1940s (back to top)
Concentration & Extermination Camps
- Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel, Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz (Penguin, 1992). (amazon)
- Eugen Kogon, The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). (amazon) (originally 1946)
- Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: A New History (PublicAffairs, 2005). (amazon)
Resistance & Rescue (Warsaw Ghetto)
- Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (W. W. Norton, 2007).
( amazon) Rescue from the Warsaw Ghetto
- Kazik (Simha Rotem), Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter (Yale University Press, 2002). (amazon)
- Emmanuel Ringelblum and Jacob Sloan, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto (IBooks, Inc., 2006). (amazon)
- Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mariner Books, 1998). (amazon)
Children
- Laurel Holliday, Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (Washington Square Press, 1996). (amazon)
- Deborah Dwork, Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (Yale University Press, 1993). (amazon)
US & the Holocaust
- Reinhold Billstein et al., Working For The Enemy: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor In Germany During The Second World War (Berghahn Books, 2004). (amazon). Note: this is an anthology, but acceptable.
- Laurel Leff, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper (Cambridge University Press, 2006). (amazon)
- Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (University Press of Kansas, 2003). (amazon)
note: this is an anthology, thus more difficult, but still acceptable (also as group project-2)
- Charles Higham, American Swastika: The Shocking Story of Nazi Collaborators in Our Midst from 1933 to the Present Day (Doubleday, 1985). (amazon)
Economics
- Henry Ashby Turner, General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker (Yale University Press, 2005). (amazon)
- Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (Crown, 2001). (amazon). This was a very controversial book. The author has a website.
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