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Holocaust

We've broken up this section into seven subsections:

1. History, General
2. History, Specialized
3. Bibliography
4. Fiction
5. Memoirs
6. Diaries
7. Poetry, Drama, and Art
8. Literary Criticism

1. History, General
• Altshuler, David A. Hitler's War Against the Jews–the Holocaust: A Young Reader's Version of "The War Against the Jews 1933-1945 by Lucy Dawidowicz."
• Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews 1933–1945.
• Dawidowicz, Lucy. A Holocaust Reader.
• Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War.
• Hilberg, Paul. The Destruction of the European Jews (paperback, student edition) ; [3 vols.] - box set hardcover
• Schleunes, Karl A. Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933–1939.
2. History, Specialized
• Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945.
• Berenbaum, Michael, ed. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis.
• Berenbaum, Michael & Peck, Abraham J., eds. The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined.
• Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg.
• Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in Death Camps.
• Dobroszycki, Lucjan, ed. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto.
• Eliach, Yaffa. There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok.
• Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust.
• Finkelstein, Norman G. & Birn, Ruth Bettina. A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.
• Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.
• Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.
• Gutman, Yisrael, and Michael Berenbaum, eds. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
• Kershaw, Ian. The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich.
• Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics.
• Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film.
• Laska, Vera. Women in the Resistance and the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses.
• Lifton, Robert. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killings and the Psychology of Genocide.
• Lipstadt, Deoborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.
• Mayer, Milton. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933–45.
• Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy.
• Rosenbaum, Ron. Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil.
• Roth, John K. and Michael Berenbaum, eds. The Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications.
• Shandley, Robert R. Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate.
3. Bibliography
• Anger, Per. With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.
• Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List.
• Laqueur, Walter and Richard Breitman. Breaking the Silence (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, No. 18).
• Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience.
4. Fiction
• Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
• Kosinski, Jerry. The Painted Bird.
• Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl.
• Weisel, Elie. The Town Beyond the Wall.
5. Memoirs
• Anatoli, A. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel.
• Delbo, Charlotte. Auschiwitz and After.
• Eliach, Yaffa. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust.
• Fenelon, Fania. Playing for Time.
• Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz.
• Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs of the Warsaw Ghetto.
• Weisel, Elie. Night.
6. Diaries
• Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition.
• Gay, Peter. My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin.
• Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness.
• Tory, Avraham. Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary.
7. Poetry, Drama, and Art
• Hyett, Barbara Helfgott. In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps.
8. Literary Criticism
• Aaron, Frieda W. Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps.
• Insdorf, Annette and Elie Wiesel. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust.