Holocaust Memoirs, Testimonies, Histories
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There are literally thousands of personal testimonies. This compilation contains a collection of varied and different perspectives and experiences of those who lived through and witnessed the Shoah. I have provided short annotations if the content is not obvious from the title.

There is a separate bibliography for Critical Writing on Literary and Artistic Responses to the Holocaust, one for Secondary Sources on the Holocaust, and one for Antisemitism..

For a list of Holocaust novels, stories, plays, and poems, see Literary Responses to the Holocaust.
 

*#Altbeker Cyprys, Ruth. A Jump for Life: A Survivor's Journal from Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Continuum, 1997. [Excellent account of the constantly threatened Jewish life (here of a woman) in Poland during the Holocaust and the difficulty of survival afterwards.]

*Anthology of Holocaust Literature. Eds. Jacob Glatstein, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. [Collection of eyewitness accounts]
#Appelfeld, Aharon. The Story of a Life. Trans. Aloma Halter. 1999; New York: Schocken Books, 2004. [Includes contemplations on memory, language and mother tongue, humanity after the Holocaust]

*Appignanesi, Lisa. Losing the Dead. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.

Améry, Jean. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. Trans. Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980

Amichai, Yehuda. Not of This Time, Not of This Place. Trans. Shlomo Katz. New York: Harper, 1963.

Appelfeld, Aharon. Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a Conversation with Philip Roth. Trans. Jeffrey M. Green. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporations, 1994.

*Auschwitz--The Nazi Civilization: Twenty-Three Women Prisoners' Accounts. Ed. and trans. Lore Shelley; Foreword Yehuda Bauer. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992. [Auschwitz camp administration, SS enterprises, and special workshops]

*Barach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Boston: Little, Frown, 1994. [Historical overview, personal stories, photographs, maps]

Bau, Joseph. Dear God, Have you Ever Gone Hungry? Memoirs. Trans. from the Hebrew Shlomo “Sam” Yurnan. .New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990.

Begley, Louis. Wartime Lies. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991.

Berenbaum, Michael, ed. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. [German government policy and personal narratives]

*Birger, Trudi with Jeffrey M. Green. A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir. Philadelphia, Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.

*Bitton Jackson, Livia E. Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust. 1980; rpr. London: Grafton Books, 1984.

*Bitton Jackson, Livia E. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust. London: Simon & Schuster, 1999. [Experiences during WW II when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz]

Blatt, Thomas Toivi. From The Ashes Of Sobibor: A Story Of Survival. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

Bor, Joseph. The Terzin Requiem. Trans. E. Pargeter. New York: Knopf, 1963.

*Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian. Ghost Children: Poems. Vancouver, BC: Ronsdale Press 2000. [The survivor-poet stands “transfixed at the edge of the apocalypse.”]

Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. trans. Barbara Vedder. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. [Experiences of a Polish inmate of Auschwitz]

*Brewda, Alina. I Shall Fear No Evil. London: Kimber, 1966.

Buber-Neumann, Margarete. Milena. London: Collins Harvill, 1989. [About Milena Jesenská with whom the author shared her days in captivity in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women]

Cargas, Harry J. Voices from the Holocaust. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. [Holocaust survivors’ interviews]

*Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence. Ed. Barbara Wiedemann. Trans. Christopher Clark. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1995.

*Czech, Danuta. Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945. London: Tauris, 1990. [Chronological day-to-day account of the death camp's operation drawn from extensive sources collected in the archives of the official Auschwitz Museum.]

*Dawidowicz, Lucy S. From That Place And Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989. [Journeys, Lithuania]

#Debenedetti, Giacomo. October 16, 1943/Eight Jews. Trans. Estelle Gilson; preface Alberto Moravia. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press 2001. [Written in Italian in 1944; moving eyewitness account of a German roundup of Jews in Rome]

*#De Gaulle Anthonioz, Geneviève. The Dawn of Hope: A Memoir of Ravensbrück. Trans. from the French Richard Seaver. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. [Short account by political prisoner and niece of Charles de Gaulle about her solitary confinement at the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück]

*#Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. Trans. Rosette C. Lamont. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. [Experiences at Auschwitz and post-survival of a French woman]

*#Delbo, Charlotte Days and Memory. Trans. and Preface by Rosette Lamon. The Marlboro Press, 1990. [Experiences and observations in Auschwitz and post-survival of a French woman]

*#Delbo, Charlotte. None of Us Will Return. Vol I of Auschwitz and After. Trans. John Githens. Boston: Beacon Press 1978. [Experiences at Auschwitz and post-survival of a French woman]

*Denes, Magda. Castles Burning: A Child’s Life in War. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

#Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. [Physical and psychological aspects of being incarcerated in concentration camps]

*Deutsch, Mina. Mina’s Story: A Doctor’s Memoir of the Holocaust. Toronto: ECW Press, 1994. [In hiding in Poland; encounters with Russians; journey to Canada]

Drukier, Manny. Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years, A Boy's Tale. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

*Dwork, Debóra. Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.

*#Eibeshitz, Jehoshua and Anna, Eds. and trans. Women in the Holocaust: A Collection of Testimonies. Vol. I. Brooklyn, NY: Remember, 1993.

*Eichengreen, Lucille. From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994.

Eisenberg, Azriel. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: Pilgrim, 1981. [An anthology of individual bibliographies with specific topics]

*Eliach, Yaffa. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

*#Elias, Ruth. Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

*Epsztein, Maria. Motherhood Behind Barbed Wire. Montreal: Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada, 2006.

*Exile and Displacement: Survivors of the Nazi Persecution Remember the Emigration Experience. Ed. Lauren Levine Enzie. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. [Accounts by W. Ernest Freud, Peter Heller, Guy Stern, Elizabeth Welt Trahan, Harry Zohn, et al]

*Ferderber-Salz, Berta. And the Sun Kept Shining. New York: Holocaust Library, 1980.

*#Fink, Ida. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories. Trans. from the Polish Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. [Based on her experiences]

Fishman, Charles. Ed. Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech University Press, 1991. [Holocaust poetry collection]

*Fiszer, Ludwika. “The Story of Ludwika Fiszer” 'Testimonies' (www.womenandtheholocaust.com) . [Unaltered testimony, deposited to the Polish Jewish National League in Warsaw in 1944.] 

Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. 1959rpt. New York: Washington Square, 1985.

Friedländer, Saul. When Memory Comes. Trans. from the French Quand vient le souvenir Helen R. Lane. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991.

Friedman, Saul S. Amcha: An Oral Testament of the Holocaust. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.

*#Furth, Valerie Jakober. Cabbages and Geraniums: Memories of the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Gilbert, Martin. The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity: The Untold Story Of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors. New York: Holt, 1997.

#Richard Glazar. Trap With a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995.

Grade, Chaim. "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner." Trans. Milton Himmelfarb. In The Seven Little Lanes. New York and Tel Aviv: Bergen Belsen Memorial Press, 1972.

*#Hart, Kitty. Return To Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story Of A Girl Who Survived The Holocaust. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

*Heifetz, Julie, ed. Too Young to Remember. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

*Heilman, Anna. Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman. Ed. Sheldon Schwartz. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 2001. [Diaries and memoirs written between 1944 and 1994]

*Heller (Stopnicka), Celia. On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. Wars. Columbia University Press, 1977.

*#Heller, Gottesfeld, Fanya. Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs. New Jersey: Ktav, 1993. [In hiding in Poland]

*#Hellmann, Peter. The Auschwitz Album: A Book Based Upon an Album discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier. New York: Random House, 1981.

Herbst, Jürgen. Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis. Madison, Wisconsin:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Höss, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, Trans. Andrew Dollinger, ed. Steven Paskuly. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1992.

Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing The Holocaust Through Diaries And Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts. Ed. Robert Moses Shapiro; Introduction Ruth R. Wisse. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1999.

Horowitz, Gordon J. In The Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen New York: Free Press, 1990.

The Journal of Hélène Berr. Trans. from the French David Bellos. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2008.

*Kalman Naves, Elaine. Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian Jewish Family. Montreal: McGill-Queen's. University Press, 1996.

Kaplan, Chaim A. The Warsaw Diary Scroll of Agony; The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Trans. and ed. Abraham I. Katsh. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

*Karmel, Ilona. An Estate of Memory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

*Katz, Etunia Bauer. Our Tomorrow Never Came. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. [Experiences of surviving pogroms, mass murder, and transportation to death camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe.]

Katzenelson, Yitzak. The Song of the Murdered Jewish People. Trans. Noah H. Rosenbloom. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1980.

Ka-tzetnik135633 [Dinur, Yehiel]. Atrocity. Trans. Nina De-Nur. New York: Kensington, 1977.

*#Ka-tzetnik 135633[Dinur, Yehiel]. The House of Dolls. Trans. from the Hebrew Moshe M. Kohn. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.

Ka-tzetnik 135633 [Dinur, Yehiel]. Star Eternal. Trans. Nina Dinur. New York: Arbor House, 1982.

#Ka-tzetnik 135633. Piepel. London: Anthony Blond, 1961.Trans. from the Hebrew Moshe M. Kohn [Karu lo Pipl]. [Graphic account of Auschwitz]

Ka-tzetnik 135633. Shivitti. Trans. from the Hebrew Eliyah N. De-Nur and Lisa Herman. New York: Harper, 1989. Ka-tzetnik. Sunrise over Hell. Trans. from the Hebrew Nina De-Nur. London: Allen, 1977.

Ka-tzetnik. Sunrise over Hell. Trans. from the Hebrew Nina De-Nur. London: Allen, 1977.

*Kazimirski, Ann. Witness to Horror. Montreal: Devonshire, 1993. [Witnessing Auschwitz]

#Kertész, Imre. Fateless. 1975; Trans. Christopher C. and Katharina M. Wilson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992. [Based on experiences mainly in Buchenwald, its hospital ward, and return to Hungary]

Kielar, Wieslaw. Anus Mundi: Five Years in Auschwitz. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

*Kirschner, Ann. Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story. Free Press, 2006. [Letters,  illustrated; also a play by Arlene Hutton: Letters To Sala]

*Klein, [ Weissmann] Gerda. All But My Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957. [Experiences working in Landeshut in a weaving mill (Weberei) under acceptable conditions with a compassionate German female guard; otherwise a love story contrasting the lack off love between herself and Abek in Poland and that of her future husband Kurt Klein, an American G.I. with whom she later went to the U.S.]

#Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941. New York: Random House, 1998. [Experiences inside of Germany; contemplations on language use and change and the Germans during the Nazi period]

*# Kluger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. Foreword Lore Segal. New York : Feminist Press, 2001. [Trans. from an important German Holocaust memoir with reflections on German memory, women’s stories, and the Holocaust in general]

*Kroh, Aleksandra. Lucien's Story. Trans. Austryn Wainhouse. Marlboro Press 1996.

*Kuperhand, Miriam and Saul. Shadows of Treblinka. Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1998.

Kuznetsov, Anatoli. Babi Yar. Trans. David Floyd. Rev. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

*Lakder-Wallfisch, Anita. Inherit the Truth: 1939-1945. London: DLM Publishers, 1996.

*Land-Weber, Ellen. To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue. Champaign: IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. [Six stories of rescuers and rescued Jews; many photos; CD-ROM also available]

*Langfus, Anna. The Whole Land Brimstone. Trans. Peter Wiles. New York: Patheon Books, 1962.

*#Langley, Eva M. Prison On Wheels: From Ravensbrück to Burgau. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: E. Langley-Damos & Daimon Verlag, 2000. [Vivid memories, recorded in 1945 at St. Ottilien, Bavaria, Germany, of her horrible trip in German cattle cars]

*Lappin, Elena, ed. Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria. Trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1994.

*Laska, Vera, ed. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, Connecicut: Greenwood Press, 1983.

*Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978.

*Leitner, Isabella. Saving the Fragments: From Auschwitz to New York. New York: Nal Books, 1985.

*#Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz. Trans. Clifford Coch and Paul P. Weiss. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1947.

#Levi, Primo with Leonardo de Benedetti. Auschwitz Report. 1946; Trans. Judith Woolf. London, New York: Verso, 2006. [On the medical conditions and operations of Auschwitz III (Buna-Monowitz, IG-Farben)]

#Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

#Levi, Primo. If This is a Man and The Truce. Trans. Stuart Woolf. Afterword by the author. London: Abacus, 1987.

#Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: Two Memoirs. Trans. from the Italian Stuart Woolf. New York: Summit, 1985.

