Concentration and Death Camps

• General Works
• Auschwitz
• Other Camps
• Psychological Studies of Inmates

General Works

Aziz, Philipe. Doctors of death: Karl Brandt, the Third Reich's man in white. Geneva: Ferni, 1976.

Bernadac, Christian. The death train. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. Doctors of mercy. Geneva: Ferni, 1977.

Bernadac, Christian. The Devil's doctors: medical experiments on human subjects in the concentration camps. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. Witches of God. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. The Ninth circle: Mauthausen Volume 2. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. Women's kommandos. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Kogan, Eugen. The Theory and Practice of Hell: the German concentration camps and the system behind them. New York: Berkley Books, 1981.

Mendelson, Alan and Joan Michelson (Eds.) From Bergen-Belsen to Baghdad: the letters of Alex Aronson. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1992.

Mitscherlich, Alexander. Doctors of infamy: the story of the Nazi medical crimes. New York: Henry Schuman, 1949.

Moczarski, Kazimierz. Conversations with an executioner. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Rochman, Leyb. Pit and the trap: a chronicle of survival. New York: Holocaust Library, 1983.

Sachar, Abram L. Redemption of the unwanted: from the liberation of the death camps to the founding of Israel. New York: St. Martin's/Marek, [1983].

Sarcinelli, Francois. Vie et Mort dans les Camps de Concentration et de Extermination. Paris: De Vecchi, 1979.

Schwarz, Ted. Walking with the damned: the shocking murder of the man who freed 30,000 prisoners from the Nazis. New York: Paragon House, 1992.

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Auschwitz

Baycrest Terrace Memoirs Group. From our lives: memoirs, life stories, episodes and recollections. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1979.

Bernadac, Christian. The Naked puppets: Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Brewster, Eva. Vanished in darkness: an Auschwitz memoir. Edmonton: Newest Press, 1984.

Fenelon, Fania. Playing for Time. New York: Berkley Books, 1976.

Fitzgibbon, C. Commandant of Auschwitz: The autobiography of Rudolph Hoess. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1951.

Friedrich, Otto. "The kingdom of Auschwitz". Atlantic Monthly, v. 248, no. 3 (Sept. 1981): 30-60.

Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz: the remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1981.

Heimler, Eugene. Night of the Mist. New York: Vanguard Press, 1959.

Kielar, Wieslaw. Anus Mundi: 1,500 days in Auschwitz. New York: Times Books, 1980.

Langbein, Hermann. Menschen in Auschwitz . Frankfurt: Zeitgeschichte, 1972.

Langbein, Hermann. Hommes et femmes à Auschwitz. Paris: Fayard, 1975.

Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: a memoir of Auschwitz. London: New English Library, 1978.

Lengyel, Olga. Five chimneys. London: Granada, 1972.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz and the reawakening: two memoirs. New York: Summit Books, 1986.

Levi, Primo. The drowned and the saved. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity. New York: Collier Books, 1961.

Levi, Promo. Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity. New York: Collier Books, 1993.

Mechanicus, Philip. Year of fear: a Jewish prisoner waits for Auschwitz. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968.

Mueller, Filip. Eyewitness: three years in the gas chambers. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.

Nirenberg, Yankel. Memoirs from Lodzer Ghetto. Buenos Aires: Havershaft kultur gezelshaftlekhe grupe, 1996.

Nomberg–Przytyk Sara. Auschwitz: true tales from a grotesque land. Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: a doctor's eyewitness account. Geneva: Ferni, 1979.

Poliakov, Leon (Ed.). Auschwitz. Paris: Rene Juillard, 1964.

Pozner, Vladimir. Descente aux enfers: recits de deportes et de S.S. D'Auschwitz. Paris: Julliard, 1980.

Rogel, Joseph. Confessions of an Auschwitz number (A18260). Montreal: Dawson College, 1972.

Sattler, S. Prisoner of 68 Months: Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Jerusalem: Gefen, 1981.

