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Holocaust Bibliography

Categorized as middle school fiction, however many have been used in high school classrooms.  An asterik  has been placed before books for more mature audiences

Although these books are classified as fiction, many are based on fact.

 

 

Fiction:

Ackerman, Karen  The Night Crossing

Baylis-White, Mary  Sheltering Rebecca

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell  The Boy Who Dared

Drucker, Malka  Jacobs Rescue

Isaacs, Anne  Torn Thread

Jules, Jacqueline  The Grey Striped Shirt, How Grandma and  Grandpa Survived the Holocaust

Livitin, Sonia  Journey to America

Lowry, Lois  Number the Stars

Kerr, Judith  When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit

Matas, Carol  After the War

                       Daniels Story

                       Greater Than Angels

                       In My Enemy's House

                       Lisa's War

Mazar, Norma Fox  Good Night, Maman

McSwigan, Marie  Snow Treasure

Morpurgo, Michael  Waiting for Anya

Orgel, Doris  Devil in Vienna

Orlev, Uri.  The Island on Bird Street

                   The Man From the Other Side

Sachs, Marilyn  A Pocket Full of Seeds

Schnur, Steven  The Shadow Children

Spinelli, Jerry  Milkweed

Van Steen Wyk, Elizabeth  A Traitor Among Us

Vos, Ida  Anna is Still Here              

               Hide and Seek

Williams, Laura E Behind the Bedroom Wall

Wolf, Joan.  Someone Named Eva

Yolen, Jane  Briar Rose

                     The Devil's Arithmetic

*Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief

Non-fiction-

Auerbacher, Inge  I Am A Star - Child of the Holocaust

Ayer, Eleanor H.  Parallel Journeys.

Bachrach, Susan D.  Tell Them We Remember

*Beck, Gad.  An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

Bishop, Clare Hutchet  Twenty and Ten

Boas, Jacob  We are Witnesses

Cretzmeyer, Stacy  Your Name is Renee:  Ruth's Story As a Hidden Child

                                 The Hidden Child  (Paperback)

Drucker, Olga Levy  Kindertransport

Fox, Anne L. & Abraham-Podietz, Eva  Ten Thousand Children

Frank, Anne.  The Diary of a Young Girl:  The Definitive Edition

Gies, Miep.  Anne Frank Remembered:  he Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family

Gold, Alison Leslie  Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of  a Childhood Friend                             

                                  A Special Fate:  Chiune Sugihara:  A Hero of the Holocaust

Greenfield, Howard  The Hidden Children

                                   After the Holocaust

Hautzig, Esther  The Endless Steppe:  Growing Up in Siberia

Hurwitz, Johanna   Anne Frank:  Life in Hiding

Ippisch, Hanneke  Sky:  A True Story of Resistance During World War II

Jackson, Liva Bitton.  I Have Live A Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

                                     My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz

Levine, Karen.  Hana's Suitcase:  A True Story

Leapman, Michael  Witnesses to War - Eight true-life stories of Nazi Persecution

*McClafferty, Carla Killough.  In Defiance of Hitler:  The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Lobel, Anita  No Pretty Pictures:  A Child of War

*Nolan, Han.  If I Should Die Before I Wake

Opdyke, Irene Gut.  In My Hands:  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run: A Novel

Perl, Lily and Blumenthal-Lazar, Marion  Four Perfect Pebbles

Pettit, Jayne  A Place to Hide:  True Stories of Holocaust Resistance

Prager, Arthur and Emily  World War II Resistance Stories

Reiss, Johanna  The Upstairs Room

Rosenberg, Maxine B.  Hiding to Survive:  Stories of Jewish Children Rescued From the Holocaust

Seraillier, Ian  Escape from Warsaw

ten Boom, Corrie.  The Hiding Place

Toll, Nelly.  Behind the Secret Window:  A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War II

Verhoever, Rian  Anne Frank Beyond the Diary

Volavkova, Hana  I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Warren, Andrea   Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

Wasiljewa, Tatjana  Hostage to War:  A True Story

We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Weissmann-Klein, Gerda  All But My Life

*Wiesel, Elie.  Night

*Zapruder, Alexandra.  Salvaged Pages

Graphic Novel:

Speigelman, Art.  Maus I and II:  A Survivor's Tale

 

Videos

A Friendship in Vienna

Dear Kitty:  The Life of Anne Frank                  

Miracle at Midnight

Miracle at Moreaux

The Eye of the Storm

The Journey of Butterfly

 

Teacher Resources

Books:

Bauer, Yehuda.  A History of the Holocaust

Berenbaum, Michael  The World Must Know:  The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rossel, Seymour  The Holocaust - The World and the Jews 1933-1945

Totten, Samuel  Teaching Holocaust Literature

Totten, Samuel and Feinberg, Stephen  Teaching and Studying the Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  Teaching About the Holocaust:A Resource Book for Educators

Weber, Louis (Publisher)  The Holocaust Chronicle

Internet Sites

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum          

Simon Wiesenthal Multi-Media Learning Center          

Social Studies School Service          

Cybrary of the Holocaust

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