History books about the Holocaust in Poland

Story of a Secret State (later republished under longer, titles, Courier from Poland: The Story of a Secret State and Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World) is a 1944 book by Polish resistance Home Army courier Jan Karski. First published in the United States in 1944, it narrates Karski's experiences with the Polish Secret State), and it is also one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland.

Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath is a 2003 book discussing the Holocaust in Poland. Contributors include Zvi Gitelman, Nechama Tec, Israel Gutman, Henry Abramson, Samuel Kassow, Dariusz Stola, David Engel, Stanisław Krajewski, Feliks Tych, Gunnar S. Paulsson, and Michael C. Steinlauf. It was edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman.

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is a book by American historian Joshua D. Zimmerman, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press, discussing relations between Poland's Jewish population and the Polish resistance in World War II. Zimmerman argues that polarized narratives, one picturing the Polish underground as anti-Semitic and murderous toward Jews and the other hand as heroically rescuing them, are oversimplified; in fact, different segments and members of the Home Army behaved in diverse ways. The book has received mostly-positive reviews for its evenhanded treatment of a contentious subject matter.

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland is a book published in 2000 written by Princeton University historian Jan T. Gross exploring the July 1941 Jedwabne massacre committed against Polish Jews by their non-Jewish neighbors in the village of Jedwabne in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–45 is a 1994 book by Richard C. Lukas published by Hippocrene Books, focusing on the topic of Nazi Germany treatment of children during World War II, covering topics of Nazi crimes against children with focus on Polish and Jewish children.

Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48 (2014) is a book by the Polish historian Anna Cichopek, based on her PhD thesis at the University of Michigan, which examines Holocaust survivors in postwar Poland and Slovakia and how they went about regaining their Aryanized property, obtaining citizenship in their country of residence, and dealing with violence from non-Jews.

The Ugly Black Bird: The Real Story of Jerzy Kosiński's Wartime Childhood is the 2018 English-language version of a 1994 Polish-language book, Czarny ptasior by Joanna Siedlecka, about Jewish-Polish-American writer and Holocaust survivor Jerzy Kosiński. The book is Siedlecka's study of Kosiński's life during World War II, which had often been assumed to have resembled the life of the protagonist in his novel The Painted Bird.

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2016 book by Philippe Sands that examines the lives of two Jewish lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, born within three years of each other and students in the same city on the eastern outskirts of Europe, Lviv, who created the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide. It is a memoir and history of the origins of international criminal law in the aftermath of the Second World War.

"What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming is a 2017 book by historian Monika Rice that deals with the memories of Jewish Holocaust survivors of their first encounters with ethnic Poles after liberation from Nazi German rule. The testimonies were all found in archives at Yad Vashem and the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland.

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne is a 2004 book by Polish journalist Anna Bikont on the Jedwabne massacre, a 1941 pogrom of Polish Jews in Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland.