23 Recommended Reading (Holocaust: Auschwitz)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
23 Recommended Reading (Holocaust: Auschwitz)
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Suggested reading related to Auschwitz, from the Encyclopedia of the
Holocaust and elsewhere:
Brugioni, Dino A., and Robert G. Poirier. The Holocaust Revisited: A
Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex.
(Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.) February 1979.
The paper includes aerial photographs of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
complex in operation during WWII. A summary of their analysis
is included in the paper. These photos corroborate eyewitness
accounts/Nazi documentation on camp operations.
You can obtain a copy from the US gov't through the following
sources:
National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
or:
Photoduplication Service
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540
Use the report number(#st 79-10001) and the document number
(NTISUBE28002) to speed service along. The document # is
particularly important.
Brewster, Eva. Vanished in Darkness. Edmonton: NeWest Publishers
Limited, 1984. (First-person account of life within Auschwitz)
Friedman, P. "Crimes in the Name of Science," in "Roads to Extinction:
Essays on the Holocaust." Edited by A.J. Friedman. Philadelphia, 1980
Gilbert, M. Auschwitz and the Allies. New York, 1981
Gutman, Yisrael, and Michael Berenbaum, Ed. Anatomy of the
Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: 1994
Gutman, Y., and A. Saf, eds. The Nazi Concentration Camps:
Structure and Aims; The Image of the Prisoner; The Jews in the
Camps. Proceedings of the Fourth Yad Vashem International
Historical Conference. Jerusalem, 1984
Hoess, R. Commandant of Auschwitz. London, 1959
Ja"ckel, Eberhard, and H. David Kirk, trans. David Irving's Hitler.
Port Angeles, Washington: Ben-Simon Publications, 1993
Kielar, W. Anus Mundi: Fifteen Hundred Days in Auschwitz-
Birkenau. New York, 1980
Kudlien, F., ed. A"rzte im Nationalsoczialismus. Cologne, 1985
Lagnato, Lucette Matalon and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the
Flames. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991 (Mengele's
experimentation with twins at Auschwitz)
Langbein, H. Auschwitz-Prozess: Eine Dokumentation. 2 Vols.
Vienna, 1965
Langbein, H. Menschen in Auschwitz. Vienna, 1972
Lifton, R.J. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychiatry
of Genocide." New York, 1986
Levi, P. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. New
York, 1981
Lukowski, J. Bibliografia obozu koncentracyjnego Oswiecim-
Brzezinka. 5 vols. Warsaw, 1970
Mark, B. The Scrolls of Auschwitz. Tel Aviv, 1985
Mitscherlich, A., and F. Mielke. Doctors of Infamy: The Story of
Medical Crimes. New York, 1949
Mu"ller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
New York: Stein and Day, 1979
Nauman, Bernd. Auschwitz: A Report on The Procedings Against Robert
Karl Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt. New York:
Frederick A. Praeger, 1966
Piper, Franciszek, and Teresa Swiebocka, Ed. Auschwitz, Nazi Death
Camp. Oswiecim, 1996. Book supplied by the Auschwitz State Museum.
Piper, Franciszek. Auschwitz: How Many Perished - Jews, Poles,
Gypsies... Oswiecim 1992.
Proctor, R. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
Cambridge, Mass., 1988
Keys, Laurinda. Death Books of Auschwitz. K.G. Saur, 1995. (See
http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?camps/auschwitz/press/death-books.001
and ~/002 for information concerning the release of this work.)
See also the Transcripts of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/
Social Studies School Services offers an extensive list of teaching
materials dealing with the Holocaust, and Auschwitz. For a list of
books, videotapes, and photo histories, see
http://www.nizkor.org/bibliographies/ssss.shtml.
Of particular interest are the videotapes "Kitty: Return to Auschwitz,"
"Nazi Concentration Camps," the official film record of the Nazi death
camps as photographed by Allied liberation forces in 1945, and
"Holocaust: Liberation of Auschwitz."
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