Recommended Reading

Drawing on the memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men, Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany trying to control their everyday lives in a world that was becoming more and more unbalanced.

Kaplan explores the lives of Jewish refugees living in the Dominican Republic during World War II.

Tells the story of Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who established a secret organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the Warsaw ghetto's inhabitants. Prior to the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried documents from their archive in milk cans and tin boxes.

In this meticulous, vivid, and grim accounting of the deliberate murder of civilians by Nazi Germany, Kay manages to keep a balance between careful analysis of the evidence and reminders of the horrors of the events he is describing, including individuals’ harrowing recollections of surviving by hiding among dead bodies—often those of their own relatives.

This book details the efforts of Oskar Schindler, a German-Catholic industrialist, who managed to save more than 1,000 Jewish men, women, and children from certain death.

Roman Kent's autobiography is more than a memoir. In addition to telling the story of his life in the Łodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Kent — treasurer of the Claims Conference — describes the efforts of survivors to achieve justice in the post-Holocaust years.