Recommended Reading

We’ve all heard of Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi death camp in southern Poland. The statistics are daunting: 1.1 million men, women, and children murdered, 900,000 of them Jews. If you’ve never been there, this is your chance to experience it via an unprecedented traveling exhibition dedicated to the historical significance of the camp and its role in the Holocaust. Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. will be in New York City on May 8, 2019, the anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day 1945.

This work is the diary David Koker, a 21-year-old Dutch Jew, kept during his time in the Vught concentration camp. The diary charts his daily life in the camp as well as his spiritual evolution as a writer.

A chillingly thorough study of how the Nazi extermination of Jews was foretold in Ukrainian pogroms 20 years earlier.

Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp, less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism.

A meditation on Austria’s capitulation to the Nazis. The book won the 2017 Prix Goncourt.