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Holocaust, 1933-1945

Hitler's Willing Executioners

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

A study of how and why the Holocaust occurred, presenting the author's conclusions about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, German antisemitism, and the nature of German society during the Nazi period

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The Holocaust and Other Genocides

Ties the teaching of the Holocaust to an analysis of the genocides in Armenia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and Rwanda; and examines representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and the arts.

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Escapes From Nazi Persecution

Stephen Currie

This book presents narratives that describe escapes from Nazi persecution, such as escapes from Auschwitz, Poland, Colditz Castle in eastern Germany, and the transporting of Jews by boat from Denmark

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Anne Frank

This book presents eighteen articles on the life of Anne Frank, a young girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in the attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

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Revolution and Genocide

Robert Melson

Explores the connection of genocide to revolution and war, looking at examples from throughout world history, focusing on the destruction of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and Jews in Imperial Germa

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The Cage

Ruth Minsky Sender

A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.

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Oskar Schindler

Jeremy Roberts

This book is a biography of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to save more than 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.

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Joseph Goebbels

Jeremy Roberts

This book relates the life of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his role in formulating Hitler's policy of exterminating the Jewish people.

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In the Camps

Toby Axelrod

This book relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel

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The Hidden Children of the Holocaust

Esther Kustanowitz

This book in their own words, details the experiences of Jewish teenagers hiding from the Nazis.

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