Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader

Diary of Anne Frank

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List.
This remarkable story took place near Krakow.

Levi, Primo.

• Survival in Auschwitz
• The Drowned and the Saved
• The Periodic Table

These are one of the best books on this painful subject: a survivor muses on the unthinkable, and maintains his humanity.

Otto, Friedrich. “The Kingdom of Auschwitz” Atlantic Monthly.
Vol. 248, #3 (September 1981), pp. 30 - 60.
A short, comprehensive report - and in reading of such a painful nature,
short may be best.

Ringelblum, Emmuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Wiesel, Elie. Night.