Suggested Reading
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Historical Background
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Auschwitz: A History
by Sybille Steinbacher
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War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in World and International History)
by Doris L. Bergen
Historical Reference
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The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust
by Professor Donald L. Niewyk & Professor Francis R. Nicosia
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A History of the Holocaust
Memoirs and First-Hand Accounts
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Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity In The Holocaust
by Nancy Wright Beasley
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The Gazebo
by Alexander Lebenstein
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The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust
by Professor Donald L. Niewyk & Professor Francis R. Nicosia
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Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise
by Deborah Donnelly
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Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity In The Holocaust
by Nancy Wright Beasley
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black In Nazi Germany Kindle Edition
by Hans Massaquoi
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Adventures Against Their Will
by Joanie Holtzer Shirm
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All But My Life: A Memoir Paperback
by Gerda Weissmann Klein
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto
by Vladka Meed
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Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
by Lyn Smith
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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
by Dawid Sierakowiak
Perpetrators and Collaborators
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
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Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
by Gitta Sereny
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
by Wendy Lower
History of Genocide Titles
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Genocide: A World History (New Oxford World History) 1st Edition
by Norman M. Naimark
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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction 3rd Edition
by Adam Jones
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Centuries of Genocide 4th Edition
by Samuel Totten & William S. Parsons
Pedagogical Reference
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Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches
by Samuel Totten & Stephen Feinberg
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Genocide: A World History (New Oxford World History) 1st Edition
by Norman M. Naimark
Short Stories
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
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A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
by Ida Fink
OTHER RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Charlottesville and Onward: A Discussion Guide
(The Virginia Holocaust Museum)
Questions To Ask When Using Primary Sources
(The Virginia Holocaust Museum)
(The Holocaust Commission of the UJFT)
Why is it Important to Teach the Holocaust?
(USHMM)