The following list of publications using testimony from the Institute’s archive is not comprehensive. If you have an academic publication not listed here that used testimony from the archive, please contact us. We would love to acknowledge your work.
Publications
DonateBooks
Author | Title |
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Mächler, Stefan, and Binjamin Wilkomirski |
The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth. New York: Schocken Books, 2001. |
Book | 2001 |
Megargee, Geoffrey P, and Martin Dean |
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Volume II. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 2012. |
Book | 2012 |
Michaelis, Andree |
Erzählräume nach Auschwitz. Literarische und videographierte Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der Shoah. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Michlic, Joanna B. |
Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Survival and Polish-Jewish Relations During the Holocaust As Reflected in Early Postwar Recollections. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2008. |
Book | 2008 |
Nissim Momigliano, Luciana |
Ricordi della casa dei morti e altri scritti. Schulim Vogelmann, 147. Firenze: La Giuntina, 2008. |
Book | 2008 |
Osokina, E. A. |
Zoloto dlia industrializatsii: torgsin. Moscow: ROSSPĖN, 2009. |
Book | 2009 |
Palosuo, Laura |
Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections: Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920-1945. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2008. |
Book | 2008 |
Piersma, Hinke |
Mensenheugenis. Amsterdam: B. Bakker, 2001. |
Book | 2001 |
Plato, Alexander , Almut Leh, and Christoph Thonfeld |
Hitler's Slaves: Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. |
Book | 2010 |
Reisman, Arnold |
Shoah: Turkey, the US and the UK. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2009. |
Book | 2009 |
Ritchie, Donald A. |
The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. |
Book | 2011 |
Roemer, Nils |
German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press, 2010. |
Book | 2010 |
Rosen, Ilana |
Be-Oshṿits taḳanu ba-shofar: yotse Ḳarpaṭoros mesaprim al ha-shoah. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004. |
Book | 2004 |
Schreiber, Horst, Gerald Steinacher, and Philipp Trafojer |
Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus in Tirol und Südtirol: Opfer, Täter, Gegner. Tiroler Studien zu Geschichte und Politik, Bd. 8. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2008. |
Book | 2008 |
Shandler, Jeffrey |
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America. New York: New York University Press, 2009. |
Book | 2009 |
Stier, Oren B. |
Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. |
Book | 2003 |
Totten, Samuel, and Stephen Feinberg |
Teaching and Studying the Holocaust. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001. |
Book | 2001 |
Walker, Janet |
Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. |
Book | 2005 |
Beorn, Waitman Wade |
Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014. |
Book | 2014 |
Cole, Tim |
Traces of the Holocaust: Journeying in and Out of the Ghettos. London: Continuum, 2011. |
Book | 2011 |
Combe, Sonia |
Une Vie Contre une Autre: Échange de Victime et Modalités de Survie dans le Camp de Buchenwald. Paris: Fayard, 2014. |
Book | 2014 |
Grabowski, Jan |
Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Lower, Wendy |
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Rozett, Robert |
Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, International Instutute for Holocaust Research, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Seipp, Adam R. |
Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Kaplan-Weinger, Judith, and Yonit Hoffman |
"Testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors: Characterizing the Narratives of Resistance and Resilience." The Holocaust: Memories and History. Eds. Viktorii͡a Khiterer, Ryan Barrick, and David Misal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 106-132. |
Book | 2014 |
Allen, Arthur |
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. |
Book | 2014 |
Hes, Milan |
Promluvili o zlu: Holocaust mezi dějinami a pamětí. Praha: Epocha, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Hes, Milan |
Dny Strachu: Osudy Ukrývaných Židů Na Slovensku V Časech Vlády Jozefa Tisa. Praha: Epocha, 2013. |
Book | 2013 |
Hes, Milan |
Čekání Na Smrt: Rodinný Tábor Českých Židů V Osvětimi. Praha: Pražská Vydavatelská Společnost, 2012. |
Book | 2012 |
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Publication Highlight

Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.
On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. While Nazi death squads routinely carried out mass executions on the Eastern Front, this particular atrocity was not the work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness is a bone-chilling exposé of the ordinary footsoldiers who participated in the Final Solution on a daily basis.
Although scholars have exploded the myth that the Wehrmacht played no significant part in the Holocaust, a concrete picture of its involvement at the local level has been lacking. Among the crimes Waitman Wade Beorn unearths are forced labor, sexual violence, and graverobbing, though a few soldiers refused to participate and even helped Jews. By meticulously reconstructing the German army’s activities in Belarus in 1941, Marching into Darkness reveals in stark detail how the army willingly fulfilled its role as an agent of murder on a massive scale. Early efforts at improvised extermination progressively became much more methodical, with some army units going so far as to organize “Jew hunts.” Beorn also demonstrates how the Wehrmacht used the pretense of anti-partisan warfare as a subterfuge by reporting murdered Jews as partisans.