PRIMARY Works
The following LCSH reveal primary creative works including drama, fiction, and poetry held by Gitenstein Library, as well as letters, diaries, oral histories and other personal narratives of people who both experienced the Holocaust and their descendants. The holdings of Gitenstein Library in these areas are extensive but not exhaustive. Use the same headings in WorldCat and/or bibliographies of Holocaust Fiction and Holocaust Poetry published by the United States Holocaust Museum to identify additional anthologies, novels, short stories, etc. Please keep the following distinctions in mind:
- Assigned under Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Personal narratives are works providing personal accounts of the Holocaust.
- Persons who died during the Holocaust fall under Holocaust victims.
- Persons who survived the Holocaust with an emphasis on their lives after 1945 fall under Holocaust survivors.
Subject headings in bold lead to particularly useful results.
Literary works (primary):
- Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings ofmix of primary and secondary
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — [Country/City] — Drama
- Jews — Persecutions — [Country] — Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jewish resistance — [Country/City] — Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jews —Rescue — [Country/City] — Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jews — [Country/City] — Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jews — [Country/City] — Fiction
Primary sources typically used by historians:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — [Country/City] — Personal narratives
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — [Country/City] — Sources
SECONDARY Criticism and History
Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) below to find literary criticism and other secondary analysis. You can also keyword search your author's name and then combine it with the phrase "criticism and interpretation" (e.g., "Primo Levi" AND "criticism and interpretation").
Featured Books
Moral and ethical aspects:
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide by Call Number: D804.3 .B3636 2010ISBN: 9780415775502Publication Date: 2010-10-12
Books containing primary sources:
America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780827618930Publication Date: 2022-05-01
Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union by Call Number: D810.J4 D63ISBN: 0870687549Publication Date: 1979-01-01
Nazi Crimes and Their Punishment, 1943-1950: A Short History with Documents by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781624668623Publication Date: 2020-03-01"Bryant... provides what might be the most concise, yet inclusive, treatment available today of both Nazi crimes and their punishment" (Choice). Incorporates a chronology, 84-page historical essay, briefer historiographical essay, and 100 pages of primary sources.
ILL (for Books) and WorldCat
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