Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide

Guide to the First Hundred Books

This list includes only longer pieces. Single poems, short works of fiction, and essays are not included unless as part of a larger anthology. Books are presented in order of writing or completion, not necessarily by date of first publication. “DGR” indicates material by David G. Roskies, “ND” material by Naomi Diamant. GUIDE TO THE FIRST HUNDRED BOOKS [ 190 ] holocaust literature Wartime Writing, 1938–45 194 Jacob Glatstein. Emil and Karl, 1940 195 Shimon Huberband. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious Life in Poland during the Holocaust, 1942 196 Chaim A. Kaplan. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, 1942 197 Irène Némirovsky. Suite Française, 1942 198 Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh. Go Forth, 1942 199 Josef Zelkowicz. In Those Terrible Days: Writings from the Lodz Ghetto, 1942 201 Gusta Davidson Draenger. Justyna’s Narrative, 1943 202 Jacob Glatstein. Poems of Remembrance, 1943 203 Yitzhak Katzenelson. Vittel Diary, 1943 204 The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Łódź Ghetto, 1943 205 Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl, 1944 207 Etty Hillesum. Letters from Westerbork, 1944 208 To Live with Honor and Die with Honor: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives “O.S.” (Oneg Shabbath), 1944 209 The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto 1941–1944, 1944 210 Herman Kruk. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939–1944, 1944 211 Curzio Malaparte. Kaputt, 1944 213 Calel Perechodnik. Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman, 1944 214 Oskar Rosenfeld. In the Beginning Was the Ghetto, 1944 215 The Scrolls of Auschwitz, 1944 216 Abraham Sutzkever. The Fortress: Poems Written in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Forest 1941-1944, 1945 Communal Memory, 1945–60 217 The Book of Alfred Kantor, 1945 219 Der Nister. Regrowth: Seven Tales of Jewish Life before, during, and after Nazi Occupation, 1946 220 Zvi Kolitz. Yosl Rakover Talks to God, 1946 221 Y. D. Sheinson. A Survivor’s Haggadah, 1946 222 Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. We Were in Auschwitz, 1946 224 Robert Antelme. The Human Race, 1947 Guide to the First Hundred Books [ 191 ] 225 Hans Keilson. Comedy in a Minor Key, 1947 226 Primo Levi. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity, 1947 227 Zofia Nałkowska. Medallions, 1947 229 Nelly Sachs. In the Habitations of Death, 1947 230 Isaiah Spiegel. Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Łódź Ghetto, 1947 231 We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust, 1948 232 Tadeusz Borowski. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1948 233 Leyb Rochman. The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival, 1949 234 Jiří Weil. Life with a Star, 1949 235 John Hersey. The Wall, 1950 236 Paul Celan. Poppy and Memory, 1952 238 Ka-Tzetnik 135633. House of Dolls, 1953 239 Uri Orlev. The Lead Soldiers, 1956 240 Arnošt Lustig. Night and Hope, 1958 241 Elie Wiesel. Night, 1958 242 Children’s Drawings and Poems, Terezín, 1942–1944, 1959 244 André Schwarz-Bart. The Last of the Just, 1959 245 Vasily Grossman. Life and Fate: A Novel, 1960 246 Anna Langfus. The Whole Land Brimstone, 1960 Provisional Memory, 1960–85 247 Piotr Rawicz. Blood from the Sky, 1961 248 Giorgio Bassani. The Garden of the Finzi Continis, 1962 249 Jakov Lind. Soul of Wood, 1962 250 Yehuda Amichai. Not of This Time, Not of This Place, 1963 251 Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 1963 253 Ladislav Fuks. Mr. Theodore Mundstock, 1963 254 Rolf Hochhuth. The Deputy, 1963 255 Jorge Semprún. The Long Voyage, 1963 256 Hanoch Bartov. The Brigade, 1965 257 Charlotte Delbo. Auschwitz and After, 1965 258 Henryk Grynberg. The Jewish War, 1965 260 Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird, 1965 261 Jean Améry. At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities, 1966 262 A. Anatoli. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, 1966 263 Isaac Bashevis Singer. Enemies: A Love Story, 1966 264 Jean-François Steiner. Treblinka, 1966 265 Romain Gary. The Dance of Genghis Cohn, 1967 [ 192 ] holocaust literature 266 Anthony Hecht. The Hard Hours: Poems, 1967 268 Yoram Kaniuk. Adam Resurrected, 1968 269 Patrick Modiano. La Place de l’Etoile, 1968 270 Jurek Becker. Jacob the Liar, 1969 272 Saul Bellow. Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 1969 273 Dan Pagis. Metamorphosis, 1970 274 Michel...