Holocaust: Library Resources

Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich relied on many thousands of ordinary men and women who made the Nazi machine work on a daily basis - members of the killing squads, guards accompanying the trains to the extermination camps, civilian employees of the SS, the drivers of gas trucks, and the personnel of death factories such as Auschwitz. Why did these ordinary people collaborate and willingly become mass murderers? The perpetrators acted out of avariety of motives - a sense of duty, obedience to authority, thirst for career, and a blind faith in anti-Semitic ideology, among others.

This work is a compilation of photos, maps and explanatory text tracing the ruthlessness of Nazism through the systematic murder of over six million Jews and other undesirables.

This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.

The Unwanted is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, interviews, and visa records, Michael Dobbs provides an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s.

Survivors tell stories of life under the Nazis, in the ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps, and they recount the mixed emotions that accompanied liberation and persisted in the years following the Holocaust.

The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.