Holocaust Memoirs, Testimonies, Histories Select Bibliography (English) Compiled by
Dr. Karin Doerr© Updated: September, 2021 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. See also the Azrieli Foundation Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program online at https://memoirs.azrielifoundation.org/recollection/#home|view-all. *#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] *Batalion, Judy. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, April 2021. 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. [Novelistic form based on the experiences of the author] *Beil, Szeflan
Dana. Danusia: The Story of a Child Survivor. Montreal: a.n.: 2013. Berenbaum, Michael, ed. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. [German government policy and personal narratives] *Berger, Leon. Lunch with Charlotte: A True Saga. Houston: Grey GeckPress, 2012. *#Berr, Hélène. Hélène Berr Journal, 1942-1944. Foreword by Patrick Modiano. Trans. from the French by David Bellos. Paris: Éditions Tallandier January, 2008. [The diary of a (Jewish) Sorbonne student during the time
of Nazi occupation of France] *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. *Bolle, Miriam. Letters Never Sent. Trans. from the Dutch. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2014. [A diary in letter form from Amsterdam during the war] Bor, Joseph. The
Terezin 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. *Brodoff, Ami Sands. The White Space Between. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2008. 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] Burman, Faiga & Simon Wajcer. So You Can Tell: Prisoner 48378 Auschwitz. Montreal: Sir Press, 2004. Cargas, Harry J. Voices from the Holocaust. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. [Holocaust survivors’ interviews] *#Chalmers, Beverley Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule. United Kingdom: Grosvenor House Publishers, 2015. [Based on women’s own voices expressed in diaries, memoirs and testimonies.] *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] Dekel, Michael. Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. New York: W.W. Norton, 2019. *#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. [Mina Kimmel is liberated by the Russians
after her journey eastward through Nazi-occupied Europe and hiding in
an underground bunker.] 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. *Ehrlich, Catherine. Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage. New York: She Writes Press, 2021. *#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] *#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] *#Finkelstein,
Genya. Trans. from the Hebrew by Shuli Sharvit. New York: CT Publishing, 1998. [Left on her own
aat the age of eleven, she survived the Holocaust.] 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. 1959 rpt. New York:
Washington Square, 1985. Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. 1959 rpt. New York: Washington Square, 1985. *Frenkel, Françoise. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape From the Nazis. Trans. Stephanie Smee. New York: Atria Books, 2019. 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. Friling, Tuvia. A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival. Trans. from the Hebrew Haim Watzman. Waltham MS: Brandais University Press, 2014. *#Furth, Valerie Jakober. Cabbages and Geraniums: Memories of the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. *Gammon, Carolyn. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger. Waterloo, ON: Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2013. [Survivor of Tarnow in Poland] Geve, Thomas with Charles Inglefield. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz. New York: Harper, 2021. [With the author’s early, eyewitness drawings] 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. *Goldenberg, Rita. Motherland: Growing up With the Holocaust. New York: The New Press, 2015. *#Goldenberg, Myrna. Ed. Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust. Canada, The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoir, 2017. 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. Hirschprung, Pinchas. The Vale of Tears.
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2016. [An Orthodox rabbi fleeing
persecution from Nazi-occupied Europe, finding inspiration and hope in
Jewish scripture] 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. Höss, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, Trans. Andrew Dollinger, ed. Steven Paskuly. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1992. Jeruchim, Simon. Hidden in France: A Boy’s Journey Under the Nazi Occupation. McKinleyville CA: Fithian Press, 2001. Jockel, Helena. We Sang in Hushed Voices. Intro. Dorota Glowacka. Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2014. [Holocaust survival story: Czechoslovakia, Halifax] The Journal of Hélène Berr. Trans. from the French David Bellos. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Kaiser, Charles, The Cost of Courage. [Resistance and deportation from France]. New York: Other Press, 2015. *Kalman Naves, Elaine. Journey to Vaja:
Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian Jewish Family. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's. University Press, 1996. *Katin, Miriam. We
Are on Our Own: A Memoir. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006.
