*Gutman, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Every aspect of life in Warsaw: the foundation of the Judenrat and its
functioning; the open and secret activities of Jews in the Ghetto are described
in this monograph. It also contains a serious discussion of the role of German
policy and the relationship of Polish society to the Jew. All this as a basis
for a thorough analysis of the political organizations responsible for the
preparation and carrying out of the Warsaw revolt.
*Hilberg, Raul., et. al. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.
While chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat (Council of Jewish Council), Adam
Czerniakow kept a secret journal documenting the events in the Warsaw Ghetto
from September 1939 until his death in July 1942. These nine notebooks document
the activities of the Judenrat and the German policy of exploitation of the Jews
of the Warsaw Ghetto.
*Huberband, Shimon. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987.
Part diary, part autobiography, part eyewitness account, and part historical
monograph Rabbi Shimon Huberband's archives covers every aspect of Ghetto-life,
including religious life, cultural activities and heroic self-sacrifice.
*Katsh, Abraham I., Trans. and ed. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Rev. ed. New York: Collier, 1973.
The diary of Chaim Kaplan is the only major document of the Warsaw Ghetto
written in Hebrew and is considered by many to be the premier literary document
of the period. Hidden in a kerosene can, the dairy was discovered only in 1963.
*Keller, Ulrich. The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs: 206 Views Made in 1941. New York: Dover, 1984.
Originally taken by German army photographers for propaganda purposes, these
206 photographs taken in 1941 stand in defiance of this original intentions and,
in fact, document the courage and humanity of the Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants.
This volume also contains an extensive historical introduction by the editor.
*Kermish, Joseph., ed. To Live With Honor and To Die With Honor!...: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives "O.S." ["Oneg Shabbath"]. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1986.
The Warsaw Underground Archives ("O.S.") constitutes the largest collection
of primary materials collected on the Warsaw Ghetto. They reflect the monumental
effort of spiritual resistance carried out by the residents of the Warsaw ghetto
as well as their sense of history.
*Korczak, Janusz. The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979.
These diaries cover a mere four months, from May to August, 1942 and describe
the last days of the children's orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto which Janusz
Korczak directed before he and the children were transported to their deaths in
Treblinka.
*Mark, Ber. Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Schocken, 1979.
Ber Mark was a founder of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. This
volume was the first historical work to appear on the uprising and remains one
of the most important. It contains a day-by-day account of the uprising as well
as 84 documents from the period.
*Milton, Sybil and Andrzej Worth, eds. The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More. New York: Pantheon, 1979.
The Stroop Report, the report of the Nazi commander who directed the
destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, was prepared as a memento for SS-Chief
Heinrich Himmler. It contains a summary introduction, thirty-two teletyped
reports, and a series of photographs. The introduction to the English
translation contains an excellent analysis of the use of language by the Nazis.
*Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. New York: Schocken, 1974.
Emmanuel Ringelblum, the archivist of the Warsaw Ghetto, chronicles the
events in the Ghetto from September 1939 until the eve of the destruction of the
Ghetto in April 1943. Before his execution by the Nazis he managed to hide his
writings which were found in the razed Ghetto after the war.
*Rubinowicz, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. Edmunds, WA: Creative Options, 1982.
Recovered in the rubble of post-war Poland, the terror of living in World War
II Poland is captured through the innocent eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
*Winick, Myron, ed. Hunger Disease: Studies By the Jewish Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Wiley, 1979.
The book constitutes the reports of the scientific study of physicians who
were condemned to die of the same disease they were studying -- hunger and
subsequent starvation. The results of these studies were secretly smuggled out
of the Ghetto in an attempt to inform the world of the extent of Nazi terror.
*Ziemian, Joseph. The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1975.
The astonishing, true story of a group of Jewish children who managed to
escape from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the
Nazi-occupied city showing bravery and resourcefulness.
Adler, Stanislaw. In the Warsaw Ghetto: 1940-1943: An Account of an Eyewitness. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1982.
Ainsztein, Reuben. The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979.
Barkai, Meyer, trans. and ed. The Ghetto Fighters. New York: Tower, 1962.
Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw T. and Antony Polonsky, eds. The Jews in Warsaw: A History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Bauman, Janina. Winter in the Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond 1939-1945. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Berg, Mary. Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary. New York: Fischer, 1945.
Bernheim, Mark. Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak. New York: Lodestar, 1989.
