Recommended Reading

In this ambitious and provocative study, Fordham University historian Teter (Blood Libel) exposes the links between Christian theology and racism and antisemitism.

The story of extraordinary heroism amidst unique depravity. A valuable addition to our understanding of the many facets of the Holocaust.

Witnessing Witnessing explores how we receive and use Holocaust testimony.

Trunk examines the role of the Judenrat, or Jewish Councils, in the ghettos. While Jews were forced to live in ghettos during the Holocaust, Nazis appointed Jews living in these ghettos to carry out Nazi directives against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to cooperate in the Final Solution.

“How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II”

This book is based on the testimony given by van Pelt, a cultural historian, at the libel trial initiated by David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt. Professor van Pelt provided exhaustive evidence that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were built and operated to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews and refuted arguments of Holocaust deniers to the contrary.