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Sources[edit]

The historian Charles Sydnor has added a list of recommended sources for Auschwitz to his article about the camp in the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos (volume 1, part A; for the sources, pp. 207–208). Download. Posting it here in case it's helpful. SarahSV ^(talk)

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Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (New York: Norton, 1996).
Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, trans. Peter Moss (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989).
Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the David Irving Trial (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
Sybille Steinbacher, Auschwitz: A History, trans. Shaun Whiteside (New York: ECCO, 2005).
Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939–1945 (New York: H. Holt, 1995).
Jonathan Webber and Connie Wilsack, Auschwitz: A History in Photographs, compiled originally by Teresa Swiebocka (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).
Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981).
Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper, Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camps, five volumes (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000).
Peter F. Hayes, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Josef Buszko, Auschwitz: Nazi Extermination Camp, 2nd ed. (Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1985).
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3rd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
For the Auschwitz garrison orders: Norbert Frei et al., Standort- und Kommandanturbefehle des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz 1940–1945, vol. 1 of Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte von Auschwitz (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2000).

Personal accounts

Rudolf Höss, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, ed. Steven Paskuly and trans. Andrew Pollinger (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992).
Rudolf Vrba and Alan Bestic, I Cannot Forgive (New York: Bantam, 1964).
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1988).
Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz, trans. Harry Zohn (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004).
Filip Müller with Helmut Freitag, Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando, ed. and trans. Susanne Flatauer (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1979).
Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski, We Were in Auschwitz, trans. Alicia Nitecki (1946; repr., New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000).