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*Adelson, Alan. The Diary of David Sierakowiak. 271 p. 940.53 Sie
Presents the notebooks of Dawid Sierakowiak, kept between June 28, 1939, shortly before his fifteenth
birthday, and April 15, 1943, a few months before his death, telling what life was like for the Jews who were forced
to live in the sealed Lodz Ghetto in Poland during World War II.
Alban, Andrea. Anya’s War. 188 p.
Almagor, Gila. Under the Domin Tree. 164 p.
Chronicles the joys and troubles experienced by a group of teenagers, mostly Holocaust survivors, living at
an Israeli youth settlement in 1953.
*Atkinson, Linda. In Kindling Flame. 206 p. 940.53 Atk
A biography of a Jewish heroine whose resistance work during World War II made her a martyr and an
inspiration to those with whom she worked.
*Ayer, Eleanor H. Parallel Journeys. 244 p. 940.53 Aye
An account of World War II in Germany as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a
Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Baer, Edith. A Frost in the Night: A Girlhood on the Eve of the Third Reich. 208 p.
A collection of interviews in which young people from Eastern Europe describe what life is like as
descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Briskin, Mae. The Tree Still Stands: A Novel of Rescue and Resistance. 254 p.
The story of a Jewish family who leaves Warsaw, Poland in 1939. They travel through France searching for
safety and then on into Italy, where they are forced to separate.
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire. 273 p.
A book about the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, which left about one and a half million dead. Based
on a true story, this powerful historical novel tells about the tragedy through the personal experience of Vahan
Kenderian, a 12-year-old child of one of the richest and most respected Armenians in Turkey when his home is
invaded and his protected life is torn apart.
Bat-Ami, Miriam. Two Suns in the Sky. 223 p.
An American Catholic girl falls in love with a Jewish refugee from Yugoslavia.
Bennett, Cherie. Anne Frank and Me. 291 p.
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life
of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
*Ben-Atar, Roma Nutkiewicz. What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust.
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Roma Ben-Atar recounts the experiences she had during the Holocaust, describing how she survived life in
the concentration camps by talking to the soul of her mother, who died at the hands of the Nazis.
*Birenbaum, Halina. Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror. 227 p.
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Halina Birenbaum recounts the experiences she had while coming of age as a young Jewish girl in the
Warsaw ghetto and concentration camps during the Holocaust.
*Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust. 216 p.
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A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp
where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944 when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.
*Bitton-Jackson, Livia. My Bridges of Hope. 378 p. 921 Jac
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Sequel to: I have lived a thousand years. In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteenyear-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try
to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.
Blum, Jenna. Those Who Save Us. 482 p.
Trudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage, embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and
uncovers secrets that her mother has kept hidden for five decades.
*Boas, Jacob. We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust. 196 p. 940.53 Boa
Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War
II.
Boyne, John. The Boy in Striped Pajamas: a Fable. 215 p.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son
of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Chessex, Jacques. A Jew Must Die. 92 p.
A fact-based novel about a Jewish merchant in Payerne, Switzerland, who was murdered by Swiss Nazis,
blaming unemployment and bankruptcies on the Jews, and vowing to set the murdered man’s mother up as an
example.
Degens, Terry. Transport 7-41-R. 176 p.
A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on
a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
Downing, David. Stettin Station. 289 p.
John Russell, an Anglo-American journalist working in Berlin during World War II, encounters scandal
and murder while investigating what is happening to the Berlin Jews that are being shipped East, and finds himself
in the middle of the Abwehr—an anti-Nazi German intelligence organization—and American intelligence.
*Eichengreen, Lucille. From Ashes to Life 248 p. 940.53 Eic
Celia's straightforward account begins with name calling by other children in Hamburg, Germany in 1933;
continues through her father's deportation and death in Dachau when she was 16 years old; her mother's
starvation; and her experiences in Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen. She shares what happened after
she left the camps, her role in the war trials, and adjustment to postwar life.
*Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl. 283 p. 921 Fra
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent
hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.
Friedman, Carl. Nightfather. 129 p.
The young daughter of a Holocaust survivor tells of the efforts she and her brothers make to try to bridge
the gulf between themselves and their father that has been formed by his camp experiences.
Friedman, D. Dina. Escaping into the Night. 199 p.
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is
taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.
Furst, Alan. Night Soldiers. 464 p.
