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. The ones marked by asterisks are accounts
of events that took place at Auschwitz itself. Please read at
least one of these books in preparation for the retreat:
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 is involved in legal proceedings.
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