[Illustrated graphic memoir of a women’s attempt to rebuild her earliest
childhood memories.] 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. *Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette. Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai. Vancouver, BC: St. Martin's Press, 2004. *Karmel, Ilona. An Estate of Memory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. *Karpowitz Song, Ellen-Ruth. Girl in Hiding: Remembrances of a Holocaust Survivor. 2017. Amazon. *Katz, Dori. Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. *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 by 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] Kershaw, Alex. Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family’s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France. New York: Crown Publishing, 2015. 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 National Socialism] *Kliot, Rasia
and Helen Mitsions. Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront
the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Israel: Penina Press, 2011. *# 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] *Korman Mains, Ellen. Buried Rivers: A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust. Westlake Books, 2018. *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: Pantheon 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 horrific 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. *The Last
Bright Days: A Young Woman’s Life in a Lithuanian Shtetl on the Eve of the
Holocaust. Ed. Frank Buonagurio. New York: Institute for Jewish Research,
2011. [Photographs with notes and poems by Beile Delechky] *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. The Complete Words of Primo Levi. Ed. Ann Goldstein. Liveright Publishing, 2015. #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. Lichtblau, Eric. Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis. Boston: Houghton Muffin Harcourt, 2019. *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.] Loew, Clemens. Living with the Wounds of War: Personal Essays. Amazon. [A young boy’s Survival in hiding in a Catholic convent in a Polish village.] *Loridan-Ivens, Marceline. But You did not Come Back: A Memoir.
Canada: Penguin Random House, 2016. [Deported from France to Auschwitz
with her father, she survived and suffered the loss of her father all
her life.] 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. *Neumann, Ariana. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains.
New York: Scribner, 2020. [Hans Neumann escape the German death net,
traveled to Berlin and hid there in plain sight of the Gestapo.] *#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. *#Oore, Irene. The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust. Regina, SA: Regina University Press, 2019. *Ouzan, Françoise S. How Young Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives: France, the United States, and Israel. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018. *Pawel, Ursula. My
Child is Back! Ed. Martin Gilbert et all. London: Vallentine Mitchell,
2000. [Excellent account of a child’s life in Theresienstadt (Terezin),
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;] Pfefferkorn,
Eli. The Muselmann at the Water Cooler. Boston: Academic Studies Press,
2011. Plant, Richard. The
Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. New York: Henry Holt,
1986. [Diaries and letters] #Polak, Joseph A. After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring. Urim Publications, 2015, [Dutch Child survivor of the camps Westebork and Bergen-Belsen] *Polak, Monique. What World is Left. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers,2008. [Inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt camp during the Holocaust]. #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. #Raichman, Chil.
The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory 1942-1943. Trans from the
Yiddish by Salon Beinfeld New York: Pegasus Books, 2011. Rawicz, Piotr. Blood
from the Sky. Trans. Peter Wiles. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World,
1961. *Remember Us:
A collection of Memories from Hungarian Hidden Children of the Holocaust.
Contr. Eds. Judy Abrams and Evi Blaikie. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2009. *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] Rochlitz, Imre. Accident
of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945.
Waterloo, ON: Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2011. [Vienna, Yugoslavia, Italy] *Roden, Eva and Ruda. Lives on Borrowed Time. New York: Carleton Press, 1984. [Prague, Theresienstadt (Terezin) and Auschwitz; Slave labor in North Germany; two narratives of a couple] Alan Rosen. The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder. New York Oxford University Press, 2010. [Early taped voices of survivors] *Rosenbaum, Julie Fay. Female Experiences During the Holocaust. Diss. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 1993. Rosenberg, Goran. A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz. New York: Other Press, 2015. #Rousset, David.
The Other Kingdom. Trans. and with an Introduction by Ramon Guthrie. New
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