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Maezumi Institute: Overview : Auschwitz Reteat: Recommended Books
Many, many books have been published concerning the
Holocaust. Those listed below are particularly recommended because they
are very powerful personal accounts of bearing witness and/or raise
complex moral and spiritual issues. Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Penguin Books (New York: 1976) Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After (includes None of Us Will Return, Useless Knowledge, and The Measure of Our Days). Yale University Press (New Haven: 1995). Eliach, Yaffa. Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust. Vintage Books (New York: 1988) Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors. Penguin Books (New York: 1979). Hillesum, Etty. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941- 1943. Washington Square Press (New York: 1983). Hoess, Rudolf, Commandant of Auschwitz. Phoenix Press. Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Shivitti: A Vision. Gateways/IDHHB (Canada: 1998). Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Kaddish. Algemeiner Associates (New York: 1998) Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust. Oxford Univ. Press (New York: 1995). Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Yale Univ. Press (New Haven: 1991). Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. Pantheon (New York: 1985). Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Vintage International (New York, 1989) Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Simon & Schuster (New York: 1996). Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. Vintage Books (New York: 1998). Steiner, Jean-Francois. Treblinka. The New American Library (New York 1967). Szpilman, Wladyslaw, The Pianist: the extraordinary story of one man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, Victor Golancz (London, 1999) Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam Books (New York: 1982). Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. Schocken Books (New York: 1997). Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments. Schocken Books (New York: '1997). Please note that this book is probably fiction and the author was involved in legal proceedings. |

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