Any bibliography on the Holocaust will be incomplete. The amount of material on the subject is too vast to be fully incorporated into a bibliography. This is a representative sampling of relevant and important reading materials on a variety of Holocaust-related subjects.
Basic Bibliography
- Bauer,Yehuda & Nathan Rotenstreich, eds.; The Holocaust as Historical Experience; New York; Holmes & Meier; 1987
- Bauer,Yehuda. They Chose Life: Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust. New York: American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1973.
- Bauer,Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust; New York; Franklin Watts; 1982.
- Berenbaum,Michael. The World Must Know. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1993.
- Dawidowicz,Lucy S. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. 10th Anniversary ed. Toronto and New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
- Gilbert,Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985.
- Gutman,Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: MacmillanPublishing, 1990.
- Hilberg,Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Student ed. NewYork: Holmes & Meier, 1985. Note: “Based on the three-volume revised and definitive edition”: Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. 2d ed. New York: Holmes & Meier,1985.
- Hilberg,Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945. New York: Harper Collins, 1992
- Wiesenthal,Simon. The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs. Edited and with an introductory profile by Joseph Wechsberg. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
- Wyman,David. Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
- Wyman,David. Paper Walls. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968.
- Yahil,Leni. The Holocaust: The Face of European Jewry, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford, 1991.
Useful Links
We’ve included a list of trusted resources to further your knowledge of the Holocaust.
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad Vashem
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Facing History
- Anne Frank Home & Organization
- Ellis Island database of 22 million records of immigrant arrivals from 1892-1924.
- Chronicle of Holocaust
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Anti-Bias Teacher Education Project
- Visual History Foundation’s Survivors of the Shoah
- Kindertransport Association
- Jewish Federation of St. Louis
- Imperial War Museum
- Echoes and Reflections