WWII Holocaust Bibliography

B 940.53
Abe
Abells, Chana Byers The Children We Remember
A moving photo-essay which compares the happy, normal life of Polish Jewish children before Hitler with their tragic life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
759.13
Ber
Bernbaum, Israel My Brother's Keeper
The Holocaust through the eye of an artist.
808.81
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Volavkova, Hana ...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...
Children's drawings and poems from Terezin concentration camp, 1942-1944.
921
Baeck
Neimark, Anne One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust
Fierce pride and courage led Baeck to remain in Nazi Germany and later teach and comfort his fellow inmates in Thereienstadt(Terezin).
921
Cretzmeyer
Cretzmeyer, Stacy Your Name Is Renee
Ruth Kapp Hartz’s story of being a hidden child in Nazi-occupied France is told in this biography.
921
Dicker
Rubin, Susan Goldman Fireflies in the Dark
This is the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin, one of the Nazi concentration camps.
921
Frank, A
Amdur, Frank Anne Frank
Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.
921
Frank, A
Frank, Anne Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The famous diary of a young girl forced into hiding with her family and four others in an old building in Amsterdam.
(Also in Spanish and Korean language editions)
921
Frank, A
Hurwitz, Johanna Anne Frank: A Life in Hiding
A biography of a young Jewish girl made famous after her death in the Holocaust by the publication of her diary detailing the two years her family hid from the Nazis during World War II.
921
Frank, A
Schnabel, Ernst Anne Frank, A Portrait in Courage
This book contains the testimony of 42 witnesses to the German occupation of the Netherlands along with previously unpublished jottings and stories by Anne Frank.
921
Gies, M
Gies, Miep Anne Frank Remembered
Miep Gies and her husband helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, risking their lives to bring her food, news and emotional support.
921
Hitler
Wepman, Dennis Adolf Hitler
This is a complete biography of Hitler, from his youth to his transformation into one of the world’s most brutal dictators.
921
Isaacman
Isaacman, Clara Clara's Story
The author describes her own and her familiy's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.
921
Jackson
Jackson, Livia Bitton I Have Lived a Thousand Years
The author grew up in the Holocaust.
921
Korczak
Bernheim, Mark Father of the Orphans: The story of Janusz Korczak
A biography of the Polish doctor, author, founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights, whose life, though swept away in the Nazi Holocaust, was dedicated to his love for children.
921
Senesh, H
Atkinson, Linda In Kindling Flame: the Story of Hannah Senesh
An absorbing account of the moral, philosophical, and physical courage of a sensitive poet and Zionist turned Resistance Fighter during WWII.
921
Senesh, H
Schur,Maxine Hannah Szenes: a Song of Light
An account of the Hungarian poet-heroine whose courage never deserted her, despite torture, and whose poetry fills these pages with light.
921
Siegal, A
Siegal, Aranka Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary
Life in Hungary during World War II is recalled by a Jewish girl who was one of the survivors of Auschwitz.
921
Wallenberg,R
Linnea, Sharon Raoul Wallenberg, the Man Who Stopped Death
A dramatic biography of R. Wallenberg from his early years to his mysterious disappearance after saving more than 100,000 Jews from extermination.
921
Wallenberg,R
Smith, Danny Wallenberg: Lost Hero
A Protestant Swede who risked his life to save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
921
Wallenberg,R
Werbell, Fredrick E Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The story of one man's courage in rescuing thousands of Hungarian Jews from Hitler's final solution.
921
Wiesel, E
Stern, Ellen Norman Elie Wiesel:Witness for Life
This is the moving and inspiring story of Elie Wiesel, from his sheltered childhood through the horrors of deportation and a concentration camp adolescence, to his adult life as a journalist and author.
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Arnothy, Christine I Am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die
An autobiographical narrative in which 15-year-old Christine describes her fear of death and feelings of loneliness as she and her parents seek out an existence in the basement of their Budapest apartment building while the Nazis try to defend the city against the Russian invasion.
940.53
Fri
Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis
Friedman supplies historical background and pesonal narratives of non-Jews who were sent to concentration cmps and suffered under the Nazis.
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M
Meltzer, Milton Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
Meltzer's collection contains remarkable stories about the many acts of heroism displayed by Gentiles who saved thousands of Jews throughout Europe.
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(Aliav) Kluger, Ruth The Secret Ship
The true story of a beautiful, young, Palestinian, Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust.
940.53
Rei
Reiss, Joanna The Upstairs Room
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
940.53
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Stiffel, Frank The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish
A poet with an MD degree, Frank Stiffel, kept a secret diary of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka and Auschwitz concentration camps. His rule: Keep your dignity or die.
940.53
Tol
Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood
When she was eight years old, the author and her mother were hidden from the Nazis for 13 months by a Gentile couple in Poland. The story of that precarious time and the 64 watercolor paintings she made illuminate her experiences as a child in hiding.
940.54
A
Auerbacher, Inge I am a Star: Child of the Holocaust
Auerbacher remembers her childhood in Nazi Germany and her time spent in the concentration camp at Terezin.
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Sender, Ruth To Life
A Holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America.
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S
Sender, Ruth Minsky The Cage
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.
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Wie
Wiesel, Elie Night
This account of his experiences by a Nobel Peace Prize winner has been called "a slim volume of terrifying power."
