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Maezumi Institute: Overview : Auschwitz Reteat: Recommended Books

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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.

Amery, Jean. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. Schocken (New York: 1986).

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.