Best books on The Holocaust

Byrnzie

I've not read many, but these are some of the best IMO:

'At the Mind's Limits' - Jean Amery

'The Drowned and the Saved' - Primo Levy

'If this is a man' - Primo Levy

'Night' - Eli Weisel

'Times Arrow' - Martin Amis

'Konin - One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community' - Theo Richmond

jecica

I have read Night. It was good and I finished it in one night.

pearljgirl2010

Maus I and II...they're graphic novels about the Holocaust and were fascinating...I had to read them for a class years ago.

Thorns2010

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

Maus I and II...they're graphic novels about the Holocaust and were fascinating...I had to read them for a class years ago.

Nothing really to add to anything in this thread, other than, that is a much better picture of you cousin! :ugeek:

bernmodi

If you speak French: "La mort est mon métier" by Robert Merle. It's about Rudolf Hoess, the "commandant" of Auschwitz.

pearljgirl2010

Thorns2010 wrote:

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

Maus I and II...they're graphic novels about the Holocaust and were fascinating...I had to read them for a class years ago.

Nothing really to add to anything in this thread, other than, that is a much better picture of you cousin! :ugeek:

LOL!! Thanks :oops:

uninnocent-

this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen - tadeusz borowski

Byrnzie

uninnocent- wrote:

this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen - tadeusz borowski

Thanks, I've not heard of this one before. I'll check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Borowski
'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, also known as Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber, is a collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski.(Original title Pożegnanie z Marią - Farewell to Maria.)

A Polish Communist, Borowski was a resistor against the Nazis during World War II, and was incarcerated at the notorious Auschwitz death camp. In searing, satiric prose Borowski details what life and death were like in the Nazi concentration camps.'

uninnocent-

Byrnzie wrote:

uninnocent- wrote:

this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen - tadeusz borowski

Thanks, I've not heard of this one before. I'll check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Borowski
'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, also known as Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber, is a collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski.(Original title Pożegnanie z Marią - Farewell to Maria.)

A Polish Communist, Borowski was a resistor against the Nazis during World War II, and was incarcerated at the notorious Auschwitz death camp. In searing, satiric prose Borowski details what life and death were like in the Nazi concentration camps.'

no problem. i took a holocaust lit class in college. this is the one that i remember best. when i get home, i can check the course reader for more books.

nfanel

i was on a weird holocaust-reading kick last summer. my friend was getting her masters in holocaust and genocide studies and recommended the following. they were all worthwhile reads!

all but my life - gerda weissmann klein
i have lived a thousand years - livie bitton-jackson
survival in auschwitz - primo levi

(i, too, loved night)

JOEJOEJOE

My family fell victim to the Holocaust...some survived (including my dad), but most didn't.

I am glad that people have an interest in reading-up on it.

The Holocaust Museums in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. have survivors that give talks about their experiences...great first-hand accounts.

tybird

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

Maus I and II...they're graphic novels about the Holocaust and were fascinating...I had to read them for a class years ago.

+1

xavier mcdaniel

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

My family fell victim to the Holocaust...some survived (including my dad), but most didn't.

I am glad that people have an interest in reading-up on it.

The Holocaust Museums in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. have survivors that give talks about their experiences...great first-hand accounts.

I went to one of those at the Wiesenthal Center when I was in Los Angeles. very moving.