Some literary responses to the Holocaust are based on actual experiences and/or memoirs of survivors. Others are fiction pieces, often based on extensive research, by writers and poets who were, in one form or another, touched or influenced by the enormous tragedy that predominantly befell the Jews of Europe during World War II. The listed works that follow include both categories.

#Amis, Martin. Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence. New York: Harmony Books, 1991. [Reversed- time narration from the viewpoint of a Nazi doctor]

Appelfeld, Aharon. The Iron Tracks. New York: Schocken B., 1998. [A post-Holocaust story]

*Appelfeld, Aron. Katerinah. Trans. from the Hebrew Jeffrey M. Green. New York: Random House, 1992.

*Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust. Art; Poetry; Stories. Ed. Cynthia Moskowitz Brody. Studies in the Shoah. Vo. XXIV. New York: University Press of America, 2001.

*Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian. Ghost Children: Poems. Vancouver, BC: Ronsdale Press, 2000. [The poet stands ‘transfixed at the edge of the apocalypse.’]

Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, trans. Barbara Vedder. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Canetti, Elias. The Human Province. Trans. Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Paulist, 1967.

Celan, Paul. Poems of Paul Celan. Trans. Michael Hamburger. New York: Persea Books, 1980.

*Fink, Ida. The Journey. Trans Joanna Weschler and Francine Prose. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.

*#Fink, Ida, A Scrap of Time and other Stories New York: Schocken Books, 1987. [A collection of stories about life in wartime Poland] Goes, Albrecht. The Burnt Offering. Trans. from the German Michael Hamburger. New York: Pantheon, 1956. Kertész, Imre. Kaddish For A Child Not Born. Evanson, IL: Northwestern University Press. [Nobel prize winner in 2002]

Klein, A.M. The Hitleriad. New York: New Directions, 1944.

Kolmar, Gertrud. Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems Of Gertrud Kolmar. Trans. from the German and Introduction Henry A. Smith. Foreword Cynthia Ozick. New York: Seabury Press, 1975. [Poems in English and German]

Lustig, Arnost. Darkness Casts No Shadow. Trans. Jeanne Nemcova. Washington: Inscape, 1976.

*Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1996.

*Morante, Elsa. History: A Novel. Trans. from the Italian by William Weaver. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1977.

*#Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl; Rosa. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1989.

Oz, Amos. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind. Trans. from the Hebrew Nocholas de Lange. New York: Harcourt, 1974.

*Reichart, Elisabth. La valse and Foreign. Trans. from the German Linda C. DeMeritt. Albany, NY: State University of NewYork, 2000. [Collection of short stories; see “How Close to Mauthausen?”]

*Rosenfarb, Chava. Survivors: Seven Short Stories. Toronto, ON: Cormorant Books, 2004.

*Schaeffer, Susan F. Anya. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

*Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader. Trans. Carol Brown Janeway. New York: Random House, 1998.

Schwarz-Bart, André. The Last of the Just. Trans. Stepen Becker. London: Secker and Warburg, 1961.

#Sebald, W.G. [Winfried, Gunther]. Trans. from the German Austerlitz. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002. [History & architecture, memory, Theresienstadt, Kindertransport]

Sebald, W.G. [Winfried, Gunther] The Emigrants. Trans. Michael Hulse. New York: New Directions, 1996.

#Semprun, Jorge. The Long Voyage. Trans. Richard Seaver. New York: Grove Press, 1964. [Narrating the transport from France to the concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.]

#Spiegelman, Art. Maus [Vols I & II]. New York: Pantheon, 1991. [Comic strip with Nazis as cats and Jews as mice]

Steinfeld, J.J. Dancing at the Club Holocaust: Stories New and Selected. Charlottetown, Canada: Ragweed, 1993. [Holocaust images as clichés]

*Szeman, Sherri. The Kommandant's Mistress. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. [Simulated Auschwitz memories of a concentration camp commander and a female Jewish inmate presented as two viewpoints]

#Tisma, Aleksandar.Kapo. Beograd: Nolit, 1987. Trans. from the Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams. New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace, 1993. [Memoir-like story of a man who was both a concentration camp perpetrator and victim]

*Thomas, D.M. The White Hotel. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.

#Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. New York: Schocken Books, 1996. [Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences narrated from the perspective of a small child]