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1. Kertesz, Imre. Fatelessness. Vintage. Reprint edition. 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1400078639 $11

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2. Goldberg, Rita. Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust. The New Press. 2015 Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1620970737

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3. Moorehead, Caroline. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. Harper; First U.S. First Printing edition. 2014. ISBN: 978-0062202475 $20

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4. Rosenberg, Goran translated by Sarah Death. A BRIEF STOP ON THE ROAD FROM AUSCHWITZ. Other Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-1590516072. $20

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5. Helm, Sara. Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women. Doubleday. Nan A. Talese. 2015 ISBN- 978-0385520591 $27

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6. Douglas, Lawrence. The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial. Princeton University Press. 2016. ISBN- 978-0691125701. $27







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7. Stargardt, Nicholas. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Basic Books. 2015. ISBN: 978-0465018994 $22

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8. Heller, Caroline. Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts. Dial Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-0385337618 $19.00


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9. Winik, Jay. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History. Simon &Schuster. 2015. ISBN: 978-1439114087 $26



10. Ferguson, Niall. KISSINGER Volume I. 1923-1968: The Idealist. Penguin Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-1594206535 $24

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11. Longerich, Peter. Goebbels: A Biography. Random House. 2015. ISBN: 978-1400067510 $28

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12. Lichtblau, Eric. The Nazis Next Door: How American Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. ISBN: 978-0547669199



13. Edge, Deckle. The Zone of Interest: A Novel. Knof. 2014. ISBN 978-0385353496 $22

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14. Franklin, Ruth. A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0195313963 $40

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15. Adams, Jenni. The Bloomsbury companion to Holocaust literature, ed. by. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 337p bibl index ISBN 9781441129086 cloth, $172.00; ISBN 9781472587442 ebook, $154.99

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Reviewed in CHOICE June 2015 vol. 52 no. 10

Holocaust Literature is an important, provocative collection of essays by international senior and emerging scholars concerned with new directions in literary response to the Holocaust. In focus, most of these essays depart from work of earlier scholars—Alvin Rosenfeld, Lawrence Langer, Sidra Ezrahi, Berel Lang—who were influenced by trauma and memory theory as well as Western and Jewish literary traditions and analyzed primarily first- and second-generation Jewish witnessing writers, victim experience and perspectives, and limits of and appropriate Holocaust representation. Contextualized in broad developments in literary theory and criticism, the emergent directions explored in Adams’s collection center mainly on non-Jewish writers (A. G. Sebald, Edgar Hilsenrath, Jonathan Littell, Bernhard Schlink, D. M. Thomas, and Benjamin Wilkomirski). Aside from an exemplary lead essay bridging classic and recent Holocaust criticism and another focused on children's perspectives, the collection elucidates the perpetrators' perspective. It interrogates accurate, embellished, and falsified testimonies; explores memory transmission of those distanced in time and place from the Holocaust; examines resistance to transmission prohibitions and taboos; and fosters comparison of the Holocaust and its representation









with that of other genocides. An extensive annotated critical bibliography and glossary of major terms and concepts advance Holocaust literary studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

--S. L. Kremer, emerita, Kansas State University

Copyright 2015 American Library Association

16. Kuriloff, Emily A. Contemporary psychoanalysis and the legacy of the Third Reich: history, memory, tradition. Routledge, 2014. 177p bibl index ISBN9780415883184, $160.00; ISBN 9780415883191 pbk, $39.95; ISBN9780203845882 ebook, contact publisher for price

Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professional. Reviewed in CHOICE February 2014 vol. 51 no. 06

