Recommended Reading

Zuccotti describes what the Vatican did — or did not do — to help Jews in Italy in World War II. The author demonstrates that little help of any kind came from Popes Pius XI and XII or their senior officials. Zuccotti's research ranges wide, from the anti-Jewish tone of Jesuit publications in the years leading up to World War II to contemporary interviews with Holocaust survivors.

“How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II”

This book is based on the testimony given by van Pelt, a cultural historian, at the libel trial initiated by David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt. Professor van Pelt provided exhaustive evidence that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were built and operated to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews and refuted arguments of Holocaust deniers to the contrary.

We’ve all heard of Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi death camp in southern Poland. The statistics are daunting: 1.1 million men, women, and children murdered, 900,000 of them Jews. If you’ve never been there, this is your chance to experience it via an unprecedented traveling exhibition dedicated to the historical significance of the camp and its role in the Holocaust. Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. will be in New York City on May 8, 2019, the anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day 1945.

This work is the diary David Koker, a 21-year-old Dutch Jew, kept during his time in the Vught concentration camp. The diary charts his daily life in the camp as well as his spiritual evolution as a writer.