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BIBLIOGRAPHY TOPICS

• Bibliography for Teachers--Women and the Holocaust
• Bibliography on Women in Nontraditional Roles in War and the Military
• The Study of Ravensbrück and Women and the Holocaust
• General Histories of the Holocaust
• Methodology for Interviewing Women Survivors
• Women in Germany Before and During the Third Reich
• Ravensbrück
• Memoirs and Testimonies: Women and the Holocaust
• Writing the Holocaust: Women’s Imaginative Literature
• Memorializing Women's Experiences during the Holocaust

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN AND GIRLS DURING THE HOLOCAUST

Compiled by Esther R. Wolk, M.S.Ed., M.L.I.S.- June 2006

            ISBN: 0-689-87468-5.

Gold, Alison Leslie.  Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend. Scholastic, 1997. 

            ISBN: 0590907220

Isaacs, Anne.  Torn Thread.  Scholastic Signature, 2000.

            ISBN: 0329294636

Leitner, Isabella.  The Big Lie: A True Story.  Scholastic, 1992.

            ISBN: 0590455702

Levine, Karen.  Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story.  Albert Whitman, 2002.

            ISBN: 0807531480

Morris, Ann. Grandma Esther Remembers: A Jewish American Family Story. Millbrook Press, 2002.

            ISBN: 076132318X

Nieuwsma, Milton J., editor.  Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors.  Holiday House, 1998.

            ISBN: 0823413586

Ransom, Candice F.  So Young to Die: The Story of Hannah Senesh. Scholastic, 1993.

            ISBN: 0590446770

Rubin, Susan Goldman.  Fireflies in the dark : the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin.  Holiday House, 2000.

            ISBN: 0823414612

Russo, Marisabina.  Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II.  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.

            ISBN: 0689869207

van der Rol, Ruud.  Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic    Remembrance. Viking, 1993.

            ISBN: 0670849324

Zullo, Allan and Mara Bovsun. Survivors: True Stories of Children Hidden in the Holocaust. Scholastic, 2004.

            ISBN: 0329415093

Websites

Anne Frank Center, USA

            http://www.annefrank.com/

Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam

            http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center

            http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust

            http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

            http://www.ushmm.org/

 MIDDLE SCHOOL

Fiction Books

Bennett, Cherie and Jeff Gottesfeld.  Anne Frank and Me.  Putnam’s, 2001.

            ISBN: 0399233296

Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian.  The Old Brown Suitcase, A Teenager’s Story of War and    Peace.  Ben-Simon Publications, 1994. 

            ISBN: 0914539108

Friedman, D. Dina.  Escaping into the Night.  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006.

            ISBN: 1416902589

Greene, Bette.  Summer of My German Soldier.  Bantam, 1973.

            ISBN: 0-553-27247-0

Issacs, Anne.  Torn Thread.  Scholastic Signature, 2000.

            ISBN: 0329294636

Kacer, Kathy.  The Night Spies.  Second Story Press, 2003.

            ISBN: 1896764703

Lowenstein, Sallie.  Waiting for Eugene.  Lion Stone Books, 2006.

            ISBN: 0965848655

Matas, Carol.  After the War.  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

ISBN: 0689803508

Matas, Carol.  Greater than Angels.  Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.

            ISBN: 068983084X

Mazer, Norma Fox.  Good Night, Maman.  HarperTrophy, 1999.

            ISBN: 0329243829

Moskin, Marietta D.  I am Rosemarie.  Dell, 1972.

            ISBN: 0-440-94066-4

Murray, Michele.  The Crystal Nights: A Novel.  Seabury Press, 1973.

            ISBN: 0816430985

Pausewang, Gundrun.  The Final Journey.  Viking, 1996.

            ISBN: 0670864560

Pressler, Mirjam.  Malka.  Philomel Books, 2003.

            ISBN: 0399239847

Roth-Hano, Renee.  Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France.  Four Winds Press, 1988.

            ISBN: 002777340X

Roy, Jennifer Rozines.  Yellow Star.  Marshall Cavendish, c2006.

            ISBN: 076145277X

Schmidt, Gary.  Mara’s Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness.  Henry Holt, 2001.

            ISBN: 0805067949

Vos, Ida.  Anna is Still Here.  Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

ISBN: 0395653681

Non-Fiction Books

Auerbacher, Inge.  I am a Star: Child of the Holocaust.  Puffin, 1993.

            ISBN: 0140364013

Ayer, Eleanor H.  Parallel Journeys.  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995.

            ISBN: 0689318308

Barak-Ressler, Alyza. Cry Little Girl: A Tale of the Survival of a Family in Slovakia. Yad Vashem Books, 2003.

            ISBN 965-308-164-0

Boas, Jacob.  We are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust. Scholastic, 1996.

ISBN: 059084475X

Denenberg, Barry.  Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family.  Scholastic Press, 2005.

            ISBN: 0439416787

Finkelstein, Genya.  Genya.  GT Publishing, 1998.

            ISBN: 1577196163

Frank, Anne.  The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition.  Doubleday, 1995.

            ISBN: 0385473788

Frank, Anne.  Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex.  Doubleday, 1983.

            ISBN: 0385187157

Friedman, Ina R.  Escape or Die: True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust.  Addison-Wesley, 1982.

            ISBN: 0201104776

Friedman, Ina R.  The Other Victims: First- Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis.  Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990.

            ISBN: 0395502128

Gies, Miep.  Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to   Hide the Frank Family.  Simon and Schuster, 1987.

            ISBN: 0671547712

Haas, Gerda.  Tracking the Holocaust.  Runestone Press, 1995.

            ISBN: 0822531577

Hillman, Laura.  I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree.  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.

            ISBN: 0689869800

Jackson, Livia Bitton.  I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the  Holocaust. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.

            ISBN: 0689810229

Jackson, Livia Bitton.  My Bridges of Hope.  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999.

ISBN: 0689820267

Kopf, Hedda Rosner.  Understanding Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl:  A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources and Historical Documents. Greenwood Press, 1997.

            ISBN: 0313296073

Leitner, Isabella.  Fragments of Isabella.  Dell, 1978.

            ISBN: 0440124530

Lobel, Anita.  No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War.  Avon Books, Inc., 2000.

            ISBN: 0380732858  

Lyman, Darryl.  Holocaust Rescuers: Ten Stories of Courage.  Enslow, 1999.

            ISBN: 0766011143

Muller, Melissa.  Anne Frank: The Biography.  Metropolitan Books, 1998.

            ISBN: 0805059962

Novac, Ana.  The Beautiful Days of My Youth : My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow.  Henry Holt, 1997.

            ISBN: 0805050183

Perl, Lila and Marion Blumenthal Lazan. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. Greenwillow Books, 1996.

            ISBN: 068814294X

Rabinovici, Schoschana.  Thanks to My Mother.  Dial Books, 1998. 

            ISBN: 0803722354

Reiss, Johanna.  The Upstairs Room.  HarperCollins, 1972. 

            ISBN: 0690851278

Rochman, Hazel and  Darlene Z. McCampbell.  Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust. Orchard Books, 1995.

            ISBN: 053109488X

Roi, Emilie. A different Story: About a Danish Girl in World War Two. Yad Vashem Books, 1990.

Roubícková, Eva.  We're Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary.  H. Holt & Co., 1998.

ISBN: 0805053522

Sender, Ruth Minsky.  The Cage.  Collier Macmillan, 1986.

            ISBN: 0027818306

Siegal, Aranka.  Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation, 1945-1948.  Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1985.

            ISBN: 0374327602

Siegal, Aranka.  Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981.

            ISBN: 0374380597

Toll, Nelly S.  Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War Two.  Dial Books, 1993.

            ISBN: 0803713622

Whiteley, Suzanne Mehler.  Appel is Forever.  Wayne State University Press, 1999.

            ISBN: 0814328210

Websites

“Another Angel for God” by Charles V. Ferree

     http://www.remember.org/witness/valie.html

Daring to Resist: 3 Women Face the Holocaust

            http://www.pbs.org/daringtoresist/

Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

            http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

HIGH SCHOOL

Fiction Books

Aharon Appelfeld. Tzili: The Story of a Life, Grove Press, 1996.

            ISBN: 0802134556

Aharon Appelfeld. Katerina: A Novel. Schocken, 2006.

            ISBN: 0805211985
Fink, Ida.  The Journey.  Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.

            ISBN: 0374285411

Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan.  Anya: A Novel.  W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.

           ISBN: 0393325210

Kerr, Judith.  A Small Person Far Away: A Novel.  Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978.

            ISBN: 0698204727

Lucas, Michele Claire.  A High and Hidden Place : A Novel. 

            HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.

            ISBN: 0060740566

Ozick, Cynthia.  The Shawl.  Vintage Books, 1990.

            ISBN: 0679729267

Styron, William.  Sophie’s Choice.  Vintage Books, 1992.

            ISBN: 0329188453

Yolen, Jane.  Briar Rose.  Tom Doherty Associates, 1992.

            ISBN: 0812558626

Non-Fiction Books

Alexander, Caroline.  Now You Are Sara. Ben-Simon Publications, 1993.

           ISBN: 0914539078

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia.  Alicia: My Story.  Bantam, 1988.

            ISBN: 0553282182

Arnothy, Christine.  I am Fifteen - and I don’t Want to Die.  Scholastic, 1956.

            ISBN: 0590403222

Baer, Elizabeth and Myrna Goldenberg, editors. Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press, 2003.

            ISBN: 0814330622

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel.  The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival.  Putnam, 1997.

            ISBN: 039914322X

Blaikie, Evi. Magda's Daughter: A Hidden Child's Journey Home. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2003.

            ISBN: 1558614435

Bleier, Inge Joseph and David E. Gumpert.  Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi     

            Germany.  William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2004.

           ISBN: 0802826865

Choko, Isabelle, et al. Stolen Youth: Five Women’s Survival in the Holocaust.  Yad Vashem & Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Project, 2005.

            ISBN: 0976073927

Christophe, Francine.  From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps.  University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

            ISBN: 080326402X

Cretzmeyer, Stacy.  Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz’s Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France.  Oxford University Press, 1999.

            ISBN: 0195132599

De Silva, Cara. In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

            ISBN: 0742546462

Deutschkron, Inge. Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin.  Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1990.

            ISBN: 0880641169

Edvardson, Cordelia.  Burned Child Seeks the Fire.  Beacon Press, 1998.

           ISBN: 0807070955

Eichengreen, Lucille.  From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. Mercury House, 1994.

            ISBN: 1562790528

Gurewitsch, Brana, editor. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. University Alabama Press, 1998.

            ISBN: 0817309527

Isaacson, Judith Magyar.  Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor.  University of Illinois Press, 1991.

            ISBN: 0252062191

Klein, Gerda Weissman.  All but My Life.  Hill and Wang, 1995.

            ISBN: 0809024608

Kluger, Ruth.  Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered.  Feminist Press, 2001.

            ISBN: 1558612718

Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. True Tales from a Grotesque Land. University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

            ISBN: 0807841609

Ofer, Dalia and Leonore Weitzman, editors. Women in the Holocaust.  Yale University Press, 1999.

             ISBN: 0300080808

Opdyke, Irene Gut.  In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.  A. Knopf 1999. 

            ISBN: 0679891811

Pentlin, Susan, editor. Mary Berg's Diary. Forthcoming 2007, One-World Books.

Pressler, Mirjam.  Anne Frank: A Hidden Life.  Dutton Children's Books, 1999.

            ISBN: 0525463305

Ransom, Candice F.  So Young to Die: The Story of Hannah Senesh. Scholastic, 1993.   

            ISBN: 0590446770

Rittner, Carol Ann and John K. Roth, editors.Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. Paragon House Publishers, 1993.

           ISBN: 155778504X

Rose, Leesha. The Tulips are Red: The Story of a Jewish Girl in the Dutch   Resistance During World War II. Yad Vashem Books, 1993.

            ISBN: 0-498-02176-9

Saidel, Rochelle G.  The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.  University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

            ISBN: 029919860X

Saidel, Rochelle, G., editor. Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story. Forthcoming 2007, Syracuse University Press.

Schulman, Faye and Sarah Silberstein Swartz. A Partisan's Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust. Second Story Press, 1995.

            ISBN: 0929005767

Senesh, Hannah.  Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary.  Schocken Books, 1972.

            ISBN: 0805204105

Sutin, Jack and Rochelle Sutin.  Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance.  Graywolf Press, 1995.

            ISBN: 1555972241

Tec, Nechama.  Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood.  Oxford University Press, 1984.

            ISBN: 0195035003

Tec, Nechama. Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust. Yale University Press, 2004.

            ISBN: 0300105193

Velmans, Edith.  Edith’s Story.  Bantam, 2001.

            ISBN: 1569471789

Weisel, Mindy, editor.  Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss. Capital Books, 2000.

            ISBN: 1892123371

Wieviorka, Annette.  Auschwitz Explained to My Daughter.  Marlowe & Co., 1999.

            ISBN: 1569245169

Wukovits, John F.  Anne Frank.  Lucent Books, 1999.

            ISBN: 156006353X

Wyden, Peter.  Stella.  Simon & Schuster, 1992.

            ISBN: 0671673610

Zar, Rose.  In the Mouth of the Wolf.  Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983. 

            ISBN: 0827602251

Websites

Emilie Schindler, An Unsung Heroine

            http://www.emilieschindler.com/

Irena Sendler: Rescuer of Jews

            http://www.annefrank.dk/rescuers/new_page_2.htm

Maria Countess von Maltzan

            http://www.auschwitz.dk/maltzan.htm

Miep Gies: An Unsung Heroine

            http://www.miepgies.dk/

Remember the Women Institute

            http://www.rememberwomen.org/

Rivka’s Story: Testimony at the Eichmann Trial

            http://www.shoah.dk/Rivka/index.htm

Women and the Holocaust: Judy Cohen's Site

            http://www.theverylongview.com/WATH/

General Histories of the Holocaust
Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews 1933-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.
Feig, Konnilyn. Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985.
__________. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Levin, Nora. The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945. New York: Schocken Books, 1973.
Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Methodology for Interviewing Women Survivors
Brodzki, Bella and Celeste Schenk, eds. Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Eliach, Yaffa and Brana Gurewitsch. Holocaust Oral History Manual. New York: Center for Holocaust Studies, 1991.
Garber Zev, ed. Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.
Lixl-Purcell, Andreas. "Memoirs as History." Leo Baeck Yearbook XXXIX. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. for Leo Baeck Institute, 1994, pp. 227-238.
The Personal Narratives Group, ed. Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington: University of Indiana, 1989.
Reinharz, Shulamit. Feminist Methods in Social Research. New York: Oxford University Press,1992.

Women in Germany Before and During the Third Reich
Bridenthal, Renate, Atina Grossman and Marion Kaplan, eds. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York: New Feminist Library, Monthly Review Press, 1984.
Kaplan, Marion A. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class. New York: Oxford University Press,1991.
____________. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Owings, Alison. Frauen: German Women Recall. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Von Kellenbach, Katharina. "'God Does Not Oppress Any Human Being': The Life and Thought of Rabbi Regina Jonas." Leo Baeck Yearbook XXXIX. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. for Leo Baeck Institute, 1994, pp. 213-225.

Ravensbrück
Amicale de Ravensbrück et de ses Commandos. Revivre et Construire Demain. Paris: Amicale de Ravensbrück, 1994.
____________. L’Ordre Nazi: Les Enfants Aussi. L'Amicale de Ravensbrück, 1979.
Anthonioz, Genvieve De Gaulle. The Dawn of Hope: A Memoir of Ravensbrück. New York: Arcade, 1999.
Bernadac, Christian. Camp for Women: Ravensbrück. Geneva: Ferni Publishing House, 1978.
Bernstein, Sara Tuval. The Seamstress. New York: Putnam, 1997.
Birnhak, Alice. Next Year, God Willing. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1994.
Breur, Dunya. Een verborgen herinnering (A Hidden Memory), Nijmegen: Sun Publisher, 1995.
Buber-Neumann, Margaret. Under Two Dictators, London: Gollencz, 1949.
____________. Milena, New York: Seaver Books, 1988.
____________. Déportée à Ravensbrück. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1985.
Chombart de Lauwe, Marie-José et al. Les Françaises à Ravensbrück. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1965.
Christliche Frauen im Widerstehen gegen den Nationalsozialismus: Häftlinge im Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück von 1939-1945 (Exhibition Catalogue, October 1998-October 1999). Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück/Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten.
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Dunfurnier, Denise. Ravensbrück: The Women's Camp of Death. London: Allen and Unwin, 1948 (1970).
Elling, Hanna and Ursula Krause-Schmitt. "Die Ravensbrück-Prozesse vor dem britischen Militärgericht." Informationen. Frankfurt am Main: Oct. 1992, no. 35, pp. 13-37.
____________. "Die Ravensbrück-Prozesse vor dem französischen Militärgerichten in Rastatt und Reutlingen." Informationen. Frankfurt am Main: Nov. 1993, no. 37/38, pp. 22-36.
Eschebach, Insa, Sigrid Jacobeit, Susanne Lanwerd, eds. Die Sprache des Gedenkens: Zur Geschichte der Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück 1945 - 1995. Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1999.
Feig, Konnilyn. Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness (see chapter on Ravensbrück). New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979.
55th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and the Brandenburg penitentiary, 14 to 16 April 2000, 27 April 2000. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 2000.
Fischer, Hubert. “Arztliche Versorgung, Sanitare Verhaltnisse und Humanversuche im Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück” (“Medical Care, Sanitary Conditions, and Human Experimentation in the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp”) in Gesnerus, Switzerland, 1988 45 (1): 49-66
Füllberg-Stoberg, Claus, Martina Jung, Renate Rieb and Martina Scheitenberger, eds. Frauen in Konzentrationslagern Bergen-Belsen Ravensbrück. Bremen: Temmen, 1994.
Gluck, Gemma LaGuardia and S. L. Shneiderman. My Story (New York: David McKay Co.), 1961.
Helen Ernst: 1904 - 1948, Berlin - Amsterdam - Ravensbrück, Stationen einer antifaschistischen Künstlerin (Exhibition Catalogue). Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin: TRAUM & RAUM, 1994.
Herbermann, Nanda. The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women. Edited by Hester and Elizabeth Baer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Herzog, Monika. Ravensbrücker Zeichnungen. Drawings of Ravensbrück: "Hope, which lives in us eternally." Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten/Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, 1993.
Hübner, Hans. "Martha, die Kartenlegerin von Ravensbrück." Informationen. Frankfurt am Main: Dec. 1994, no. 40, pp.10-17.
Jacobeit, Sigrid and Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich. Kruezweg Ravensbrück: Lebensbilder antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpferinnen. Leipzig: Verlag für die Frau, 1987.
Jacobeit, Sigrid. Ravensbrückerinnen. Oranienburg: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 1995.
Jacobeit, Sigrid, ed. "Ich grüsse Euch als freier Mensch." Oranienburg: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 1995.
Jacobeit, Sigrid and Philipp, Gritt, eds. Forschungsschwerpunkt. Ravensbrück. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, Band no. 9. Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1997.
Jahresbericht der Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 1999. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 1999.
Katzenmaier, Katharina (Sister Theodolinde). Vom KZ ins Kloster. St. Ottilien: EOS - Verlag, 1996.
Klier, Freya. Die Kaninchen von Ravensbrück: Medizinische Versuche an Frauen in der NS-Zeit. Munich: Knaur, 1994.
Krause-Schmitt, Ursula. "Zwangsarbeit bei Siemens - die Lager" and "Der Weg zum Krematorium führte am Siemenslager vorbei." Informationen. Frankfurt am Main: Nov. 1993, no. 37/38, pp.38-46.
Krause-Schmitt, Ursula and Krause, Christine, eds. Mit den Augen der Überlebenden. Ein Rundgang durch die Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück. Essen: Lagergemeinschaft Ravensbrück/Freundeskreis,1999.
Langley-Dános, Eva. Prison on Wheels: From Ravensbrück to Burgau. Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag, 2000.
Lecoq, Violette. Témoignages: 36 Dessins á la Plume. Paris, 1948.
Limbächer, Katja, Merten, Maike, and Pfefferle, Bettina, eds. Das Mädchenkonzntrationslager Uckermark. Münster: UNRAST, 2000.
Maurel, Michelene. An Ordinary Camp. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. (Also published as Ravensbruck, London: Blond, 1958.)
Maurice, Violette. N. N. Paris: Encre Marine, 1991 (first issued, 1946).
Minney, R. J. Carve Her Name With Pride. London: George Newnes, 1956.
Milton, Sybil. "Women and the Holocaust: The Case of German and German-Jewish Women." Different Voices, Carol Rittner and John K. Roth ,eds. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
Morais, Fernando. Olga: Revolutionary and Martyr. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
Morrison, Jack. Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women’s Concentration Camp 1939-45. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000.