An analyst from the William Alanson White Institute in New York, Kuriloff interviewed some important members of the group of Jewish émigré psychoanalysts, asking about their and their colleagues' refugee experiences. These analysts were the core of the psychoanalytic movement and profession, mostly in the US and England. Kuriloff believes that there was a group suppression of their traumata by the Nazis, but also carefully states that each would have individual reactions. The author's question: In what way did this suppression affect theory building and the practice of analysis? Her perspective is a relational one; she assumes as prime the power and impact of the personal experiences of the analyst on the patient's interaction and treatment. Many of these analysts were, of course--not just because of their traumata, but by pre-war education--not much aligned with this perspective. They had been and remained devoted to creating the field as an "objective" and generalizable science (following Freud). The author, whose grandmother fled the Holocaust, brings her emotional knowledge to bear on her subjects' lives and behaviors. The book will provoke useful discussion of the topic. It is of interest to psychoanalysts and students of the Holocaust and the history of ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.--R. H. Balsam, Yale University

17. Knowles, Anne Kelly, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano with Erik B. Steiner. Geographies of the Holocaust, ed. by Indiana, 2014. 246p index afp ISBN 9780253012111cloth, $40.00

Essential. All readership levels. Reviewed in CHOICE May 2015 vol. 52 no. 09

This unique and important title offers researchers an interdisciplinary study of this genocide from a strong geographical and historical perspective that focuses on physical locations, times, and terrain. The work is based on six case studies, authored by both geographers and historians, which delve into analyzing the locations where different distinctive events of the Shoah occurred. The book aims to go beyond Holocaust atlases and/or other geographical studies that primarily focus on the location of events, Jewish ghettos, and SS concentration camps to focus "on the spaces and places that people created, occupied, passed through and endured—the material landscapes that were essential to the implementation of the Holocaust and inseparable from people's experience of it." Using scale as a primary tool of analysis, the work introduces readers to key concepts in human and physical geography and adds new dimensionality to Holocaust studies. Employing techniques such as GIS and cartography, as well as fieldwork and spatial ideations that use graphic art and diagrams to depict data and time lines, this work offers readers new ways of studying the key sites and events of the Holocaust.

Both students and researchers will find this work to be immensely informative and innovative. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.--L. Lampert, California State University--Northridge

18. Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer. Holocaust memory reframed: museums and the challenges of representation. Rutgers, 2014. 261p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813563244, $85.00; ISBN 9780813563237 pbk, $27.95

Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Reviewed in CHOICE October 2014 vol. 52 no. 02

For centuries, museums have cared for collections of artistic, cultural, historical, and scientifically important artifacts. They have enlightened a public (both individually and collectively) on broad aspects of humanity's achievement. Holocaust museums do not fit this inherently positive definition. Their role, rather, is to commemorate, represent, evoke, and document a past of horror. In this elegantly written and structured book, Hansen-Glucklich (Univ. of Mary Washington) focuses on three distinct museums: that at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. As befits their locations, the architecture of each embraces a different mission: experience and redemption in Jerusalem, absence in Berlin, universality in Washington. In each instance, the museums serve the twin goals of education and commemoration. But they should be encountered with a critical eye. Hansen-Glucklich quotes James Young: "Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure." What do the museums show people, and what do they fail to show? Why? Memorialization tells us as much about the present as about the past. All libraries serving students engaged in Holocaust studies should acquire this challenging book. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.

--C. P. Vincent, Keene State College

19. Rubenfeld, Sheldon and Susan Benedict. Human subjects research after the Holocaust. Springer, 2014. 308p index afp ISBN 9783319057019 cloth, $139.00; ISBN 9783319057026 ebook, $109.00

Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above. Reviewed in CHOICE March 2015 vol. 52 no. 07

The Holocaust and subsequent Nuremberg Code are often understood as having a momentous impact on codified protections for human research subjects. This work, edited by Rubenfeld and Benedict (both, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing), illustrates how limiting such an understanding can be. Important and unique contributions include autobiographical writings of individuals who were health care professionals or human subjects during the Nazi period and sections highlighting distinctive involvement of nursing in Nazi practices. Other chapters address specific topics such as the ethics of using data from Nazi experiments, evidence of violations of research ethics pre- and post-Nuremberg, and the subsequent steps that were necessary before the US adopted uniform ethical

standards for research on human subjects. One could easily argue with the claim in the foreword that this is the definitive “examination of the research conducted by German scientists during the reign of the Nazi party”; many chapters rely strongly on secondary sources, and the focus is primarily on the US. However, the book makes many valuable and previously little-known contributions to the understanding of relationships between medicine and research during the Nazi period and ethical implications for today. Summing Up: Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above.