*Lieblich, Ruthka, Ruthka: A Diary Of War. Trans. from the Polish and ed. Jehoshua and Anna Eibeshitz. Brooklyn, NY: Remember, 1993. [Covers Aug. 1940 to Dec. 1942; died in Auschwitz in 1943]

Lilienheim, Henry. The Aftermath: A Survivor’s Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe. Montreal: DC Books, 1994.

*#Lingens-Reiner. Ella Prisoners of Fear. London: Victor Gollancz, 1948. [Doctor of Medicine and Law of the University of Vienna, she was a prisoner and doctor in the German hospital wing at Auschwitz-Birkenau.]

Lustig, Arnost. "Auschwitz-Birkenau." Trans. Josef Lustig. In Yale Review 71 (1982): 393-403.

Lustig, Arnost. Darkness Casts no Shadow. Washington, DC: Inscape, 1976.

*Lustig, Arnost. The Unloved: From The Diary Of Perla Sch.: A Novel. New York: Arbor House, 1985.

Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust. New York: Ballantine, [Memories of 23 survivors].

*#In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Ed. Cara De Silva. Trans. Bianca Steiner Brown. Introduction Michael Berenbaum. Northvale, NS: Jason Aronson, 1996.

* Mieder, Wolfgang and David Scrase. The Holocaust: Personal Accounts. Burlington VT: The Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Vermont, 2001. [Twenty survivors recounting their experiences]

*Millu, Liana. Smoke over Birkenau. Trans. from the Italian Lynne Sharon Schwartz. New York: The Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

*Minney, R. J. I Shall Fear No Evil, the Story of Dr. Alina Brewda. London: William Kimber, 1966.

#Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers. With Helmut Freitag. Ed. and trans. Susanne Flatauer. Forword Yehuda Bauer. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999.

*#Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land. Ed. Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch. Trans. Roslyn Hirsch. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

#Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. Trans. Tibere Kremer and Richard Seaver; Foreword Bruno Bettelheim. New York: Arcade Publisher, 1993.

*Pawel, Ursula. My Child is Back! Ed. Martin Gilbert et all. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000. [Excellent account of a child’s life in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and labor camps; also experiences of the time of liberation and post-war decisions to leave her native Germany.]

*Pawlowicz, Sala and Kevin Klose. I will Survive. New York: Norton, 1962.

Perechodnik, Calel. Am I a Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1996. [Exceptional eyewitness testimony of the Holocaust; unique record and important historical document; fusion of confession, chronicle, and diary;]

Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. New York: Henry Holt, 1986. [Diaries and letters]

#Poller, Walter. Medical Block, Buchenwald: The Personal Testimony of Inmate 966, Block 35. 1960; London: Grafton Books, 1988.

*Raab, Elisabeth M. And Peace Never Came. Waterloo, ON: Wilfried Laurier University Press, 1997.

#Radnoti, Miklos. Against Forgetting. Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witnessing. New York, 1993.

Rawicz, Piotr. Blood from the Sky. Trans. Peter Wiles. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.

*Rexin (Evans), Cecelia, Testament To Courage: The Concentration Camp Diary 1940-1945 of A Courageous German Woman Who Risked Her Life to Save Others. Trans. Nancy Rexin Evans with Mark Shaw. Carmel, Indiana: Guild Press of Indiana, 1998. [Excellent eyewitness account of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.]

#Ringelbloom, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto:The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelbloom. Ed. and trans. Jacob Sloan. New York: Schocken Books, 1958. [Diaries and notes]

*Ringelheim, Joan. "Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research." In Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10 (1985) 741-61.

*Rittner, Carol and Sondra Myers, eds. The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 1986. [Interviews with survivors and rescuers; photographs]

*Roden, Eva and Ruda. Lives on Borrowed Time. New York: Carleton Press, 1984. [Prague, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; Slave labor in Germany]

*Rosenbaum, Julie Fay. Female Experiences During the Holocaust. Diss. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI,, 1993.

#Rousset, David. The Other Kingdom. Trans. and with an Introduction by Ramon Guthrie. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock ,1947.

*#Salomon, Charlotte. Charlotte, Life or Theater? An Autobiographical Play by Charlotte Salomon. Introduction Judith Herzberg. New York: Viking, 1981.

