Additional Resources
For a further treatment of the ideas and concepts explored in this educational packet, see Facing History and Ourselves Resources Book: Holocaust and Human Behavior. Other resources available from Facing History and Ourselves include:
- Elements of Time A companion manual to the Facing History videotape collection of Holocaust testimonies. The book includes transcriptions of the videos along with essays from many scholars.
- I Promised I Would Tell Sonia Scheiber Weitz's poetry and remembrances of life in the Krakow Ghetto and various concentration camps including Plaszow and Auschwitz.
- The Jews Of Poland Considers the ways Jews and their nonJewish neighbors in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe responded to questions of identity, membership, and difference at various times in their shared history. Provides a comprehensive view of Jewish life before the Holocaust.
- Samuel Bak poster set
For more information about Facing History and Ourselves contact the National office, 16 Hurd Road, Brookline, MA 02445 (617) 7351625 www.facinghistory.org.
The following books can also be used to explore concepts highlighted in this packet
Barron, Stephanie, "Degenerate Art" The Fate of the Avant Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles Country Museum Of Art Harry N. Abrams, INC., 1991
Berenbaum, Michael, The Worlds Must Know. The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Little Brown,1993.
Blattner, Janet and Milton, Sybil. Art of the Holocaust, New York, 1981
Block Gay and Malka Drucker, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1992.
BohmDuchen, "Fifty Years On" from After Auschwitz. Responses to the Holocaust. Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and Lund Humphries Publishers Limited, 1995. (A good introduction to contemporary art about the Holocaust)