Müller, Charlotte. Die Klempnerkolone in Ravensbrück: Erinnerungen des Häftlings Nr. 10787. Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1981.
Müller, Delia and Lepschies, Madlen. Tage der Angst und der Hoffnung: Erinnerungen an die Todesmärsche aus dem Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück Ende April 1945. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten/Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, undated, probably 1999-2000.
Nelken, Halina. And Yet, I Am Here! Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Noyce, Wilfrid. They Survived: A Study of the Will to Live. London: Heinemann, 1962.
Owings, Alison. "Solidarity and Survival" chapter on Charlotte Müller, and "A Job in its Own Category" chapter on Anna Fest in Frauen: German Women Recall, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. 155-171, pp. 313-341.
Philipp, Grit. Kalendarium: der Ereignisse im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück, 1939-1945. Berlin: Metropol, 1999.
Pollak, Aurelia. Three Years of Deportation. Ra’anana: DocoStory, 1999.
Póltawska, Wanda. "Ravensbrueck Between Life and Death." Poland, No. 6/106 (1963), pp. 17-19.
__________. And I Am Afraid of My Dreams. New York: Hippocrene Books,1987.
Ravensbrück National memorial. "Der Zellenbau Ravensbrück: The cell block at Ravensbrück women's concentration camp" (brochure), 1987.
__________. "National Memorial of Ravensbrück--Museum" (brochure).
Saidel, Rochelle. "Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp: Before and after Liberation," in Douglas F. Tobler, ed., Remembrance, Repentance Reconciliation: The 25th Anniversary Volume of the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches. Lanham: University Press of America, 1998, pp. 165-175.
__________. "Fifty Years After the Horror: Women Survivors Recall Indignities Unique to Them." Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin. New York, May 4, 1995.
__________. "Ravensbrück." Herança Judaica. B'nai B'rith, São Paulo, October 1995.
__________. "Integrating Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp into Holocaust Memorialization in the United States." Unpublished paper presented at the 26th Annual Scholars Conference On the Holocaust and the Churches, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis MN, March, 1996.
__________. “Recovering the Memoirs of Jewish Women Victims of the Holocaust: The Cases of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and Immigrants to Brazil.” Unpublished paper presented at the 27th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, University of South Florida, Tampa, March 1997.
__________. “Ravensbrück, Memory, Memorialization.” Unpublished paper presented at the Second Bi-Annual Holocaust Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, April 1998.
__________. “From Brazil to Ravensbrück-From Ravensbrück to Brazil,” Unpublished paper presented at the 29th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Nassau Community College, New York, March 1999
___________. “Ravensbrück Women’s’ Concentration Camp: The Brazil Connection,” GenDerations - 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Tromso, Norway, June 1999.
____________. “Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and Rescue in Sweden,” in John K. Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Volume 3. London: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 172-188.
____________, curator. Women of Ravensbrück, Portraits of Courage: Art by Julia Terwilliger (exhibit catalogue). St. Petersburg: The Florida Holocaust Museum, 2001.
Salvesen, Sylvia. Forgive-But Do Not Forget. London: Hutchinson, 1958.
Schäfer, Hildegard. "'Ich wollte nicht, dass Schwaager gegen Schwager kämpft.'" Informationen. Frankfurt am Main: Dec. 1994, no. 40, pp.4-9.
Schikorra, Christa. Kontinuitäten der Ausgrenzung: “Asoziale” Häftlinge im Frauen-Konzentratonslager Ravensbrück. Berlin: Meropol, 2001.
Schroeder-Hildebrand, Dagmar. “Ich sterbe vor Hunger!” Kochrezepte aus dem Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück. Bremen: Donat, 1999.
Schulz, Christa, ed. Der Wind Weht Weinend Über die Ebene: Ravensbrücker Gedichte. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten/Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Editions Tirésias Michel Reynaud, 1991, 1995.
Schütt, Karl Heinz. Ein vergessenes Lager? Über das Aussenlager Neustadt-Glewe des Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück. Berlin: GNN-Verlag Sachsen, 1997.
Shelley, Lore, ed. Auschwitz: The Nazi Civilization Lanham: University Press of America, 1992.
Shneiderman, S. L. "LaGuardia's Sister: Eichmann's Hostage." Midstream 7 (No. 1, 1961), pp. 3-19.
Sommer-Lefkowitz, Elizabeth, Are You In This Hell Too? London: The Menard Press, 1995.
Stadt Fürstenberg/Havel Land Brandenbrug-Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dokumentation Internationaler Landschaftsplanerischer Ideenwettbewerb. “Ehemaliges Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück.” 2000
Strebel, Bernard. “Ravensbrück-das zentrale Frauenkonzentrationslager" (“Ravensbrück, the Central Women’s Concentration Camp”) in Herbert Ulrich, Karin Orth, and Christoph Dieckmann, eds. Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Entwicklung und Struktur. (The National Socialistic Concentration Camps - Development and Structure), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998, pp.215-259.
Symonowicz, Wanda, ed. Beyond Human Endurance: The Ravensbrück Women Tell Their Stories. Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1970.
Ten Boom, Corrie. The Hiding Place. New York: Bantam, 1971 (1983 edition).
Tillion, Germaine. Ravensbrück. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
de Toulouse-Lautrec, Béatrix. J’ai eu vingt ans à Ravensbrück: La Victoire en Pleurant. Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1991.
Walz, Loretta. Erinnern an Ravensbrück. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, 1998.
Werner, Ruth. Olga Benario: A Hístoria de uma Mulher Corajosa. São Paulo: Editora Alfa-Omega, 1987.

