official Israeli historiography of the Holocaust has sought to suppress the story. <http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3980> Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz [2000 - by Richard Newman; Amadeus Press] People in Auschwitz [2004 - by Hermann Langbein; Univ. of North Carolina Press] With a Foreword by Henry Friedlander At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities [1998 by - Jean Amery; Indiana University Press] .   The Case for Auschwitz - Evidence from the Irving Trial [2002 -- by Robert Jan van Pelt; Indiana University Press] The Auschwitz Album:The Story of a Transport     This album is unique in the fact that there is no similar album of its kind in the entire world. It documents, in almost 200 photos, from every direction and from every angle, the arrival, selection, confiscation of property, and preparation for the physical liquidation of a Jewish "transport" to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This particular transport arrived in May 1944, at the ramp of the Birkenau extermination camp; it had originated in the area of Carpatho-Ruthenia, a region that had been annexed, in 1939, to Hungary from Czechoslovakia.    The most surprising and striking fact is that the album, documenting the dispatch of a Jewish transport of deportees in the spring of 1944, eventually fell into the hands of a survivor, Lilly Jacob, of that same death transport. She was one of the few lucky ones who had escaped the fate of the thousands who were murdered. When she opened the album, she suddenly recognized the people of her community who appear in it and who had arrived with her in Birkenau - among them, her rabbi and numerous family relatives - and also she herself! [2002/2003 - Edited by: Israel Gutman, Bella Gutterman Publisher: Yad Vashem, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum] Survival in Auschwitz [1993 - by Primo Levi; MacMillan Publishing Co.] Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction [2003 - by Gotz Aly, Susanne Heim, A. G. Blunden (Translator); Princeton University Press] See, this 2004 Book Review   The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-39 [1990 - by Karl A. Schleunes; Univ of Illinois Pr.] Auschwitz and After [1997 - by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (Translator), Lawrence L. Langer (Introduction) In1942, Charlotte Delbo (1913--85) and her husband were arrested in their Paris apartment, where they were preparing to distribute anti-German leaflets. He was executed, and she was deported first to Auschwitz and then to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Auschwitz and After, first published in France as three separate books (None of Us Will Return, Useless Knowledge, and The Measure of Our Days), is a memoir about her experiences in the camps. Delbo, a non-Jew, recounts the daily struggle to stay alive while besieged with hunger, thirst, abuse, fatigue, and despair. Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust [2005 -by John K. Roth (Foreword), Eric J. Sterling (Editor); Syracuse University Press] Surviving the Holocaust With the Russian Jewish Partisans. [2001 - by Jack Kagan, Dov Cohen, Martin, Sir Gilbert; Vallentine Mitchell; 2nd edition] Dachau: The Harrowing of Hell [1995 -by Marcus J. Smith; State Univ of New York Press] Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation [1996 - by Isaiah Trunk, Jacob Robinson (Introduction), Steven T. Katz (Introduction); Univ of Nebraska Press Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival [2007 -by Yehudi Lindeman, Praeger Publishers] Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years [in Romania] [2000 -by Mihail Sebastian (with Radu Ioanid and Patrick Camiller); Ivan R. Dee, Publisher] Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps [2005 - by Shirli Gilbert; Oxford University Press] The first large-scale, critical account in English of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust [2007 -by Mordecai Paldiel with an Introduction by U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke] See also this from the NY Times: "In the Era of the Holocaust, 29 Who Made a Difference" Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? [2000 -- by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman; University of California Press] Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil   [1994 -- by Hannah Arendt; Penguin USA]    see also the Reviews  (at the bottom of page) The Specialist - Portrait of a Modern Criminal [Eichmann - DVD 1999) Nuremberg Diary [1995 by by G.M. Gilbert; Da Capo Press; Reprint edition]                             Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration With Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 [1997- by Tadeusz Piotrowski; McFarland & Company] Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Modern Jewish History) [1997 - by Michael C. Steinlauf; Syracuse Univ Pr.] Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration With Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 [1997 -by Tadeusz Piotrowski; McFarland & Company] A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (A Centennial Book) [1993 - by Yitzhak Zuckerman, Barbara Harshav (Editor); University of California Press] Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944 [2001 - by Richard C. Lukas, Norman Davie; Hippocrene Books] Night [1982 - by Elie Wiesel; Bantam] Where Was God?: The Lifes and Thoughts of Holocaust and World War II Survivors [2001 -- Remkes Kooistra, Editor, Mosaic Press] Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry? [1998 - by Joseph Bau (translated from Hebrew by Shlomo Yurman); Arcade Publishing] The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 [1998 - by David S. Wyman; New Press] Ordinary Men [1998 - by Christopher R. Browning; Perennial Press] Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust [1996 - by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; Knopf Publ.] Remembrance and Reconciliation: Encounters between Young Jews and Germans [1995 - by Björn Krondorfer; Yale University Press] The Survivor of the Holocaust [1996 - by Jack Eisner; Kensington Pub Corp] The Nazis' Last Victims The Holocaust in Hungary [ 2002 - Edited by Randolph L. Braham and Scott Miller in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Wayne State University Pr.] The Smell of Humans A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary [1994 - by Ernö Szép; CEU Press] On Listening to Holocaust Survivors [1998 - by Henry Greenspan; Praeger Publishers] ----------------> see also, a Book Review Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt - A Survivor's Report [1997 - by Thomas Toivi Blatt; Holocaust Education Project; 4th edition ] Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory [1994 -by by Deborah E. Lipstadt; Plume; Reprint Paperback edition] .

• The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45
  [1995 - by Gunter Grau (Editor), Claudia Shoppmann (Editor); Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers]
  

  See also the Book Review by Megan Keir

• Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
  [1994 - by Heinz Heger, Kalus Muller (Introduction), David Fernback (Translator); Alyson Pub.]
  

Remembering the Holocaust [1997 -editor Michael E. Stevens; University of Wisconsin Press] Shadows of Treblinka [1998 - by Miriam Kuperhand, Saul Kuperhand, Alan Adelson; Univ of Illinois] Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union [1999 - Eds. Yitzhak Arad et al; Univ of Nebraska Pr; 8th edition]

	Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil [1998 - by Ron Rosenbaum ; Random House] Hitler. A biography [2000 - by Ian Kershaw; W.W. Norton & Company] Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics [2002 - by Frederic Spotts; Overlook Press] Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris [2000 - by Ian Kershaw; W.W. Norton & Company] See, in here, Chapter I: Hitler's "Fantasy and Failure" Inside Hitler's High Command [2002 - by Geoffrey P. Megargee with a Foreword by Williamson Murray; University Press of Kansas; Reprint edition] WINNER, SOCIETY OF MILITARY HISTORY DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD Catholic Church and Nazi Germany [2000 - by Guenter Lewy; Perseus Books] Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII [2000 - by John Cornwell; Penguin USA] See also this Book Review The Popes Against the Jews The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism [2001 by David I. Kertzer; Knopf Publ.]
	God Does Play Dice - The Autobiography of a Holocaust Survivor [1999 - by Klara Samuels; Bainbridge Books]