Holocaust and Genocide Recommended Readings

Recommended Readings

Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., Webster University

Genocide & Democide
Armenia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Burma
Cambodia
East Timor
Holocaust
Rwanda & Burundi
Other Readings

Peace and Conflict Readings List

Genocide & Democide

Chalk, F., & Jonassoh, K. (1990). The history and sociology of genocide: Analyses and case studies. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Dobkowski, M., & Wallimann, I. (1998). The coming age of scarcity: Preventing mass death and genocide in the Twenty-first century. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Fein H. (1979). Accounting for genocide. New York: Free Press.
Horowitz, I. (1976). Genocide: State power and mass murder. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transactions Books.
Kecmanovic, D. (1996). The mass psychology of ethnonationalism. New York: Plenum Press.
Kressel, N. (1996). Mass hate: The global rise of genocide and terror. New York: Plenum Press.
Kuper, L. (1982). Genocide: Its political use in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Parkin, D. (Ed.). (1985). The anthropology of evil. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Rummel, R. (1992). Democide. New Brusnwick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
Rummel, R. (1996) Death by Government. New Brusnwick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
Rummel, R. (1997). Power kills: Democracy as a method of nonviolence. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Staub, E. (1989). The roots of evil: The origins of genocide and other group violence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Strozier, C., & Flynn, M. (Eds.)(1998). Genocide, war, and human survival. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Totten, S., Parsons, W., & Charny, I. (1997). Century of genocide: Eyewitness accounts and critical views. New York: Garland Publishing.
Wallimann, I. & Dobkowski, M. (Eds.) (1987) Genocide and the modern age: Etiology and case studies of mass death. New York: Greenwood Press.

Armenia

Boyanian, D. (1972). Armenia: The case for a forgotten genocide. Westwood, N.J.: Educational Book Crafters.
Graber, G. (1996). Caravans to oblivion: The Armenian Genocide. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Hovannisian, R. (1980). The Armenian Holocaust: A bibliography relating to the deportations, massacres, and dispersion of the Armenian people, 1915-1923. Cambridge, Mass.: Armenian Heritage Press.
Hovannisian, R. (Ed.). (1991). The Armenian genocide in perspective. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Amnesty International. (1993). Genocide: Ethnic cleansing in Northwestern Bosnia. Zagreb: Croatian Information Center.
Cushman, T., & Mestrovic, S. (Eds.)(1996). This time we knew: Western responses to genocide in Bosnia. New York: New York University Press.
Donia, R. & Fine, J. (1994). Bosnia and Hercegovina: A tradition betrayed. New York: Coumbia University Press.
Drakulic, S. (1993). The Balkan express: Fragments from the other side of war. New York: Norton.
Friedman, F. (1996). The Bosnian Muslims. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Gutman, R. (1993). A witness to genocide. New York: Macmillan Publishing
Honig, J. & Both, N. (1196). Srebrenica: Record of a war crime. New York: Penguin.
Maass, P. (1996). Love thy neighbor: A story of war. New York: Vintage Press.
Sells, M. (1996). The bridge betrayed: Religion and genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Stiglmayer, A. (Ed.)(1994). Mass rape: The war against women in Bonia-Herzegovina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Vulliamy, (Ed.). (1994). Seasons in hell: Understanding Bosnia's war. New York: St. Martin's Press

Burma

Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). Freedom from fear. New York: Penguin.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1996) Letters from Burma. New York: Penguin.
Clements, A. (1997). Aung San Suu Kyi: The voice of hope - Conversations with Alan Clements. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Mirante, E. (1993). Burmese looking glass: A human rights adventure and a jungle revolution. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Cambodia

Chandler, D. (1993). Brother number one: A political biography of Pol Pot. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Chandler, D. (1996). A history of Cambodia. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Chandler, D. (1991). The tragedy of Cambodian history: Politics, war, and revolution since 1945. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kiernan, B. (1996). The Pol Pot Regine: Race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Metzl, J. (1996). Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia, 1975-1980. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Pran, D. (1997). Children of Cambodia's killing fields.

