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After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Eva Hoffman
PublicAffairs, 2004
The motion of knowing
+ The second generation reflects on the Holocaust
+ deep thoughts written in polished, gem-like prose
+ Remembering beyond the survivors.
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The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Martin Gilbert
Holt Paperbacks, 2004
These people were saints
+ Remarkable stories of Holocaust heroes
+ Tales of Courage
Martin Gilbert is the greatest historian on the subject of the holocaust out there, and is one of the most prolific historians of today.
In The Righteous, Gilbert describes the many cases of righteous gentiles, throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, who risked their lives and all they had to save ...
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Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau
Jack Sacco
Harper, 2003
Fantastic Book!
+ A must-read!
+ What Good Guys!
+ A riveting, first-hand account of military life
+ Superbly Written
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The Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz
Marion Schreiber
Grove/Atlantic, 2004
Young Heros....A fascinating story of courage
+ This book is more about heroic resistance to mighty and ruthless military power than about one particular act
+ The Twentieth Train
+ The Twentieth Train
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Irene Gut Opdyke
Anchor, 2001
A book for both Mothers and Teen Daughters
+ Loved it so much got the book and the audio book.
+ Much better than "On Hitler's Mountain"
+ inispirational person
+ Interesting right through the very end.
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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
Peter Singer
Harper Perennial, 2004
Compelling and moving memoir
+ well-crafted tribute
This is a compelling and frequently moving account of the author's grandparents' lives from the turn of the century in Vienna to the middle years of the twentieth century. The grandparents, David and Amalie Oppenheim, had both the good and bad fortune to live through some of the most interesting ...
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank
Bantam, 1997
A bright soul in a dark time
+ New book condition
+ Anne Frank Diary
+ Anne Frank
+ Diary of Anne Frank
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1993
Yes.
+ Graphic literature at its best
+ For any who doubt what graphic fiction can do, this is the revelation.
+ Brilliant
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2000
How to find happiness in a dismal situation
+ Fascinating; deeply moving...
+ Who has a why to live can bear any how...
+ Reality for today and yesterday
+ A fine, fine book!
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Vintage, 1997
A Study That Can't Be Ignored -- but the Kindle Version Needs Work
+ Extraordinary! A novel approach to the Holocaust brings to the forum a whole new set of interpretations of this fateful event.
"Hitler's Willing Executioners" is without doubt a highly important work that no one wishing to understand 20th-century history can afford to ignore. In this review, however, I will focus on the Kindle version.
The Kindle version has significant problems. First, the footnotes are not linked ...
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The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 ...
Christopher R. Browning
University of Nebraska Press, 2004
Intensive but worthwhile
+ evolution of the halocaust
+ Perfect Scholarship
+ Evolution is apt
+ Did Hitler ever ordered it?Not a shred of evidence here!
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan T. Gross
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
A Book of Pain and Wonderment
+ two-faced people--finks
+ Book written with the scientific accuracy, uncovers what everybody in Poland knows and denies...
+ The Fear That Still Haunts Poland
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Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
Theodor Adorno
Stanford University Press, 2003
More than the title implies
+ Okay compilation with a few major reservations
This is an excellent current selection for beginning Adorno students. The contents are much more generally useful than the title implies; this is not just a Holocaust-theory reader but a general Adorno selection of some worth. Since there's no other existing Adorno reader (that I know of) with ...
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
Penguin Classics, 1994
Best Non-Fiction Book of the 20th Century?
+ A book about the Holocaust still relevant
+ Report of Banality of Evil and Poor Human performance
+ Eichmann in??
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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork
Etty Hillesum
Holt Paperbacks, 1996
If Ann Frank wrote as a vibrant young woman
+ Intelligent Conversion Story
+ A "Can Only Bring 5 Books to a Desert Island Book" for me...
+ flowers and fruits grow where they are planted
+ A Hauntingly Beautiful Gift
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