Bielecki, Tadeusz and Leszek Szymanski. Warsaw Aflame: The 1933-1945 Years. Los Angeles: Polamerica Press, 1973.
Borzykowski, Tuvia. Between Tumbling Walls. Tel Aviv: Beit Lohamei Hagettaot, 1976.
Ciborowski, Adolf and Stanislaw Jankowski. Warsaw Rebuilt. Warsaw: Polonia Publishing House, 1962.
Corrsin, Stephen D. Warsaw Before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire 1880-1914. Boulder, Co.: East European Monographs; New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Friedman, Philip, ed. Martyrs and Fighters. New York: Praeger, 1954.
Glatstein, Jacob, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes, eds. Anthology of Holocaust Literature. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969.
Gollert, Friedrich. Warsaw under German Rule: 1939-1942. s.n.: Landpost Press, 1992.
Gutman, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Gutman, Israel. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Hersey, John. The Wall. New York: Knopf, 1967.
Heydecker, Joe E. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Photographic Record 1941-1944. New York: St. Martin Press, 1991.
Hilberg, Raul., et. al. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.
Jung Leo, ed. Guardians of Our Heritage (1724-1953). New York: Bloch, 1958.
Huberband, Shimon. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987.
Kalish, Shoshana and Barbara Meister. Yes, We Sang!: Songs of the Ghettos and Concentration Camps. New York: Harper & Row.
Karski, Jan. Story of a Secret State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944.
Kasprzycki, Jerzy. Warsaw As It Was: Original City Maps before 1939 and in 1945. Warsaw: Alfa, 1985.
Katsh, Abraham I., Trans. and ed. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Rev. ed. New York: Collier, 1973.
Katzenelson, Yitzhak. The Song of the Murdered Jewish People. Ghetto Fighters' House, 1980.
Keller, Ulrich. The Warsaw Ghetto in Photographs: 206 Views Made in 1941. New York: Dover, 1984.
Kermish, Joseph., ed. To Live With Honor and To Die With Honor!...: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives "O.S." ["Oneg Shabbath"]. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1986.
Korczak, Janusz. The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979.
Krall, Hanna. Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: Holt, 1986.
Landau, Elaine. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York : Macmillan, 1992.
Lewin, Abraham. A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989?.
Lifton, Betty Jean. The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1988.
*Mark, Ber. Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Schocken, 1975.
Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. Tel Aviv: Beit Lohamei Hagettaot, 1972.
Mazor, Michel. The Vanished City: Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Translated by David Jacobson. New York: Marsilio, 1993.
Milton, Sybil and Andrzej Worth, eds. The Stroop Report: The Warsaw Ghetto is No More!. New York: Pantheon, 1979.
Mlotek, Eleanor and Malke Gottlieb, comp. We are Here: Songs of the Holocaust. New York: The Educational Department of Workmen's Circle and Hippocrene Books.
Nowak, Jan. Courier From Warsaw. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Nowicki, Ron. Warsaw: The Cabaret Years.: Murcury House, 1992.
Polen, Nehemia. The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymos Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994.
Poteranski, Waclaw. The Warsaw Ghetto: on the 25th Anniversary of the Armed Uprising of 1943. Warsaw: Interpress, 1963.
Ringelblum, Emanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emanuel Ringelblum. New York: Schocken, 1974.
Roland, Charles G. Courage Under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Roskies, David G., ed. The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1988.
Rubinowicz, Dawid. The Diary of David Rubinowicz. Edmunds, WA: Creative Options, 1982.
Shapira, Kalonymus Kalman. A Student's Obligation: Advice from the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto. Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 1991.
Stein, R. Conrad. World at War: Warsaw Ghetto. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1985.
Szwajger, Adina Blady. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. New York: Pantheon, 1990.
Treseder, Terry Walton. Hear, O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto. New York, Atheneum, 1990.
Tushnet, Leonard. The Pavement of Hell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972.
Tushnet, Leonard. The Uses of Adversity: Studies of Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Yoseloff, 1966.
Uris, Leon. Mila 18. New York: Doubleday, 1961.
Winick, Myron, ed. Hunger Disease: Studies By the Jewish Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Wiley, 1979.
Ziemian, Joseph. The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1975.
Zuckerman, Yitzhak. A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Zylberberg, Michael. A Warsaw Diary: 1939-1945. London: Valentine, Mitchell, 1969.
A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1988.
The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising. Warsaw: Interpress, 1988.
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