Suggested Reading
Jewish history
Jews, God & History
Max Dimont
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE–1492 CE
Simon Schama
Understanding the history of the Holocaust
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
Martin Gilbert
The Holocaust: A New History
Laurence Rees
Understanding fascism
NONFICTION
The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert Paxton
Diary of a Man in Despair
Friedrich Reck
On Tyranny, Graphic Edition
Timothy Snyder
How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley
FICTION
The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
The Oppermanns
Lion Feuchtwanger
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
Books about Theresienstadt
Theresienstadt 1941–1945: The Face of a Coerced Community
H. G. Adler
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
Ruth Elias
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Ariana Neumann
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems From Theresienstadt
Life With a Star
Jiří Weil
German antisemitism
Why the Germans, Why the Jews
Götz Aly
Ordinary Men
Christopher R. Browning
The Jewish-Polish experience
Shtetl
Eva Hoffman
The Holocaust in the East: Poland & Ukraine
Hitler's Furies
Wendy Lower
East West Street
Philippe Sands
World War II in the Middle East
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg
Personal accounts of the Holocaust
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Ari Folman
Lily's Promise
Lily Ebert & Dov Forman
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank; edited by Otto H. Frank
Daughter of Auschwitz
Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant
My Best Friend, Anne Frank
Hannah Pick-Goslar with Dina Kraft
Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
The Drowned & the Saved
Primo Levi
Maus, Volumes I & II
Art Spiegelman
Night
Elie Wiesel
The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Psychology & Holocaust trauma
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History & The Legacy of the Holocaust
Eva Hoffman
The legacy of Anne Frank
People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, The Afterlife
Francine Prose