--M. D. Lagerwey, Western Michigan University

Copyright 2015 American Library Association

20. Goda, Norman J. W. Jewish histories of the Holocaust: new transnational approaches, ed. Berghahn Books, 2014. 305p bibl index afp ISBN 9781782384410 cloth, $110.00

Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Reviewed in CHOICE April 2015 vol. 52 no. 08

This collection of historiographical essays endeavors to introduce specialists and general readers to the polyphony of Holocaust writings. The volume consists of 15 chapters organized into five sections: theoretical considerations, approaches to Jewish leadership, uses of testimony and experience, self-help and resistance, and aftermath—politics, aesthetics, and memory. In his introduction, editor Goda argues that during the last 20 years, Holocaust history has become more Jewish and that the chapters, each in its own way, represent the road signs of that change. In the new history, research has been redirected from the perpetrator to the victims, and the goal is to find the authentic Jewish voice. As a consequence, personal diaries, note books, and memoirs have gained a status that traditional historians have not previously imparted to them. Good index and select bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.

--A. Ezergailis, Ithaca College

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21. Smilovitsky, Leonid. Jewish life in Belarus: the final decade of the Stalin regime (1944-53). Central European University, 2014. 327p bibl index ISBN 9789633860250 cloth, $60.00

Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. Reviewed in CHOICE May 2015 vol. 52 no. 09

This remarkable contribution to Soviet and Jewish historiography reveals a largely unknown chapter: the stubbornly courageous attempts by surviving Belarusian Jews to preserve their Jewish religious and cultural identity in the face of the Soviet regime’s concerted effort to suppress Jewish identity as well as any explicit references to the annihilation of over 80 percent of Jewish Belarusians during the Holocaust. Fewer than 200,000 Jews remained after the Soviets drove the Germans out in 1944. With extensive use of Belarusian archives, including records of the secret police and interviews and correspondence

with hundreds of Belarusian émigrés living in Israel and the US, Smilovitsky (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) has written a carefully detailed study of Belarusian Jews' daily struggles to live as Jews during the final decade of Stalin’s reign. The author also makes use of the very large and growing library of research and memoirs recently published in Russian and Belarusian. This is a great work of creative, careful scholarship that tells a tragic story of stubborn courage in the final years of Stalin’s reign—a sad tale that yet inspires. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.

--R. M. Shapiro, Brooklyn College

22. Grodin, Michael A. Jewish medical resistance in the Holocaust. Berghahn Books, 2014. 308p bibl index afp ISBN 9781782384175 cloth, $110.00

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. CHOICE June 2015 vol. 52 no. 10

In recent years, the concept of resistance during the Holocaust has been broadened to include much more than armed resistance. This work, edited by Grodin (Boston Univ. School of Public Health), fits well within this more comprehensive interpretation, enhancing readers' understanding of resistance while providing unique and valuable evidence about the often-overlooked contributions of health care providers. Grodin deliberately included chapters on resistance in ghettos and concentration camps, ranging from individual and cultural defiance to organized armed conflict; some provide first-person accounts of health care providers (primarily physicians) who were active in the resistance, and others provide scholarly analysis. The 20 chapters in this four-part volume are well researched, based extensively on primary sources, and highly readable. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding more about resistance to the Holocaust and the complex roles that medicine played in defying the genocidal intentions of the “Final Solution.” Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.

--M. D. Lagerwey, Western Michigan University

23. Jockusch, Laura. Collect and record!: Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe. Oxford, 2012. 320p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199764556, $74.00

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE April 2013 vol. 50 no. 08

Jockusch (Hebrew Univ., Israel) documents the first steps in the evolution of Holocaust history. As soon as they had left the camps, Jews who survived the Holocaust in various regions of Europe used various means to begin documenting Jewish life before, during, and after the catastrophe brought

on by the Nazi regime. In the main, the first efforts consisted of personal recollection and eyewitness accounts. From the start, there were differences in aims among the collectors: some strove to satisfy memories of their family or shtetl, others wrote academic histories, yet others prepared data for legal action. Although there was an attempt to see the Holocaust as a pan-European event, the first accumulation of information broke down by regions. The main ones were in France, Poland, and the displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy. In due time, Holocaust studies reached academies and lands that were not directly involved in the Holocaust: the UK, the US, and Israel. This is a historiographical study documenting the birth of a new field of study, and as such will be of interest mostly to those who pursue Holocaust topics. Well documented and written; competent index and bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--A. Ezergailis, emeritus, Ithaca College

24. Hicks, Jeremy. First films of the Holocaust: Soviet cinema and the genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946. Pittsburgh, 2012. 300p bibl filmography index afp ISBN 9780822962243 pbk, $28.95

Outstanding Title! OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES, 2013 Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE April 2013 vol. 50 no. 08

Words like "pioneering" and "foundational" aptly describe Hicks's extraordinary account of the long-forgotten but historically important corpus of Soviet documentary and fiction films about Nazi atrocities. All were made just before to just after WW II. The films include The Defeat of the Germans near Moscow (1942), which, somewhat shortened and shown under the title Moscow Strikes Back, won the American Oscar for best documentary film in 1943. Less well-known are Professor Mamlock (1938), Herbert Rappoport's popular screen version of a Friedrich Wolf play dramatizing the persecution of German Jews in the years prior to the war, and Boris Barnet's short A Priceless Head (1942), which was the first attempt to depict the fate of Soviet Jews under Nazi occupation. Hicks (Queen Mary Univ., UK) discusses many more films, carefully mapping their production history and thoughtfully assessing their candor about the Nazis' "Judeocide." In general, Soviet policy did not permit significant attempts to depict or explain Nazi hatred of Jews; most filmmakers remained content to hint at the mass murder directed particularly at Soviet citizens of Jewish origin. Splendid archival research and an excellent filmography make this a superb resource for students of history as well as film. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.--S. Liebman, emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center

25. Stone, Dan .The Holocaust and historical methodology. Berghahn Books, 2012. 323p bibl index afp ISBN 9780857454928, $95.00

Highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals. CHOICE April 2013 vol. 50 no. 08

This volume in the "Making Sense of History" series is a collection of essays representative of recent analyses of the systematic extermination of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. These approaches supersede

the earlier historiographical controversy between the "intentionalists" and "functionalists": had Hitler already in the 1920s intended to exterminate the Jews, or was mass murder a consequence of a series of ad hoc decisions when WW II was underway? Most of the thoughtful papers, by scholars in Britain, Germany, Canada, the US, Israel, and elsewhere, seek to put the Holocaust in a broad cultural European and even worldwide perspective. The pivotal figure is Saul Friedländer, whose acclaimed books on the Holocaust incorporated testimonies of the victims together with meticulous analysis of the methods of extermination. Another important theme focuses on historians' moral sensitivity to what is now recognized as a paradigmatic genocide, in relation to dispassionate scholarly objectivity in evaluating sources and the literary qualities of historical narrative. Far too sophisticated for most college students, the collection is for their teachers and for historians involved in the study of 20th-century European and Jewish history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals.--R. M. Seltzer, Hunter College, CUNY

26. Roskies, David G. Holocaust literature: a history and guide. Brandeis, 2013, (c2012). 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781611683578, $85.00; ISBN 9781611683585 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781611683592 ebook, $34.99

Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE July 2013 vol. 50 no. 11

In the first half of this book, Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary) and Diamant (NYU) classify Holocaust literature in four categories/periods. The authors divide the first, 1938-45, into two subcategories: writing from the "free zone" (US, Britain, Soviet Union, Mandatory Palestine), which warned of worldwide apathy toward Nazism, and writing of the "Jew-zone" (e.g., Poland), works valorizing resistance, songs of bereavement, diaries, ghetto reportage, and search for analogies in Hebraic history for the unfolding disaster. In the second period, 1945-60, "communal memory," writing concerns itself with liberation, eyewitness accounts, stories of heroes/martyrs, and sacred memories. "Provisional memory," 1960-85, is marked by stories using an array of literary devices, tales of survival, and exploration of the issue of responsibility for the Holocaust and its impact on children of survivors. The last, 1985-present, is "authorized memory": English became the main language of the Holocaust, eastern Europe became more accessible, and one finds the last stories of the survivors and their haunted children. The second half of the book offers helpful synopses of 100 Holocaust stories, arranged according to the four categories. This book should be especially useful for those trying to get an overview of the development of Holocaust literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.--W. Lagerwey, Elmhurst College

27. Aly, Götz. Why the Germans? why the Jews?: envy, race hatred, and the prehistory of the Holocaust, tr. by Jefferson Chase. 1st English ed. Metropolitan Books/H. Holt, 2014. 290p bibl index ISBN 9780805097009 cloth, $30.00; ISBN 9780805097047 ebook, $14.99

Recommended. All levels/libraries. CHOICE January 2015 vol. 52 no. 05

This thought-provoking essay by a major Holocaust scholar tackles two central questions regarding the Holocaust’s genesis. Without mincing words, Aly makes some sweeping generalizations about the ingrained submissiveness of Germans, their proclivity toward the safety of collectives rather than individual risk taking, their mental dullness, and their mean-spirited envy of Jewish success, especially in adapting to the demands of modern life. He refuses to let ordinary Germans off the hook by fastening responsibility on “the Nazis” or “Hitler’s henchmen” or “fanatic racist ideologues.” Aly’s survey of German history from 1800 to 1933 seeks to explain the “criminal collaboration between the people and their political leadership.” This is what made the Holocaust possible. Many will find the largely anecdotal evidence backing these judgments unpersuasive, no matter the great variety of sources from which they are drawn (including the author’s own family archive stretching back several generations). Aly allows few exceptions to his argument and does not seek to explain the ready collaboration by other nations with other histories in the genocide of the Jews. A problematic but meaningful book. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. --R. S. Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago

28. Ingrao, Christian. Believe and destroy: intellectuals in the SS war machine, tr. by Andrew Brown. Polity, 2013. 399p bibl index ISBN 9780745660264, $29.95

Recommended. Graduate students/faculty. Reviewed in CHOICE January 2014 vol. 51 no. 05

That Himmler's SS consisted not only of sadist thugs but also attracted academically trained intellectuals who served as SS leaders contributed to the racist, nationalist, and imperialist Nazi ideology and to the conquest of and terror in the East that numerous German scholars have described since the 1990s. Not all of these studies have been translated into English; thus, this book by Ingrao (Institut de l'histoire du temps présent, France) is a welcome addition to the existing literature on the Third Reich. Organized as a collective biography, the book first traces the youth of these men during and after WW I and in the revisionist, bellicose, and racist climate of German interwar academia. The second part explores these careers until 1939, paying particular attention to the motives and settings that encouraged them to them join the SS. The third and major part illuminates vividly--and depressively--the genocidal motivations and actions of the SS intellectuals during the Holocaust. While not providing new insights or arguments, nor engaging in recent anthropologically, sociologically, or psychologically informed approaches to the Holocaust perpetrators and their emotional and moral conditions, the book is a useful survey on a major part of the SS machinery. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.--T. Kühne, Clark University

29. Himka John-Paul, and Joanna Beata Michlic. Bringing the dark past to light: the reception of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe. Nebraska, 2013. 778p index afp ISBN 9780803225442, $50.00

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Reviewed in CHOICE January 2014 vol. 51 no. 05

