Best book on Auschwitz?? (Vanity)

[Colosis]

I have just returned from Auschwitz after a short stay in Cracow. I didn't do much research before I went which I now greatly regret. I'm still in a state of semi-shock at what I have seen and would like any recommendations on what I should read. I hear Primo Levi's book is good.

[mmanager]

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Yes the sites are being kept up as they are a resource for revenue in the area. The Pole's (rightfully so) make sure that everyone knows that this was a German place. All of the tour guides had personal story's how the camps affected their families lives.

Most all of the buildings at Birkenau in the man-camp side our gone, with only the brick chimney's and foundations remaining. The women's camp is virtually still intact because the buildings were made of brick where the man-camp was wooden structures.

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[Colosis]

Thanks to all for the information. when I tried goggling 'Auschwitz', I was saddened by the number of holocaust denial sites out there. I can't help thinking that humanity is bound to make the same mistake again. I saw this quote from somewhere in Auschwitz, though I don't know the Author "the veneer of humanity, like tissue over the railway tracks of hatred".

[bmwcyle]

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[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

I read Primo Levy's book - he described the cold and lack of food towards the end of the war - (when the supply of food failed, possibly due to allied bombing of the railways) He also was very careful to separate what he himself saw from the gossip he heard about gas chambers - according to Levy, he saw only one execution, that of a prisoner who attempted to commit arson by setting a fire in a workshop. The prisoners were suffering from starvation and typhus towards the end and he felt lucky to have survived - recommend his book.

[Nachum]

When on tour, I asked our Polish guide didn't the locals know what was going on? She very sharply pointed out that Oswiecim (Polish name of town) was commandeered by the Nazi's and renamed Aushwitz (German). The Nazi's then began building the final solution to the Jewish "issue" by ordering a 40 Kilometer buffer zone around the camps.

There is a very long documentary called "Shoah" that interviews the people in the homes nearest to the camps along with Poles of that generation who survived. It paints a slightly different picture than the response by your guide...

[Paved Paradise]

I've read numerous great books, many of which have already been suggested, but I saw a fantastic movie the other day (it's not new)called "Out of the Ashes." It is about Giselle Perl, a Hungarian physician who ended up working with Dr. Mengele in a minor capacity (of course she had no choice).

I sobbed through about half of this movie. Dr. Perl is now dead but her story is well worth knowing.

So many people forget about the horrible experiments done by Mengele and I believe this part of history must never be forgotten either.

[Paved Paradise]

I always hoped that people would never repeat the horrors of the Nazi death machine but, like you, the way the world seems to be tilting today (especially the Muslim terorrists and the rise of anti-semitism and so son), I am afraid nothing has changed at all. The names and instruments change but the evil is there in its fullest capacity, as strong as ever. No one has learned a thing. Or, let me say it a different way. The people who need to know will not be the ones that learn.

[Halgr]

My Father was with Patton in WW2. He brought home photographs of several of the camps.

I still have them in the family scrapbook.

There were pictures of incredibly emaciated bodies stacked like cordwood by the hundreds.

There were pictures of rooms stacked to the ceilings with rings, bracelets and necklaces.

I will never doubt the Holocaust.

[dfwgator]

Night..by Elie Wiesel is one of the most powerful little books I've ever read on this subject.

Ditto.

[Sabramerican]

What's your guess? How many reading what you wrote grasp your motivation?

Or is there no malice in you and you are just not very bright?

[Jim Noble]

Well, you do need to read Night, but it will not further your understanding.

After you read Night, you need about five years to get over it, and then you can start to think about it again.

[Yaelle]

Three of my great-grandparents and many other relatives of mine were murdered in that way. I have seen the letter from a Jewish organization written to my grandmother after the war, when she wanted to know what became of her elderly parents, that contains what the Nazis called their "Vernichtungsdaten." Extermination Dates. The mind cannot comprehend.

My grandfather made it alive out of Buchenwald, and my father, at age 7, was saved by England and the Kindertransport.

How can anyone doubt the Holocaust?

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

Primo Levy's book can speak for itself - I recommend it.

[Clemenza]

Primo Levi's book does it for me. Yet another poor soul who thought that his Italian neighbors would "protect him."

[Salem]

"Best book on Auschwitz??"

Although Elie Wiesel's NIGHT is one of the "big dogs" on the block of Holocaust history, I also recommend The Holocaust Chronicle for its extensive research (thick as a phone book), as well as the whole book being posted online. It has numerous pictures I don't think you will see anywhere else.

•The Holocaust Chronicle Online•

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[dighton]

Memory of the Camps

A supplement to reading, powerful in its own right. Footage from 1945, of Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and other camps, narrated by Trevor Howard. Be warned of disturbing content.

[M. Espinola]

I agree 'The Holocaust Chronicle' is a chilling, meticulous researched and well documented work on the entire history of the Shoah. It's the best book I have seen on the general subject.

I was a little surprised 'Publications International' was the publisher considering they are better known for fine detailed large coffee table size books on automotive history, children's books & cookbooks. Really nice books.

Barnes & Noble has been selling the excellent work for only $19.95.

Martin Gilbert's 2003 book is another superbly documented collection of individual histories of those who risked everything to saved Jewish neighbours, refugees, children & babies, all of which were slated to be murdered by the Nazi death machine. I have the hardback edition, although it may now be out in paperback.