Books like A guide to the perished city by Barbara Engelking

A firsthand account of daily life, struggle, and persecution within the Łódź ghetto from 1941 until its liquidation in 1944, offering insight into the Jewish community during the Holocaust.

"Mihail Sebastian's diary of the fascist years in Romania, written half a century ago, was at last published only recently, and is here translated into English for the first time. Sebastian was a promising your Jewish writer in prewar Bucharest - a novelist, playwright, poet, and journalist who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. Because of Romania's opportunistic treatment of Jews, he survived the war and the Holocaust, only to be killed in early 1945 in an automobile accident.". "The book offers not only a chronicle of the dark years of Nazism but a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, and a music lover's journal. Above all, it is a measured but blistering account of the "rhinocerization" of major Romanian intellectuals who were Sebastian's friends, including Mircea Elaide and E.M. Cioran, writers and thinkers who were mesmerized by the Nazi-fascist delirium of Europe's "reactionary revolution." In poignant and memorable sequences, Sebastian touches on the progression of the machinery of brutalization and on the historical context that lay behind it."--BOOK JACKET.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

Radu Ioanid’s scholarship reveals the hidden archives of Romania’s Holocaust, detailing Ion Antonescu’s policies of racism, anti‑Semitism, and extermination against a once‑thrice‑largest Jewish community in Europe.

Firsthand accounts from Josef Zelkowicz, a chronicler of the Łódź Ghetto, detailing daily life, persecution, and his diary entries during the Holocaust.

A study of the numerous academics and technocrats whose ideas and patterns of thinking culminated in proposals for the state-directed mass extermination of part of the human race as an entirely necessary and logical component of a long-term programme of social modernisation.