Because you know I didn’t get all that solely from our girl’s memoir. There are rather a lot of books listed here, so for your reference the books are separated into the following categories in the following order: Background(s), Holocaust, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising (1944) and Polish Underground, Gen. World War II, Cold War-Era, and Memory Studies.
Background(s)
Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M. Dabrowski
God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies
God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies
The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars (A Midland Book) by Ezra Mendelsohn
A History of Poland (Palgrave Essential Histories Series) by Anita J. Prazmowska
Holocaust
A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) by Yehuda Bauer
The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Cultural Expressions) by Rachel Brenner
Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt
Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland by Jan Grabowski
The Holocaust in History (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry) by Michael R. Marrus
Am I A Murderer?: Testament Of A Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, translated by Frank Fox
Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation Isaiah Trunk
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) by Adam Czerniakow, edited by Raul Hilberg
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (Nabat Series, Vol. 7) by Bernard Goldstein
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman
On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto by Vladka Meed
Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945 by Gunnar S. Paulsson
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto from the Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum, translated and edited by Jacob Sloan
A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (A Centennial Book) by Yitzhak “Antek” Zuckerman
Warsaw Uprising (1944) and Polish Underground
The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Wlodzimierz Borodziej
Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Joanna K. M. Hanson
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising by Alexandra Richie
Gen. World War II
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
Britain and Poland 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Anita J. Prazmowska
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Cold War-Era
Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 (The New Cold War History) by Patryk Babiracki
Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 (Cold War International History Project) by Paweł S Machcewicz
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore
Memory Studies
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland by Robert Blobaum
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation by Jan T. Gross
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland by Jonathan Huener
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe by Richard Ned Lebow and Wulf Kansteiner
Bondage To the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Modern Jewish History) by Michael C. Steinlauf
For further book recommendations and Bibliographies, please see my Further Reading, Jewish History Bibliography, and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Historical Bibliography Pages. I am currently in the process of adding the above works to their respective reading lists…and probably reorganizing the Europe section.
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