Recommended Reading

Provides an overview of the key themes and theoretical developments that inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.

This is the story of Jacob, a Jewish boy in Poland who moves in with a Christian family in 1941 after the Jews of Warsaw are forced to relocate from their homes into the newly established ghetto. Jacob must pretend he is their son, pass as a Christian and keep from getting caught.

Dwork details the history of children who were affected by the Holocaust. Dwork bases her studies on oral histories, archival records, and letters and diaries of children who were in hiding, in transit camps, ghettos, forced labor camps, or killing centers.

Covers a year of the life of Pavel Weiner, a Czech Jewish boy, in the Theresienstadt transit camp in Terezin.

No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. How could such an ordinary town become a site of such terror? Who conceived, created, and constructed the camp? This text reveals how an unremarkable Polish village was transformed into a killing field. Includes 200 photographs & architectural plans.