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Remembering the Holocaust TABLE of CONTENTS Remembering The Holocaust A Bibliography of Books in the Hermann Memorial Library and Selected Websites A column of prisoners on a forced march from Dachau concentration camp. Photo was taken April 29, 1945 in the town of Günwald. Photo credit: Marion Koch Collection courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives. TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART I: REFERENCE WORKS PART II: GENERAL WORKS PART III: BY SUBJECT Addresses, Essays, Lectures Anniversaries, etc. Art Bibliography Biography Causes Collections Comic Books, Strips, Etc. Concentration Camps Congresses Denial Drama Encyclopedias Fiction Historiography Influence Jewish Theology Literature Maps Motion Pictures Moral and Religious Aspects Personal Narratives Pictorial Works Psychological Aspects Public Opinion Rescue Study and Teaching Survivors PART IV: BY REGION Amsterdam France Germany Hungary Netherlands Poland Soviet Union Warsaw United States REFERENCE WORKS Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. (New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1990) R940.531503/EN19G The Holocaust: an annotated bibliography and resource guide. (New Jersey: Ktav Pub., 1985) R940.53152960/H741 The Holocaust encyclopedia. Walter Laqueur, editor. (New Haven: Yale University Press, c2001) R 940.5315/H741L The Study of Judaism; bibliographical essays. (New York: Ktav Pub., 1972) R296.0/ST94 PART II: GENERAL WORKS Bauer, Yehuda. A history of the holocaust. (New York: Watts, 1982) 940.5315296/B326HH Benz, Wolfgang. The Holocaust: a German historian examines the genocide. (New York: Columbia University Press, c1999) 940.5315296/B448H Bernbaum, Isreal. My brother's keeper: the Holocaust through the eyes of an artist. (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1985) 940.5315296/B457M Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland. (New York: Aaron Asher Books, 1992) 940.5315/B8210 Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The war against the Jews, 1933-1945. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975) 940.5315296/D322W Fackenheim, Emil L. The Jewish thought of Emil Fackenheim: a reader. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987) 296/F119J Feig, Konnilyn G. Hitler's death camps: the sanity of madness. (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981) 940.5315296/F323H Fein, Helen. Accounting for genocide: national responses and Jewish victimization during the Holocaust. (New York: Free Press, 1979) 940.5315/F327A Ferencz, Benjamin B. Less than slaves: Jewish forced labor and the quest for compensation. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979) 940.5315296/F379L Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the final solution. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984) 940.5315296/F629H Friedlander, Henry. The origins of Nazi genocide: from euthanasia to the final solution. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995) 943.086/F913O Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981) 940.5315296/G374A Gilbert, Martin. Final journey: the fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe. (New York: Mayflower books, 1979) 940.5315296/G374F Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1986) 940.5315/G374H Hausner, Gideon. Justice in Jerusalem. (New York: Harper & Row, 1966) 341.41/EI24/ZH Hilberg, Paul. The destruction of the European Jews. (New York: Holmes & Meier,, 1985) 940.5315296/H542D2 Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: the Jewish catastrophe, 1933-1945. (New York: HarperPerennial/Aaron Asher Books, 1992) 940.5315296/H542P The Holocaust. Mitchell G. Bard, book editor. (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2001) 940.5315296/H741BA Kren, George M. The Holocaust and the crisis of human behavior. (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980) 940.5315/K882H Mayer, Arno J. Why did the heavens not darken?: the "final solution" in history. (New York: Pantheon books, 1989) 940.5315/M452W Melson, Robert. Revolution and genocide: on the origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) 956.62023/M495R Morse, Arthur D. While six million died; a chronicle of American apathy. (New York: Random House, 1966) 940.5315/M835W Neusner, Jacob. Stranger at home: "the Holocaust," Zionism, and American Judaism. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981) 296.0973/N398S Penkower, Monty Noam. The Jews were expendable: free world diplomacy and the Holocaust. