Holocaust memories : a survey of Holocaust memoirs, histories, novels, and films / Claudia Moscovici ; foreword by Rabbi Joseph Polak.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230).

Foreword -- Preface: A precedent for the Holocaust: The Armenian genocide and the promise -- Introduction -- Between fanaticism and terror: Hitler, Stalin, and the noise of time -- Elie Wiesel's Night: Shedding light upon the darkness -- Bergen-Belsen and four perfect pebbles -- Last seven months of Anne Frank and Willy Lindwer -- Hazy hints of memory: After the Holocaust the bells still ringing -- Survivors club: A family's legendary tale -- Primo Levi's reflection on humanity in crisis: Survival in Auschwitz -- Sarah's key and the Holocaust in France -- Holocaust in Hungary: Leni Yahil's The Holocaust -- A Holocaust hero in Hungary: Wallenberg by Kati Marton -- Imre Kertesz's fatelessness -- Anti-Semitism in Hungary today -- Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism: Why the Jews? -- Role of the masses in the origins of totalitarianism -- Beyond the Jewish genocide: Inferno by Max Hastings -- Hitler's ban on modern art: The "degenerate art" exhibit -- Saving European art from the Nazis: The monuments men -- Holocaust in Austria and woman in gold -- On the Anschluss: Becoming Alice -- Gypsy Holocaust: The Nazi persecution of the Gypsies -- Eichmann in Jerusalem: What is the banality of evil? -- Real banality of evil: Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning -- Eichmann's extraordinary evil: Eichmann before Jerusalem -- Concentration camp commandants: Soldiers of evil -- Auschwitz Kommandant: Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel -- Real story of the Terezin Jewish Ghetto: I am a star -- Wannasee Conference: Planning the final solution -- America first -- Quiet Neighbors by Allan A. Ryan -- Action T4: From "euthanasia" to the final solution -- Hitler's Niece and historical fiction -- An unlikely hero: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally -- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: An Instructive fable -- Forgiven but never forgotten -- The 1936 Berlin olympics: The boys in the boat -- Manufacturing death: Hell's cartel -- Prosecuting war crimes: The Nuremberg Trial -- Kamikaze Warfare: Inferno -- Hateful words:Nazi propaganda -- A Cowardly success: Bloodlands -- Planning a Soviet Holocaust: Stalin's last crime -- Lebensraum: The Second World War -- Seige of Leningrad and genocide by starvation -- Murderous Einsatzgruppen (task forces): Israel Gutman's resistance -- Poland's plight: Gustaw Herling's A World Apart -- Children of the War Years: Witnesses of war -- Sophie's choice: Holocaust literature as psychological fiction -- An incredible tale of survival: Alicia: My story -- Revealing the ugly truth: The Holocaust in Romania -- A Romanian hero: The memoirs of Wilhelm Filderman -- Ion Antonescu: Hitler's forgotten ally -- Anti-Semitism in Romania: The journal of Mihai Sebastian -- Heroism in Hell: Resistance: The Warsaw ghetto uprising -- Privilege and persecution: the diary of Mary Berg -- Janusz Korczak: The king of the children of the Warsaw Ghetto -- Pianist: The extraordinary story of survival in Warsaw -- Trapped in the Lodz Ghetto: The cage -- Book Thief: Holocaust literature as best seller -- Forgotten Holocaust: The rape of Nanking -- Cataclysmic war: Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 -- Cultural revolution and the great leap forward -- The killing fields: Genocide in Cambodia -- Genocide in Rwanda: Me against my brother -- North Korea's state of terror: Nothing to envy -- Yad Vashem: "A place and a name" of rememberance -- An impossible conflict in Gaza: Rock the Casbah -- Anti-Semitism today and the assault on democratic values -- Would you forgive the Nazi perpetrator?: The Sunflower -- Could the Holocaust happen again?: Nazi hunter -- Ethics above politics -- Conclusion: Judaic studies and the holocaust via reviews.