Recommended Books and Other Resources
Recommended Books and Other Resources
THE GREAT STEAL
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Prosperity and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II, by Stuart Eizenstat
The Book Thieves, by Anders Rydell
The Hare with the Amber Eyes, by Edmund of Waal
The Monuments Men, by Robert M. Edsel
The Lady in Gold, by Anne Marie O’ Connor
KRISTALLNACHT
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction, by Martin Gilbert. HarperCollins, 2006.
The November Pogroms: Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath, Berenbaum, Michael, editor. In Witness to the Holocaust, 40-68. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.
The Night of Broken Glass; Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht, Edited by Uta Gerhardt, Thomas Karlauf
The Day the Holocaust Began:The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpam, by Gerald Schwab
Website: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Kristallnacht
Video: "Kristallnacht - November 1938 Pogroms" (Facing History and Ourselves)
DEGENERATE ART EXHIBITION OF 1937
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany 1937 by Olaf Peters
Degenerate Art by Stephanie Barron, Christoph Zuschlag, Goerge L. Mosse
Documents the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in 1937 as part of their antimodernist policy. More than 150 of the surviving masterworks from the original show are collected and illustrated in this book.
JAPANESE-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Japanese American Internment During WWII: A History & Reference Guide, by Wendy Ng
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II, by Richard Reeves
Historical Fiction:
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jaime Ford
RESCUE AND RESISTANCE
Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, by Gay Block and Malka Drucker
Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity, by Victoria Barnett
Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews, by Michael Bar-Zohar
The Other Schindlers: What Made People Save Jews from the Holocaust, by Agnes Grunwald Spier and Martin Gilbert
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon, by Philip P. Hallie
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, by Martin Gilbert
Fiction:
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Web Resources
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
ANTISEMITISM
Books:
Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History, by James Carroll, 2020.
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, by Judith Reesa Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin, eds, .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science, by Terence Keel, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction, by David N. Myers New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900, by Simon Schama, London: Vintage, 2018.
Antisemitism: Here and Now, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2019.
The War Against the Jews, 1933 - 1945, by Lucy Dawidowicz, 2010.
Other Resources:
Web articles:
Phillips, Gervase. “Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today.” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/antisemitism-how-the-origins-of-historys-oldest-hatred-still-hold-sway-today-87878.
Reich, Walter. “Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise.” The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/seventy-five-years-after-auschwitz-anti-semitism-is-on-the-rise/605452/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Videos:
History of Antisemitism and Antisemitism Here and Now https://www.facebook.com/pg/holocaustmuseum/videos/.
ANNE FRANK
Books:
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Anne Frank’s original diary published in over 70 languages.
The Legacy of Anne Frank, by Gillian Walnes Perry (2019)
Author Gillian Walnes Perry offers an array of stories describing the many ways in which people around the world have been influenced and touched by Anne Frank’s words and story – from the diary itself to the public opening of the Anne Frank House, formerly the Frank family’s hiding place, to the many traveling exhibitions telling Anne’s story in the larger social, political and historical context.
A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler
For ages 5 -8
Other Resources:
Website: The Anne Frank House
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/ - short video for young students
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/oral-history/barbara-ledermann-rodbell-describes-anne-franks-parents (description of Otto Frank)
DIARIES
Books:
Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder
Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel
The Diary Of Petr Ginz 1941-1942 by Petr Ginz
IMMIGRATION
Books:
Abandonment of the Jews, America and the Holocaust by David Wyman
Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law that Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants out of America by Daniel Okrent
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning author
Decades long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life