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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives

Here are entered works consisting of personal accounts of the Jewish Holocaust. Works on persons who died during the Holocaust of 1939-1945 are entered under Holocaust victims. Works on persons who survived the Holocaust of 1939-1945, with emphasis on their lives since 1945, are entered under Holocaust survivors.

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• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Personal narratives

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic -- Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives

• Shattered Crystals (revised electronic edition, 2009), by Mia Amalia Kanner and Eve Rosenzweig Kugler (multiple formats with commentary at shatteredcrystals.net)
• Holocaust Encyclopedia (electronic edition, 2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (illustrated HTML at ushmm.org)
• The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir (c1997), by Benjamin Jacobs (HTML at Nizkor)
• We Survived: The Stories of Fourteen of the Hidden and Hunted of Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), ed. by Eric H. Boehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir, by Florence Mayer Lieblich (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (electronic edition), by Ellen Land-Weber (illustrated HTML at Humboldt)
• Commemorative observances for Days of remembrance (United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1985), by Eli Pfefferkorn and United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oral history interview guidelines, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1998), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dept. of Oral History (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Bronka Schneider, ed. by Erika Bourguignon and Barbara Hill Rigney (PDF at Ohio State)

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Childhood in Times of War: An Autobiography (1995), by Andrew Shlomo Salamon (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam, 1940-1945 (second edition; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2016), by Stan Rubens, contrib. by Ronny Rubens (PDF at unl.edu)

• And We Are Not Saved (New York: Philosophical Library, 1963), by David Wdowinski (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust (c2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Cover and maps: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 1: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 2: PDF at ushmm.org
• Feeling Alone, Again: The Growing Unease Among Germany's Jews (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2002), by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Yehuda Bauer (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The World Jewish Congress During the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, c2014), by Zohar Segev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex (Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979), by Dino A. Brugioni and Robert G. Poirier (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Search (Farmington, PA: Bruderhof Foundation, c2005), by Josef Ben-Eliezer (PDF in Australia)
• Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989), by Jean-Claude Pressac, trans. by Peter Moss (HTML with commentary at phdn.org)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, ed. by Alex Grobman, Daniel Landes, and Sybil Milton (illustrated HTML at wiesenthal.com)
• Ayduth Lachayim, Witness to Life: Holocaust Survivors in the Cleveland Jewish Community: Presented at the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Israel, June 15-18, 1981 (Cleveland: Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee, Jewish Community Federation, 1981) (page images in multiple parts at Ohio State Library)
• No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1973), by Saul S. Friedman (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1972), by Frederick B. Chary (page images at Pitt)
• The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland: Note Addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and Other Documents (New York: Pub. for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affars by Roy, ca. 1942), by Poland Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Auschwitz Alphabet, by Jonathan Wallace (HTML at spectacle.org)
• Pius XII and the Holocaust: A Reader, by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.) (HTML at cin.org)
• Report to the President (The Commission : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States. President's Commission on the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance, April 18-25, 1993 : fifty years ago, revolt amid the darkness : planning guide for commemorative programs. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Days of Remembrance Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expressing the sense of Congress that public schools should be encouraged to include a study of the Holocaust in their history curriculums hearing before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Con. Res. 121, hearing held in Washington, DC on May 6, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by Secondary United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance, 1984. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Days of Remembrance Committee, 1984), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Days of Remembrance Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A National commitment to remembrance : official groundbreaking, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : Days of Remembrance 1986, national civic commemoration. (United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1986), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance, April 3-10, 1994 : fifty years ago, darkness before dawn : planning guide for commemorative programs. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annotated videography. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994), by Marcia Sabol and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance, April 22-29, 1990 : remembering the voices that were silenced : planning guide. (Washington : U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, [1990], 1990), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jehovah's Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi era (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002), by Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Various bills and resolutions : markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3887, H.R. 275, H.R. 1746, H.R. 3890, H.R. 2705, H.R. 2949, H.R. 3320, H.R. 3912, H.R. 3913, H.Res. 435, H. Res. 550, H. Res. 573, H. Res. 726, H. Res. 740, and H. Res. 747, H. Con. Res. 234, and H. Con. Res. 236, October 23, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the President (The Commission : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1979), by United States. President's Commission on the Holocaust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department of Education's refusal to fund Holocaust curriculum : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, October 19, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legacies of the Holocaust : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, April 5, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handicapped, victims of the Nazi era, 1933-19 [i.e. 1945] (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuals : victims of the Nazi era, 1933-19 (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinti and Roma, victims of the Nazi era, 1933-19 [i.e. 1945] (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The status of insurance restitution for Holocaust victims and their heirs : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, November 8, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Searching for Dr. Josef Mengele : hearings before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, to inquire into Dr. Mengele's whereabouts and on the role of the U.S. Army, if he was in custody of the U.S. government, February 19; March 19; and August 2, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust : a Department of Defense guide for commemorative observance. (Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1988), by International Center for Holocaust Studies (U.S.) and United States. Dept. of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homosexuals, victims of the Nazi era, 1933-19 [i.e. 1945] (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Holocaust : die Judenvernichtung im Hitlerreich (Verlag für globalhumanistische Bildung, 1900), by Max Meier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The National Learning Center presents "Remember the children" : an exhibit for children about the Holocaust : Capital Children's Museum, 800 Third Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. ([U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council], 1988), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rescue & goodness : reflections on the Holocaust. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993), by Philip P. Hallie and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the dead and the living we must bear witness (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, 1990), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust : between activism and restraint (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014., 2014), by Zohar Segev (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to Provide Redress for Inadequate Restitution of Assets Seized by the United States Government During World War II Which Belonged to Victims of the Holocaust, and for Other Purposes. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust : a Department of Defense guide for annual commemorative observances (Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1989), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council, International Center for Holocaust Studies (U.S.), and United States Department of Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of remembrance 1983 : national Holocaust commemoration ceremony : presentation of the key to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Education Center. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, 1983), by United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)

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