East Timor

Jardine, M. (1995). East Timor: Genocide in paradise. Tucson, Arizona: Odonian Press
Ramos-Horta, J. (1987). Funu: The unfinished saga of East Timor. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Red Sea Press

Holocaust

Bystanders:

Wyman, D. S. (1969). Paper walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon Books.
Wyman, D. S. (1984). The abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941 - 1945. N.Y.: Pantheon Books

Camps & Ghettos

Arad, Y. (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinard death camps. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Dobroszycki, L. (Ed.) (1984). The chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Gutman, Y. & Berenbaum, M. (Eds.) (1994). Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Hackett, D. A. (Ed.) (1995). The Buchenwald report. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Kermish, J. (Ed.) (1986). To live with honor and die with honor! Selected documents from the Warsaw Ghetto underground archives 'Oneg Shabbat'. Jerusalam: Menachem Press.

Children

Barr-On, D. (1989). Legacy of silence: Encounters with children of the Third Reich. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. (Children of Nazis)
Fisher, J. G. (Ed.). (1991). The persistence of youth: Oral testimonies of the Holocaust. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. (Survivior Anthology)
Holliday, L. (Ed.). (1995). Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries. New York: Pocket Books. (Survivor Anthology)
Marks, J. (1993). The hidden children: The secret survivors of the Holocaust. N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine. (Survivor Anthology)
Sichrovsky, P. (1987). Born guilty: Children of Nazi families. New York: Basic Books. (Children of Nazis)

Documents:

Arad, Y., Gutman, Y., & Margaliot, A. (1981). Documents on the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem.
Berenbaum, M. (Ed.) (1997). Witness to the Holocaust: An illustrated documentary history of the Holocaust in the words of its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. New York: Harper Collins.

Historical Overviews:

Dawidowicz, L. S. (1975). The war against the Jews 1933 - 1945. N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Marrus, M. R. (1987). The Holocaust in History. New York: Meridian Books.
Yahil, L. (1990). The Holocaust: The fate of European Jewry 1932-1945. N.Y.: Oxford University Press. (Excellent Historical Overview)

Historical/Sociological:

Bard, M. G. (1994). Forgotten victims: The abandonment of Americans in Hitler's camps. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Berenbaum, M., & Peck, A. (Eds.)(1998) The Holocaust and history: The known, the unknown, the disputed, and the reexamined. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Fein, H. (1979). Accounting for genocide: National responses and Jewish victimization during the Holocaust. N.Y.: The Free Press.
Friedlander, S. (Ed.)(1992). Probing the limits of representation: Nazism and the "Final Solution". Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hilberg, R. (1992). Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: The Jewish catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperPerennial.
Plant, R. (1986). The pink triangle: The Nazi war against homosexuals. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Schleunes, K. A. (1970). The twisted road to Auschwitz: Nazi policy toward German Jews 1933-1939. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Weiss, John (1996). Ideology of death: Why the Holocaust happened in Germany. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.

Holocaust Denial:

Lipstadt, D. (1993). Denying the Holocaust: The growing assault on truth and memory. New York: Plume Books.
Vidal-Naquet, P. (1992). Assassins of memory: Essays on the denial of the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press

Perpetrators:

Arad, Y., Krakowski, S., & Spector, S. (1989). The Einsatzgruppen reports: Selections from the dispatches of the Nazi death squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941 - January 1943. New York: Holocaust Library.
Browning, C. R. (1992). Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperPerennial.
Klee, E., Dressen, W., & Riess, V. (1991). The good old days: The Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders. New York: Konecky & Konecky.
Paskuly, S. (Ed.) (1996). Death dealer: The memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz Rudolph Hoss. New York: Da Capo Press.
Sereny, G. (1974). Into that darkness. London: Andre Deutsch Limited.

Philosophical & theological perspectives:

Berkovits, E. (1973). Faith after the Holocaust. N.Y.: Ktav Publishing House.
Berkovits, E. (1979). With God in hell: Judaism in the ghettos and death camps. N.Y.: Sanhedrin Press.
Fackenheim, E. L. (1982). To mend the world: Foundations of post-Holocaust thought. New York: Schocken Books.
Roth, J. K. & Berenbaum, M. (Eds.). (1989). Holocaust: Religious & philosophical implications. N.Y.: Paragon House.
Wiesenthal, S. (1970 & 1997 Editions). The sunflower. New York: Schocken Books.

