Indeed, it's a grim subject matter. I can only read Holocaust studies in the summer, because winter is already hard for me; there's no need to pile on with more and more sadness.
But summer is upon us, so it's time to further my studies!
I've already read a lot of dark books on this subject, so there's no need to be cautious. I'm looking for scholarly material, not that fiction stuff (recommended to me by truly lovely ladies at church) that seems to have sprung up like mushrooms. Those sugar-coated novels "based on true events" seem to trivialize the Holocaust in a vain attempt to find some thimblefull of happiness. /end rant
Since I've read widely on this subject, it may be that you'll recommend books I've already read, but that's not a problem.
So let's GO!
by pioneercynthia
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Bonds of Wire by Kingsley Brown. It really should be better known than it is.
Night by Elie Wiesel?
I think Irene Fogel Weiss wrote something.
I don’t know that these are very scholarly.
Do you know of any fiction masquerading as non-fiction to look out for?
Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman is one of the best Holocaust memoirs I have read.
The Diary of Anne Frank.
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder