Book Reviews

This edition is intended for the public that is interested in Holocaust-related books. It recommends a selection of new books that have been published in Israel and around the world. The reviews present books that deserve exposure because of their high quality or uniqueness, and which might otherwise remain obscure.

We welcome your responses, and invite you to suggest books for review, and also to address questions about books that deal with different aspects of the Holocaust.

Flares of Memory
Survivors Remember - Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust. Anita Brostoff (ed.) with Sheila Chamovitz Oxford University Press New York, 2001, 344 pp.
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
A New History in the Words of the Men and Women who Survived Lyn Smith Carroll and Graf New York, 2006, 350 pp.
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Children Who Survived the Final Solution
Edited by Peter Tarjan iUniverse, New York, 2004, 252 pp.
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Shards of Memory. Narratives of Holocaust Survival
Yehudi Lindeman (ed.) Praeger Publishers, 2007, 223 pp.
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Hidden from the Holocaust
Stories of Resilient Children who Survived and Thrived Kerry Bluglass Westport, 2003, 271 pp.
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I Refused to Die
Stories of Boston Area Holocaust Survivors and Soldiers who Liberated the Concentration Camps of World War II. Susie Davidson (ed.) Ibbetson Street Press Somerville, 2005, 407 pp.
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Oskar Schindler
The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List. David M. Crowe (Cambridge: Westview Press, 2004), 766 pp.
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The Search for Major Plagge
The Nazi who Saved Jews. Michael Good (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).
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A Safe House
Holland 1940-1945. Maria Jacobs (Ontario: Seraphim Edition, 2005).
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The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations
Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. Israel Gutman, editor in chief (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2005), 2vols. 1018pp.
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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia
Facing the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen. (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and Yad Vashem, 2005).   447pages.
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L’Album D’Auschwitz
Paris 2005. Edition pour La Mémoire de la Shoah.  152 p.
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Auschwitz-Prozess 4 ks 2/63
Frankfurt am Main. Edited by Irmtrud Wojak and the Fritz Bauer Institut Staff, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt a.M 2005, 872 p.
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Das Auschwitz – Album
Die Geschichte eines Transportes (The Auschwitz Album; The Story of a Transport). Israel Gutman and Bella Gutterman, ed., Wallstein Verlag / Yad Vashem / Göttingen / Jerusalem, 276 Seiten.
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Nazi Europe and the "Final Solution."
David Bankier and Israel Gutman, ed.,  (Yad Vashem: Jerusalem, 2003).
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Eine Lebensreise durch Konzentrationslager
(A Journey of Life through a Concentration Camp). Dagmar Ostermann, Hrsg. von [edited by] Martin Krist.
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