Eastern European Jewish History

• Gitelman, Zvi Y. Bitter legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

• Goldstein, Phyllis. A Convenient Hatred the History of Antisemitism.  Brookline, MA: Facing History and Ourselves, 2012.

• Haumann, Heiko. A History of East European Jews.  Budapest: Central European University Press, 2002.

• Katz, Steven T. The Shtetl: New Evaluations.  New York: New York University Press, 2007.

• Petersen, Hans Christian, and Samuel Salzborn, eds. Antisemitism in Eastern Europe. edited by Samuel Salzborn. Vol. 5, Politische Kulturforschung. Peter Lang GmbH: Frankfurt am Main, 2010.

• Pinchuk, Ben-Cion. Shtetl Jews under Soviet Rule: Eastern Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust.  Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1991.

• Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation.  Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

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General Holocaust in Eastern Europe

• Adelman, Jonathan R., ed. Hitler and His Allies in World War II. New York: Routledge, 2007.

• Arad, Yitzhak. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

• Arad, Yitzhak, Schmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, eds. The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign against the Jews, July 1941-January 1943. New York, N.Y.: Holocaust Library, 1989.

• Beorn, Waitman Wade. The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution.  London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.

• Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.  New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.

• Corni, Gustavo. Hitler's Ghettos: Voices from a Beleaguered Society, 1939-1944.  London : Arnold: New York, 2002.

• David-Fox, Michael, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin, eds. The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

• Dean, Martin, and Geoffrey P. Megargee, eds. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos II: Ghettos in Occupied German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Vol. A. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

• Dean, Martin, and Geoffrey P. Megargee, eds. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos II: Ghettos in Occupied German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Vol. B. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

• Desbois, Patrick. The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

• Dobroszycki, Lucjan Gurock Jeffrey S. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Studies and Sources on the Destruction

• of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

• Haynes, Rebecca, and Martyn Rady, eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2011.

• Hedgepeth, Sonja M., and Rochelle G. Saidel, eds. Sexual Violence against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2010.

• Matthäus, Jürgen, and Frank Bajohr, eds. The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust, Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

• Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe.  New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

• Michman, Dan. The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• Rabinbach, Anson, and Sander L Gilman, eds. The Third Reich Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

• Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust.  New York: Vintage Books, 2003.

• Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin.  New York: Basic Books, 2012.

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Third Reich History

• Böhler, Jochen, and Robert Gerwarth. The Waffen-SS: A European History. First edition ed.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

• Browning, Christopher R., and Jürgen Matthäus. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

• Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution.  Jerusalem: International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, 2008.

• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.

• Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Lower, Wendy. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields.  New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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War in the East

• Bartov, Omer. Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

• Beorn, Waitman Wade. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Heer, Hannes. War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II, 1941-1944.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.

• Kay, Alex J., Jeff Rutherford, and David Stahel, eds. Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012.

• Megargee, Geoffrey P. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

• Shepherd, Ben. War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.

• Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

• Wette, Wolfram. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Camps

• Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka the Operation Reinhard Death Camps.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

• Browning, Christopher R. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.

• Dwork, Deborah, and R. J. van Pelt. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present. 1st ed.  New York: Norton, 1996.

• Mailänder, Elissa, and Patricia Szobar. Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration

• Camp, 1942-1944.  East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2015.

• Montague, Patrick. Chełmno and the Holocaust: The History of Hitler's First Death Camp.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

• Rees, Laurence. Auschwitz: A New History.  New York: Public Affairs, 2005.

• Schelvis, Jules. Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Translated by Karin Dixon.  London: Bloomsbury in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007.

• Schüle, Annegret, and Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau. The Engineers of the Final Solution: Topf and Sons- Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens.  Weimar: Stiftung Gedamstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, 2005.

• Wittmann, Rebecca. Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Memoirs and Testimony

• Blatt, Thomas Toivi. From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival.  Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

• Czerniaków, Adam, Raul Hilberg, Stanislaw Staron, and Josef Kermisz. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. Translated by Stanislaw Staron.  New York: Stein and Day, 1979.

• Dobroszycki, Lucjan, ed. The Chronicle of the Łódź ghetto, 1941-1944. Abridged ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.

