Recommended Reading

In has latest work, Friedländer completes his two-volume, comprehensive study of the Holocaust in Europe.

Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.

A Small Town Near Auschwitz examines the life and role of Udo Klausa, a local Nazi, during the Holocaust. Fulbrook's work attempts to answer the question how those citizens only 25 miles away from Auschwitz claim they did not know what happened during the Holocaust.

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.