SOURCE DOCUMENTS

 

"Bach, Baroque -- and Bonsai," Michael Levin's 1983 New York Times article about Leipzig in East Germany, written after his initial 1982 trip there with Anna and Hirsch, was a gateway to "Papers, Please: A Twentieth Century Odyssey," the 1200-page private digital source-book from which Two Pianos was drawn.  (That private site is now a public hub for all Papers Please activities.) The full text from the NY Times digital archive is here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECT FURTHER READING

 

 

Aryanization” in Leipzig:  Driven Out. Robbed.  Murdered. (Exhibit Catalogue; Leipzig City History Museum, 2009)

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Berg, Mary, Warsaw Ghetto:  A Diary (L.B. Fischer, NY, 1945)

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Bliven, Bruce, “Thank You, Hitler!” The New Republic (10 Nov. 1937)

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Gold, Fran, "Survivor Recalls Ghetto," The Jewish Horizon, p. 12 (25 March 1993) (interview with Jola Hoffman)

 

Goldsmith, Martin, The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany (Wiley, NY, 2001) (intertwined with the history of the Kulturbund)

 

Lukas, Richard C., Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust (U. Kentucky press, 1989) (containing interviews with Zofia Rontaler and her sister-in-law, Krystyna Lipińska, Resistance figures later honored as "Righteous Gentiles" at Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) for helping save Halina and Jola in the Warsaw Ghetto)

 

Preil, Joseph J., ed., Holocaust Testimonies:  European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey (Rutgers Univ. Press, NJ, 2001)

 

For a more extensive bibliography, please visit our Papers Please website,  www.paperspleaseanodyssey.org