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  Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage)

  by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

  This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary... (more)
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  The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939

  by Richard J. Evans

  The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war. By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If this could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only the most fervent Nazi party loyalists... (more)
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  Night, Dawn, and Day (B'Nai B'Rith Judaica Library)

  by Elie Wiesel

  Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, brings together his first three books in this one volume: a young boy tries to survive Auschwitz; a member of the Israeli underground has to face the prospect of murder; and a near-fatal auto accident changes a man's outlook on life.
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  Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust

  by Daniel Asa Rose

  In this bold and innovative memoir, part travel narrative, part spiritual quest, prize-winning author Daniel Asa Rose describes the remarkable journey in which he and his two young sons retraced their relatives' escape from Antwerp during the Second World War and also embraced, with ample amounts of wit and irreverence, the Jewish heritage that had pained and mystified him. In the wake of his divorce, Rose... (more)
• Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw GhettoMichal Grynberg; Translator Philip Boehm

  

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  Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

  by Michal Grynberg; Translator Philip Boehm

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  Edith's Story

  by Edith Velmans-Van Hessen

  In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree details of a typical teenager's life -- thoughts about boys, school, her family, her friends, her future. By 1942, as Edith was contemplating her first kiss, the Germans had begun to escalate their war against the Jews. Soon this bright, fun-loving girl was grappling with one of the... (more)
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  Flora: I was but a Child

  by Flora M. Singer

  This is the gripping story of a young girl and her two little sisters hidden in convents in Belgium during the Holocaust. Their mother's remarkable intuition and initiative, together with the selfless assistance and the vigilance of two righteous among the nations, George Ranson and Pere (Father) Bruno helped save them. Flora's story is one of the uncommon cases where good triumphed over absolute evil in the... (more)
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  Ordinary Men

  by Christopher R. Browning

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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 1

  My Father Bleeds History

  by Art Spiegelman

  A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
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  Night Trilogy: Book 1

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night , a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers... (more)
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  Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews

  by Eva Hoffman

  Based in part on a PBS documentary, a chronicle of the small-town life of East European Jewry from the 1500s to the Holocaust focuses on the ghetto of Bransk, in eastern Poland, whose Jewish members died in the camps."
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  The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections, Germany, 1938-2001

  by Gitta Sereny

  Will stand for years to come as one of the most vivid explorations of the legacy of Nazism in Germany. No person has examined the lingering evil of Nazism more deeply than Gitta Sereny. As much a work of autobiography as a work of journalism, The Healing Wound spans over sixty years of Sereny's investigations into the darker side of history, from her first encounter with the Nazis at a Nuremberg rally in 1934... (more)
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  Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe

  by Leo Bretholz

  A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" ( Library Journal ). Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in... (more)
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  The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945

  by Michael Burleigh

  Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both victims and beneficiaries. The book begins with a serious discussion of the origins of Nazi racial ideology, and then demonstrates the way in which this was... (more)
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  The Last of the Just

  by Andre? Schwarz-Bart

  According to Jewish tradition, 36 "just men" are born in every generation to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves. This book tells the story of two Jews, divided by eight centuries, who are persecuted to death, becoming part of the catastrophic history of the Jewish people.
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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 2

  And Here My Troubles Began

  by Art Spiegelman

  MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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  The Hiding Place

  by Corrie Ten Boom, John L. Sherrill, John L. Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill

  Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. In World War II, she and her family risked their lives to help Jews escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's concentration camps. But she survived and was released--as a result of a clerical error--and now shares the story of how faith triumphs over evil. For thirty-five years... (more)
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  After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust

  by Elie Wiesel

  A poignant, powerful distillation of the Holocaust experience from the internationally acclaimed writer and Nobel laureate. In his first book, Night , Elie Wiesel described his concentration camp experience, but he has rarely written directly about the Holocaust since then. Now, as the last generation of survivors is passing and a new generation must be introduced to mankind’s darkest hour, Wiesel sums up the... (more)
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  Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

  by Christopher R. Browning

  The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
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  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's... (more)