Recommended Reading

Written from Hoffman's persepctive as the daughter of survivors, Hoffman explores the memory and legacy of the Holocaust. She explores in depth the the responsibilits of the second generation. Throughout the book, Hoffman asks provoking questions such as "what happens when we focus on 'memory' itself rather than its object".

An anthology of diaries written by children living in Nazi-occupied Europe. It includes the writings of twenty-three boys and girls aged ten through eighteen.

Horn’s main insight is that much of the way we’ve developed to remember and narrate Jewish history is, at best, self-deception and, at worst, rubbish. The 12 essays in her brilliant book explore how the different ways we commemorate Jewish tragedy, how we write about the Holocaust, how the media presents antisemitic events, how we establish museums to honor Jewish heritage, how we read literature with Jewish protagonists and even how we praise the “righteous among the nations” (those who saved Jews during the war), are all distractions from the main issue, which is the very concrete, specific death of Jews.

Horwitz examines the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi world view. He explores ghetto life from the perspectives and actions of the Łódź Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered ghetto affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city.

A deep dive into the lives of 10 heroic individuals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

This is a biography of Varian Fry, the first American recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations. While on a secret mission in Marseilles, Fry helped 1,500 European writers, painters, and scientists, many of them Jews, escape from Southern France into Spain.