• Folkmann, Adolf, and Stefan Szende. The Promise Hitler Kept.  New York: Roy Publishers, 1945.

• Kaplan, Chaim. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan. Translated by Abraham I. Katsh.  New York, NY: Collier Books, 1973.

• Kessler, Edmund. The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler: Lwow, Poland, 1942-1944.  Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2010.

• Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity.  New York: Collier Books, 1993.

• Lower, Wendy, ed. The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia. Lanham: Altamira Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011.

• Redner, Ben Zion. A Jewish Policeman in Lwów: An Early Account 1941-1943. Translated by Jerzy Michalowicz.  Jerusalem: Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, 2015.

• Sakowicz, Kazimierz, and Yitzhak Arad. Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

• Sierakowiak, Dawid, Alan Adelson, and Kamil Turowski, eds. Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak. Cary, US: Oxford University Press (US), 2006.

• Tec, Nechama. In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

• Tory, Avraham, Martin Gilbert, and Dina Porat. Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

• Venezia, Shlomo, and Béatrice Prasquier. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz. Translated by Andrew Brown.  Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009.

• Wells, Leon Weliczker. The Janowska Road.  New York: MacMillan Company, 1963.

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Belarus

• Cohen, Laurie R. Smolensk under the Nazis : Everyday Life in Occupied Russia.  Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013.

• Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Minsk Ghetto, 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

• Shner-Nishmit, Sarah. The 51st Brigade: The History of the Jewish Partisan Group from the Slonim Ghetto. Translated by Judith Levi.  New York: JewishGen in cooperation with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, 2015.

• Tec, Nechama. Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Bulgaria

•  Chary, Frederick B. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.

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Hungary

• Braham, Randolph L. The Politics of Genocide the Holocaust in Hungary (Condensed Edition).  Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2000.

• Cesarani, David. Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary 1944.  Oxford; New York: Berg, 1997.

• Cole, Tim. Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

• Cornelius, Deborah S. Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. 1st ed.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

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Lithuania

• Senn, Alfred Erich. Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

• Sutton, Karen. The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania: Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941-1944.  Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2008.

• van Voren, Robert. Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania.  New York: Rodopi, 2011.

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Poland

• ​Bender, Sara. The Jews of Białystok during World War II and the Holocaust.  Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2008.

• Davies, Norman, and Antony Polonsky. Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

•  Engelking, Barbara, and Jacek Leociak. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City. Translated by Emma Harris.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

• Grabowski, Jan. Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013.

• Gross, Jan Tomasz. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

• Gross, Jan Tomasz. Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz- an Essay in Historical Interpretation.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.

• Gross, Jan Tomasz. Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Gross, Jan Tomasz. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

• Gutman, Israel United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

• Horwitz, Gordon J. Ghettostadt: Łódź and the making of a Nazi city.  Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

• Kassow, Samuel D. Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

• Kochanski, Halik. Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Matthäus, Jürgen, and Jochen Böhler, eds. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

• Michlic, Joanna B., and Antony Polonsky, eds. The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

• Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

• Winstone, Martin. The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. 2015.

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Romania

• Ancel, Jean. The History of the Holocaust in Romania.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

• Ancel, Jean. Prelude to mass murder: the pogrom in Iași, Romania, June 29, 1941 and thereafter. Translated by Fern Seckbach.  Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2013.

• Shapiro, Paul A., ed. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942: A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's

• Contested Borderlands. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2015.

• Wiesel, Elie, Tuvia Friling, Radu Ioanid, Mihail E. Ionescu, and L. Benjamin, eds. Final Report of the International

• Commission on the Holocaust in Romania. Bucharest: International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, 2004.

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Ukraine

• Bartov, Omer. Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine.  Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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• Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

• Brandon, Ray, and Wendy Lower, eds. The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

• Burds, Jeffrey. Holocaust in Rovno: A Massacre in Ukraine, November 1941.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Lower, Wendy. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

• Mick, Christoph. Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City.  West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2016.

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• Redlich, Shimon. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

• Vysotsky, A.F., A.L. Kopylenko, F.A. Lopushansky, and V.V. Sokolov, eds. Nazi Crimes in Ukraine, 1941-1944: Documents and Materials. Kiev: Naukova Dumka Publishers, 1987.

• Yones, Eliyahu. Smoke in the Sand: The Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939-1944.  Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2004.

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