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Aroneanu, Eugene, comp. Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps. Trans. Thomas Whissen. Praeger, 1996. A collection of 100 eyewitness testimonies.

Heger, Heinz. Trans. David Fernback. Men with the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps. Alyson, 1994. The author, who was jailed as a "degenerate" by the Nazis, presents a less familiar aspect of National Socialist discrimination.

Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film. Da Capo, 1995. Based on interviews in which Nazi extermination camp survivors recreate the horror.

Lawton, Clive A. Auschwitz. Candlewick, 2002. Traces the history of a Nazi death camp. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

Levi, Primo. Trans. Stuart Woolf. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. Collier, 1961, 1995. Memoir of a camp survivor.

Saunders, Kate. Eighteen Layers of Hell: Stories from the Chinese Gulag. Cassell, 1996. Accounts taken from interviews with former prisoners of camps in the People's Republic of China. Includes the story of Harry Wu, whose protest against the camps received worldwide attention in the 1990s.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr L. Trans. Thomas P. Whitney. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. Harper, 1974-1978, 1997. Classic account of Soviet labor and concentration camps.

Volavkova, Hana, ed. I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944. Schocken, 1994. Poems and pictures from the young inmates of Terezin Concentration Camp.

For younger readers

Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Little Brown, 1994. A publication from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; for readers in grades 5 to 12.

Chaikin, Miriam. A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust, 1933-1945. Clarion, 1987, 1992. A history of anti-Semitism in Germany before the Holocaust; for readers in grades 7 to 10.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Doubleday, 1995. Originally published in 1952, this moving journal of a young girl describes how she hid from the Germans in occupied Holland; for middle school to adult readers.

Gottfried, Ted. Children of the Slaughter: Young People of the Holocaust. Twenty-First Century, 2001. For readers in grades 7 to 12.

Gottfried, Ted. Heroes of the Holocaust. Twenty-First Century, 2001. For readers in grades 7 to 12.

Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews. Holiday House, 2000. A look at Danish resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.

Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. Greenwillow, 1998, 2000. Lobel tells of her childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland; for middle school and high school readers.

Meltzer, Milton. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust. HarperCollins, 1991. For high school readers.

Opdyke, Irene Gut. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer. Knopf 1999., Vintage, 2001. A Polish woman shares her experiences as a teenager helping rescue Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland; for middle school to adult readers.

Saldinger, Anne G. Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp. Lucent, 2000. For readers in grades 6 to 10.

Volakova, Hana. I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944. 2nd ed. Pantheon, 1993. Drawings from some of the 15,000 children who passed through Terezin.

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Bauer, Yehuda. Rethinking the Holocaust. Yale University Press, 2001. A synthesis and analysis of explanations of the Holocaust, by the director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem.

Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. Knopf, 1991. Argues that Himmler shared responsibility for the Holocaust with Hitler, and that the former was instrumental in translating the dictator's anti-Semitism into wholesale slaughter.

Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned; What the British and Americans Knew. Hill & Wang, 1998. Compelling evidence that the Western powers could have saved Jewish lives.

Frank, Anne. Trans. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. The Diary of a Young Girl. Doubleday, 1996. Originally published in 1952, this moving journal of a young girl describes hiding from the Germans in occupied Holland. A classic.

Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Explores in chilling detail the Nazi program of systematic destruction of Jews, Roma, and people with disabilities.

Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Macmillan, 1990. An exhaustive and detailed account of the extermination of 6 million Jews.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Holmes & Meier, 1985. An important, classic work.

Laqueur, Walter, ed. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Yale University Press, 2001. Comprehensive single-volume reference work.

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Random House, 1989. A moving account from an Italian Jew who survived the Holocaust.

Marrus, Michael. The Holocaust in History. University Press of New England, 1987. An analysis of important themes surrounding Holocaust scholarship.

Niewyk, Donald, and Francis R. Nicosia. The Columbia Reference Guide to the Holocaust. Columbia University Press, 2000. Divided into five sections: history, problems and interpretation, chronology, encyclopedia, and resources.

Paldier, Mordecai. Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers. Fortress, 1996. A chronicle of the daring acts of those who sheltered the Jews from the Nazis.

Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. Knopf, 2002. Traces the development of the notion of extermination camps from the mass murder of Jews by Heinrich Himmler's special task forces, the SS-Einsatzgruppen.

Shermer, Michael, and Alex Grobman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and why Do They Say It? University of California Press, 2000. Two historians examine the motives of those who deny the Holocaust and refute the claims made in the denial.

Wyman, David S., and Charles H. Rosenzvieg, eds. The World Reacts to the Holocaust. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. A country by country summary of attitudes toward Jews and treatment of them during the Holocaust.

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