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This International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In this reading list we present some first-hand accounts from Holocaust survivors and books that shed light on the aftermath of the Shoah.
By Hermann Gruenwald and Bryan Demchinsky
as told to Bryan Demchinsky
Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald’s idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. During his incarceration, Gruenwald’s instinct for survival helped him live through three concentration camps. In After Auschwitz he recounts his story not only as a witness to history but as a human actor determined to make his way in whatever situation he finds himself.
By Walter W. Igersheimer
Edited and with a foreword by Ian Darragh
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment – these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer’s memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Canadian war record.
By Or Rogovin
Created in the Image? describes the paradigm shift in the way Israeli writers have imagined Holocaust perpetrators since 1948.
By Abraham Sutzkever, Edited and translated by Justin D. Cammy
A Yiddish Book Center Translation. Afterword by Justin D. Cammy and Avraham Novershtern
In 1944, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. He was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg to write a memoir. From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first coming into focus, through the eyes of one survivor who attempted to make sense of daily life, resistance, and death in the ghetto.
By Erno Munkácsi, Edited by Nina Munk, Translated by Péter Balikó Lengyel, Introduction by Ferenc Laczó
Annotated by Ferenc Laczó and László Csosz, with a brief biography of Erno Munkácsi by Susan Papp
A detailed, first-hand account of the atrocities committed against Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
Translated by Krzysztof Majer and Sylvia Söderlind, Edited by Goldie Morgentaler
Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.
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