Seattle Repertory Theatre presents 'Here There are Blueberries' by Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich from January 21 to February 15, 2026. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books, films, and websites to enhance your experience of the show.
The Zone of Interest
A haunting indictment of the people who willingly bought the party line of racial purity and ethnic cleansing, this novel is as audacious as it is chilling. (Library Journal)
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View The Zone of InterestThe Postcard
In Berest's phenomenal English-language debut novel, the author pieces together stories of her ancestors who were lost at Auschwitz. In 2003, Anne's mother receives a cryptic postcard containing only the names of four relatives, all of whom died in the Holocaust. The postcard remains an enigma until 10 years later when Anne decides she's ready to learn more about her roots. (Publishers Weekly)
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View The PostcardBy Chance Alone
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing. (Publisher's copy)
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View By Chance AloneEscape From A Nazi Death Camp
This streaming documentary recounts the 1943 prison outbreak at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, in which 300 of the 600 prisoners escaped. Several of the 50 who survived the war tell their story here.
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View Escape From A Nazi Death CampThe Death of Democracy
The international roots of the Nazi movement come into sharp focus in this illuminating and essential book detailing the rise of the Third Reich. (Library Journal)
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View The Death of DemocracyMoment Work
Learn more about HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES playwright Moisés Kaufman's unique approach to the process of theatrical creation in this detailed manual.
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View Moment WorkWhen We Cease to Understand the World
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers (including WWII German physicist Werner Heisenberg) whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. (Publisher's copy)
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View When We Cease to Understand the WorldThe Correspondents
In this rich and evocative history, journalist Mackrell profiles six women who reported on World War II: Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Martha Gellhorn, Helen Kirkpatrick, Lee Miller, and Clare Hollingworth. (Library Journal)
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View The CorrespondentsThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind. (Publisher's copy)
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View The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichMaus
A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. (NoveList)
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