Psychology and Medicine:

Allport, G. W. (1958). The Nature of prejudice. New York: Anchor Books.
Aly, G., Chroust, P., & Pross, C. (1994). Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi medicine and racial hygiene. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Annas, G., & Grodin, M. (Ed.)(1992). The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human rights in human experimentation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aziz, P. (1976). Doctors of death (4 Vols.). Geneva: Ferni Publishers.
Burleigh, M. (1994). Death and deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Des Pres, T. (1976). The survivor: An anatomy of life in the death camps. N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
Glass, J. (1997). "Life unworthy of life": Racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany. New York: Basic Books.
Hartman, G. H. (Ed.). (1994). Holocaust remembrance: The shapes of memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Hass, A. (1995). The aftermath: Living with the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Helmreich, W. B. (1992). Against all odds: Holocaust survivors and the successful lives they made in America. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster.
Jacobson, K. (1994). Embattled selves: An investigation into the nature of identity through oral histories of Holocaust survivors. N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Langer, L. L. (1991). Holocaust testimonies: The ruins of memory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lifton, R. J. (1986). The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide. New York: Basic Books.
Proctor, R. (1988). Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Proctor, R. (1999). The Nazi war on cancer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Additions readings regarding Nazi Science

Resistance and Rescue

Fogelman, E. (1994). Conscience & courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York: Anchor Books.
Gutman, Y. (1988). Fighters among the ruins: The story of Jewish heroism during World War II. Washington, D.C.: B'nai B'rith Books.
Rohrlich, R. (1998). Resisting the Holocaust. Oxford: Berg.
Scholl, I. (1970). Students against tyranny: The resistance of the White Rose. Middletown, Connecticut: American Education Publications.
Suhl, Y. (Ed.) (1967). They fought back: The story of the Jewish resistance in Nazi Europe. New York: Crown Publishers.

Survivor Testimony:

Adelsberger, L. (1995). Auschwitz: A doctor's story. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Amery, J. (1986). At the mind's limits: Contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities. N.Y.: Schocken Books.
Langer L. L. (Ed.- Anthology). (1995). Art from the ashes. N. Y.: Oxford University Press.
Lengyel, O. (1995). Five Chimneys: A woman survivorİs true story of Auschwitz. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers.
Levi, P. (1958). Survival in Auschwitz. New York: Collier Books.
Levi, P. (1986). If this is a man: Remembering Auschwitz. N.Y.: Summit Books.
Levi, P. (1988). The drowned and the saved. New York: Vintage International.
Niewyk, D. (Ed. - Anthology)(1998). Fresh wounds: Early narrative of Holocaust survival. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
Nomberg-Przytyk, S. (1985). Auschwitz: True tales from a grotesque land. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press.
Steiner, J. (1967). Treblinka. New Yorker: Simon and Schuster.
Wiesel, E. (1988). The Night trilogy. N.Y.: The Noonday Press.
Zuckerman, A. (1991). A voice in the chorus: Memories of a teenager saved by Schindler. Stamford, Connecticut: Longmeadow Press.

Women:

Eibeshitz, J. & Eibeshitz, A. (Eds.) (1993). Women in the Holocaust - Vols. 1 & 2. New York: Remember.
Linden, R. (1993). Making stories, making selves. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Ofer, D., & Weitzman, L. (1998). Women in the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press
Owings, A. (1994). Frauen: German women recall the Third Reich. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Rittner, C. & Roth, J. K. (Eds.) (1991). Different voices: Women and the Holocaust. New York: Paragon House.

Rwanda & Burundi

Gourevitch, P. (1998). We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux.
Keane, F. (1995). Season of blood: A Rwandan journey. London: Penguin Books.
Lemarchand, R. (1995). Burundi: Ethnic conflict and genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nyankanzi, E. (1997). Genocide: Rwanda and Burundi. Rochester, Vermont: Schenkman.
Prunier, G. (1995). The Rwanda crisis: History of genocide. New York: Columbia University Press.