This compendium of 20 essays plus a longish introduction and a conclusion is more about the Holocaust in the realm of memory than about the brutality of the event itself. The book may represent the approximate state of knowledge about the Holocaust and attitudes toward its victims in the postcommunist countries of Eastern Europe. Missing is some notice about the footprint that the occupying powers left about the Holocaust to the locals. As it is, the volume is more informative about the collaborationist problem than the machinery of murder that the Nazis brought to their eastern neighbors. Two dominating questions permeate the volume: What have you done to commemorate Holocaust victims? Have you come to terms with the Holocaust? The conclusion is written by a contemporary meta-historian, Omer Bartov, who critiques and summarizes the volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --A. Ezergailis, emeritus, Ithaca College

30. Clifford, Rebecca. Commemorating the Holocaust: the dilemmas of remembrance in France and Italy. Oxford, 2013. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780199679812, $125.00

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Reviewed in CHOICE June 2014 vol. 51 no. 10

The Holocaust occupies a primary place in European history, but when did that recognition occur? Clifford (Swansea Univ., UK) addresses this question for France and Italy in the context of their individual negotiations of their experiences of collaboration and occupation and the need for national unity and identity in a post-Cold War world and a transnational European reality. As late as 1993, France chose July 16, the date of the 1944 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of the Jews of Paris, as France's official day of commemoration of the Holocaust. Remarkably, it was Europe's first such formal act, and was followed by Germany in 1996, Sweden in 1999, and Italy's "Day of Memory" in 2000. This study is positioned in the theory of commemoration of the past as a construct of a metaphysical present and as a centralizing agency of the nation-state. Provocatively, the author questions whether the political process speaks more about contemporary matters such as racism, ideologies of the Right, and national identity in a time of cosmopolitan globalization than about the history of the Holocaust itself. A rich theoretical exposition on a major historical verity. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston

31. Wagner, Gottfried. Unwanted legacies: sharing the burden of post-genocide generations, by Gottfried Wagner and Abraham J. Peck; tr. of Gotfried Wagner's manuscript by Ivan Fehrenbach. Texas Tech, 2014. 410p index afp ISBN 9780896728349, $85.00; ISBN 9780896728356 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780896728363 ebook, contact publisher for price

Recommended. Faculty/specialists. CHOICE September 2014 vol. 52 no. 01

Abraham Peck (b. 1946), the son of two Holocaust survivors and a well-known Jewish American Holocaust historian, and Gottfried Wagner (b. 1947), the Roman Catholic great-grandson of the

composer Richard Wagner (whom Hitler adored and whose family supported Hitler's dictatorship), have an unusual friendship. The two first (and major) sections of their book present autobiographic accounts of the two friends, in which each of them tracks his family history and relation to Nazism and the Holocaust back to his grandparents' generation. The memoir of Peck, especially, whose parents met and married in the Łódz Ghetto, survived the Holocaust, and emigrated to the US, is an illuminating piece that intertwines in a highly readable way the author's family history, his academic career, and the dialogue with Gottfried Wagner (who had broken with his family and challenged its Nazi affiliation) since their first meeting at a 1991 conference on the Holocaust and German church struggle. The vivid autobiographical accounts, which make the book recommendable, are complemented by less original essays reflecting on the possibilities of reconciliation between Jews and Germans after the Holocaust, something craved in the Christian tradition and perpetrator society, but denied in the Jewish tradition. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty/specialists. --T. Kühne, Clark University

32. Rachel Feldhay Brenner. The ETHICS of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries From Warsaw 1939-1945. Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2014. ix + 198 pp. ISBN 978-0810129757. Hardcover $72.

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33. Marianne Hirsch. The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 305 pp. ISBN 978-0231156523. Hardcover $90.

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34. Berel Lang. Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Jewish Lives) Yale University Press 978-0300137231 2013. Hardcover. $21

Reviewed in: Nation Date: December 16, 2013

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35. Friedman, Anita. Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto, Found at Auschwitz in 1945. Harper. Sept. 2015. 288p. ISBN 9780062389688. Hardcover $35. Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on September 15, 2015.

