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Auschwitz, the Place and its Representations at the Beginning of the 21st Century: readings

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Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University
Bibliograghy

Week 1-3
Ota Kraus & Erich kulka, The Death Factory: Document on Auschwitz, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1966.
Rodolf Verba, I Escaped from Auschwitz, London, 1968&1997.
Herman Langbein, Menchen in Auschwitz, Europa Verlag, Wien, 1972.
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS, eds. Jadwiga Bezwinska & Danuta Czech, Krakow, 1978.
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, eds. Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1994.
London has been Informed, Reports by Auschwitz Escapees, ed. Henryk Swiebocki, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1997.

Week 4
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, New York, 1988.
Wiesel Elie, The Night (any edition).
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, rev. and updated, New York, 1984.
Jean Amery, At the Minds Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities, New York, 1986.

Week 5
Rolf Hochhuth, The deputy, New York, 1964,
Claude Lanzman’s Shoah ,1984,
BBC’s Auschwitz: The Nazis and the “Final Solution” , 2005

Week 6
Bernd Naumann, Auschwitz: A Report on the Proceedings against Robert Karl Mulka and others before the Court of Frankfurt, London 1966.
Peter Weiss, The Investigation, New York, 1966.

Week 7-9
Annette Wieviorka, Auschwitz explique a ma fille, Seuil, Paris, 1999.
Promemoria, The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Foundation to Commemorate the victims of the Auschwitz-Birekenau Death Camp Information Bulletin.
The Yad Vashem CD multimedia program on Auschwitz, Eclipse of Humanity, 180 sources, updated.
Education on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism, an Overview and Analysis of Educational Approaches, OSCE-ODIHR, Warsaw 2006.
Yad Vashem &OSCE-ODIHR, Preparing Holocaust Memorial Days: Suggestions for Educators, January 2006.

Week 10-12
Gideon Greif, We Wept Without Tears, Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, Yale and London, 2005.
Memoirs and Testimonies – each student’s choice.
Hearing and Discussing a survivor’s testimony.
A two-days guided tour to Auschwitz.


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