Recommended Reading

The Double Binds examines the impact of the Holocaust on ethical values, and attempts to measure the repercussions of that impact on mankind's confidence in morality.

It’s tempting to draw parallels between the Hitler era and the present age of ascendant nationalism, and Gellately (History/Florida State Univ.; The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, 2018, etc.) offers reasons to do so.

Gies recalls how she, her husband and several of their coworkers sheltered her boss, Otto Frank, his family, and several other Jews in a secret annex of their Amsterdam office building during World War II.

Gigliotti examines the role of the train during the Holocaust as a means of transportation and devastation in its own right.

The author uses oral histories as well as over 30 illustrations to present this period in history.