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 survivaclass="underline" 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.