Victims and Survivors

Amery, Jean. (1980)  At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Call No. 940.5315 A491a

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. (1988) Alicia: My Story. New York: Bantam Books. Call No. 940.5318092 A684a

Ayer, Eleanor H. and Stephen D. Chicoine. From the Ashes: May 1945 and After. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press. Call No. CL 940.5318 H v.6

Bachrach, Susan D. (1994) Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Boston: Little Brown. Call No. 940.5318 B124t

Balshone, Benjamin, ed. (1984) Determined! New York: Bloch Pub. Co. Call No. 940.5318092 D479

Bellow, Saul.  (1970) Mr. Sammler's Planet.  New York: Viking Press. Call No. 813.52 B448MI

Berger, Ronald J. (1995) Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust: a Life History of Two Brothers' Survival. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. E-book

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel. (1999) The Seamstress: a Memoir of Survival. New York: Berkley Books. Call No. 940.5318 B531s

Bettelheim, Bruno. (1979) Surviving and Other Essays. New York: Knopf. Call No. 150.8 B565S

Birger, Zev. (1999) No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem: a Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor. New York: Newmarket Press. Call No. 940.5318 B618n

Bluglass, Kerry. (2003) Hidden from the Holocaust: Stories of Resilient Children Who Survived and Thrived. Westport, CT: Praeger. Call No. 940.5318083 B658

Boas, Jacob, ed. (1996) We Are Witnesses. New York: Scholastic, Inc. Call No. 940.5318 W361w

The Boys of Buchenwald. (2002) Canada: Paperny Films. Call No. VIDEO 940.53161 B793

Brecher, Elinor J. (1994) Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors. New York: Penguin Books. Call No. 940.5318 S336Yb

Brenner, Reeve Robert. (1997) The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. Call No. 296.31174 B838f 1997

Brownlow, Donald Grey. (1983) Hell Was My Home: Arnold Shay, Survivor of the Holocaust. West Hanover, MA: Christopher Publishing House. Call No. 940.547243 S538Yb

Carmel, Herman. (1984) Black Days, White Nights. New York: Hippocrene Books. Call No. 940.5318 C287b

Cohen, Sharon Kangisser. (2005) Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Israel. Portland: Sussex Academic Press. Call No. 940.5318083 C678c

Dafni, Reuven. (1991) Final Letters from Victims of the Holocaust. New York: Paragon House. Call No. 940.5318 F941

Del Calzo, Nick. (1997) The Triumphant Spirit: Portraits & Stories of Holocaust Survivors, Their Messages of Hope & Compassion. Denver: Triumphant Spirit Publication. Call No. 940.5318 D345t

Dimsdale, Joel E., ed. (1980) Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust. Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publication Corp. Call No. 940.5315 S963

Eisner, Jack. (1980) The Survivor. New York: Morrow. Call No. 940.5318092 E36

Elias, Ruth. (1998) Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt to Auschwitz to Israel. New York: Wiley. E-book

Engelking-Boni, Barbara. (2001) Holocaust and Memory: the Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences. New York: Leicester University Press. Call No. 940.5318 E57h

Farber, Howard. (1994) Memories of a Holocaust Survivor. H. Farber. Call No. 940.5318 F219m

Finkel, Sidney (2006) Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die. Matteson, Ill.: Sidney Finkel. Call No. 940.5318092 F499s

Frankfurter, Bernhard, ed. (2000) The Meeting: A Holocaust Survivor Confronts an SS Physician. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. E-book

Freeman, Joseph. (2003) Job: the Story of a Holocaust Survivor. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House. Call No. 940.5318092 F855j

Friedman, Carl. (2000) Nightfather. New York: Persea Books. Call No. FIC FRIE

Friedman, Ina R. (1990) The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Call No. 940.53161 F911o

Frister, Roman. (2000) The Cap: The Price of a Life. New York: Grove Press. Call No. 940.5318 F917c 2000

Geve, Thomas. (1987) Guns and Barbed Wire: a Child Survives the Holocaust. Chicago: Academy Chicago. Call No. 940.5318092 G396g

Gilbert, Martin. (1997) The Boys: the Untold Stories of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors. New York: Henry Holt. Call No. 940.5318 G465b

Gill, Anton. (1988) The Journey Back from Hell: An Oral History: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors. New York: Morrow. Call No. 940.5318092 G858j

Gotfryd, Bernard. (1990) Anton, the Dove Fancier: And Other Tales of the Holocaust. New York: Washington Square Press. Call No. 813.54 G685a

Gouri, Haim and Jacquot Ehrlich. (1987) Flames in the Ashes. Teaneck, NJ: Ergo Media. Call No. VIDEO 940.5318 F578

Greene, Joshua M. and Shiva Kumar, eds. (2000) Witness: Voices from the Holocaust. New York: Free Press. Call No. 940.5318092 W825

Greenspan, Henry. (1998) On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History. Westport, CT: Praeger.  Call No. 940.5318 G815o

Gross, Alex. (2001) Yankele: a Holocaust Survivor's Bittersweet Memoir. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Call No. 940.5318092 G878y

Grove, Andrew S. (2001) Swimming Across: a Memoir. New York: Warner Books. Call No. 940.5318092 G883s

Gurdus, Luba Krugman. (1978) The Death Train: a Personal Account of a Holocaust Survivor. National Council on Art in Jewish Life. Call No. 940.5315 G978d

Hackett, Joyce. (2002) Disturbance of the Inner Ear. New York: Carroll and Graf. Call No. 813.54 H121d

Hahn-Beer, Edith. (1999) The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust. New York: Perennial. Call No. 940.5318092 H415n

Hart, Kitty. (1981) Return to Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story of a Girl Who Survived the Holocaust. New York: Atheneum.  Call No. 940.5315 H325r

Hearth, Amy Hill. (2001) In a World Gone Mad: a Heroic Story of Love, Faith, and Survival. Nashville: Abingdon Press. Call No. 940.5318 H436i

Hellman, Peter. (1981) The Auschwitz Album: a Book Based upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier. New York: Random House. Call No. 940.5315 A932

Helmreich, William B. (1996) Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Call No. 973.04924 H481a

Hemmendinger, Judith and Robert Krell. (2000) The Children of Buchenwald: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and their Post-War Lives. Hewlett, NY: Gefen House. Call No. 940.5318083 H489c

Homer, Frederic D. (2001) Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Call No. 853.914 L664Yh

Hondius, Dienke. (2003) Return: Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Anti-Semitism. Westport, CT: Praeger. Call No. 940.5318 H771r

Horowitz, Irene and Carl Horowitz. (1994) Holocaust Revisited. New York: Shengold Publishers. Call No. 940.5318 H817h

Isaacman, Clara. (1984) Clara's Story. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. Call No. 940.5318092 I73c

Isaacson, Judith Magyar. (1991) Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Call No. 940.5318 I73s

Jackson, Livia Bitton. (2001) My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After the Holocaust. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. Call No. 940.5318 J13b

Jacobs, Benjamin. (1995) The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. Call No. 940.5318092 J17d

Jagendorf, Siegfried. (1991) Jagendorf's Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944. New York: Harper Collins. Call No. 940.5318 J24j

Jason, Philip K., and Iris Posner, eds. (2004) Don't Wave Goodbye: The Children's Flight from Freedom. Westport, CT: Praeger.  Call No. 940.531835 D674

Kaplan, Marion A. (1998) Between Dignity and Despair: A Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press.  Call No. 943.086 K17b

Kestenberg, Judith S. (1996) The Last Witness: the Child Survival of the Holocaust. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. Call No. 616.8521 K42L

Kimmelman, Mira Ryczke (2005) Life Beyond the Holocaust: Memories and Realities. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Call No. 940.5318092 K49L

Klein, Gerda Weissmann (1995) All But My Life. New York : Hill and Wang. Call No. 940.5318K64ab 1995

Klein, Gerda Weissmann (2004) A Boring Evening at Home. Washington, DC: Leading Authorities Press. Call No. 940.5318092 K646

Klein, Gerda Weissmann and Kurt Klein (2001) The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in the War's Aftermath. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. Call No. 940.5318092 K64h

Klüger, Ruth (2003) Landscapes of Memory: a Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. London: Bloomsbury. Call No. 940.5318092 K66L

Klüger, Ruth (2003) Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Call No. 940.5318092 K66s

Klüger, Ruth (1994) Weiter Leben: Eine Jugend. Munchen: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. Call No. 940.5318092 K66w 1994

Kornbluth, William. (1994) Sentenced to Remember: My Legacy of Life in Pre-1939 Poland and Sixty-Eight Months of Nazi Occupation. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press. E-book

Krall, Hanna. (1986) Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: Henry Holt. Call No. 940.53185 K89s

Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal. (2005) Memories of Survival. New York: Hyperion. Call No. CL 940.5318 KR

Kubar, Zofia S. (1989) Double Identity: A Memoir. New York: Hill and Wang. Call No. 940.5318 K95d

Langer, Lawrence L. (1991) Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Call No. 940.5318 L276h

The Last Days. (1999) New York: Polygram Video. Call No. VIDEO 940.5318 L349

Leitner, Isabella. (1992) The Big Lie: a True Story. New York: Scholastic. Call No. CL 940.5318 LE

Letulle, Claude J. (1987) Nightmare Memoir: Four Years as a Prisoner of the Nazis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.  Call No. 940.547243 L651N

Levi, Primo. (1993) The Reawakening. New York: Maxwell Macmillan. Call No. 940.5318 L664r 1993

Levi, Primo. (1993) Survival in Auschwitz. New York: Collier Books. Call No. 940.5318 L665s

Lewendel, Isaac. (1999) Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University. Call No. 940.5318 L671n

Lewin, Abraham. (1989) A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Basil Blackwell. Call No. 940.531853 L67Zc

Liebman, Marcel (2005) Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe. London: Verso. Call No. 940.5318092 L716b

Lobel, Anita. (1998) No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War. New York: Greenwillow Books. Call No. CL 940.5318 LO

Luner, Gerda Nothmann. (2002) Gerda's Story: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor. Elmhurst, IL: Elmhurst College. Call No. SPECC 940.5318092 L962g

Marks, Jane. (1993) Hidden Children: the Secret Survivors of the Holocaust. New York: Ballantine Books. Call No. 940.5318 M346h

McElroy, Lorie Jenkins. (1997) Voices of the Holocaust. Detroit: UXL. Call No. 940.5318 V889

Meltzer, Milton. (1977) Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust. New York: Dell. Call No. 940.5315 M528NC1

Michel, Jean. (1980) Dora. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. Call No. 940.5318092 M623d 

Michman, Dan, ed. Belgium and the Holocaust. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem. Call No. 949.304 B429

Mikhel'son, Frida. (1979) I Survived Rumbuli. New York: Holocaust Publications. Call No. 940.5318092 M636i

Nieuwsma, Milton J., ed. (1998) Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors. New York: Holiday House. Call No. CL 940.5318 KI

Niewyk, Donald L., ed. (1998) Fresh Wounds. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Call No. 940.5318 F885w; also available as an e-book

Ogilvie, Sarah A. (2006) Refuge Denied: the St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Call No. 940.5318092 O34r

Oliner, Samuel P. (2000) Narrow Escapes: a Boy's Holocaust Memories and their Legacy. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House. Call No. 940.5318092 O46n

One Survivor Remembers. (1996) New York: HBO. Call No. VIDEO 940.5318092 O58

Orenstein, Henry. (1987) I Shall Live: Surviving Against All Odds, 1939-1945. New York: Beaufort Books. Call No. 940.5318092 O66s

Pekelis, Carla (2005) My Version of the Facts. Evanston, IL: Marlboro Press. Call No. 940.5318092 P379m

The Pianist. (2002) Universal. Call No. VIDEO 940.5318 P581

Postmantier, Harry. (1984) The Last of the Numbered Men: A Memoir of the Holocaust. New York: Vantage Press. Call No. 940.5318092 P8551

Powell, Lawrence N. (2000) Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Call No. 940.5318 P884t

Raab, Elisabeth M. (1997) And Peace Never Came. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. E-book

Rabinowitz, Dorothy. (1976) New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America.  New York: Knopf. Call No. 940.5315 R116n

Ritvo, Roger A. and Diane M. Plotkin. (1998) Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. Call No. 940.5318 S623

Rochman, Hazel and Darlene Z. McCampbell, eds. (1995) Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust. New York: Orchard Books. Call No.  808.80358 B368

Rosen, Philip and Nina Apfelbaum. (2002) Bearing Witness: a Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. Call No. R 940.5318016 R813b

Rosenberg, Maxine B. (1994) Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust. New York: Clarion Books. Call No. CL 940.5318 R

Rosengarten, Israel J. (1999) Survival: the Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Jewish Boy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. E-book

Rosner, Bernat. (2001) An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust. Berkeley: University of California Press. Call No. 940.5318 R822u

Roth, John K. (1978) A Consuming Fire: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust. Atlanta: John Knox Press. Call No. 9405315 R845CC1

