Germany/Europe

In 1933, The Nazi party came to power in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and immediately began the systematic persecution of Jews. In 1935 the Nuremburg Laws stripped Jews of all civil rights, and through 1945 Nazi Germany annihilated European Jewry by forced removal to concentration camps. Other groups were also persecuted for racial, ethnic or nationalistic reasons. Roma and Sinti, people with mental and physical disabilities, Poles, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents: all suffered grievous oppression or death. Approximately 78% of the European Jewish population was murdered, and estimates of the total number of victims, Jews and others, range from 9 to 11 million.

Germany/Europe
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Film

Documentary:

  • Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum, 1993, Barbara Pfeffer
  • Anne Frank Remembered, 1995, Jon Blair
  • The Boys of Buchenwald, 2002, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
  • Death Mills, 1945, Billy Wilder
  • Forgiving Dr. Mengele, 2006, Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh
  • Holocaust: Theresienstadt, 2005, Irmgard von zur Mühlen
  • Im toten Winkel, 2002, Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertansport, 2000, Mark Jonathan Harris
  • The Jewess and the Captain, 1994, Ulf von Mechow
  • Marion’s Triumph, 2003, John Chua
  • My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner, 2007, Fern Levitt
  • The Nazis: A Warning from History, 1997, Laurence Rees
  • Night and Fog, 1955, Alain Resnais
  • One Survivors Remembers, 1995, Kary Antholis
  • Paradise Camp, 1986, Frank Heimans
  • Paragraph 175, 2000, Rob Epstein
  • Pola’s March, 2001, Jonathan Gruber
  • The Portraitist, 2005, Ireusz Dobrowolski
  • Prisoners of Paradise, 2005, Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender
  • The Saved, 1998, Paul Cohen and Oeke Hooendijk
  • Secret Lives: Hidden Children and their Rescuers During WWII, 2002, Aviva Slesin
  • Shadows of Memory, 2000, Claudia con Alemann
  • Shoah, 1985, Claude Lanzmann
  • A Story about a Bad Dream, 2000, Stingl Pavel
  • The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz, 1982
  • They Were not Silent, 1998, Roland Millman
  • Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die, 1982, Laurence Jarvik

Narrative:

  • Black Book, 2006, Paul Verhoeven
  • Conspiracy, 2001, Frank Pierson
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic, 1999, Donna Deitch
  • Downfall, 2004, Oliver Hirschbiegel
  • Europa Europa, 1990, Agnieszka Holland
  • The Island on Bird Street, 1997, Soren Kragh- Jacobsen
  • Jakob the Liar, 1999, Peter Kassovitznon
  • The Last Days, 1998, James Moll
  • Life is Beautiful, 1997, Roberto Benigni
  • The Reader, 2008, Stephen Daldry
  • Schindlers List, 1993, Steven Spielberg
  • Sophie Scholl- The Final Days, 2005, Marc Rothemund

Literature

Fiction:

  • Emile Ajar, Momo, Doubleday, Garden City, 1978
  • Jenna Blum, Those Who Save Us, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005
  • Aron Applefeld, The Age of Wonders, Godine, Boston, 1981
  • Aron Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939, Godine, Boston, 1980
  • Frieda Arkin, Hedwig and Berti, St. Martins, New York, 2005
  • John Auerbach, Tales of Grabowski, Toby Press, New Milford, 2003
  • Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of Finzi-Continis, Harcourt Brace Javanovich, San Diego, 1983
  • Jurek Becker, Jacob the Liar, Arcade Pub, New York, 1996
  • Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Viking, New York, 1970
  • Lily Brett, Too Many Men, Morrow, New York, 2001
  • Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Random House, New York, 2000
  • Anita Dasai, Baumgartner’s Bombay, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000
  • Louise Doughty, Fired in the Dark, Harper Collins, New York, 2004
  • Yehuda Elberg, Ship of the Hunted, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 1997
  • Nathan Englander, For the Relief of the Unbearable Urges, A.A. Knopf, New York, 1999
  • Raymond Federman, Aunt Rachel’s Fur, FC2, Tallahassee, 2001
  • Ida Fink, A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, Pantheon Books, New York, 1987
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2002
  • David Grossman, See Under—Love, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1989
  • Pete Hamill, Snow in August, Little Brown, Boston, 1997
  • Alan Isler, The Price of West End Avenue, Bridge Works Pub, Bridgehampton, 1994
  • Miriam Katin, We Are on Our Own, Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, 2006
  • Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982
  • Imre Kertesz, Fateless, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1992
  • Imre Kertesz, Kaddish for a Child Not Born, Hydra Books, Evanston, 1997
  • Danilo Kis, Hourglass, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1990
  • Wolfgang Koeppen, Death in Rome, Norton, New York, 2001
  • George Konrad, A Feast in the Garden, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1995
  • Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird, Grove Press, New York, 1995
  • Primo Levi, If Not Now, When, Summit Books, New York, 1985
  • Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve, Summit Books, New York, 1985
  • Littell, Jonathan, The Kindly Ones, Harper Collins, New York, 2009
  • Arnost Lustig, Darkness Casts No Shadow, Inscape, Washington, 1976
  • Arnost Lustig, Night and Hope, Avon, New York, 1976
  • Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Penguin Books, New York, 2003
  • Jay Neugeboren, 1940, Two Dollar Radio, New York, 2008
  • Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm, Knopf, New York, 1987
  • Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl, Knopf, New York, 1989
  • Ota Pavel, How I came to Know Fish, Story Line Press, Brownsville, 1990
  • Lev Raphael, The German Money, Leapfrog Press, Wellfleet, 2003
  • Andre Bart- Schwartz, The Last of the Just, Bantam, New York, 1961
  • Moacyr Scilar, Max and the Cats, Ballantine, New York, 1901
  • W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, Random House, New York, 2001
  • Nathan Shaham, The Rosendorf Quartet, Grove Weidenfield, New York, 1991
  • Josef Skvorecky, When Eve was Naked: Stories of a Life’s Journey, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2002
  • D.M. Thomas, Pictures at an Exhibition, Scribner’s, New York, 1993
  • D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel, Viking Press, New York, 1981
  • Aleksandar Tisma, The Book of Blam, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1998
  • Jiri Weil, Mendelssohn is on the Roof, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1991
  • Elie Wiesel, Night, Dawn, The Accident: Three Tales, Hill and Wang, New York, 1972
  • A. B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani, Doubleday, New York, 1992

Non-Fiction:

  • Peter Neville, The Holocaust, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 1999
  • Avraham Burg, The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes, Palgrave Macmillan, United States, 2008
  • Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945, Oxford University Press, United States, 1991
  • Norman G. Finklestein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Verso, United States, 2000
  • Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, Touchstone, United States, 1996
  • Jeffery Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, United States, Belknap Press, 2008
  • Emil L. Fackenheim, To Mend the World: Foundations of Post- Holocaust Jewish Thought, Indiana University Press, Indiana, 1994
  • Shmuel Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, New York University Press, New York, 2001
  • Hilene Flanzbaum, The Americanization of the Holocaust, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999
  • Jack Kagan, Surviving the Holocaust with the Russian Jewish Partisans, Mitchell Vallentine & Company, 2001
  • Mark Kurzem, Mascot, Viking USA, 2007
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