Sehn, Jan. Aushwitz-Berkinav concentration camp. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, 1961.

Tanenbaum, Roy D. Prisoner 88: the man in stripes. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1998.

Weiss, Moshe. From Oswiecim to Auschwitz . Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1994.

Working Group of Former Prisoners of the Concentration Camp. On the guilt of IG Farben from the documents mass murder on the trial. [Berlin]: Working Group of Former Prisoners of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp of the Committee of Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters in the German Democratic Republic, [1964].

Wynik, Lyric Wallwork. "The 'good' Nazi doctor: according to the ways of Auschwitz". Moment, v. 24, no. 5 (Oct. 1999): 60-65.

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Other Camps

Auerbach, Rachel. On The Fields of Treblinka: Report (In Yiddish). Warsaw: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1947.

Aziz, Philipe. Doctors of death Geneva: Ferni, 1976.

Bernadac, Christian. Camp for women: Ravensbruk. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. The 186 steps: Mauthausen. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Bernadac, Christian. Days without end. Geneva: Ferni, 1978.

Borwicz, Michel. Ecrits des condamnés à mort sous l'occupation Nazie (1939-45) (In French). Paris: Gallimard, 1973.

Brenner, Liber. Resistance and death in the Crenstochor. [Wroclaw?]: Yidisher historisher institut in Poyln, [1950?].

Diamand, Dr. Salim. Dottore! Internment in Italy, 1940-1945. Oakville: Ontario, Mosaic Press, 1987.

Eisner, Irving. Dachau: prisoner 89012. Willowdale, Ont.: Zachor, 1983.

Frankel-Zaltzman, Paula. Prisoner No. 94771: Memoirs of Nazi concentration camps (In Yiddish). Montreal: [s.n.], 1949.

Gilbert, Martin. The boys: triumph over adversity. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1997.

Habe, Hans. Falde Tusinde Ved Din Side. Kobenhavn: P. Branner, 1945.

Hajsman, Jan. The Brown Beast. Prague: Orbis, 1948.

Heilig, Bruno. Men Crucified. London: Right Book Club, 1942.

Izbicki, John. The Naked heroine: the story of Lydia Lova. London: Neville Spearman, 1963.

Lichtenstein, Heiner. Majdanek (In Polish). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1979.

Lingens-Reiner, Ella. Prisoners of fear. London: Victor Gollancz, 1948.

Marcus, Jacob R. and Abraham J. Peck Among the survivors of the Holocaust: 1945, the Landsberg DP camp …Army. Cinncinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1982.

Michel, Jean and Louis Nucera. Dora. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.

Nitti, Francesco Fausto. Escape. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1930.

Poller, Walter. Medical block Buchenwald: the personal testimony of inmate 996, block 36. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960.

Poller, Walter. Butchers of Buchenwald: a survivor's pitiful recollections of the humanexperiments. New York: Kensington, 1977.

Ragot, Docteur Andre. Nuit et Brouillard (In French). Chevillon: Chevillon, Imprimerie Cooperative, 1964.

Rashke, Richard. Escape from Sobibor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

Reid, P.R. Escape from Colditz: the two classic escape stories. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1953.

Robertson, E.H. (Ed.). Paul Schneider: the pastor of Buchenwald. London: S.C.M. Press, 1956.

Schrieber, Joseph. Belsen: all misery and bestiality of Hitler's most infamous death-camp. London: Brown, Watson, 1959.

Steckoll, Solomon H. Alderney death camp. London: Granada, 1982.

Vos, Jean, de. I was Hitler's slave. London: Quality Press, 1942.

Wells, Leon W. Death brigade. New York: Holocaust Library, 1978.

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Psychological Studies of Inmates

Bettelheim, Bruno. The informed heart. New York: Paladin, 1970.

Des Pres, Terrence. Survivor: an anatomy of life in the death camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Frankl, Victor E. Man's search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

Gill, Anton. Journey back from Hell: conversations with concentration camp survivors. London: Grafton Books, 1988.

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