*# Schiff, Vera. Theresienstadt: The Town the Nazis Gave to the Jews. Toronto: Lugus, 1996.

*#Schloss, Eva and Evelyn Julia Kent. Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank. London: W. H. Allen, 1988.

*Schwertfeger, Ruth. Women of Theresienstadt: Voices From a Concentration Camp. Oxford, New York, Hamburg: St Martins's Press, 1989. [Women’s poetry in English translation throughout the book with the original German in the appendix]

#Semprun, Jorge. The Long Voyage. Trans. Richard Seaver. New York: Grove Press, 1964.

*#Shafi, Monica. “Turning the Gaze Inward: Gertrud Kolmar’s Briefe an die Schwester Hilde 1938-1943.” In Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Frederiksen, Elke P. and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach, eds. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000 (103-115). [Excerpts of letters sent by Gertrud Kolmar from Berlin to her sister in exile in Switzerland]

*#Shelly, Lore. Auschwitz--the Nazi Civilization: Twenty-Three Women Prisoners' Accounts. New York and London: University Press of America, 1992.

*#Spencer, Hanna. Hanna’s Diary, 1938-1941: Czechoslovakia to Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

Steiner, Jean-François. Treblinka. Trans. from the French Helen Weaver. Preface Simone de Beauvoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.

#Stiffel, Frank. The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish; A Personal Memoir of the Holocaust (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1984) [Treblinka survivor]

*Strauss, Lotte. Over the Green Hill: A German Jewish Memoir, 1913-1943. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

Strauss, Herbert A. In the Eye of the Storm: Growing up Jewish in Germany 1918-1943. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

Survivors Speak Out, [no editor]. Jerusalem: Gefen, 1989.

*#Tec, Nechama. Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. [Survival in Poland with a false identity; epilogue of sad post-war survival]

*#Tillion, Germaine. Ravensbrück: An Eyewitness Account of a Women's Concentration Camp. 1975; rept. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1997.

*Vaisman, Sima. A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz: The Testimony of Sima Vaisman. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Hoboken, NJ: Melville House Publishing, 2002. [Written in the summer of 1945]

*Vegh, Claudine. I Didn't Say Goodbye. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.

*#Volavkova, Hana. Ed. I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings And Poems From Terezin Concentration Camp. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. [Statni zidovske muzeum, Czech Republic, Detske kresby na zastavce k smrti, Terezin 1942-1944]

#Vrba, Rudolf and Alan Bestic. I Cannot Forgive. England: Byron Press, 1964. [Graphic account of Auschwitz and his amazing escape]

*Waterford, Helen. Commitment to the Dead: One Woman's Journey Toward Understanding. Frederick, CO: Renaissance House, 1987. [Born 1909 in Offenbach, Germany; June 1934, moved with husband Siegfried to Amsterdam; August 1944 camp Westerbork, Sep. 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau; Oct. 28, 1944 forced labor in a factory in Kratzau, Sudetenland.]

Weiss, David W. Reluctant Return: A Survivor’s Journey To An Austrian Town. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.

*Welt Trahan, Elizabeth. Walking with Ghosts: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

*Wertheim Stein, Mathilda. The Way It Was: The Jewish World of Rural Hesse. Atlanta: Frederick Max Publications, 2000.

#Wiesel, Eli. Night; Dawn; Day. Trans. Stella Rodway. Night, 1956; rpt. Northvale, N.J, London: Jason Aronson, 1985.

Wiesel, Eli. [as guest speaker] In Nuremberg Forty Years Later: the Struggle against Injustice in Our Time; International Human Rights Conference, November 1987, Papers and proceedings and Retrospective 1993. Ed. Irwin Cotler. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1995 (11-22).

*Winter, Miriam. Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War II. Jackson, MI, 1997.

Wojdowski, Bogdan. Bread For The Departed. Trans. from the Polish Madeline G. Levine. Foreword Henryk Grynberg. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. [Life in a Jewish ghetto in Poland]

#Zsolt, Béla. Nine Suitcases. Trans. from the Hungarian Ladilaus Löb. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. [Béla Zsolt was one of Hungary’s best-known writers in the early twentieth century. He describes his experiences in a ghetto and a concentration camp.]

*Zyskind, Sara. Stolen Years. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1981.