Holocaust memoirs in English

© 2002. D. G. Myers, Department of English, Texas A&M University

Adler, Stanislaw. In the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-43: An Account of a Witness. [Polish], written ca. 1943—1944. Trans. Sara

Stanislaw Adler

Phillip. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1982.

Améry, Jean. At the Mind’s Limits. 1966. Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne: Bewältigungsversuche eines Überwältigen [German]. Trans. Sidney and Stella P. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980.

Apenszlak, Jacob, ed. The Black Book of Polish Jewry: An Account of the Martyrdom of Polish Jewry under the Nazi Occupation. New York: Roy, 1943.

Badt-Strauss, Bertha. "My World, and How It Crashed." Menorah Journal 39 (1951): 90-100.

Baeck, Leo. "Life in a Concentration Camp." Jewish Spectator 11 (July 1946): 12-13.

Birenbaum, Halina. Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age under Nazi Terror. 1967. Nadzieja umiera ostatnia [Polish]. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe,

Halina Birenbaum, shortly after the war

1996.

Bisberg-Youkelson, Feigl, and Rubin Youkelson, eds. The Life and Death of a Polish Shtetl. 1951. Stshegove yizker-bukh [Yiddish]. Trans. Gene Bluestein. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Blady-Szwajger, Adina. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. 1988. Wspomnienia lekarki [Polish]. Trans. Tasja Darowska and Danusia Stok. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

Brand, Sandra. I Dared to Live. New York: Shengold, 1978.

Breznitz, Shlomo. Memory Fields. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Cyprys, Ruth Altbeker. A Jump for Life: A Survivor’s Journal from Nazi-Occupied Poland. Ed. Elaine Potter. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Debenedetti, Giacomo. October 16, 1943: Eight Jews. 1944. [Italian]. Trans. Estelle

Charlotte Delbo

Gilson. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.

Delbo, Charlotte. Days and Memory. 1985. La Mémoire et les jours [French]. Trans. Rosette C. Lamont. Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990.

–––. Auschwitz and After. 1965, 1970. Aucun de nous ne reviendra [French]. Trans. Rosette C. Lamont. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Della Seta, Fabio. The Tiber Afire. 1969. L‘Incendere del Tevere [Italian]. Trans. Frances Frenaye. Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1991.

Donat, Alexander. The Holocaust Kingdom. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1965.

Dworetzki, Mark. "A Day in the Ghetto." Trans. Jacob Sloan. Jewish Spectator 11 (October 1946): 16-20.

Eisner, Jack. The Survivor. New York: Morrow, 1980.

Ferderber-Salz, Bertha. And the Sun Kept Shining. New York: Holocaust Library, 1980.

Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. 1946. Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager [German]. Trans. Ilse Lasch. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.

Friedländer, Saul. When Memory Comes. 1978. Quand vient le souvenir [French]. Trans. Helen R. Lane. New York: Farrar

Saul Friedländer

Straus & Giroux, 1979.

Garcia, Max Rodriguez. As Long As I Remain Alive. Tuscaloosa: Portals, 1979.

Glazar, Richard. Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka. 1992. Die Falle mit dem grünen Zaun [German]. Trans. Roslyn Theobald. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995.

Goldstein, Bernard. The Stars Bear Witness. 1947. Finf yor in Varshever geto [Yiddish]. Trans. Leonard Shatzkin. New York: Viking Press, 1949.

Halivni, David Weiss. The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996.

Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld. Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl’s Holocaust Memoirs. Hoboken: Ktav, 1993.

Jackson, Livia E. Bitton. Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust. New York: Times Books, 1980.

Jagendorf, Siegfried. Jagendorf‘s Foundry: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941—1944. Ed. Aron Hirt-Manheimer. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

Ka-Tzetnik 135633. Shivitti: A Vision. 1987. Shivitti [Hebrew]. Trans.

Ka-Tzetnik 135633 moments after fainting on the witness stand, Eichmann trial, 1961

Eliyah Nike De-Nur and Lisa Herman. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Kessel, Sim. Hanged at Auschwitz. 1970. Pendu à Auschwitz [French]. Trans. Melville and Delight Wallace. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.

Klein, Gerda Weissman. All But My Life. 1957. Rev. ed. New York: Hill & Wang, 1995.

Kluger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. 1992. Weiter leben: Eine Jugend [German]. New York: Feminist Press, 2001.

Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany. New York: Greenwillow, 1977.

Kogon, Eugen. Theory and Practice of Hell. 1946. Der SS-Staat: Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager [German]. Trans. Heinz Norden. New York: Farrar Straus, 1949.

Kotlar, Helen. We Lived in a Grave. 1955. Un dokh bin ikh geblibn lebn [Yiddish]. New York: Shengold, 1980.

Laks, Szymon. Music of Another World. 1948. Musiques d‘un autre monde [French]. Trans. Chester A. Kisiel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1989.

Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz. New York: Crowell, 1978.

Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz. 1946. Souvenirs de l’au-delà [French]. Trans. Clifford Coch and Paul P. Weiss. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. 1958. Se questo e un uomo [Italian]. Trans. Stuart Woolf. New York: Orion Press, 1959.

