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Historical Reference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