The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 By David S. Wyman D810.J4 W95 1984
Wyman explores the failure of America to act during the Holocaust. The book discusses how every segment of American society, from Jewish communities to the American media and government, failed to take measures that would have made a difference in the lives of the Jews affected by the Holocaust. In particular, the author discusses the failure of the American government to fill immigration quotas; the refusal to accept more Jewish immigrants; the knowledge of concentration camps as early as 1942; inadequate press coverage; and an indifferent American public.

America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference D810.J4 A753 1994 VIDEO
Part of the American Experience series produced by PBS, this video explores America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the liberation of concentration camps in 1945. Interviews, photos and documents, film, and other sources document America's knowledge of concentration camps as early as 1942 and the anti-Semitic political climate that blocked the immigration of Jewish refugees. In addition to documented evidence that supports the government's policy on such matters, the video follows the story of Kurt Klein, a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents from the concentration camps.

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum D805.P7 A53 1998
Auschwitz is dissected to reveal the details in the machine that produced the mass murder and torture of over one million people. The book discusses the history of the camp, the dimensions of the genocide, the perpetrators, the inmates, the resistance, and Auschwitz as viewed by the outside world.

Anti-Semitism: A Reference Handbook by Jerome A. Chanes DS145.C464 2004
As part of the Contemporary World Issues series, this book is written by scholars and experts and serves as a starting point in research for those new to the subject area. Topics include an introduction to and overview of anti-Semitism; a historical narrative and chronology; biographical sketches of prominent figures related to anti-Semitism; the current nature and extent of anti-Semitism around the world; documents and statistics concerning anti-Semitism; organizations; and print and non-print resources.

Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees D805.5.A96 R44 2005
This book records the accounts of the prisoners in Auschwitz and their Nazi captors. Together, these accounts form a detailed picture of life at Auschwitz, from techniques used in the mass killings to the culture of the camp. The Nazi leadership of the camp, under Rudolph Hoss, not only followed orders from superiors, but created new and more efficient ways of killing. Eye-witness accounts from Jews, Nazis, and non-persecuted citizens of Nazi territories combine to produce a better understanding of Auschwitz and the variables that together produced the most deadly concentration camp.

The Buchenwald Report translated and edited by David A. Hackett D805.G3 B7746 1995
Buchenwald was the first German concentration camp to be liberated, April 11, 1945. The U.S. Army documented the liberation by interviewing the freed prisoners. These prisoners exposed the daily life and workings of the camp. The report also recorded information concerning the camp's own incriminating files. These interviews and documentation were to be used as evidence in the prosecution of Nazis for war crimes. For unknown reasons, the report disappeared. A carbon copy of the report, the only copy known in existence, resurfaced within the past few years. This book reveals the Buchenwald report and, in doing so, allows it to illustrate the details of daily life and the functioning of a concentration camp.

Children of the Holocaust by Helen Epstein D810.J4 E62 1979
Children of Holocaust survivors faced their own obstacles in dealing with parents who witnessed and survived the atrocities of the Holocaust. Epstein is the child of survivors. She searches for and interviews other children of the Holocaust. They discuss their painful and challenging childhoods, facing and coping with their parents' emotions and memories.

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? By Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman D804.355 S54 2002
The authors refute those who have denied that the Holocaust ever happened. The book explores the personalities and organizations that deny, their reasons for doing so, and the flaws in their arguments. The authors detail how concentration camps, like Auschwitz, became extermination camps, the scope and scale of the Holocaust, and the protocols of National Socialism that led to the Final Solution.

The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg D810.J4 H5 1985
This overview of the Holocaust is an excellent resource for those unfamiliar with the details of the Holocaust. Topics include the 1933 definition by decree that differentiated between Aryans and non-Aryans; the concentration of Jews in ghettos and camps; mobile killing units; deportations; killing center operations; the perpetrators and victims; and liberation.

Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning DS135.Y82 S493 1991
This book contains a series of essays that discuss the emergence of the Final Solution, from 1933-1945. Topics covered include the decision concerning the Final Solution; Wehrmacht reprisal policy and the murder of male Jews in Serbia; the development and production of the Nazi gas van; and the Semlin gas van and the Final Solution in Serbia. Historical photographs are included.

For the Living D804.3 F67 1993 VIDEO
This PBS Video chronicles the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum is dedicated to providing a detailed history of the Holocaust in order to remember its victims and educate the public. The film includes archival film and photos, on-location scenes from concentration camps, and interviews with the people that created the project and museum.