Reviewed in: Library Journal. 4/15/2015, Vol. 140 Issue 7, p62-62. 1/7p.

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36. Laub, Michel translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Diary of the Fall. Other Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1590516515. Hardcover. $16 Reviewed in: Commonweal. 3/20/2015, Vol. 142 Issue 6, p26-28


37. Clementi, Federica K. Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & HBI Series on Jewish Women). Brandeis, 2013. ISBN: 978-1611684759. Hardcover. $58

Reviewed in: Women's Review of Books. 2015, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p14-16. 3p.


38. Simon, Marie Jalowicz. UNDERGROUND in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany (Book). 2015. 978-0316382090. $21. To be published in Sept.

Reviewed in: Maclean's. 6/22/2015, Vol. 128 Issue 24, p56-57. 2p

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39. Stein, Arlene. Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness. Oxford Univ. Sept. 2014. 256p. notes. index. ISBN 9780199733583. $27.95. SOC SCI.

VERDICT This book is a result of decades of research and interviews with children of survivors. Academics as well as those with a personal interest in the history and sociology of the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors will find value in this research Reviewed in: Library Journal. 9/1/2014, Vol. 139 Issue 14, p128-128. 1p.

Holocaust survivor to write a complex sociological and psychological exploration of what it is to be a descendant of a survivor in the 21st century. The author describes the slow rise of Holocaust consciousness, which emerged in the 1970s as children of survivors persuaded their parents to turn "private pains into public stories" instead of blocking out the past as some had done previously. While Stein's work is academic in tone, it relates her memories of childhood experiences, both good

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and bad, dealing with her survivor father and her own explorations of identity. VERDICT This book is a result of decades of research and interviews with children of survivors. Academics as well as those with a personal interest in the history and sociology of the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors will find value in this research.--Felicia J. Williamson, Sam Houston State Univ. Lib., Huntsville, TX

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40. Pilecki, Captain Witold. The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. Aquila Polonica, 2012. ISBN: 978-1607720096. Hardcover. $37

Reviewed in: Military Review. Nov/Dec2013, Vol. 93 Issue 6, p88-96. 9p. 5 Black and White Photographs.

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41. Dov Kulka, Otto. Translated by Ralph Mandel. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination.Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 127. 48 illustrations. Cloth $23.95. ISBN 978-0674072893.

Reviewed in: Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK). Jun2014, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p459-461. 3p.

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42. Ofer, Dalia. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: RESETTLEMENT, MEMORIES, IDENTITIES. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0857452474 Hardcover- used only.

Reviewed in: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 32, Number 3, Spring 2014, pp. 146-148

Holocaust Survivors brings together a wealth of scholarly expertise to an area of inquiry that deserves an important place in the study of the Holocaust. The essays collectively shine a bright light on little-known aspects of survivors’ early postwar years. In doing so, the authors have expanded and complicated our thinking and provoked questions for future research.

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43. Wiese, Christian. Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. 370 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1441189370. $130

Reviewed in: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Spring2013, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p159-161. 4p.

This readable and stimulating collection is notable for the consistently high quality of the essays. Scholars and graduate students will find it a useful overview of the state of Holocaust studies, stimulating debate and informing research agendas.

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44. Freeman, Jay. A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives during World War II. Pegasus 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1605986920. $19

Reviewed in: Booklist. 2/1/2015, Vol. 111 Issue 11, p12-12. 1/6p.


45. ROSENFELD, Alvin H. THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST. Indiana University Press 2013. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0253011978. $22

Reviewed in: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Winter2013, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p139-141. 4p


46. Ryback, Timothy. Hitler's First Victims: The Beginning of the Holocaust. Oct. 2014. 288p. Knopf, $26.95 (9780385352918).

Reviewed in: Booklist. 8/1/2014, Vol. 110 Issue 22, p21-22. 2p.








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