Memoirs and Testimonies: Women and the Holocaust
Aaron, Frieda W. Bearing the Unbearable. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,1990.
Aubrac, Lucie. Outwitting the Gestapo. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Birger, Trudi. A Daughter's Gift of Love. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Birnak, Alice. Next Year, God Willing. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1994.
Cantor, Aviva. "She Fought Back - An Interview with Vilna Partisan Vitke Kempner." Lilith (no. 16, Spring 1987) pp. 20-24.
Dawidowicz, Lucy. From That Place and Time: A Memoir 1938-1947. New York: Norton, 1989.
Delbo, Charlotte. None of Us Will Return. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Eliach, Yaffa. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust. New York: Avon Books, 1982.
Feltstiner, Mary Lowenthal. "Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon." Lifelines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography. Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck, editors. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 320-337.
Fénelon, Fania. Playing for Time. Michael Joseph Ltd. and Atheneum Publishers, 1977.
Fishman, Lala and Steven Weingartner. Lala’s Story. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997.
Fittko, Lisa. Escape through the Pyrenees. Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
__________. Solidarity & Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993.
Fogelman, Eva. Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Fuchs, Esther. Women and the Holocaust. Blue Ridge Summit: University Press of America, 1999.
Furse, Elisabeth and Ann Barr. Dream Weaver. London: Chapmans, 1993.
Gelissen, Rena Kornreich. Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Gies, Miep. Anne Frank Remembered. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Gilbert, Martin. Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe. Mayflower Books, 1979 (see chapters: "Sophia's Story" and "Sara's Story").
Gold, Ruth Glassberg. Ruth’s Story: A Survivor’s Memoir. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Goldenberg, Myrna. "Different Horrors, Same Hell: Women Remembering the Holocaust." Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust. Roger Gottleib, editor. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.
Greenfield, Hana. Fragments of Memory: from Kolin to Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Gefen, 1992.
Grossman, Chaika. The Underground Army: Fighters of the Bialystok Ghetto. New York: Holocaust Library, 1987.
Grünbaum, Irene. Escape through the Balkans (Katherine Morris, ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Gurewitsch, Brana, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Hart, Kitty. I Am Alive. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1961; Corgi, 1962.
__________. Return to Auschwitz. New York: Atheneum, 1981.
Heinemann, Marlene E. Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Heller, Celia. On the Edge of Destruction. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld. Strange and Unexpected Love. New York: Ktav, 1993.
Hillesum, Etty. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Isaacson, Judith Magyar. Seed of Sarah. Urbana: University of Illinois 1990.
Jackson, Livia E. Bitton. Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust. New York: Times Books, 1980.
Katz, Esther and Joan Ringelheim, eds. Proceedings of the Conference of Women Surviving the Holocaust. New York: The Institute for Research in History, 1983.
Klein, Gerda Weissman. All But My Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1957, 1992.
Krasno, Rena. Strangers always: A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai. Berkeley: Pacific View Press, 1992.
Kuchler-Silberman, Lena. My Hundred Children. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1987.
Laska, Vera, ed. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz. New York: Crowell, 1978.
Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1947.
Lerner, Gerda. Why History Matters (Part I). New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Lévy-Hass, Hannah. Inside Belsen. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982.
Linden, R. Ruth. Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993.
Lixl-Purcell, Andreas, ed. Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies since 1933. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Lubetkin, Zivia. In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Am Oved Publishing Houses, 1981.
Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. Israel: Kibbutz Hameuchad, 1977.
Michelson, Frida. I Survived Rumbuli. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979.
Millu, Liana. Smoke Over Birkenau. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
Morris, Katherine. "Balkan Exile: The Autobiography of Irene Gruenbaum." Leo Baeck Yearbook XXXIX. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. for Leo Baeck Institute, 1994, pp. 239-253.
___________. Odyssey of Exile: Jewish Women Flee the Nazis for Brazil. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.
Novack, Judith Mandel. The Lilac Bush. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1989.
Novitch, Miriam. Sobibor: Martyrdom and Revolt. New York: Holocaust Library/Schocken, 1980.
Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman, eds. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Polt, Renata, ed. A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother’s Holocaust Letters. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Quack, Sybille, ed. Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Rapaport, Lynn, "The Double Disadvantage--Being a Jewish Woman in Germany Today." Carlebach, Julius, ed. Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Frau in Deutschland. Berlin: Metropol, 1993, pp. 219-36.
Ringelheim, Joan. "Thoughts about Women and the Holocaust." Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust. Roger S. Gottleib, editor. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.
