In this well researched and very well written book about the Holocaust, author Claudia Moscovici reveals the best Holocaust authors who illustrate the events of the Shoah from personal experiences or research. She adds vivid descriptions to the historical events of the Nazi genocide narrative in successive European countries. . . . This is a book that adroitly shines historical light upon examples of our darkest times. In terms of historical fact and our greatest failure of ethics, it serves well as a teaching aid in middle and secondary schools. The author’s clarity demarcates the terror, agony and murder of millions of innocent families at the hands of those willing to negate their potential as human beings. . . . Holocaust Memories takes the reader (and student) on a mesmerizing tale of dread and horror. Yet it also brings a clear message of hope. This outstanding book can play a critical role in teaching the world’s children how to confront morality and how to respect others who are dissimilar.

New York Journal of Books

The screen that portrays the horrors of the twentieth Century is fading more rapidly than its audience can bear. Claudia Moscovici’s book will go far to help keep it lit longer.

Joseph Polak, Author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring, Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award

This book fills a present and mounting need for all readers interested in the Holocaust, including scholars and teachers. With the literature about that unprecedented crime becoming steadily more extensive, Claudia Moscovici's work offers a valuable and well-written guide to key works on various aspects of the Holocaust or on its entire history.

Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University, Director, International Institute of the Righteous Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Center

Holocaust Memories is a morally urgent book, an encyclopedia of mourning, remembrance, and compassion, an invitation and a behest to keep memory alive and to resist unwaveringly any form of authoritarian temptation. It is particularly recommended to high school and college students, but also to a general audience. I learned a lot from it and I am convinced that many others will share my superlative endorsement.

Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of Maryland (College Park)

A well-written series of book reviews that can be used as a solid tool for those who want to study the Holocaust.

Radu Ioanid, author of The Holocaust in Romania and The Ransom of the Jews

Intended for a wide public and a new generation of readers, this bold and ambitious book forms an overview of the Holocaust from a myriad of sources—historical, philosophical, or literary works and films. More than sixty lucid and concise essays (usually two or three pages long) introduce various circumstances of human cruelty in Germany, Hungary, Romania, and Soviet Russia, but also in Cambodia and Rwanda. These focused readings comprise an invaluable source book for anyone seeking to understand the horrors of totalitarian regimes, constantly reminding us that moral courage must prevail over politics.

Edward K. Kaplan, Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Brandeis University, author a two-volume biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)