A History of the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer D810.J4 B315823 1982
In order to prevent the Holocaust from occurring again, the author states that the world must be educated and fully informed of the atrocities of the Holocaust. This book explores the history of Jews and anti-Semitism, from the development of Jewish civilization to Jewish life in pre-war Germany. Other topics covered include Jewish life in the ghettos; the Final Solution; Western European Jewry; resistance and rescue; the final years of the Holocaust; and the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the creation of Israel; a differentiation between Holocaust and Genocide; a discussion of Theodicy, where was God or Man during the Holocaust; and the consequences of the Holocaust.

Escape from Sobibor D805.P7 E73 1991 VIDEO
This is the true story of the escape of Jewish prisoners from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp. Most Jews sent to Sobibor were immediately gassed and cremated; only a small number were kept alive for slave labor. This group of prisoners planned a mass escape from the camp, killing their Nazi captors and fleeing into the countryside.

Hitler and the Holocaust by Robert S. Wistrich D804.3 W469 2001
Wistrich explores anti-Semitism throughout time and the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany from the Weimar period to Nazi Germany. He documents the persecution of and resistance by Jews and the Final Solution. He also describes how Hitler and the Nazis used religion to justify their beliefs and horrific acts; the Holocaust as it was carried out in collaborating countries across Europe; the delayed response of the Allies to the Holocaust; and the implications of the Holocaust on modern society.

Hitler's Death Camps by Konnilyn G. Feig D810.J4 F36 1981
This book discusses the death camps - the killing centers, the concentrations camps, the labor camps, and experimentation centers. Each camp is separately described in detail - its purpose, layout, prisoners, etc. Maps, illustrations, and tables provide a better understanding of the universe of death camps.

Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen D804.3 G648 1996
The author presents evidence that refutes the past 50 years of assumptions concerning the role of German society in the atrocities of the Holocaust. Previously held beliefs put forth that Germans were coerced, ordered, or gave way to social or peer pressure to brutalize and murder Jews. Instead, the author asserts that anti-Semitism was deeply rooted in German society prior to Hitler, that German society felt that Jews needed to somehow be eliminated from German society, and that Germans were willing participants in the atrocities of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust edited by Mitchell G. Bard D804.3 .H62 2001
The Holocaust is part of series of books that explores the great turning points or events in history. The book consists of essays by different scholars that discuss the events preceding, during, and after the Holocaust. The topics include the Nuremburg Laws, the Final Solution, Auschwitz, the children of the Holocaust, and the Nuremburg Trials. Essays also explore the source of German racism, the lack of media attention, and the lack of response by the United States as it learned of the mass murders.

The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination by Lawrence L. Langer PN56.3.J4 L3 1977
The author critiques literature that grew out of the atrocities of the Holocaust. The contributing authors are not necessarily Jews or other survivors of the Holocaust, but they are affected and touched by the horrors of the Holocaust. Themes in the literature include the displacement of a consciousness of life with that of death; the violation of childhood; and more. All themes reflect how the atrocities of the Holocaust changed the world's conception of reality and the nature of reality, itself.

Interview with Angela Thayer: A Holocaust Survivor D805.P7 I58 1995 VIDEO
Angela Thayer, Holocaust survivor, relates her experiences as a victim of the Holocaust.

Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot JX5437.8 C66 1984
The author documents the Nuremburg trials - the Nazis that were prosecuted and descriptions of their crimes. Topics include the crimes and punishments; interrogation and indictment; prosecution; defense; and judgement.

Maus I and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman D804.3 S66 1991
Renowned cartoonist, Art Spiegelman, uses the cartoon to relate his father's experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust. Spiegelman portrays the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats. The familiar form of the cartoon juxtaposes with the brutal reality of his father's existence and survival throughout the war, including a year spent in Auschwitz. In addition to his father's story, Spiegelman also illustrates his troubled relationship with his parents, a difficult childhood characteristic of many children with survivor parents.

My Desperate Journey by Anna Maria Stockton D810.J4 S7
This is the autobiographical account of Anna Maria Stockton, a survivor of Buchenwald death camp. Her happy childhood in Austria was destroyed when, as a consequence of her uncle's opposition to the Nazis, she was taken by the SS to Buchenwald. There she experienced the atrocities of torture, pain, and the death of family members and friends.

Never Again: A History of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert D804.3 G55 2000
Gilbert, a renowned scholar of the Holocaust, provides a history of the Holocaust. Each topic is thoroughly described through narrative, historical photographs, illustrations, and maps. Topics include the European Jewry before the war; Nazi Germany; the coming war; the intensification of the Holocaust; survival, resistance, and refuge; the deportations; the last year of the war; and liberation. Also contains a chronology of events and a bibliography.

