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Primary Sources: The Holocaust

Auschwitz. Episode 1, Surprising beginnings

Auschwitz. Episode 1, Surprising beginnings

Online Sources: Auschwitz

'I was 90% dead': Henri's story of surviving Auschwitz
Abe L. Plotkin Collection (liberation of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp) (Univ. of Scranton) Materials from Abe L. Plotkin's United States Army experience in Germany during the last weeks of World War II and the ensuing months, including photographs taken of the Ohrdruf concentration camp and of Holocaust survivors (displaced persons), as well as correspondence to and from Plotkin as the war was ending and after liberation of the camps. The collection also includes materials related to Plotkin’s volunteer work as a Holocaust educator and some material from his involvement with Allied Services, a rehabilitation hospital.
The Auschwitz Album
Auschwitz Album May 1944 (Yad Vashem) The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns.
Before They Perished: Deportation of Jews from Zaglebie Dabrowskie to Auschwitz Apr 1942-Jul 1945 A box with a unique photography collection was found in the ruins of Birkenau after liberation, probably in the area known as Canada, where the luggage of Jews who were murdered in the gas chambers was sorted. Hundreds of faces: smiling, happy, in deep thought, playful, melancholic. Weddings, births, holiday vacations with family and friends. A world that is gone forever immortalized on film. The world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust. Most of the approximately 2,400 photos immortalize families of Jews and Zaglebie: from Bedzin, Sosnowiec and the surrounding area.
Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys
Testimony on the gassing at Auschwitz

Book Sources: Auschwitz

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Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account by Miklós Nyiszli; Tibere Kramer (Translator); Richard Seaver (Translator); Bruno Bettelheim (Introduction by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 N95 1993
ISBN: 1559702028
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 N6 1985
ISBN: 0807841609
Publication Date: 1986-08-30
The Auschwitz album : a book based upon an album discovered by a concentration camp survivor, Lili Meier by Peter Hellman; Lilly Meier
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 A9
ISBN: 0394519329
Publication Date: 1981-11-12
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo; Rosette C. Lamont (Translator); Lawrence A. Langer (Introduction by)
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection D805.P7 D41613 1995
ISBN: 0300062087
Publication Date: 1995-04-26
The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery by Witold Pilecki; Jarek Garlinski (Translator); Norman Davies (Introduction by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 P554 2012
ISBN: 1607720108
Publication Date: 2012-04-30
The beautiful days of my youth : my six months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ana Novac; George L. Newman (Translator)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 Z8713 1997
ISBN: 0805050183
Publication Date: 1997-09-15
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein (Editor); Toni Morrison (Introduction by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection PQ4872.E8 A2 2015 Holdings: v.1-v.3
ISBN: 9780871404565
Publication Date: 2015-09-28
Death books from Auschwitz : remnants by Jerzy Debski; Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim-Brzezinka Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 D35 1995 Holdings: v.1-v.3
ISBN: 3598112726
Publication Date: 1995-06-20
Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss; Steven Paskuly (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 H6713 1992
ISBN: 0879757140
Publication Date: 1992-04-01
The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes by John Mendelsohn; Donald S. Detwiler
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 H655 Holdings: v.1-v.18
ISBN: 1616190000
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl; Phyllis Lassner (Introduction by); Danny M. Cohen (Introduction by); Eva Hoffman (Afterword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 P46 1987
ISBN: 149858392X
The meeting an Auschwitz survivor confronts an SS physician by Bernhard Frankfurter (Editor); Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz (Translator)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780815606048
Publication Date: 2000-02-28
Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes by Roy D. Tanenbaum
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9781895176742
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Kornreich Gelissen; Heather Dune MacAdam
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 0807070718
Publication Date: 1996-10-30
Return to Auschwitz : the remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust by Kitt Hart
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 H37 1982
ISBN: 0689112661
Publication Date: 1983-03-01
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 L4413 1993
ISBN: 0684826801
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias
Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780471163657
We wept without tears : testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz by Gideon Greif
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780300131987
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.P7 L4413 2008
ISBN: 9789562915298
Publication Date: 2007-08-01

Book Sources - Dachau

Concentration camp Dachau, 1933-1945 by Jakusch, Ruth.; Distel, Barbara.; Distel, Barbara, ed.; Jakusch, Ruth, ed.; International Dachau Committee.
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.5.D32 C66 1978c
ISBN: 9783874905282
Legacies of Dachau by Harold Marcuse
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.G3 .M353 200
ISBN: 9780521552042
Publication Date: 2001-03-22
Dachau 29 April, 1945 by Sam Dann (Editor); Joseph I. Lieberman (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0896723917
Publication Date: 1998-04-15
The last survivor : legacies of Dachau by Timothy W. Ryback
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD901.D13 R93 2000
ISBN: 0679758267
Publication Date: 2000-11-14
The society of terror : inside the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps by Paul Neurath; Nico Stehr; Christian Fleck
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.5.D33 N49 2005
ISBN: 9781594510953
Publication Date: 2005-03-26
Where the birds never sing : the true story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the liberation of Dachau by Jack Sacco
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D769.363 92nd .S33 2003
ISBN: 0060096659
Publication Date: 2003-09-30
Hell before their very eyes : American soldiers liberate concentration camps in Germany, April 1945 by John C. McManus
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.G3 M4297 2015
ISBN: 9781421417646
Publication Date: 2015-11-16

Unforgettable Face

Unforgettable Face - Dachau

Unforgettable Face

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