Holocaust

TITLE & AUTHOR

After The War*

15-year-old Ruth, the sole member of the family to survive the Holocaust, leads a group of children across Europe to illegally enter Palestine and the only safety they have ever known.

Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl

FRANK, A

Famous diary of a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis with seven others in an attic in Amsterdam during World War II.

Bearing Witness, Stories Of The Holocaust

ROCHMAN, H & MCCAMPBELL, D

Diverse and powerful introduction to Holocaust literature through stories, poems and memoirs.

Briar Rose

Yolen's recasting of the Sleeping Beauty is evocatively grounded in the horror of the Holocaust.

Dawn

A young survivor of Nazism faces an unbearable moral dilemma when ordered to execute a British hostage in reprisal for the murder of a Palestinian prisoner.

Devil's Arithmetic*

Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel takes her to a Polish village in the 1940's.

Edith's Story: The True Story Of A Young Girl's Courage And Survival During World War II

VELMAN, E

Reconstructed from her diaries, journals and family letters, Edith Velman's personal account stands out as a moving eyewitness account of a young teenager in Holland who, by posing as a gentile, is hidden and survives the war.

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

PERL, L

Told through the eyes of a child, the author recounts the harrowing ordeal during WW II as her family lived in refugee, transit and prison camps.

Friedrich*

The tragedy and terror suffered by German Jews are made more vivid by the simplicity and candor of a child's viewpoint and the focus on one small, obscure family.

Gentlehands*

When a newspaper story claims that Buddy's sophisticated, cultured grandfather is a former Nazi, he must decide whether to stay loyal to him in the face of mounting proof.

Hiding Place

The true story of a Dutch family that hid Jews from the Nazis, were betrayed, and sent to a concentration camp.

I Have Lived A Thousand Years. Growing Up In The Holocaust

A haunting and inspiring memoir of the Holocaust written by a survivor who was 13 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary and forced her family on a dark journey that led to Auschwitz.

In An Enemy's House*

In this gripping Holocaust story, blonde, blue-eyed Marissa takes refuge in a Christian house and watches as the Nazis devastate the Jewish community.

In My Hands, Memories Of A Holocaust Survivor

Irene Gut Opdyke was only 17 when she was stripped her of all she loved - her family, her home, her innocence. Fighting back, she uses her Aryan appearance to glean information and to help smuggle Jews to safety.

Night

The searing personal memoir of a boy who lived through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a witness to the evils of the Nazi regime.

Nightfather*

Friedman tells the story of her childhood as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, sensitively revealing the toll her father's experience in the Nazi death camps took on the innocent activities of childhood.

Parallel Journeys

Two young Germans find their lives taking radically different turns - Helen going to Auschwitz and Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. Can the two emerge from war with respect and empathy for each other?

Sophie’s Choice

The story of a young Southerner who wants to become a writer, the turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman, and an awful wound in the woman's past, one that impels Sophie toward destruction.

Stones In Water*

Roberto's life changes forever when German soldiers raid the theater where he is watching a movie. Rounded up and packed off to a brutal work camp, he and his friend vow to stay together in the face of this horror.

Thanks To My Mother

When the Nazis invade Lithuania, Susie Weksler survived the incomprehensible brutality of the concentration camps because of the bravery and resourcefulness of her mother.

Tunes For Bears To Dance To

Henry escapes his problems by watching Mr. Levine, a Holocaust survivor, carve a replica of his former village. When Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend, Henry comes to understand the nature of true evil.

Walk The Dark Street

Eva is a Jewish girl living in pre-Holocaust Germany, helpless against the anti-Semitism surging all around her. This sequel to A Frost in the Night traces her experiences from January 1933, when her community is just beginning to realize Hitler's power and determination, to July 1940, when most of Eva's friends and family have either left Germany or made arrangements to do so.

We Are Witnesses

Five Jewish teenagers kept diaries of their lives under Hitler's twisted rule. Through them unfolds a personal history of the Holocaust and the hope each had in the face of horror and death.