Further readings, films and reference materials
The following lists were assembled for various purposes at different times. Only certain topics are covered, and none of the lists pretends either to completeness or to rational selectiveness. They're posted here for such usefulness as they may have. The lists include only English-language books, and books and films used in the course are omitted.
Basic reference works
Bloomberg, Marty and Buckley Barry Barrett (eds.). The Jewish Holocaust: An Annotated Guide to Books in English. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1995.
Edelheit, Abraham J. and Hershel Edelheit (eds.). History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Gutman, Israel (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1990. -- In the Reference collection, D804.3/E53/1989.
Epstein, Eric Joseph and Philip Rosen (eds.). Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography and Terminology. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust, rev. ed. New York: Pergamon Press, 1993.
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust, issued by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
Basic studies
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews, rev. ed. in 3 vols. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985. -- A repository of precise, detailed information and statistics.
Ofer, Dalia and Leonore J. Weitzman (eds.). Women in the Holocaust, 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Books of documents
Adelson, Alan and Robert Lapides (eds.) Łódż Ghetto: Inside a Community under Siege. New York: Viking, 1989. -- The materials used by the documentary film Łódż Ghetto.
Picture books
Arad, Yitzhak (ed.) The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
Heydecker, Joe J. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record, 1941-1944. London: Tauris, 1990. – Photos taken by a German soldier.
Kacyzne, Alter. Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. -- Photographs taken in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s.
Swiebocka, Teresa (ed.). Auschwitz: A History in Photographs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Vishniac, Roman. To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac, ed. by Marion Wiesel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. – Photographs of shtetl life in the 1930s in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
Fiction
Fuchs, Elinor (ed.). Plays of the Holocaust: An International Anthology. New York, 1987.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. New York, 1982. -- A study in the form of a novel; the source for Spielberg's movie.
Langer, Lawrence L. (ed.) Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology. New York, 1995.
Nomberg-Przytk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land, trans. by Roslyn Hirsch. Chapel Hill, NC, 1985.
Books by survivors
Women
Millu, Liana. Smoke over Birkenau, trans. by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
Hillesum, Etty. An Interrupted Life. New York: Pantheon, 1981. -- The diary of a Dutch Jew.
Brand, Sandra. I Dared to Live. New York: Shengold, 1978. -- Account by an Orthodox Jew.
Kotlar, Helen. We Lived in a Grave, trans by Judah Pilch. New York: Shengold, 1980. -- Account by an Orthodox Jew.
Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld. Strange and Unexpected Love. Hoboken: Ktav, 1993.
Birenbaum, Halina. Hope Is the Last to Die. New York: Twayne, 1971.
Zar, Rose. In the Mouth of the Wolf. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1983.
Men
Halivni, David. The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, in 2 vols. New York: Pantheon, 1986-1991. -- Recollections of the author's father, in comic-book format.
Wells, Leon Weliczker. Shattered Faith: A Holocaust Legacy. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 1960.
Books by, and interviews with, perpetrators
Aly, Goetz et al. (eds.). Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. -- Contains long passages by camp doctors.
Frank, Hans. Hans Frank's Diary. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawn. Nauke, 1961.
Hoess, Rudolf. Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1959.
Klee, Ernst et al. (eds.). "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. New York: Free Press, 1991.
KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS. Oświęcim: Państwowe Museum, 1972.. -- From writings of Rudolf Hoess, Perry Broad and Johann Paul Kemer.
Lifton, Robert Jay. Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 1986. -- Contains personal material from doctors who worked at Auschwitz
Maschmann, Melita. Account Rendered: A Dossier on My Former Self. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1964. -- Memoirs of a repentant former high-level leader of the Nazi girls' movement.
Moczarski, Kazimierz. Conversations with an Executioner. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. -- Based on talks with SS General Jürgen Stroop, who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Owings, Alison. Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. -- Includes the recollections of Anna Fest, a camp guard at Ravensbrueck and other camps.
