Recommended Reading

De Pres studies the lives of Holocaust survivors to understand the conditions and spirit that enabled some to survive.

Father Desbois chronicles his search for the mass graves of Ukrainian Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

Provides an overview of the key themes and theoretical developments that inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.

This is the story of Jacob, a Jewish boy in Poland who moves in with a Christian family in 1941 after the Jews of Warsaw are forced to relocate from their homes into the newly established ghetto. Jacob must pretend he is their son, pass as a Christian and keep from getting caught.

Dwork details the history of children who were affected by the Holocaust. Dwork bases her studies on oral histories, archival records, and letters and diaries of children who were in hiding, in transit camps, ghettos, forced labor camps, or killing centers.