Recommended Reading

This is a biography of Janusz Korczak, an advocate of children's rights who saved hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. Korczak had an opportunity to escape but chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the orphans in his care.

Lipstadt reviews the history of the revisionist movement that denies the truth of the Holocaust, tracing its growth from a lunatic fringe movement to a movement gaining acceptance as one of legitimate scholarship.

Lipstadt reexamines the Eichmann trial, shedding new light on Israeli attorney general Gideon Hausner, Eichmann, and Hannah Arendt's famous reportage on the trial.

Lower examines the role that German women played on the Nazi eastern front.

Marrus addresses the issue of homeless people or refugees during World War II, providing a detailed account of Jewish refugees and their struggle to flee from Nazi occupied zones. Marrus also looks at the roles played by neutral countries in this process.