Background Reading
About Jews in Poland and/or the Holocaust:
Aharon Appelfeld, For Every Sin (translated by Jeffrey M. Green)
++Aharon Appelfeld, To the Edge of Sorrow (translated by Stuart Schoffman)
++Michal Ben-Naftali, The Teacher (translated by Daniella Zamir)
++L. Annette Binder, The Vanishing Sky
++Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, The Passenger (translated by Philip Boehm)
Natalie Danford, Inheritance: A Novel
Gwen Edelman, The Train to Warsaw
Jennifer Cody Epstein, Wunderland
Linda Grant, The Clothes on their Backs
++Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones
Walter Kempowski, All for Nothing (translated by Anthea Bell)
Binnie Kirshenbaum, Hester among the Ruins
Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Charles Powers, In the Memory of the Forest
Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
++Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shosha
Mark Slouka, The Visible World
Aleksandar Tisma, Kapo (translated by Richard Williams)
++Szczepan Twardoch, The King of Warsaw (translated by Sean Gasper Bye)
About Polish (non-Jewish) culture and history:
Jennifer Haigh, Baker Towers
Keith Maillard, The Clarinet Polka
Eva Mekler, The Polish Woman
Bathsheba Monk, Now You See It: Stories from Cokesville, PA
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FICTION
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NONFICTION
Masha Gessen, Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Yisrael Gutman and Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of Poland between Two World Wars
Eva Hoffman, Shtetl
Jonathan Kaufman, A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe
Noah Lederman, A World Erased: A Grandson’s Search for His Family’s Holocaust Secrets
++Livia Manera Sambuy, In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
Judy Rakowsky, Jews in the Garden
++R.D. Rosen, Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community
++Geraldine Schwarz, Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe--A Memoir, A History, A Warning
Louise Steinman, The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
Christine Zamoyska-Panek, Have You Forgotten? A Memoir of Poland, 1939-1945
AND SOME MOVIES…
Aftermath (2012), director Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story (2008), director Joel Santoni
Ida (2013), director Pawel Pawlikowski
The Pianist (2002), director Roman Polanski
Schindler’s List (1993), director Steven Spielberg