The Nazi Concentration Camps

Teaching & Resources

Further reading

Histories of the camps

Arad, Y., Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka (1999)

Bartosik, I., Martyniak, L., and P. Setkiewicz (eds), The Beginnings of the Extermination of Jews in KL Auschwitz (2014)

Blatman, D., The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide (2011)

Breitman, R., Official Secrets (1998)

Buggeln, M., Slave Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps (2014)

Caplan, J., and N. Wachsmann (eds), Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories (2010)

Chare, N., and D. Williams, Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2015)

Dillon, C., Dachau and the SS (2015)

Długoborski, W., and F. Piper (eds), Auschwitz: 1940–1945, 5 vols (2000)

Dwork, D., and R.J. van Pelt, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (1997)

Gilbert, M., Auschwitz and the Allies (2001)

Goeschel, C., and N. Wachsmann (eds), The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939: A Documentary History (2012)

Gutman, Y., and M. Berenbaum (eds), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (1998)

Helm, S., If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück (2015)

Langbein, H., People in Auschwitz (2004)

Longerich, P., Heinrich Himmler (2012)

Mailander Koslov, E., Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 (2015)

Marcuse, H., Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933–2001 (2001)

Megargee, G.P. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945, vol. I (2009)

Morsch, G. (ed.), From Sachsenburg to Sachsenhausen (2007)

Rees, L., Auschwitz: The Nazis & the “Final Solution” (2005)

Segev, T., Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2000)

Sofsky, W., The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camps (1997)

Steinbacher, S., Auschwitz: A History (2005)

Stone, D., The Liberation of the Camps (2015)

Todorov, T., Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (2000)

Wachsmann, N., KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2015)

Wünschmann, K., Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (2015)

Memoirs and eyewitness accounts

Améry, J., At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities (1999)

Antelme, R., The Human Race (1992)

Bezwińska, J., and D. Czech (eds), Amidst a Nightmare of Crime: Manuscripts of Prisoners in Crematorium Squads found at Auschwitz (1973)

Buber, M., Under Two Dictators (1949)

Buergenthal, T., A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (2009)

Cohen, E., The Abyss: A Confession (1973)

Delbo, C., Auschwitz and After (1995)

Flanagan, B., and D. Bloxham, Remembering Belsen: Eyewitnesses Record the Liberation (2005)

Gradowski, Z., From the Heart of Hell (Oswiecim, 2017)

Greif, G., We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz (2005)

Hackett, D.A. (ed.), The Buchenwald Report (1995)

Herz, G., The Women’s Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany, 1936–1937 (2006)

Hoess, R., Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess (2000)

Kielar, W., Anus Mundi: Five Years in Auschwitz (1982)

Levi, P., If This Is a Man/The Truce (1987)

Müller, F., Eyewitness Auschwitz. Three Years in the Gas Chambers (1979)

Nansen, O., Day After Day (2016)

Nyiszli, M., Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account (2012)

Pilecki, W., The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery (2012)

Rousset, D., The Other Kingdom (1947)

Siedlecki, J., K. Olszewski, and T. Borowski, We Were in Auschwitz (2000)

Vrba, R., I Cannot Forgive (1997)

Wiesel, E., All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (1997)