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Holocaust a Select Bibliography Holocaust A Select Bibliography This is not, by any means, a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. These are the publications that are available in the research room of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. 1945: The Year of Liberation. Project Director, Stephen Goodell. Washington, DC: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995. [Folio D804.3 N5 1995] Abzug, Robert H. Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. [D805 G3A343 1985] Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. [DS135 G3315 B38 1996] Berenbaum, Michael. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. [D804.19 W58 1997] Berenbaum, Michael, and Arnold Kramer. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006. [D804.3 B464 1993] Brecher, Elinor J. Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1994. [D804.3 B693 1994] Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. [D804 G4 B765 1998] Brugioni, Dino A., and Robert G. Poirier. “The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex.” 1979. Reprinted in Studies in Intelligence: A Collection of Articles on the Historical, Operational, Doctrinal, and Theoretical Aspects of Intelligence. Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2000. [JK468 I4S78 2000] Buscher, Frank M. The United States, Germany and the Problem of Convicted War Criminals, 1946-1955. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Marquette University, 1988, 1989. [D804 G4B87 1988] Buscher, Frank M. The U.S. War Crimes Trial Program in Germany, 1946-1955. Contributions in Military Studies, no. 86. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. [JX5434 B87 1989] Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. [JX5437.8 C66 1983] Davidson, Eugene. The Trial of the Germans: An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg. New York: Macmillan, 1966. [D804 G42D3] Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War against the Jews, 1933-1945. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1986. [D810 J4 D33 1986b] Dwork, Deborah, and R. J. van Pelt. Holocaust: A History. New York: Norton, 2002. [D804.3 D87 2002] Edelbaum, Ben. Growing Up in the Holocaust. Kansas City, MO: Edelbaum, 1980. [D810 J4E28] Eichengreen, Lucille, and Harriet Hyman Chamberlain. From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. [D804.3 E43 1994] Frank, Anne, Otto Frank, Mirjam Pressler, and Susan Massotty. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1995. [DS135 N6 F73317 1995] Games, Sonia. Escape into Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman's Extraordinary Survival During World War II. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991. [DS135 P63G36] Geest, Jack van der, and Carol J. Ordemann. Was God on Vacation?: A WWII Autobiography. Highlands Ranch, Colo: van der Geest Publications and Distribution, 1999. [D811.5 V36x 1999] Gellert, Charles Lawrence. The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Washington, DC: Published for the National Archives and Records Administration by the National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1989. [Folio DS115.95 Z9G45 1989] Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955: U.S. Zone). Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1949. [D804 G42A42] Gilbert, G. M. Nuremberg Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1947. [D804 G42G5] Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993. [Quarto G1797.21 E29G58 1993] Gilbert, Martin. Auschwitz and the Allies. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. [D810 J4 G5] Glueck, Sheldon. War Criminals, Their Prosecution & Punishment. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1944. [JX6731 W3G5] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. [D804.3 G648 1997] Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1995. [REF D804.3 E53 1995b] Hanyok, Robert J. Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939 - 1945. Fort George G. Meade, Md: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005. [Quarto D810 C88H36 2005] Harran, Marilyn J. The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures. Lincolnwood, Ill: Publications International, 2002. [Quarto 804.25 H654 2002] Harris, Whitney R. Tyranny On Trial; The Evidence at Nuremberg. Dallas; Southern Methodist University Press, 1954. [KH] Heydecker, Joe Julius, and Johannes Leeb. The Nuremberg Trial: A History of Nazi Germany As Revealed Through the Testimony at Nuremberg. Cleveland: World Publications Co, 1962. [D804 G42H41] Hillesum, Etty, K. A. D. Smelik, and Arnold Pomerans. Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Publishers, 2002. [DS135 N6H54813 2002] Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich, Germany), and Helmut Krausnick. Anatomy of the SS State. New York: Walker, 1968. [DD256.5 I52513 1968] Jackson, Robert H. The Nürnberg Case; Together with Other Documents. Borzoi book. New York: Knopf, 1947. [D804 G42J32] Kahn, Leo. Nuremberg Trials. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. [D804 G42K3] Kaplan, Chaim Aron. Scroll of Agony; the Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. New York: Macmillan, 1965. Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. [PR9619.3 K46S3 1993] Korenblit, Michael, Kathleen Janger, and Michael Korenblit. Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust. Alexandria, Va: Charles River Press, 1995. [DS135 P62H74 1995] Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. [D804.3 L36 1991] Laquer, Walter, and Judith Tydor Baumel. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [REF D804.25 H66 2001] Lee, Carol Ann. Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank. London: Viking, 1999. [DS135 N6F7334 1999] Levin, Nora. The Holocaust; The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945. New York: T.Y. Crowell Co., 1968. [D810 J41455] Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Rise and Destiny of the German Jew. Cincinnati: Dept. of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1934. [DS135 G33M23] Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died; A Chronicle of American Apathy. New York: Random House, 1968. [D810 J4M59] Müller, Filip, Helmut Freitag, and Susanne Flatauer. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers. New York: Stein and Day, 1979. [D805.5 A96M85 1979] Müller, Melissa. Anne Frank: The Biography. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998. [DS135 N6 F7349713 1998] Nadich, Judah. Eisenhower and the Jews. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1953. [E836 N3] National Archives (U.S.), and Fred G. Halley. Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the United States Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington: National Archives, 1949. [SuDoc GS4.10:21] Newman, Richard, and Karen Kirtley. Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2000. [ML418 R76N48 2000] Niewyk, Donald L., and Francis R. Nicosia. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. [D804.3 N54 2000] Paris, Edmond. Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941-1945; a Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs, 1961. Phillips, Walter Alfred Peter. The Tragedy of Nazi Germany. New York: Praeger, 1969. Reynolds, Quentin James, Ephraim Katz and Zwy Aldouby. Minister of Death; The Adolf Eichmann Story. New York: Viking Press, 1960. Rol, Ruud van der, and Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Puffin Books, 1995. [DS135 N6 F7385 1995] Russell, Edward Frederick Langley Russell. The Scourge of the Swastika: a Short History of Nazi War Crimes. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954. Rutherford, Ward. Genocide. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. [D810 J4 R9] Schlufman, Rachela Walshaw, and Sam Walshaw. From Out of the Firestorm: A Memoir of the Holocaust. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991. [D804.3 W35 1990] Schmittroth, Linda, and Mary Kay Rosteck. People of the Holocaust. Detroit, MI.: UXL, 1998. [D804.34 S36 1998] Smith, Bradley F. Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg. New York: Basic Books, 1977. [D804 G42S64] Smoleń, Kazimierz. Auschwitz, 1940-1945: Guide-Book Through the Museum. Katowice: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1981. [D805 P7S5615 1981] Świebocka, Teresa, Jonathan Webber, and Connie Wilsack. Auschwitz: A History in Photographs. Bloomington: Published for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim, and Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw, by Indiana University Press, 1993. [Folio D805 P7 A8813 1993] Świebocki, Henryk. London Has Been Informed ...: Reports by Auschwitz Escapees. Oświecim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1997. [D805.5 A96R3713 1997] Tessler, Rudolph. Letter to My Children: From Romania to America Via Auschwitz. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. [DS135 R72V577 1999] United States, and Greg Bradsher. Holocaust-Era Assets: A Finding Aid to Records at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. Washington,
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