Shoah (Holocaust) Books)

Preforatory Notes

I use the term Shoah because I find it better at avoiding the 'Gentile gaze' -- the fact that literature about the Holocaust is written predominantly by and for Gentiles, who have a vested interest in whitewashing their involvement and making it as much as possible into a feel-good story for them (see the popularity of Anne Frank's narrative which the Gentile 'savior' can fling about). Shoah is a term by and for Jews.

This will not discuss the Porajmos, or Romani Holocaust, as I am not Romani and that is not my place. In addition, I do not know enough about the sadly long history of anti-Romani stereotypes to trust my ability to accurately detect bad sources in the way I believe I can with Jewish sources.

I have not read many of these books. I am going based on my own assessments of their summary, others' assessments (awards? good reviews?) and other information. It is possible a Shoah-denying, distorting or minimizing book slips through the cracks. My sincere apologies if that happens, and please bring it to my attention.

This is quite disorganized as of now. I'll try to get it better done later. For now my focus is on gathering.

Legal note: You might get in trouble for downloading this. I don't know. This might fall under the 'educational' exception of the fair use laws in the US, and nonfiction works are generally given slightly more flexibility than fiction. Very few of these are public domain; if this had been the original US copyright law, of course, anything before about 1996 would be and the vast majority of things before 2011, but thanks in no small part to Mickey Mouse, it's not.

With that said:

The list

Memory of the World: A Mortuary of Books, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust ,