Anya
by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | 
The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev | 
Heidegger's Glasses
by Thaisa Frank | 
The Key Is Lost
by Ida Vos | 
The Zone of Interest
by Martin Amis | 
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum | 
Lovely Green Eyes
by Arnost Lustig | 
The Death of the Adversary
by Hans Keilson | 
The Life of Objects
by Susanna Moore | 
The Wall
by John Hersey | 
The Street Sweeper
by Elliot Perlman | 
My Mother's Secret
by J. L. Witterick | 
The Book of Aron
by Jim Shepard | 
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally | 
War and Remembrance
by Herman Wouk | 
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada | 
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald | 
The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck | 
The Emigrants
by W. G. Sebald | 
Cross of Iron
by Willi Heinrich |
Gerald Green's novel Holocaust, which is based on his teleplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries, seeks to put faces on the tragedy by telling the story of the experience of two German families whose lives intersect at certain points. The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, and their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions realized in the SS at the side of the ruthless Reynard Heydrich. The Weiss family is Jewish, also seemingly "good" Germans, but doomed under the new regime and its determination to exterminate the Jewish population.