(graphical version with thumbnails, descriptions, prices and links to on-line
bookstores)
created Aug. 22, 2001, last updated Aug. 26
[print version with UCSB library call numbers;
these will be in the Reserve Book Room]
Stephen J. Lee, Hitler and Nazi Germany (Questions and Analysis in History); (Routledge, 1998) | $12.95 (4-6 weeks and no discount on Amazon) | 133D course textbook (recommended but not required for 133Q) |
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Hans J. Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (HarperCollins, 1999) (also for 133Q) |
$14, Amazon $11.20 new, bn $12.60 |
The son of a (black) Liberian diplomat and a German housewife, born 1926, lived the entire Nazi period in Hamburg, Germany. |
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Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began [volume 2 only] (Pantheon, 1991) (only for 133D, not for 133Q) |
$14 paper, Amazon
$11.20, $6 used, bn $12.60 2 volume boxed set: bn $22.80, |
Famous comic-book history traces the author's efforts to record his father's life from March 1944 (Auschwitz) to the present. |
Hans J. Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (W. Morrow, 1999) (also for 133D) |
$14, Amazon $11.20 new, bn $12.60 |
The son of a (black) Liberian diplomat and a German housewife, born 1926, lived the entire Nazi period in Hamburg, Germany. |
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Melissa Muller, Anne Frank: The Biography (Henry Holt, 1998) | $14.00paper,
Amazon $4.98 hardcover [yes, no mistake], bn $12.60 |
excellent, very comprehensive biography; the 3 hour ABC docudrama broadcast in May 2001 is based on this book | |
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak : Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto (Oxford, 1998), 288pp. | $14.95 Amazon $14.95 new, $10 used, bn $15.95 |
A slightly older, male, Polish "Anne Frank," Dawid's diary describes Jewish life in Lodz from June 1939 to April 1943. | |
Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Alicia: My Story (Bantam, 1988) | $6.99, Amazon $6.29, bn $6.29 |
The story of a Jewish teenager from Buczacz [boo-shash] in eastern Poland from Sept. 1939 to 1947. | |
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz : The Nazi Assault on Humanity (Simon & Shuster, 1996 [originally 1947]) | $12, Amazon $9.60, bn $9.90 |
A now-classic memoir of Auschwitz III (I.G. Farben) from Fall 1944 to January 1945. | |
Judith Magyar Isaacson, Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor (Illinois, 1991) |
Amazon
$9.26, bn $11.65 |
The life story of a Hungarian girl deported to Auschwitz in summer 1944. She later became a dean at Bates College. | |
Filip Muller, Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (Ivan Dee, 1999) | $13, Amazon $10.36, bn $11.65 |
One of a handful of survivors from the Jewish crews who were forced to run corpse disposal factories at Auschwitz II (Birkenau). | |
Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999) | $15, Amazon $12, bn $13.45 |
An anthropologist examines some of the classic texts (including Levi and Muller) about the Holocaust. |