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Bibliography of The Holocaust

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Bibliography of The Holocaust

This is a selected bibliography and other resources for The Holocaust, including prominent primary sources, historical studies, notable survivor accounts and autobiographies, as well as other documentation and further hypotheses.

Contents

Selected filmography

  • America and the Holocaust The American Experience. 1994, 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation, ISBN 1-59375-235-0
  • Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', BBC. 2005.
  • Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust is a 57-minute documentary from 1999 which tells the stories of three Jewish teenagers who resisted the Nazis: Faye Schulman, a photographer and partisan fighter in the forests of Poland (now Belarus); Barbara Rodbell, a ballerina in Amsterdam who delivered underground newspapers and secured food and transportation for Jews in hiding; and Shulamit Lack, who acquired false papers and a safe house for Jews attempting to escape from Hungary. The movie was produced and directed by Barbara Attie and Martha Goell Lubell, and narrated by Janeane Garofalo.
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
  • Liebe Perla is a 53-minute documentary that documents Nazi Germany's brutality towards disabled people through the exploration of a friendship between two women with dwarfism: Hannelore Witkofski of Germany and Perla Ovitz, who at the time of filming was living in Israel. Perla Ovitz was experimented on by Joseph Mengele during the Nazi regime. The film was made by Shahar Rozen in Israel and Germany in 1999, and it is in German and Hebrew with English subtitles.
  • Memory of the Camps, as shown by PBS Frontline
  • Night and Fog, 1955, directed by Alain Resnais, narrated by Michel Bouquet.
  • One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 Oscar-winning documentary (40 minutes) in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
  • Paper clips
  • Paragraph 175 is an 81-minute documentary directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman that discusses the plight of gays and lesbians during the Nazi regime using interviews with all of the known gay and lesbian survivors of this era, five gay men and one lesbian.
  • Shoah is a nine-hour documentary completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985. The film, unlike most historical documentaries, does not feature reenactments or historical photos; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss.
  • The Sorrow and the Pity, 1972, directed by Marcel Ophüls.
  • Swimming in Auschwitz is a 2007 documentary which interweaves the stories of six Jewish women who were imprisoned inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. The women all survived and tell their stories in person in the documentary; at the time of its filming they were all living in Los Angeles.

    • Other

  • Interviews from the Underground: Eyewitness accounts of Russia's Jewish resistance during World War II, a documentary film and website.
  • Post Holocaust Research Study focusing on Third Generation Holocaust Survivors
  • Reich, Tova (2007). My Holocaust. HarperCollins. 
  • Album Reveals Behind-Scenes Activities at Auschwitz
  • Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp
  • ‘You Have a Mother’ (Jan. 2015), describing Holocaust survivor Lola Mozes’ experiences as a child in Nazi camps. By Chris Hedges in Truthdig.   The Ghetto (June 2016), Hedges interviews Lola Mozes as she recounts her experience living in Nazi-occupied Poland, three-part video interview, The Real News
  • Writing as Resistance (July 2015), describing the writings of inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto who buried their accounts of the ghetto (in the hope it would be unearthed later) as German forces were liquidating the Jewish population of the ghetto. By Chris Hedges in Truthdig
  • A Liberator, But Never Free (May 2015). "A US Army doctor helped free the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, meticulously documenting his experiences in letters home to his wife. Hidden for the remainder of his life, the letters have resurfaced, and with them, questions about the G.I.’s we know only as heroes." The New Republic
  • Máximo, João Carlos (2015), "Não Há Aves em Sobibor", Chiado Editora. ISBN 978-989-51-2276-9.

    • References

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