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Best Books about Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death CampAnatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
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The most thorough account of the concentration/death camp
Auschwitz: 1270 To the PresentAuschwitz: 1270 To the Present by Deborah Dwork
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Great book on the architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz: A History in PhotographsAuschwitz: A History in Photographs
Buy used from: $35.00
Great photographic history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 by Danuta Czech
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Great day by day history of Auschwitz events.
Auschwitz, 1940-1945Auschwitz, 1940-1945 by Kazimierz Smolen
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A reprint of the Auschwitz memorial museum's guidebook to the camp
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness AccountAuschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
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A classic book by a Sonderkommando physician who lived in and survived the bowels of hell
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque LandAuschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
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A very good anthology of events in the camp written by a female survivor
Five Chimneys: The Story of AuschwitzFive Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
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The classic book written by a female survivor who was a physician and intimately involved in the life of Auschwitz and its prisoners
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of AuschwitzChildren of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
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Very good account of the lives of the twins whom SS doctor Joseph Mengele experimented upon
Witness : Images of AuschwitzWitness : Images of Auschwitz by David Olere
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Terrifying artistic images done by a survivor of the infamous Sonderkommando
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to IsraelTriumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias
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Very touching story of a female survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at AuschwitzDeath Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss
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The memoirs by the first kommandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Haunting and very in depth
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas ChambersEyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller
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The classic memoirs by one of the few surviving members of the Sonderkommando
The Dentist of Auschwitz: A MemoirThe Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Benjamin Jacobs
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A book about a survivor who was a dentist. This is a different kind of survivor memoir.
We Were In AuschwitzWe Were In Auschwitz by Janusz Nel Siedlecki
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An interesting anthology of fiction and nonfiction
The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945 by Otto Friedrich
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A compendium of information on the camp in a small book
Defy the Darkness: A Tale of Courage in the Shadow of MengeleDefy the Darkness: A Tale of Courage in the Shadow of Mengele by Joe Rosenblum
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A young man's tale of his Holocaust ordeal and encounters with Mengele
Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The story of Eva and Miriam MozesEchoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The story of Eva and Miriam Mozes by Eva Moses Kor
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Very intense book writen by one of the twins survivors and founder of the CANDLES museum
80629: A Mengele Experiment80629: A Mengele Experiment by Gene Church
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A book about one of Mengele's victims.
Smoke over BirkenauSmoke over Birkenau by Liana Millu
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A moving tale of an Italian female Jewish Auschwitz survivor
The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving TrialThe Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan van Pelt
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A book about Auschwitz that refutes David Irving and other Holocaust deniers.
Survival In AuschwitzSurvival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
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Primo Levi's account of his Auschwitz internment and survival.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics) by Tadeusz Borowski
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One of the first fictional accounts of Auschwitz by a Polish survivor who later tragically committed suicide because of his experience.
Alma Rose: Vienna to AuschwitzAlma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz by Richard Newman
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Biography of the female leader of the Auschwitz women's orchestra.
Playing for TimePlaying for Time by Fania Fenelon
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Moving autobiography by a member of the Auschwitz women's orchestra.