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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 10:39

It's #HolocaustMemorialDay, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. To commemorate, I call on everybody to read, buy for their kids, or recommend one book related to the Holocaust or other genocides (because #NeverAgain should mean just that). I'll go first (thread to be updated throughout today)

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 10:39

For the remarkable biography of Hershl Sperling, one of only 67 people known to have escaped Treblinka, I recommend Mark S. Smith's Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Link to my review: https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-review-treblinka-survivor-life-and.html

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 11:00

I #amreading Hasan Hasanović and Ann Petrila's Voices from Srebrenica: Survivor Narratives of the Bosnian Genocide. It is an #OralHistory available on ebook for £14.99. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the #genocide in #Srebrenica

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/voices-from-srebrenica

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 12:21

For an #OwnVoices account of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, I'd highly recommend Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza

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https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-review-left-to-tell-by-immaculee.html

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 13:57

For an oral history of the Tutsi Genocide, I'd recommend two of Jean Hatzfeld's books: Into the Quick of Life (survivor testimonies) and A Time for Machetes (perpetrator testimonies)

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Link to review of latter: https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2010/09/book-review-time-for-machetes-rwandan.html

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 15:32

I'm Not Leaving is the incredible story by Carl Wilkens, one of the only Americans to remain in Rwanda during the Tutsi genocide. I'd highly recommend this book and the film too

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Link to review of book: https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2012/02/book-review-im-not-leaving-by-carl.html

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 16:19

My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd is an astonishing account by a (then) young reporter in Bosnia during the war, both in Srebrenica and in Sarajevo during the siege

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Link to my review: https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-war-gone-by-anthony-loyd-2015.html

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 17:38

For an extremely harrowing account of the reality of mass graves in Rwanda and Bosnia, I recommend Clea Koff's The Bone Woman

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Link to my review: https://passiontounderstand.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-read-news-today-oh-boy.html

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Written by JTinMI on 2025-01-27 at 13:44

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Miklos Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Account

Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

Heinz Heger, Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel/The Men with the Pink Triangle

Rudolf Brazda, Das Glück kam immer zu mir - though not yet (to my knowledge) available in English, it's an autobiographical account of the life of the last-known pink triangle prisoner, who died in 2011

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Anne Appelbaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Bernard Bruneteau, Un siècle de génocides: Des Hereros au Darfour (1904-2004

Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

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Written by Mandy on 2025-01-27 at 13:53

@JTinMI @histodons @bookstodon what a great list! I had not heard of any of those!

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Written by JTinMI on 2025-01-27 at 14:00

@mandyist @histodons @bookstodon My specialization is in modern Europe, specifically the first half of the twentieth century. It's unfortunately a period dominated by genocide.

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Written by 🤷🏻 Welcome Back on 2025-01-27 at 14:33

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I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story by Rudolph Vrba (2020 updated)

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (2022)

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan Eischeid (2023)

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (2019) [US Japanese camps]

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