History - HSTR 462: The Holocaust in Nazi Occupied Europe: Required Books & Finding Books

Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. Written by survivors of the ghettos throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, this collection contains historical and cultural articles by prominent scholars, an essay on Holocaust theatre, and an article on teaching the Holocaust to students.

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available.

Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victim

Evans has written a concise study of the cruelties perpetrated by the Nazis on people with "disabilities"; the Nazis defined the term "disability" so broadly and haphazardly that it is often misleading to modern readers

A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals-both Jews and Nazis-associated with it.

Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book.

This dictionary covers all aspects of the Holocaust--people, places, and events. Designed as a quick reference for high-school and college students, it gives brief factual or statistical information.

As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their children, already safe in another country, might one day understand what had happened to their parents; and some wrote to furnish unknown readers in the outside world with evidence against the Nazi regime.

Describes how the Jewish people in Germany are re-establishing their identity and developing their own culture and social order within the new German state.