Holocaust Non-Fiction (Books and Websites)

[Angela M Smith <cyberfan2@JUNO.COM>]

To All LM_NETTERS who responded to my request for information about
Holocaust non-fiction, the response has been most impressive!  I promised
to write up a list of the books and websites suggested, so here are some
of the books, reference sets, and websites mentioned.

REFERENCE COLLECTION

l.  The Holocaust: A Grolier Student Library.  Edited by Geoffrey Wigoder
and                  published by Grolier, 1997.  Good Illustrations,
volumes are thin, alphabetically           arranged.   Audience - 8-12th
grades.

2. Contact the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.  They sell a CD
version and a       book version of  "A  Historical Atlas of the
Holocaust."

3. The Holocaust: Understanding and Remembering/Stracinich/Enslow/96

4. Holocaust Education: (Leatrice B. Rabinsky and Carol Danks co-editors.
Ohio:              Ohio Dept. of Education, 1994.


CIRCULATING NON FICTION

1.  Adelson, Alan. Lodz Ghetto, Viking, 1989.
     Before being deported to concentration camps, Jews were restricted
to ghettos,
     such as at Lodz, Poland.

2.  Atkinson, Linda.  In Kindling Flame: the Story of Hannah Senesh.  Lee
and           Shepard 1985.
     Senesh was a resistance fighter who became a martyr to the war in
Hungary.

3.  Auerbacher, Inge.  Beyond the Yellow Star to America.  Royal
Fireworks Press           1985.
      Having survived WW II, Auerbacher came to Americas as a young
adult.

4.  Ayer, Eleanor H., with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck.  Parallel
Journey,           Antheneum, 1995.
     Helen Waterford was a victim of Nazi persecution; Alfons Heck was a
Hitler Youth.       Today they work together to describe how Nazism
killed - body and soul.

5.  Fluek, Toby Knobel.  Memories of My Life in a Polish Village,
1930-1949.  Random      House, 1990.
     A painter shows how life changed in a Polish village from before
Hitler's rise to
     power through the years following the Nazi defeat.

6.  Friedman, Carl.  Nightfather:  A Novel.  Persea Books, 1994.
     This slender novel tells how the Holocaust affects the generation
born to            Holocaust survivors.

7.  Friedman, Ina R.  The Other Victims.  First Person stories of
Non-Jews Persecuted      by the Nazi.  Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
     Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, those with physical
impairments
     and other victims of Nazi persecution tell their own stories.

8.  Gelman, Charles.  Do Not Go Gentle: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in
Poland,
     1941-1945.  Archon, 1989.
     Jews did fight back against suppression, as recorded in this
autobiography.

9.  Gies, Miep.  Anne Frank Remembered: The story of the Woman Who Helped
To           Hide  the Frank Family.   Simon & Schuster, 1987.
      Gies was one of only two people outside the secret annex who knew
the Frank
      family hid there.  She found Anne's diary after the family was
arrested.

10.  Holliday, Laurel.  Children in the Holocaust and World War II.:
Their secret                 diaries, 1995.
        Some of these diarists did not survive, while others lived to
adulthood.

11.  Justman, Stewart.  The Jewish Holocaust for Beginner.  Writers and
Readers
        Publication, 1995.
        This graphic novel-style introduction presents facts about the
Holocaust's effects.

12.  Kertyesz, Imre.  Fateless.  Northwestern University Press, 1992.
        The Holocaust as experienced by Jews in Hungary provides the
theme of this                novel.

13.  Kuper, Jack.  Child of the Holocaust.  Berkeley Books, 1993.
        The authoir spent a significant part of his early life as one of
Hitler's condemned,         the child of Polish Jews.

14.  Landau, Elaine.  We survived the Holocaust.  F. Watts, 1991.
        Sixteen Holocaust survivors give accounts of their survival and
the influence the           events of the past have had on their lives
after World War II.

15.  Lindwer, Willy.  The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank.  Pantheon
Books, 1991.
        The famous girl diarist spent her last few months in a disease
and terror ridden
         Nazi death camp.

16.  Linnea, Sharon.  Raoul Wallenberg:  The Man Who Stopped Death.
Jewish                   Publication  Society, 1993.
        Swedish diplomat Wallenberg saved Hungarian Jews from certain
death -
        and then disappeared.