__________. "The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust." Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual. Chappaquau, NY: Rossel Books, 1984.
Rittner, Carol and John K. Roth, eds. Different Voices. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
Ritvo, Roger and Diane Plotkin Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998.
Rossiter, Margaret L. Women in the Resistance. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986.
Saidel, Rochelle G. "A Luta das Mulheres contra o Nazismo." São Paulo: Shalom Documento, 1993, pp. 44-46.
__________. "Mulheres Judias como Refugiadas em Portugal Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial." Unpublished paper presented at international conference entitled Os Rostos Femininos Da Expansão Portuguesa II, NEMGE/University of São Paulo, São Paulo, August 1995.
__________. "Jewish Women who Immigrated to São Paulo because of Naziism in Europe, 1933- 1949." Unpublished paper presented at the NGO Forum on Women Beijing '95, Beijing, People's Republic of China, September 1995.
__________. "The Experiences of Jewish Women who Immigrated to São Paulo because of Naziism in Europe, 1933-1950: A Work In Progress." Unpublished paper presented at the VIII International Investigative Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, Mexico City, Mexico, November 1995.
Salomon, Charlotte. Charlotte: Life or Theater? An Autobiographical Play by Charlotte Salomon. New York: New York, 1981.
Schneider, Gertrude. Journey into Terror: Story of the Riga Ghetto. New York, Ark House Ltd., 1979
__________, ed. Muted Voices: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Remember. New York: Philosophical Library, 1987.
__________, ed. The Unfinished Road. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
Schulman, Faye. A Partisan's Memoir. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1995.
Schwertfeger, Ruth. Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp. New York, 1989.
Senesh, Hannah. Her Life & Diary. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.
Shelley, Lore. Secretaries of Death. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1986.
__________, ed. The Union Kommando in Auschwitz. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996.
Sowajger, Adina Blady. I Remember Nothing More. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Suhl, Yuri. They Fought Back. New York: Crown Publishers, 1987.
Sutin, Jack and Rochelle. Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1995.
Syrkin, Marie. Blessed is the Match. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947, 1977.
Tec, Nechama. Dry Tears. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
____________. “Reflections on Resistance and Gender.” Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, John Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell, eds., London, Palgrave, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 552-269.
Waterford, Helen. Commitment to the Dead: One Women's Journey Toward Understanding. Colorado: Renaissance House, 1987.
Weiss, Reska. Journey Through Hell. London: Valentine, Mitchell, 1961.
Wyden, Peter. Stella. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Writing the Holocaust: Women’s Imaginative Literature
Fink, Ida et al. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories. Northwestern University Press, 1995.
Fink, Ida. The Journey. New York: Plume/Penguin, 1993.
__________. Traces: Stories. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Karmel, Ilona. An Estate of Memory. New York: The Feminist Press, 1986.
Kolmar, Gertrud. Dark Soliloquy. New York: The Seabury Press, 1975.
Meerbaum-Eisinger, Selma. Ich bin in Sehnsucht eingehülit. Gedichte eines jüdischen Mädchens an seinen Freund. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1989.
Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Sachs, Nelly. O the Chimneys. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1967.
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Anya. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Memorializing Women's Experiences during the Holocaust
Baumel, Judith Tydor. Gender and the Holocaust: Double Jeopardy. London: Valletine Mitchell, 1998.
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Cantor, Aviva. Jewish Women/Jewish Men (chapter on the Holocaust). San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, pp. 375-410.
Chicago, Judy. Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Felstiner, Mary. "Charlotte Salomon's Inward-turning Testimony." Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, Geoffrey Hartman, ed. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993, pp. 104-116.
____________. To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Horowitz, Sara. "Voices from the Killing Ground." Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, Geoffrey Hartman, ed. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993, pp. 43-58.
Koonz, Claudia. "Germany's Buchenwald: Whose Shrine? Whose Memory?" The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History, James Young, ed., Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag and The Jewish Museum, 1994
Kremer, Lillian. Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Lentin, Ronit. Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.
Saidel, Rochelle G. Never Too Late to Remember: The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust Museum. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1996.
__________. "A Política da Memória do Holocausto," Coleção Documentos-Série Assuntos Internaçionais-40: Sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Caderno No. 40, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, August 1995, pp. 1-4.
Young, James. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
______, ed. The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History. Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag and The Jewish Museum, 1994.

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