Young Bulgarian fisherman Khristo Stoianev, having watched his brother be kicked to death by Fascist
troops in 1934, is recruited as a spy by the Soviets and becomes part of a brotherhood that sustains him through
danger in Spain, Paris, Prague, and throughout Europe in the years before World War II.
*Gelissen, Rena Kornreich. Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. 271 p. 940.53 Gel
Tells of two sisters who survived the inhumane conditions of the Third Reich's concentration camps
during World War II.
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. 269 p. 940.53 Gil
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Chronicles the events surrounding Kristallnacht, in which Nazi troops and Hitler Youth destroyed Jewish
neighborhoods across Germany, and examines how the rest of the world reacted to the act of terror and
destruction.
Glatsteyn, Jacob. Emil and Karl. 194 p.
Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when
events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.
Gleitzman, Morris. Once. 163 p.
Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem
is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his
parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents are in danger, Felix sets
off to warn them--straight into the heart of Nazi-occupied Poland. To Felix, everything is a story: Why did he get a
whole carrot in his soup? It must be sign that his parents are coming to get him. Why are the Nazis burning books?
They must be foreign librarians sent to clean out the orphanage's outdated library. But as Felix's
journey gets increasingly dangerous, he begins to see horrors that not even stories can explain. Despite his grim
surroundings, Felix never loses hope.
Gleitzman, Morris. THEN. 196 p.
After Nazi soldiers commandeer their orphanage in Poland, young Felix escapes with his friend Zelda, but
the safe places the pair finds to hide quickly turn dangerous, and the orphans must remain on the run to avoid
capture and death in a concentration camp.
Gold, Alison Leslie. Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a childhood friend. 135 p.
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Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive.
Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier. 230 p.
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a
twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
Greif, Jean-Jacques. The Fighter. 211 p.
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness to help him survive the
horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II.
Hackl, Erich. The Wedding in Auschwitz. 148 p.
Rudi Friemel, a soldier with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, is captured and eventually
sent to Auschwitz where he petitions and is granted permission to marry his sweetheart Marga, the mother of his
child.
Hillman, Laura. I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: a Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor. 241 p.
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The author tells of her experiences in eight concentrations camps as a young Jewish woman in World War
II Germany, and shares the story of how she and her husband met and fell in love in spite of their situation, and
how they were saved by being put on the list to work at Oskar Schindler's factory.
*Holliday, Laurel. Children in the Holocaust and WWII: Their Secret Diaries 409p. 940.53 Hol
An anthology of twenty-three diaries written during the Holocaust by children, some of whom were later
murdered by the Nazis.
Isaacs, Anne. Torn Thread. 188 p.
In an attempt to save his daughter’s life, Eva’s father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in
Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List. 400p.
The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory
camp to protect Jews during World War II.
Kerr, Judith. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. 191 p.
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A Jewish girl and her family escape Berlin just before Hitler gains power and spend the next few years as
refugees in Switzerland, France and England.
*Kherdian, Veron. The Road from Home: the story of an Armenian Girl. 238 p. 921 Khe
A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish
government deported its Armenian population.
*Korn, Abram. Abe’s Story: A Holocaust Memoir. 187 p. 940.53 Kor
Captured by the Nazis as a teenager in Poland, the author tells of his survival and eventual move to
America where he proudly worked and raised a family.
Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal. Memories of Survival. 63 p.
Presents a collection of embroidered panels depicting the childhood memories of the author and her
survival of the Holocaust in Poland during World War II.
Levitin, Sonia. Room in the Heart. 290 p.
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteenyear-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist
the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.
*Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: a child of war. 239 p. 940.53 Lob
The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during
World War II and their years in Sweden afterwards.
Matas, Carol. After the War. 116 p.
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to
lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
*Meyerhoff, Marianne. Four Girls from Berlin : the True Story of a Friendship that Defied the Holocaust.
241 p. 940.53 Mey
The author tells the story of her mother, Lotte, a Jewish woman who was able to escape Germany as a
young bride shortly before World War II, and whose reluctance to talk about her past was eased when her three
girlfriends, all German women, sent her a package full of personal documents, photographs, and other keepsakes
they had risked their own safety to preserve for Lotte.
Newbery, Linda. Sisterland. 369 p.
When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by
revelations from her life during World War II.
