The Holocaust in Art, Music and Poetry:
A Suggested Reading List

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Absence/Presence: the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust and Genocide
704.9499 ABSENCE
And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust
861.62 A543
Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941-45
704.9240437 ART MUSI
The Art of Jewish Children, Germany, 1936-1941: Innocence and Persecution
741.9088054 V589a
Because of That War
VID 940.5318 BECAUSE
Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
808.819358 BEYOND L
Holocaust Poetry
808.819358 H741
"I Never Saw Another Butterfly" Children's Drawings and Poems From Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
AM 741.94371 D484 1994
The Last Lullaby: Poetry From the Holocaust
839.11308 LAST LUL
The Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust
E ORCHEST COLL Papal
Partisans of Vilna: the Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance
Q YIDDISH COLL Partisan
Spiritual Resistance: Art From Concentration Camps, 1940-1945: a Selection of Drawings and Paintings From the Collection of Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel
741.94074 SPIRITUA
Survivors Speak Out
808.819358 S96sj
We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine By the Boys of Terezin
940.5318 W3696
Yes, we Sang!: Songs of the Ghettos and Concentration Camps
AM 784.76924 Y48
Aaron, Frieda W. Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps
839.0913093 A113b
Belarsky, Sidor Sodor Belarsky Sings "Songs of the Holocaust"
Q YIDDISH BELARASY Sidor
Chicago, Judy Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light
AM 759.13 C452h
Czarnecki, Joseph P. Last Traces: the Lost Art of Auschwitz
751.7309438 C995L
Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal To Paint Her Life: Charolette Salomon in the Nazi Era
759.3 S174F
Fisch, Robert O. Light From the Yellow Star: a Lesson of Love From the Holocaust
940.5318 F52l
Flam, Gila Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
AM 782.42162 F61s
Glatstein, Jacob I Keep Recalling: the Holocaust Poems of Jacob Glatstein
839.0913 G466i
Goldsmith, Martin The Inextinguishable Symphony: a True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
940.5318092 GOLDSMIT Inexting
Greenberg, Blu Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust
811.54 G829b
Hyett, Barbara Helfgott In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
811.54 H367i
KÁdÁr, GyÖrgy GyÖrgy KÁdÁr: Survivor of Death, Witness to Life: Exhibition Catalog of the Vanderbilt University Collection of Holocaust Art by GyÖrgy KÁdÁr
741.9439 K114g
Kahn, Erich Itor Erich Itor Kahn
G PIANO KAHN Erich
Kantor, Alfred The Book of Alfred Kantor: an Artist's Journal of the Holocaust
759.13 K139b
Kovner, Abba My Little Sister and Selected Poems, 1965-1985
892.416 K849m
Laks, Szymon Music of Another World
940.5318 LAKS Music of
Listner, Leon Our Town Is Burning
Q YIDDISH LISHNER Our town
Milman, Barbara Light in the Shadows
940.5318 M631L
Toll, Nelly S. When Memory Speaks: the Holocaust in Art
704.9499 TOLL When mem
Torren, Asher Seven Portholes in Hell: Poems of the Holocaust
811.54 TORREN Seven po
Young, James Edward At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture
704.9499 YOUNG At memor
Young, James Edward The Texture of Memory: Holocaust memorials and Meaning
AM 725.94 Y85t

 

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updated : November 4, 2008