Ancestors

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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Toot

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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Descendants

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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