Holocaust Education

Holocaust Themes Using Picture Books
 

I.  Confronting and Combating Prejudice

          Terrible Things by Eve Bunting

          Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

          Best Friends by Elisabeth Reuter

          The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells

          Star of Fear, Star of Hope  by Jo Hoestlandt

 

II.  Creating Community

          The Island of the Skog by Stephen Kellogg

          The Yellow Star - The Legend of King Christian X  by Carmen

               Agra Deedy

          The Christmas Menorahs by Janice Cohn

          Let the Celebrations Begin by Margaret Wild

          I Never Saw Another Butterfly  edited by Hana Volavkova

          Fireflies in the Dark - The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin

 

III.  Those Who Made a Difference (heroes, heroines, the Righteous)

          The Lily Cupboard  by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim

          Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti

          Passage to Freedom - The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki

          The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco

          A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler

          In My Pocket by Dorrith M. Sim

          Forging Freedom  by Hudson Talbott

          A Hero and the Holocaust:  The JanuscKorczak Story       

                 and His Children by David A. Adler

         Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2500 Children During the Holocaust

 

IV.  Holocaust History

          The Number on My Grandfathers Arm  by David A. Adler

          Child of the Warsaw Ghetto  by David A. Adler

          Flowers on the Wall  by Miriam Nerlove

          Hilde and Eli  by David A. Adler

          Hiding From the Nazis  by David A. Adler

          One More Border by William Kaplan

          My Secret Camera - Life in the Lodz Ghetto  Photographs by

          Mendel Grossman, text by Frank Dabba Smith

          Promise of a New Spring - the Holocaust and Renewal by Gerda   

                Weissman Klein

 

V.  The Importance of Remembering

          Dont Forget by Patricia Larkin

          The Feather-Bed Journey by Paula Kurzband Feder

          One Yellow Daffodil- A Hanukkah Story by David A. Adler

          Elisabeth  by Claire A. Nivola

          Nine Spoons - A Chanukah Story by Marci Stillerman

          I Am a Holocaust Torah  by Rabbi Alex J. Goldman

          The Tattooed Torah by Marvel Ginsburg

          Miracle in the Glass by Ruthann Crosby

          One Candle by Eve Bunting