Documentaries

The US and the Holocaust , Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution, Numbered, The last survivors

Books

Lily’s promise by Lily Ebert, The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman, The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jake, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Denial by Deborah Lipstadt, Jews don’t Count by David Baddiel (not about the Holocaust but about Anti-semitism today)

Films

Conspiracy, Shoah, Schindler’s list, Denial , Anne Frank Parallel Stories

I wanted to make this post as survey’s are showing us that the Holocaust is fading into History. In the US, Sixty-three percent of those surveyed did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and over half of those thought the death toll was fewer than 2 million. Over 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos were established during World War II, but nearly half of U.S. respondents could not name a single one. Part of the reason why the Holocaust happened because people decided to look away, normal everyday people became monsters. People who had lived peacefully bedside Jews for generations decided that Jews deserved death. It was ordinary people and could absolutely happen again. It could be anyone and anywhere. Ordinary people enable genocides to happen. It’s also important to remember Jehovah's Witnesses, Polish People, Disabled people, Romani people, LGBTQ+ people, were also victims of the Holocaust. The US Congress and most the rest of world didn’t want Jews either. The US Congress at the time made it harder for Jews to come to US as refugees. Reports of Jews being shot and killed in great numbers were well known in the US and reported, yet congress at the time still actively blocked the amount of the refugees coming in from Europe.