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander DD256.5 F739 1995
The mass murder of Jews and non-Jews during the war stemmed from Nazi policies during the 1930s that focused on the extermination of the handicapped. This book explores the origins of Nazi genocide, examines in detail how the Nazi programs of sterilization, experimentation, forced immigration, and extermination of the disabled, particularly the Jewish disabled, led to the wider extermination of millions of Jews and non-Jews during the war. Parts of the book also discuss the physicians, scientists, and aspects of the German government that aided the policies and methodologies of the torture and killings.

One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust by Judith Miller D804.3 M55 1990
Miller investigates how specific nations and the people of those nations have been affected by memories of the Holocaust. She finds that memories and history have been distorted and revised to justify actions in the past or to forget the pain of the past. The author also searches for ways to revive and maintain memories of the Holocaust, through video interviews of survivors, for example, or return visits of survivors to the places of their painful experiences.

The Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook by William R. Fernekes D804.3 F36 2002
The sourcebook is a comprehensive list of resources dealing with the Holocaust. Types of sources included in the book are general print sources, such as narrative histories, fiction, and poetry; primary sources, such as first person accounts; electronic resources; audiovisual resources, such as art, photographs, and film; educational and teaching materials; and institutions and organizations about the Holocaust.

The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning D804.3 B78 1995
The Path to Genocide dissects the Final Solution. Part one, the prelude to genocide, discusses the Nazi considerations of the resettlement of Jews and ghettoization; part two explores the conflicting explanations of various historians as they explore the roots of the Final Solution; and the final section of the book discusses the perpetrators of the Final Solution, how the people who carried out the mass murders so willingly conformed to the Final Solution and the mass murders that it dictated.

Playing for Time by Fania Fenelon D810.J4 F39613 1997
Playing for Time is the autobiographical account of Fania Fenelon. Fanelon, a French Jew, was a famous cabaret singer in Paris. After the outbreak of the war and Germany's occupation of France, she covertly aided the French resistance. She was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz where she performed in the camp orchestra, playing piano and singing. Fanelon recounts her experiences at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Psychology of Hate by Robert J. Sternberg BF575.H3 P74 2005
This book explores the human emotion of hate and how this emotion factors into continuing atrocities such as genocide, terrorism, hate crimes, and so forth. Scholars on the psychology of hate contribute essays that explore, for example, the origins of hate; understanding and combating hate; genocidal hatred; the psychological foundation of hate; the psychology of the hated; and more.

Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart D805.P7 H37 1982
This is an autobiographical account of Kitty Hart, a child survivor of the Jewish ghetto and Auschwitz. She and her mother survived 18 months of slave labor, torture, starvation, regular selections for the gas chambers, and a death march. In 1978, she and her son returned to Auschwitz to film the award-winning documentary, "Return to Auschwitz."

Shtetl D810.J4 S38 1996 VIDEO
The Jewish community in the shtetl, or "village," of Bransk, Poland was annihilated by the Nazis during the war. Within 24 hours, 2,500 Jews from this shtetl were rounded up, sent to Treblinka concentration camp, and murdered in its gas chambers. This video follows a Holocaust survivor from Bransk and a Polish Gentile historian from Bransk. The two interview both Jewish and Gentile townspeople from Bransk, along with immigrants in America from Bransk, in an attempt to uncover Jewish life in the village before and after the war.

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi D805.P7 L4413 1996
Primo Levi was an Italian chemist and a Jew who was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He spent ten months in the camp and recalls his experiences, emotions, and survival there. An afterword includes a conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth, the renowned author.

The Survivor: An Anatomy of life in the Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres D810.J4 D474 1980
Instead of focusing on the concentration camps themselves, this book focuses on the people in those camps - the survivors. The author describes the structure of survival, life as it presented itself and the people that adapted to that structure in order to survive. Interviews from survivors cast light on this structure and the mentality necessary to survive.

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust edited by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar D804.195 W58 2000
Witness consists solely of the accounts of survivors and witnesses, including liberators, rescuers and resistors, a Nazi Youth member, and others. While most traditional studies of the Holocaust focus on the cold details and machinery of the mass murders of Jews and non-Jews, the eyewitness accounts bring to life the harrowing experiences of those involved.

The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Michael Berenbaum D804.3 B464 1993
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum uses narrative and photographs to tell the story of the Holocaust, from Jewish life in pre-war Europe to concentration camps, the Nuremburg Trials, and the creation of Israel. The book's heavy use of historic photographs vividly illustrates the death, destruction, and savagery of the Holocaust.

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