–––. The Reawakening. 1963. La tregua [Italian]. Trans. Stuart Woolf. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

–––. The Drowned and the Saved. 1986. Sommersi e i salvati

Primo Levi

[Italian]. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Vintage, 1988.

Lubetkin, Ziviah. "The Last Days of the Warsaw Ghetto." Trans. Shlomo Katz. Commentary 3 (May 1947): 401—11.

Meed, Vladka [Feigele Peltel Miedzyrzecki]. On Both Sides of the Wall. 1948. Fun beyde zaytn geto-moyer [Yiddish]. Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1972.

Mermelstein, Mel. By Bread Alone: The Story of A-4685. Huntington Beach, Calif., 1979.

Millu, Liana. Smoke Over Birkenau. 1947. Il fumo di Birkenau [Italian]. Trans. Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Newman, Judith Sternberg. In the Hell of Auschwitz: Wartime Memoirs. New York: Exposition, 1963.

Nir, Yehuda. The Lost Childhood. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account. 1946. Dr. Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az auschwitzi krematóriumban [Hungarian]. Trans. Tibère Kremer and Richard Seaver. New York: Fell, 1960.

Pat, Jacob. Ashes and Fire. 1946. Ash un fayer [Yiddish]. Trans. Leo Steinberg. New York: International Universities Press, 1947.

Perechodnik, Calel. Am I am Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman. 1993. Czy ja jestem

Calel Perechodnik

morderca? [Polish], written May—Aug. 1943. Trans. Frank Fox. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Pinkus, Oscar. The House of Ashes. 1964. Ud mutzal [Hebrew]. London: I. B. Tauris, 1991.

Raisky, Abraham. "We Fought Back in France: A Chapter in Resistance History." Commentary 1 (February 1946): 60—65.

Rosen, Donia. The Forest, My Friend. Yedidi ha-yaar [Hebrew]. Trans. Mordecai S. Chertoff. New York: Bergen Belsen Memorial Press, 1971.

Rosenberg, Blanca. To Tell at Last: Survival under False Identity, 1941—45. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Rousset, David. The Other Kingdom. 1946. Trans. Ramon Guthrie. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

Salamon, Julie. The Net of Dreams: A Family’s Search for a Rightful Place. New York: Random House, 1996.

Salsitz, Norman

Jorge Semprun

and Amalie Petranker. Against All Odds: A Tale of Two Survivors. New York: Holocaust Library, 1990.

Semprun, Jorge. Literature or Life. 1994. L‘ecriture ou la vie. Trans. Linda Coverdale. New York: Viking Press, 1997.

Shapell, Nathan. Witness to the Truth. New York: Donald McKay, 1974.

Spanjaard, Barry. Don‘t Fence Me In! An American Teenager in the Holocaust. Santa Clarita, Calif.: B & B Publishing, 1981.

Starkopf, Adam. Will to Live: One Family‘s Story of Surviving the Holocaust. 1981. There Is Always Time to Die. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Stiffel, Frank. The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish. Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, 1984.

Szép, Ernö. The Smell of Humans. 1945. Emberszag. Trans. John Bátki. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1984.

Szmaglewska, Seweryna. Smoke Over Birkenau. 1945. Dymy nad Birkenau [Polish]. Trans. Jadwiga Rynas. New York: Henry Holt, 1947.

Szoskies,

S. B. Unsdorfer

Henryk J. Your World and Mine: Travelogue. New York: , Lipton, 1952.

Szpilman, Wladyslaw. The Pianist. 1946. Smierc miasta [Polish]. Trans. Anthea Bell. New York: Picador, 1999.

Unsdorfer, Simcha Bunem. The Yellow Star. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1961.

Vrba, Rudolf [and Alan Bestic]. I Escaped from Auschwitz. 1963. Includes the Vrba-Wetzler Report (Apr. 1944). Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade, 2002.

Waren, Helen. The Buried Are Screaming. New York: Beechhurst Press, 1948.

Waterford, Helen H. Commitment to the Dead: One Woman’s Journey toward Understanding. Frederick, Colo.: Renaissance House, 1987.

Weinstock, Eugene. Beyond the Last Path. New York: Boni & Gaer, 1947.

Wells, Leon Weliczker. The Janowska Road. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Wiernik, Yankel. "A Year in Treblinka." Jewish Spectator 10 (May 1945): 10—14, 21. Reprinted in Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, ed. Lawrence L. Langer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 18—51.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. 1956, 1958. Un di velt hot geshvign [Yiddish], Nuit [French]. Trans. Stella Rodway. New York: Hill & Wang, 1960.

–––. Dawn. 1960.

Yitzhak Zuckerman testifying at the Eichmann trial, 1961

Aube [French]. Trans. Frances Frenaye. New York: Hill & Wang, 1961.

–––. One Generation After. Entre deux soleils [French]. Trans. Lily Edelman. New York: Random House, 1970.

Zabel, Arnold. Jewels and Ashes. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1991.

Zar, Rose. In the Mouth of the Wolf. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1983.

Zuckerman, Abraham. A Voice in the Chorus: Life as a Teenager in the Holocaust. Hoboken:: Ktav, 1991.

Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 1990. Sheva hashanim hahen [Hebrew]. Trans. Barbara Harshav. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

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