LibGuides: Primary Sources: The Holocaust: Auschwitz

Online Sources: Auschwitz

Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys
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Includes first person video testimonies, interactive map, glossary, photos and profiles. The site is provided by the USC Shoah Foundation.
The Auschwitz Album
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"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."
'I was 90% dead': Henri's story of surviving Auschwitz
Testimony on the gassing at Auschwitz
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Presents the text of eyewitness testimony at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, given on January 28, 1946, regarding the Nazis' gassing of Jews and others in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

Book Sources: Auschwitz

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Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
Call Number: D805.P6 N913
ISBN: 1559702028
Memoirs of a Jewish doctor forced to work with Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away by Robert Jan van Pelt (Editor)
Call Number: D805.5.A96 A858 2019
ISBN: 0789213311
Auschwitz : True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Call Number: D805.P7 N6 1985
ISBN: 0807841609
Auschwitz: Voices from the Death Camp by James M. Deem
Call Number: D805.5.A96 D44 2012
ISBN: 1598453467
The Auschwitz Album by Peter Hellman
Call Number: Oversize D805.P6 A87
ISBN: 0394519329
A Book based upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier
"A powerful visual presentation of the extermination process at Auschwitz is viewed through candid photographs of its victims."
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Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo; Rosette C. Lamont (Translator); Lawrence A. Langer (Introduction by)
Call Number: D805.P7 D41613 1995
ISBN: 0300062087
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki; Jarek Garlinski (Translator); Norman Davies (Introduction by)
Call Number: D805.P7 P55 2012
ISBN: 1607720108
The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ana Novac; George L. Newman (Translator)
Call Number: D805.P7 Z8713 1997
ISBN: 0805050183
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein (Editor); Toni Morrison (Introduction by)
Call Number: PQ4872.E8 A2 2015
ISBN: 9780871404565
Death Books from Auschwitz : Remnants by State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Call Number: D805.P7 Z8 A97, D42, 1995 V.1
ISBN: 3598112726
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolph Höss
Call Number: D805.P7 H6713 1996
ISBN: 0306806983
edited by Steven Paskuly ; translated by Andrew Pollinger ; foreword by Primo Levi.
The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes by John Mendelsoh
Call Number: D804.3 .H6496 2010
ISBN: 1616190000
Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz by Irmgard von zur Mühlen
Call Number: Media D805.5.A96 H65 2005 DVD
ISBN: 881482301393
"... contains all the film footage of Auschwitz which was filmed ... between January 27th & February 28th 1945 ..."
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl; Phyllis Lassner (Introduction by); Danny M. Cohen (Introduction by); Eva Hoffman (Afterword by)
Call Number: D805.5.A96 P47 2019
ISBN: 149858392X
Letter to My Children : From Romania to America via Auschwitz by Rudolph Tessler
Call Number: DS135.R72 V577 1999
ISBN: 0826212441
The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician by Bernhard Frankfurter
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Call Number: Online - Ebsco
ISBN: 9780815606048
Translated from the German and annotated by Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz.
Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes by Roy D. Tanenbaum
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9781895176742
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780807070710
Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart
Call Number: D805.P7 H37 1982
ISBN: 0689112661
The Remarkable Story of a Girl who Survived the Holocaust
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Call Number: D805.P7 L4413 1996
ISBN: 0684826801
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780471163657
We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz by Gideon Greif
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Call Number: Onlinr - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780300131987
Where Is God? : Auschwitz-Birkenau to Dachau 1942 to 1945 by Samuel Althaus; Andrew M. Casey (Editor)
Call Number: DS135.P63 A48 2000
ISBN: 0971217203
Youth Destroyed-The Nazi Camps: Primary Sources from the Holocaust by Ann Byers
Call Number: D804.48 .B948 2010
ISBN: 0766032736

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