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• The Zone of Interest

  a Novel

  Amis, Martin

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  A haunting indictment of the people who willingly bought the party line of racial purity and ethnic cleansing, this novel is as audacious as it is chilling. (Library Journal)

• The Postcard

  Berest, Anne, 1979-

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  In Berest's phenomenal English-language debut novel, the author pieces together stories of her ancestors who were lost at Auschwitz. In 2003, Anne's mother receives a cryptic postcard containing only the names of four relatives, all of whom died in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By Chance Alone

  a Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

  Eisen, Max

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  This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Escape From a Nazi Death Camp

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  This streaming documentary recounts the 1943 prison outbreak at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, in which 300 of the 600 prisoners escaped. Several of the 50 who survived the war tell their story here.

• The Death of Democracy

  Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

  Hett, Benjamin Carter

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  The international roots of the Nazi movement come into sharp focus in this illuminating and essential book detailing the rise of the Third Reich. (Library Journal)

• Moment Work

  Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater

  Kaufman, Moisés

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  Learn more about HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES playwright Moisés Kaufman's unique approach to the process of theatrical creation in this detailed manual.

• When We Cease to Understand the World

  Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-

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  A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers (including WWII German physicist Werner Heisenberg) whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD is a book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Correspondents

  Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

  Mackrell, Judith

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  In this rich and evocative history, journalist Mackrell profiles six women who reported on World War II: Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Martha Gellhorn, Helen Kirkpatrick, Lee Miller, and Clare Hollingworth. (Library Journal)

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

  a History of Nazi Germany

  Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993

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  The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. (NoveList)

• A Woman in Berlin

  Eight Weeks in the Conquered City : a Diary

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  A wartime journal by a reporter living through the Russian occupation of Berlin includes her observations of survival under harsh conditions; the mass rapes endured by the city's women; and the corruption of Berlin's citizens. (NoveList)

• The zone of interest

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  Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer's 2023 historical drama about the domestic life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss won an Oscar for Best International Feature Film in 2024.

• Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: The Album | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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  Learn about photographs contained in Karl Höcker’s album depicting official visits, ceremonies, and the social activities of the Auschwitz camp staff.

• Widen the Lens on “HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES”

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  "Widen the Lens on HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES" expands on the experience of seeing the play by presenting topics related to the Holocaust, to encourage conversation and contemplation with others who have seen the play or on one’s own.

• Seattle Rep's HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES website

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  In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unravel the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon makes headlines and ignites a debate that…Read moreRead more of this annotation