Recommended Reading

Drawing on a lifetime of research and reflection, Hilberg tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed this great human catastrophe.

The focus of this book, which is an abridgement of Hilberg's definitive three volume edition, is the perpetrators and the systematic destruction of European Jewry.

This book is based on interviews conducted with over 150 soldiers who liberated the concentration, labor, and death camps during World War II.

Written from Hoffman's persepctive as the daughter of survivors, Hoffman explores the memory and legacy of the Holocaust. She explores in depth the the responsibilits of the second generation. Throughout the book, Hoffman asks provoking questions such as "what happens when we focus on 'memory' itself rather than its object".

An anthology of diaries written by children living in Nazi-occupied Europe. It includes the writings of twenty-three boys and girls aged ten through eighteen.

Horn’s main insight is that much of the way we’ve developed to remember and narrate Jewish history is, at best, self-deception and, at worst, rubbish. The 12 essays in her brilliant book explore how the different ways we commemorate Jewish tragedy, how we write about the Holocaust, how the media presents antisemitic events, how we establish museums to honor Jewish heritage, how we read literature with Jewish protagonists and even how we praise the “righteous among the nations” (those who saved Jews during the war), are all distractions from the main issue, which is the very concrete, specific death of Jews.