17.  Ozick, Cynthia.  The Shawl.  Random House, 1989.
        Ozick's famous novella depicts the Holocaust in elegantly stark
literary form.

18.  Pretzel, M.M.  Portrait of a Young Forger.  Knightsbridge Publishing
Co., 1990.
        Escaping the Holocaust sometimes required illegal actions,
including forging
        documents of salvation.

19.  Ramati, Alexander.  And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the
Gypsy                        Holocaust.   F. Watts, 1986.
        Like the Jews, Gypsies had no purpose in the Third Reich - except
to be                 exterminated.

20.  Rochman, Hazel and McCampbell, Darlene.  Bearing Witness:  Stories
of the
        Holocaust.   Orchard Books, 1995.
        This collection of writings provides eye-witness information
about the
        Holocaust from being labeled by the star to ending up in camps.

21.  Roll, Rued Van Der.   Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic
                              Remembrance.  Viking Press, 1993.
        Anne Frank's father was an amateur photographer.  His record of
the Frank                   family's prewar life is followed by a photo
album of the secret annex.

22.  Rubinstein, Erna F.  After the Holocaust.  Archon Books, 1995.
        Surviving Auschwitz was the beginning of adulthood for 4 sisters.
 The eldest
        tells their stories and those of other survivors.

23.  Sender, Ruth Minsky.   The Cage.  Bantam, 1988.
        One survivor recounts her family's travails from ghettoization
through deportation
         to concentration camp.

24.  Silten, R. Gabriele.  Between Two Worlds: Autobiography of a Child
Survivor Of
        The Holocaust.  Fithian Press, 1995.

25.  Spiegelman, Art.  Maus: A Survivor's Tale.  Pantheon, 1986.
        The Pulitzer Prize-winning artist tells his father's story of
arrest, internment and
         survival.

26.  Spiegelman, Art.  Maus: A Survivor's Tale II.  Pantheon, 1991.
        Spiegleman continues his father's and his own story.

27.   Weisel, Elie.  (A new autobiography  has been written.  The title
is not known at             this time.)

28..  Zuker-Bujanowska, Liliana.  Liliana's Journal: Warsaw 1939-1945.
Dial Press             1980.
         Like Anne Frank, Lilliana was a journal-keeping child during the
Holocaust.
         Unlike Anne, Liliana survived.

INTERNET SITES ON THE HOLOCAUST

http://remember.org/cylinks.html
Holocaust Links on the Web, an excellent site.

U.S. Holocaust Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Opened in April 1993 in Washington D.C., this museum is a memorial to ALL
who perished in the Holocaust.  Its emphasis is on photographic and
cinema exhibits.

Literature of the Holocaust
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
An overwhelming site with links to books, music, art, film, survivor
testimonies, newspaper articles, and much more.

Simon Weisenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com
"International Holocaust center for remembance and the defense of human
rights and the Jewish people.  Responses to revisionist  arguments.
Named after the world's most famous Nazi war criminal hunter, the center
not only concerns itself with documenting the Holocaust and fighting the
Holocaust deniers. it also focuses on racial hatred and all types of
bigotry no matter at whom it is directed.

Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial (Israel)
http://yvs.shani.net/
Established in 1953 in Jerusalem, this is undoubtedly the world's most
famous tribute to the memory of the 6 million Martyrs.  Once visited Yad
Vashem can never  be forgotten.

Auschwitz: Myths and Facts
http://www.kaiwan.com/~ihrgreg/pamphlets/auschwitz.html
Mark Weber a Holocaust denier/revisionist.

An Auschwitz Alphabet
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
This page provides an overview of the most significant facets of life and
death at the most notorious of the Nazi death camps - Auschwitz.

The Anne Frank House
http://www.channels.nl/annefran.html
This house, located in amsterdam, was the scene of one of the Holocaust's
most famous personal stories.  This page gives a short account of the
Frank family's attempt to survive.  It also provides information for
anyone wishing to visit this shrine of those who perished.

Nizkor project  (holocaust archive)
http://www1.us. nizkor.org/
Remembrance and countering the efforts of the Holocaust-deniers is the
main aim of the Nizkor Project.  As a major Holocaust archive, it
contains over 4,000 files available.

Teaching the Holocaust
http://www.socialstudies.com/holo.html
An on-line catalogue of Holocaust - related teaching materials, including
books, videos, posters and cd - roms.