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983) 940.5315296/P378J Pinkus, Oscar. The house of ashes. (Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1964) 940.5315296/P656/ZZP Poliakov, Leon. Harvest of hate: the Nazi program for the destruction of the Jews of Europe. (New York: Holocaust Library, 1979) 940.5315/P758H Reitlinger, Gerald. The final solution: the attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. (New York: Beechhurst Press, 1953) 940.5315296/R278F Steinberg, Lucien. Not as a lamb; the Jews against Hitler. (England: Saxon House, 1974) 940.5315/ST34N Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat; the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation. (New York: Macmillan, 1972) 940.5315296/T773J Wyman, David S. The abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) 940.5315296/W981A Yahil, Leny. The Holocaust: the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945. (New York; Oxford University Press, 1990) 940.5315296/Y1H PART III: BY SUBJECT Addresses, Essays, and Lectures Amery, Jean. At the mind's limits: contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980) 940.5315296/AM35A Amery, Jean. Radical humanism: selected essays. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984) 940.5315296/AM35RA Arendt, Hannah. The Jew as pariah: Jewish identity and politics in the modern age. (New York: Grove Press, 1978) 956.93/AR33J Bauer, Yehuda. The Holocaust in historical perspective. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978) 940.5315296/B326H Bettelheim, Bruno. Surviving, and other essays. (New York: Knopf, 1979) 301.04/B466S Bitburg in moral and political perspective. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) 940.5315/B546H The black book: the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945. (New York: Holocaust Publications, 1981) 940.5315296/B561 The Catastrophe of European Jewry: antecedents, history, reflections. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976) 940.5315296/C281 Confronting the Holocaust: the impact of Elie Wiesel. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978) 813.54/W637/ZC Fackenheim, Emil L. The Jewish return into history: reflections in the age of Auschwitz and a new Jerusalem. (New York: Schocken Books, 1978) 956.94/F119J Friedman, Philip. Roads to extinction: essays on the Holocaust. (New York: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980) 940.5315296/F914R Katz, Steven T. Post-holocaust dialogues: critical studies in modern Jewish thought. (New York: New York University Press, 1983) 296.3/K159P Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust: collected essays. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 940.5315296/L262A Langer, Lawrence L. Versions of survival: the Holocaust and the human spirit. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982) 804.4/L262V Reflections on the Holocaust: historical, philosophical, and educational dimensions. (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1980) 940.5315296/AM35R Survivors, victims, and perpetrators: essays on the Nazi Holocaust. (Washington: Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1980) 940.5315296/SU79 Anniversaries, etc. Bitburg in moral and political perspective. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) 940.5315/B546H Art Bernbaum, Isreal. My brother's keeper: the Holocaust through the eyes of an artist. (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1985) 940.5315296/B457M Bibliography The Holocaust: an annotated bibliography and resource guide. (New Jersey: Ktav Pub., 1985) R940.53152960/H741 The Study of Judaism; bibliographical essays. (New York: Ktav Pub., 1972 R296.0/ST94 Biography Rabinowitz, Dorothy. New lives: survivors of the holocaust living in America. (New York: Knopf, 1976) 940.5315/R113S Spiegelman, Art. Maus I: a survivor's tale: my father bleeds his story. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986) 940.5315296/SP43M Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: a survivor's tale: and here my troubles began. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991) 940.5315296/SP43MM Voices from the Holocaust. (New York: New American Library, 1981) 940.5315296/V87 Causes Arendt, Hannah. The Jew as pariah: Jewish identity and politics in the modern age. (New York: Grove Press, 1978) 956.93/AR33J Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. (New York: Cornell University Press, 1989) 940.5315296/B327M Browning, Christopher. The path to genocide: essays on launching the final solution. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) 940.5315/B821P Finkelstein, Norman G. and Ruth Bettina Birn. A nation on trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth. (New York: Metropolitan Books, [1998]) 940.5315296/G568/ZF Goldhagen, Daniel. Hitler's willing executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. (New York: Knopf, 1996) 940.5315296/G658H Gordon, Sarah Ann. Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish question. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984) 943.086/G658H Katz, Steven T. The holocaust in historical context. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 940.5315296/K159H v.1 Mayer, Arno J. Why did the heavens not darken?: the "final solution" in history. (New York: Pantheon books, 1989) 940.5315/M452W Mazian, Florence. 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