Goran Rosenberg - A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz

Diner, Dan. Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. A collection of essays about the inconceivable nature of the experience I have nonetheless tried to put into words.

Einhorn, Lena. Handelsresande i liv [Traveling salesman in life]. Stockholm: Prisma, 1999. A painstaking study of the surreal game of life and death played out in the negotiations about, among other things, the food parcels to Ravensbrück.

Friedländer, Saul. Memory, History and Extermination of the Jews of Europe . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

——. Nazi Germany and the Jews . 2 vols. New York: Harper-Collins, 1998 and 2008.

Gavin, James M. On to Berlin: Battles of an Airborne Commander 1943–1946 . New York: Viking, 1978. For its account of the liberation of Wöbbelin.

Giertz, Eric. Människor i Scania under 100 år , Norstedts ekonomi. English-language version: Saab-Scania Celebrates Scania 100 years . Saab-Scania, 1991. A glossy official history that yielded important information about life at the big truck factory over the years.

Gottfarb, Inga. Den livsfarliga glömskan. Överlevande berättar om vägen tillbaka [The fatal amnesia: Survivors’ stories of the way back]. An important piece of Swedish oral history, first published in 1986.

Hansson, Svante. Flykt och överlevnad. Flyktingverksamhet i Mosaiska Församlingen i Stockholm 1933–1950 [Escape and survival: Refugee activities in the Jewish community in Stockholm 1933–1950]. Hillelförlaget, 2004. Another scholar who made my task easier.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews . 3 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Three substantial and invaluable volumes on the rise and implementation of the policy of annihilation.

Johansson, Sven. Kyrkbyn som togs i beslag. Dokumentär berättelse om lägren i Öreryd under andra världskriget [The requistioned church village: A documentary account of the camps at Öreryd during the Second World War]. Self-published, 2002.

Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 . New York: Penguin, 2005.

——. “The ‘Problem of Evil’ in Postwar Europe.” New York Review of Books , February 14, 2008.

Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved . Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. London: Michael Joseph, 1988. Levi’s last book includes a chapter entitled “The Grey Zone,” about Chaim Rumkowski and the Łódź ghetto.

——. The Periodic Table (especially the chapter “Argon”). Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Schocken and Penguin, 1984.

Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century . New York: Vintage, 2000.

Ricœur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting . Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Svanberg, Ingvar, and Mattias Tydén. Sverige och Förintelsen [Sweden and the Holocaust]. Stockholm: Dialogos, 2005.