Holocaust, Annotated Bibliography Example

Introduction

This work is an annotated bibliography, which will help me write my final paper on holocaust. This bibliography provides credible sources that provide relevant information and evidence of Nazi army and Jewish genocide in the 20^th century. The bibliography will critically look into the topic of study to give a clear insight of what genocide was like in the 20^th century Nazi Germans against Jews. Each source will be critically evaluated so that a strong argument can be formulated about genocidal conflict.

Bauer, Yehuda A History of the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts. 398 pp. 1982.

This resource presents a through history of the Holocaust and other related events. It provides pertinent statistical tables on Holocaust which reflect the true episode of 20^th century genocidal conflict especially during the period of holocaust. The source also touches on other genocides. The author goes as far as listing the breakdown of country Holocaust, which totals to 5,820,960 murdered Jews (p.335). This work provides real data on genocide cases during the period of holocaust which I will predominantly use in compiling statistics of genocide cases in my final work. Also, I will use this work to compare some other types of genocide highlighted in this source so that I can critically address the topic of study.

Reitlinger, Gerald The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. London: Valentine, Mitchell, and Co. 668 pp. 1968.

This work has detailed information and provides an excellent treatment to Holocausts. it provides a very good understanding to a non-holocaust scholar and the usefulness of their calculations of the total genocide. In the appendix I, the author provides a country by country statistical summary and an analysis of the genocide. This source postulates that 4,204,400 to 4,575,400 Jews were murdered (p.545). This is the lowest count of the genocide cases by any reputable study. This resource will help me compare the statistics with other statistical data from other sources about the genocide so that concise and precise information can be arrived at. Gerald work will also help me generate a good understanding of holocaust to be able to provide deeper understanding of Nazi army and Jews murders.

Fein, Helen, Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization During the Holocaust. New York: The Free Press. 468 p. 1979.

Work done by Fein 1979 is a unique social science and statistical attempt to elucidate the holocaust. This work includes multiple regressions to analyze genocide cases. This resource provides valuable information in form of tables highlighting holocaust. Fein work provides that 4,610000 Jews were murdered during the genocide (p.21) without counting the USSR deaths (P.21). This work compares a variety of genocide estimates of the holocaust and provides rationale for the differences. This work concludes that all sources postulate that there is likelihood that true estimates lies between five and six million (p. 23).This work will help me generate true conception of genocide estimates of the holocaust.

Gilbert, Martin The Macmillan Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 256 pp. 1982.

Gilbert provides an excellent collection of maps showing a variety of aspects concerning the genocide. it includes where the anti-Jewish pogroms and persecutions have occurred, major Jewish communities in Poland, the destruction of Jewish of Croatia Revolts and deportation, death camps, and Bessarabia Jews. Majority of the maps provides statistics of the genocide for instance, one map gives a toll buy each country of slightly over 5,750,000 (pp.244-245). This work will help me identify different places and countries wherever the genocide occurred and where it was intensive. It will also help me develop an understanding of Jewish communities’ populations in Europe countries in the 20^th century.

Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews. New York: Holmes & Meier. 1273 p. 1985.

This is perhaps the mostly quoted work of the genocide historically and statistically. it provides detailed information about the genocide, the killings, and statistical analysis of the killings during holocaust. in the appendix III this work provides statistical data systematically in tables capturing the killing operations by county. This work like others provides that an estimate of about 5,100,000 jaws were murdered. This work will help me develop a literature review of holocaust and use systematic statistical data to compare with other resources so that a more concise estimate of the genocide will be calculated and recorded.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War against the Jews 1933-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 460 pp. 1975.

The source gives general analysis and history of the genocide. It provides a brief account for each country of what happened to the Jews and their toll. According to Dawidowicz, about 5, 9333,900 Jews died /murdered during holocaust period. This source is credible in that it provides in-depth information about the genocide, analysis and statistical evidence of the killings. This will be helpful to my paper for it will enable me to critically evaluate the killings by comparing the data

Berenbaum, Michael (Ed.) Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. New York: New York University Press. 244 pp. 1990.

This work is a collection of articles that provide significant information about the genocide that is not recorded in other books. This work provides other unique topics such as Nazi policies in Ukraine, Poland, Belgium, France and U.S.S.R proper. Further it provides the history of the Slavs, the Nazi euthanasia program, forced labor, pacifists and Croatia. This resource is useful to me because it compares several articles implying that the information contains in it is updated and more reliable. It will help me write the literature review of my final paper. Most importantly it will help me understand the genocide better.

Totten, Simpsons, Parsons, White lane., & Charny, I. (Eds.). Century of genocide: Eyewitness accounts and critical views. New York: Garland, 2004.

This work combines historical facts, scholarly analysis and true accounts written by the survivors and witnesses of the genocide. The elements of personal testimonies in this source enable the readers to transcend the shocking effect emanating from the enormity of every genocide. This source is excellent in that it is among the few texts that include information concerning known genocides of lesser such as Indonesian massacre, Iraqi Kurdistan genocide, the soviet created famine in Ukraine, or the genocides of the Herero’s. This work will help me provide credible information about the genocide based on testimonies of the real victims of the genocide. it will also help me highlight types of genocides like lesser and others.

Amery, Johnston. At the mind’s limits: Contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities. New York: 1980. Schocken Books

Thus is an excellent resource that is written by the survivor of the Holocaust. The source has topics and sections that provide the reader with intimate glimpse of the effects of torture and sustained trauma on the Jews community. This resource will help me use it in conjunction with other research based source to provide rationale for trauma and effects on health of the victims of the genocide.

Berenbaum, Michael. & Peck, Anderson. (Eds.). The Holocaust and history: The known, the unknown, the disputed, and the reexamined. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1998.

This resource is credible and excellent since it provides a collection of 54 essays written by eminent scholars of the Holocaust. It includes topics written by psychologists and sociologists which details sections on the rescue, Nazi ideology, anti-Semitism, “ordinary men” the genocide camps, the international community, resistance, and survivors. This work provides realism of holocaust and arranges the events in a sequential manner so that the reader is kept on track or is driven to stepwise understanding of the genocide. it will help me with more relevant information about the topic more so, the comparisons from the 54sourses.