*Nir, Yehuda. The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir. 256 p. 940.53 Nir
The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister survived
World War II through cunning and guile.
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*Oertelt., Henry A. An Unbroken Chain: My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust. 160 p.
Henry Oertelt chronicles the experiences he had while being held in Nazi concentration camps during
World War II.
*Opdyke, Irene Gut. In My Hands. 274 p. 940.53 Opd
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the
Holocaust.
Orlev, Uri. The Man from the Other Side. 186 p.
Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his
grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run. 186 p.
Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive
throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
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Pausewang, Gudrun. The Final Journey. 153
The horrors of the Holocaust in a haunting novel that opens as a young Jewish girl who has grown up in
Nazi Germany boards a train with her grandfather bound for Auschwitz: It's the beginning of a journey to hell.
*Perl, Lila. Four Perfect Pebbles: a Holocaust story. 130 p. 940.53 Per
The author tells the story of her family's experiences as Jews in Hitler's Germany, tracing their horrifying
journey from their home country to Holland and back again, living in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including
Bergen-Belsen.
Polak, Monique. What World is Left. 215 p.
Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's
father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic
place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.
Pressler, Mirjam. Malka 280 p.
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to
Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself
in a ghetto.
*Rabinovic, Shoshanah. Thanks to My Mother. 921 Rab
After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much
suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before
being liberated by the Russian army.
Rochman, Hazel. Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust. 135 p.
Offers a multi-faceted view of the Holocaust, from a child’s bewilderment at having to wear a star and
later go into hiding, to the agony of the camps themselves.
Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. 227 p.
From 1939, when Syvia is four and half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and
her family struggle to survive in Poland’s Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. A verse novel.
*Sender, Ruth Minsky. The Cage. 209 p. 940.53 Sen
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a Polish ghetto,
during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
Sharenow, Robert. The Berlin Boxing Club. 400 p.
Siegel, Aranka. Upon the Head of the Goat: a Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944. 183 p.
Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates to the
ordeal of survival in the ghetto.
*Spiegelman, Art Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. 295 p. GNF 940.53 Spi
Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist
who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice
and Nazis as cats.
*Spiegelman, Art. Maus II. 135 p. GNF 940.53 Spi
A continuation of the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the author relates, in
cartoon form, his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II. Illustrations portray Jews as
mice and Nazis as cats. (see above.)
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed. 208 p.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of
orphans in the Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
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Strasser, Todd. The Wave. 138 p.
Presents a fictionalization of a real experiment at a California high school in which a history teacher started
a fascist youth movement in an effort to show his students that the Holocaust could indeed happen again.
*Tenboom, Corrie. The Hiding Place. 221 p. 940.53 Ten
The biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the
Nazi's during World War II.
Wiesel, Elie. The Accident. 109 p.
A Holocaust survivor who cannot seem to forge ahead with his life, steps off a curb into the path of a taxi
in Times Square, and hovers between life and death while reliving the horror and tragedy of his past.
Wiesel, Elie. Dawn. 81 p.
An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to kill an English officer in Palestine as a reprisal for
Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.
Wiesel, Elie. The Sonderbery Case. 178 p.
Wiesel, Elie. The Time of the Uprooted: a Novel. 299 p.
Gamaliel Friedman flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 and goes into hiding; however, years later he begins to
reconcile his past when he is called upon to help an elderly woman who may very well be the woman who hid him
from the Nazis.
*Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower : on the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. 289 p.
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Fifty-three men and women discuss the issue of forgiveness and try to help the author determine if he
made the right choice when a Nazi officer confessed his sins to Wiesenthal and asked for his forgiveness.
Wilson, Leslie. Saving Rafael. 408 p.
*Van Beek, Flory A. Flory: a Miraculous Story of Survival. 244 p. 940.53 Van
The author shares her story of survival during the Nazi Holocaust and being forced into hiding in her
native Holland.
*Velmans, Edith. Edith’s Story. 239 p. 940.53
Dutch Jew Edith Velmans recounts her experiences during World War II, focusing on the time she spent
in hiding with a Dutch family.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. 241 p.
In this retelling of “Sleeping Beauty”, a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to
the Holocaust.
Yolen, Jane. The Devil’s Arithmetic. 170 p.
When 12-year-old Hannah is transported back to a 1940's Polish village, she experiences the very horrors
that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their Holocaust experiences.