Reading selections for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. To commemorate this occasion, we offer the following reading selections to further your understanding of the history of the Holocaust:

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 - Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Geoffrey P. Megargee, General Editor
Martin Dean, Volume Editor
Introduction by Christopher R. Browning
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Volume II offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. This an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

Also available: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 - Volume I
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The End of the Holocaust
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
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"The End of the Holocaust is a model of critical intelligence, restrained in its judgments, never shrill or accusatory in its disagreements, always illuminating in its insights into the motives and achievements of the major Holocaust writers Rosenfeld discusses." —Forward

Last Folio

Textures of Jewish Life in Slovakia

Yuri Dojc and Katya Krausova

Photographs by Yuri Dojc
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"Books in these photographs . . . are possessed by spirits exorcised through Yuri Dojc's magical eye: as they disintegrate into dust, the camera illuminates how that moment of disintegration is also a moment of immense energy and movement, one last and glorious statement of defiance, resisting both death and oblivion." —Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Who Will Write Our History
Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Samuel D. Kassow
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"This may well be the most important book about history that anyone will ever read." —The New Republic

Who Will Write Our History tells the gripping story of Emanuel Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression.

The Unknown Black Book
The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
Edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman
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The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II.