Russo, Marisabina. (2005) Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Call No. CL 940.5318 RUS

Sack, Joel. (1990)  Dawn after Dachau. New York: Shengold Publishers. Call No. 940.5318 S121d

Sack, John. (1993) An Eye for an Eye. New York: Basic Books. Call No. 940.5318092 S121e

Saidel, Rochelle G. (1996) Never Too Late to Remember. New York: Holmes & Meier. Call No. 940.5318 S132n

Schiff, William. (2007) William and Rosalie: a Holocaust Testimony. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press. Call No. 940.5318092 S333w

Schneider, Gertrude, ed. (1991) The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back. New York: Praeger. Call No. 940.5318092 U56

Schulman, William L., ed. (1998) Voices and Visions: A Collection of Primary Sources. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press. Call No. CL 940.5318 H v.7

Seel, Pierre. (1997) Liberation was for Others: Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust. New York: Da Capo Press. Call No. 305.389664 S452m

Segev, Tom. (1993) The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Hill and Wang. Call No. 940.5318 S454se

Senesh, Hannah. (1986) Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. New York: Schocken Books. Call No. 940.5318 S475h 1973

Sierakowiak, Dawid. (1996) The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódź Ghetto. London: Bloomsbury. Call No. 940.531503924 S572d

Smith, Lyn. (2006) Remembering, Voices of the Holocaust: a New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived. New York: Carroll and Graf. Call No. 940.5318092 S654r

Somers, Erik and Rene Kok, eds. (2004) Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950: the Unique Photo Album of Zippy Orlin. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Call No. 940.5318092 J59

Soumerai, Eve Nussbaum, and Carol D. Schulz. (2003) A Voice from the Holocaust. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.  Call No.  940.5318092 S725v

Spiegelman, Art. (1986) Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. New York: Pantheon Books. Call No. 940.5315 S459m, and 940.5315 S755m

Spiegelman, Art. (1991) Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon Books. Call No. 940.5315 S755MA

Spies, Gerty (1997) My Years in Theresienstadt. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Call No. 946.5318 S755m

Starkopf, Adam. (1995) Will to Live: One Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Call No. 940.5318 S795w

Sten, Ephraim (2006) 1111 Days in My Life Plus 4. Takoma Park, Md.: Dryad Press. Call No. 940.5318092 S835o

Stiffel, Frank. (1985) The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish: A Personal Memoir of the Holocaust. Call No. 940.5318092 S855t

Survivors: Testimonies of the Holocaust. (1998) Torrence, CA: Knowledge Adventure. Call No. C 113 F141s 1998 (2 vols.)

Survivors of the Holocaust. (1995) Turner Home Entertainment. Call No. VIDEO 940.53 S963

Szatyn, Bronislaw. (1985) A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941-1945. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Call No. 940.5315 S996p

Theresienstadt, Gateway to Auschwitz. (1993) Teaneck, NJ: Ergo Media. Call No. VIDEO 940.5318 T398

Todorov, Tzvetan. (2001) The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Call No. 940.5318 F811

Toll, Nelly S. (1993) Behind the Secret Window. New York: Dial Books. Call No. 940.5318 T651b

Trahan, Elizabeth Welt. (2006) Ten Dollars in My Pocket: The American Education of a Holocaust Survivor. New York: Peter Lang. Call No. 940.5318092 T765t

Tsvi Nussbaum, a Boy from Warsaw: a Video about a Photograph. (1992) Teaneck, NJ: Ergo Media. Call No. VIDEO 940.53 T882

Vander Zee, Ruth. (2003) Erika's Story. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions. Call No. CL 940.5318 V

Warren, Andrea. (2002) Surviving Hitler: a Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. New York: HarperTrophy. Call No. CL 940.5318 WA

Weiss, Ann, ed. (2005) The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau. New York: W. W. Norton. Call No. 940.53185 L349 2005

Weiss, Jack (2005) Memories, Dreams, Nightmares: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. Call No. 940.5318092 W431m

Willenberg, Samuel. (1989) Surviving Treblinka. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell. Call No. 940.5318 W711s

Wyszogrod, Morris. (1999) A Brush With Death. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Call No. 940.5318 W998b

Yeatts, Tabatha. (1998) The Holocaust Survivors. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. Call No. CL 940.5318Y

Zuccotti, Susan. (2007) Holocaust Odysseys: the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and their Flight Through France and Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press. Call No. 940.5318 Z94h

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