Posner, Gerald L. Hitler's Children: Sons and
Daughters of Leaders of the Third Reich Talk about Their Fathers
and Themselves. New York: Random House, 1991.
Segev, Tom. The Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. Based on extensive interviews with surviving SS camp commandants.
Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience. New York, 1974. -- Based on conversations with Franz Stangl, former commandant of Treblinka and Sobibor.
Steinhoff, Johannes et al. (eds.). Voices from the Third Reich. Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1989. -- Contains some material on perpetrators.
Books about rescuers
Hallie, Philip. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Prewar Jewish life in Eastern and Central Europe
Primary Sources, Memoirs and Fiction
Aleichem, Sholem. The Best of Sholem Aleichem, ed. by Irving Howe and Ruth R. Wisse. Washington, DC: New Republic Books, 1979.
Buloff, Joseph. From the Old Marketplace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. -- On the old days in Vilna, trans. from the Yiddish.
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. (ed.). The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Fenyvesi, Charles. When the World Was Whole: Three Centures of Memories. New York: Viking, 1990. -- On a Hungarian Jewish family.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Selected Short Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York: Modern Library, 1966.
Wisse, Ruth R. (ed.). A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
Secondary
Abramsky, Chimen et al. (eds.). The Jews in Poland. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Hertz, Aleksander. The Jews in Polish Culture. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988.
Hoffman, Eva. Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Howe, Irving. World of Our Fathers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
Iggers, Wilma Abeles. The Jews of Bophemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
Opalski, Magdalena and Israel Bartal. Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992.
Richmond, Theo. Konin: A Quest. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. -- About the Jewish inhabitants of a Polish town from the mid-19th century to recently.
Samuel, Maurice. The World of Sholom Aleichem. New York: Knopf, 1956.
Segel, Harold B. (ed.). Strangers in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Zborowski, Mark and Elizabeth Herzog. Life Is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl. New York: Schocken Books, 1962.Steven J. Zipperstein, The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881
Films, other than those shown
Feature films
Au revoir les enfants (France, dir. Louis Malle, 1987; 103 mins.).
The Boat Is Full (Switzerland, dir. Markus Imhoof, 1981; 100 mins.). -- On Switzerland's refusal to take in Jewish refugees.
Border Street (Poland, dir. Aleksander Ford, 1949; 122 mins.). -- On the Warsaw ghetto and uprising.
Divided We Fall (Czech Republic, Jan Hřebejk, 2000; 122 mins.). -- On a Czech couple who hide a hunted Jew.
Europa, Europa (Poland/France, dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1991; 115 mins.). -- Concerns a young Jew passing for a gentile in the Nazi world.
Holocaust (USA, dir. Marvin Chomsky, 1978; ca. 450 mins.). -- The television miniseries that brought the Holocaust to the consciousness of ordinary people in the United States, Germany and elsewhere.
Life is Beautiful (Italy, dir. Roberto Benigni, 1998; 116 mins.).
Samson (Poland, dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1960; 119 mins.). -- About a Jew who joins the Communist resistance.
Sophie's Choice (USA, dir. Alan Pakula, 1982).
Sunshine (Hungary, dir. István Szabó, 1999; 180 mins.).
To Be or Not To Be (USA, dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1942; 102 mins.) -- Comedy about a Jewish theatrical company in occupied Poland.
Documentaries
More Than Broken Glass: Memories of Kristallnacht (USA, dir. Chris Pelzer, 1988; 57 mins.).
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (USA, dir. Errol Morris, 1999; 92 mins.). -- On a Holocaust denier.
Shtetl (USA, dir. Marian Marzynski, 1996; 180 mins.). -- American Jews return to visit the prewar Polish village from which they escaped.
The Sorrow and the Pity (France, dir. Marcel Ophuls, 19709; 260 mins.). -- A great classic on France under the Occupation, only partly concerned with the Holocaust; contains interviews with SS men.
Witness to the Holocaust: Trial of Adolf Eichmann (USA, dir. Lori Perlow, 1987; 90 mins.).