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Many, many books have been published concerning the Holocaust. Those listed below are particularly recommended because they are very powerful personal accounts of bearing witness and/or raise complex moral and spiritual issues.
Amery, Jean. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities. Schocken (New York: 1986).
Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Penguin Books (New York: 1976)
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After (includes None of Us Will Return, Useless Knowledge, and The Measure of Our Days). Yale University Press (New Haven: 1995).
Eliach, Yaffa. Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust. Vintage Books (New York: 1988)
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors. Penguin Books (New York: 1979).
Hillesum, Etty. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941- 1943. Washington Square Press (New York: 1983).
Hoess, Rudolf, Commandant of Auschwitz. Phoenix Press.
Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Shivitti: A Vision. Gateways/IDHHB (Canada: 1998).
Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Kaddish. Algemeiner Associates (New York: 1998)
Langer, Lawrence L. Admitting the Holocaust. Oxford Univ. Press (New York: 1995).
Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. Yale Univ. Press (New Haven: 1991).
Lanzmann, Claude. Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. Pantheon (New York: 1985).
Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Vintage International (New York, 1989)
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Simon & Schuster (New York: 1996).
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. Vintage Books (New York: 1998).
Steiner, Jean-Francois. Treblinka. The New American Library (New York 1967).
Szpilman, Wladyslaw, The Pianist: the extraordinary story of one man's Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945, Victor Golancz (London, 1999)
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam Books (New York: 1982).
Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. Schocken Books (New York: 1997).
Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments. Schocken Books (New York: '1997). Please note that this book is probably fiction and the author was involved in legal proceedings.
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