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Aar
Aaron, Chester Gideon: A Novel
After losing family and friends, Gideon must bury religion and identity in order to survive the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp during World War II.
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Bae
Baer, Edith Walk the Dark Streets
Eva is a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany. She and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possiblilities of escape.
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Ben
Benchley, Nathanial Bright Candles
The story of Jens Hansen and his family in occupied Denmark, 1940, and how he resisted the Nazi occupation in spite of the terrible consequences.
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Bis
Bishop, Claire Huchet Twenty and Ten
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.
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Dru
Drucker, Olga Levy Kindertransport
The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
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For
Forman, James My Enemy My Brother
Three Polish Jewish teenagers who survive World War II decide to go to a kibbutz in Israel.
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For
Forman, James The Survivor
A young Dutch Jewish man works to conceal his family when Nazis invade Holland: in the end, he is the only one to survive.
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Gre
Greene, Betty Summer of My German Soldier
An American Jewish girl befriends a Nazi soldier brought to a prisoner of war camp in Arkansas in 1943.
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Isa
Isaccs, Anne Torn Thread
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.
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Kar
Karmel-Wolfe, Henia Marek and Lisa
This is a beautiful, life-affirming novel of a love that survived the Nazi death camps.
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Lai
Laird, Christa Shadow of the Wall
The fictional character of Misha, who lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, is befriended by the real-life Dr. Janusz Korczak who helps make life bearable for Misha and others and shows them the power of the human spirit.
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Lev
Levitin, Sonia Journey to America
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
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Low
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a young girl and her family risk their lives by hiding a Jewish girl from the Nazis.
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Mat
Matas, Carol Daniel’s Story
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
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Mat
Matas, Carol Greater Than Angels
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
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Mat
Matas, Carol In My Enemy’s House
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
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Maz
Mazer, Norma Fox, Good Night, Maman
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
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Mor
Morpurgo, Michael Waiting for Anya
Set in Vichy France during World War II, this story finds a young man, a reclusive widow, and an entire town working to hide escaping Jews.
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Mos
Moskin, Marietta I am Rosemarie
A Jewish girl from the Netherlands manages to live through the horrors that befall her family following the Nazi occupation in 1940.
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Nol
Nolan, Han If I Should Die Before I Wake
As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.
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Org
Orgel, Doris The Devil in Vienna
This powerful novel tells of two girls, one Jewish and one German, and how they manage, secretly, to continue their friendship in the face of rising danger.
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Orl
Orlev, Uri The Island on Bird Street
During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant, life-threatening conditions.
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Orl
Orlev, Uri The Man from the Other Side
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.
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Ray
Ray, Karen To Cross a Line
In 1938, after a minor traffic accident, seventeen-year-old Egon Katz joins an increasing number of German Jews desperately trying to find a way out of the country.
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Reu
Reuter, Jarne The Boys From St. Petri
An engrossing, suspenseful novel that explores how the dark shadow of prejudice and wartime occupation changes the lives of young men from St. Petri school in Denmark during the Nazi occupation.
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Ric
Richter, Hans Peter Friedrich
The friendship between a Jewish boy, Friedrich, and a Christian boy grows as Friedrich is expelled from school and loses his parents during WWII.
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Ric
Richter, Hans Peter I Was There
The experiences of German boys who were forced to join the Hitler youth movement and later drafted into the army.
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Sac
Sachs, Marilyn A Pocket Full of Seeds
Story of the escape of a courageous French Jewish girl from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Based on the actual events in the life of a childhood friend of the author's.
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Ser
Serraillier, Ian Escape From Warsaw
Taken from actual accounts, this is the story of the Balicki children's dangerous escape from Warsaw to find their father in Switzerland after their mother was arrested by Nazi Storm Troopers in 1942.
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Sie
Siegal, Aranka Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation
In a sequel to Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, and also based on the author's life, this book concerns itself with Piri Davidowitz's time in a relocation camp and in Sweden, where she falls in love for the first time.
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Spiegelman, Art MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale
This ground-breaking two-volume work uses comix to portray the genocide and persecution of Polish and German Jews during the years surrounding the Second World War.
Also available as a CD-ROM with additional material.
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Sti
Stiles, Martha Bennett Darkness Over the Land
A young German witnesses the death, destruction, and evil of Germany at war and becomes involved with acts of treason against the Nazi regime. At the war's end he comes to a crucial decision that would affect his whole life.
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Suh
Suhl, Yuri On the Other Side of the Gate
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish couple when they are confined to a ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
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Van
Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth A Traitor Among Us
In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village.
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van Stockum, Hilda The Borrowed House
In a house "borrowed" from an evicted Dutch family, twelve-year-old German Janna discovers new knowledge of the Dutch disturbingly at odds with what the Hitler Youth organization had instilled in her.
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Vos
Vos, Ida Anna is Still Here
Thirteen- year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
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Vos
Vos, Ida Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon
This novel relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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Yol
Yolen, Jane Briar Rose
Yolen has taken the German fairy tale Sleeping Beauty and turned it into a contemporary tale both dark and bright, both terrifying and inspiring with the backdrop of the Holocaust.
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Yol
Yolen, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she–and we–need to remember the past.


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