Holocaust Books

Introduction to the Holocaust

These books may be suitable for younger or more sensitive readers. They offer an overview of events without including the more graphic descriptions. Some books in the nonfiction section may be fiction based on actual events or representative of events and circumstances that actually occurred.

Adler, David A.	A Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children.
Adler, David A.	Hiding From the Nazis.
Adler, David A.	Hilde and Eli, Children of the Holocaust.
Adler, David A.	The Number on my Grandfather’s Arm.
Ginsburg, Marvell	The Tattooed Torah.
Innocenti, Roberto	Rose Blanche.
Johnston, Tony	The Harmonica.
Kushner, Tony	Brundibar.
Lehman-Wilzig, Tami	Keeping the Promise: A Torah’s Journey.
Mochizuki, Ken	Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey	The Lily Cupboard.
Patz, Nancy	Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat?
Polacco, Patricia	The Butterfly.
Wild, Margaret	Let the Celebrations Begin!

After the War/Detention Camps

Adler, David A.	One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story.
Auerbacher, Inge	Beyond the Yellow Star to America.
Douglas, Kirk	The Broken Mirror: A Novella.
Friedman, Carl	Nightfather.
Greenfeld, Howard	After the Holocaust.
Jackson, Livia Bitton	My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz.
Jeffrey, Laura S.	Simon Wiesenthal: Tracking Down Nazi Criminals.
Jules, Jacqueline	The Grey Striped Shirt: How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the Holocaust.
Lowenstein, Sallie	Waiting for Eugene.
Propp, Vera W.	When the Soldiers Were Gone.
Schnur, Steven	The Tie Man’s Miracle: A Chanukah Tale.
Sender, Ruth Minsky	To Life.
Shevelev, Raphael	Liberating the Ghosts: Photographs and Text from the March of the Living with Excerpts from the Writings of Participants.
Tamar, Erika	Good-Bye, Glamour Girl: A Novel.
Tito, E. Tina	Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps and the Teen Soldiers Who Liberated Them.
Vos, Ida	Anna is Still Here.
Wiseman, Eva	Kanada.

All Through the War

Adler, David A.	Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust.
Baú, Joseph	Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry? Memoirs
Games, Sonia	Escape into Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman’s Extraordinary Survival During World War II.
Ginsburg, Marvell	The Tattooed Torah.
Kohner, Hanna	Hanna and Walter: A Love Story.
Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal	Memories of Survival.
Leapman, Michael	Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution.
Lobel, Anita	No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War.
Oertelt, Henry A.	An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust.
Orlev, Uri	Lydia, Queen of Palestine.
Perel, Shlomo	Europa, Europa.
Perl, Lila	Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story.
Rabinovici, Schoschana	Thanks to My Mother.
Sender, Ruth Minsky	The Cage.
Spiegelman, Art	Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.
Spiegelman, Art	Maus I I: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began.
Vos, Ida	Hide and Seek.
	We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust.
Yolen, Jane	The Devil’s Arithmetic.

Anne Frank

Adler, David A.	A Picture Book of Anne Frank.
Amdur, Richard	Anne Frank.
	Anne Frank in the World.
Brown, Gene	Anne Frank: Child of the Holocaust.
Davidson, Susanna	Anne Frank.
Denenberg, Barry	Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and her Family.
Epstein, Rachel S.	Anne Frank.
Frank, Anne	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Gold, Alison Leslie	Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend.
Lee, Carol Ann	Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust.
Leigh, Vanora	Anne Frank.
Lewis, Brenda Ralph	The Story of Anne Frank.
McDonough, Yona Zeldis	Anne Frank.
Verhoeven, Rian	Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance.
Wukovits, John F.	Anne Frank.

Escape/Refugees

Baylis-White, Mary	Sheltering Rebecca.
Borden, Louise	The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey.
Dear America	One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss.
Kerr, Judith	When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit.
Levitin, Sonia	Journey to America.
McDonough, Yona Zeldis	The Doll With the Yellow Star.
Radin, Ruth Y.	Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust.
Ray, Karen	To Cross a Line.
Ruby, Lois	Shanghai Shadows.

Evacuees

Drucker, Olga	Kindertransport.
Fox, Anne L.	Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport.

Ghetto/Concentration Camp

Auerbacher, Inge	I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust.
Bitton-Jackson, Livia	I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust.
Boyne, John	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable.
Christophe, Francine	From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps.
Grossman, Mendel	My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto.
Hillman, Laura	I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor.
Isaacs, Anne	Torn Thread.
Jewish State Museum (Czechoslavakia)	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1942-1944.
Johnston, Tony	The Harmonica.
	Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors.
Lehman-Wilzig, Tami	Keeping the Promise: A Torah’s Journey.
Lobel, Anita	No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War.
Matas, Carol	Daniel’s Story.
Novac, Ana	The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow.
Pausewang, Gudrun	The Final Journey.
Roubickova, Eva	We’re Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary.
Roy, Jennifer Rozines	Yellow Star.
Rubin, Susan Goldman	The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin.
Rubin, Susan Goldman	Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin.
Rubin, Susan Goldman	The Flag with Fifty-Six Stars: A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen.
Siegal, Aranka	Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944.
Sierakowiak, Dawid	The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto.
Warren, Andrea	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.
Whiteley, Suzanne Mehler	Appel is Forever: A Child’s Memoir.
Wild, Margaret	Let the Celebrations Begin!

In Hiding

Adler, David A.	Hiding from the Nazis.
Bennett, Cherie	Anne Frank and Me.
Cretzmeyer, Stacy	Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz’s Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France.
Drucker, Malka	Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story.
Friedman, D. Dina	Escaping into the Night.
Greenfeld, Howard	The Hidden Children.
Jacobsen, Ruth	Rescued Images: Memories of Childhood in Hiding.
Kacer, Kathy	Hiding Edith.
Matas, Carol	In My Enemy’s House.
Millman, Isaac	Hidden Child.
Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey	The Lily Cupboard.
Orlev, Uri	The Island on Bird Street.
Perel, Shlomo	Europa, Europa.
Reiss, Johanna	The Upstairs Room.
Rosenberg, Maxine B.	Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust.
Samson, Naomi	Hide: A Child’s View of the Holocaust.
Toll, Nelly S.	Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War Two.
Vos, Ida	Hide and Seek.
Vos, Ida	The Key is Lost.
Zar, Rose	In the Mouth of the Wolf.

In Occupied Countries/Resistance

Deedy, Carmen Agra	The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark.
Glatstein, Jacob	Emil and Karl.
Hesse, Karen	The Cats in Krasinski Square.
Laird, Christa	But Can the Phoenix Sing?
Matas, Carol	Code Name Kris.
Matas, Carol	Lisa’s War.
McSwigan, Marie	Snow Treasure.
Napoli, Donna Jo	Stones in Water.
Orgel, Doris	The Devil in Vienna.
Orlev, Uri	Run, Boy, Run.
Polacco, Patricia	The Butterfly.
Rappaport, Doreen	The Secret Seder.
Schnur, Steven	The Shadow Children.
Spinelli, Jerry	Milkweed: A Novel.
Ungerer, Tomi	Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis.
Wolf, Jacqueline	“Take Care of Josette”: A Memoir in Defense of Occupied France.
	Young People Speak: Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary.

Nazis

	Adolf Hitler.
Dolan, Edward F.	Adolf Hitler, a Portrait in Tyranny.
Heyes, Eileen	Adolf Hitler.
Ramen, Fred	Hermann Goring: Hitler’s Second in Command.
Roberts, Jeremy	Adolf Hitler: A Study in Hate.
Roberts, Jeremy	Joseph Goebbels.
Rubenstein, Joshua	Adolf Hitler.
Sachs, Ruth	Adolf Eichmann: Engineer of Death.
Wepman, Dennis	Adolf Hitler.

Non-Fiction

Bayer, Linda N.	Elie Wiesel: Spokesman for Remembrance.
Friedman, Ina	The Other Victims: Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis.
Levine, Karen	Hana’s Suitcase.
Morris, Ann	Grandma Esther Remembers: A Jewish-American Family Story.
Rogasky, Barbara	Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust.
Schroeder, Peter W.	Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children’s Holocaust Memorial.

Rescuers

Adler, David A.	A Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children.
Atkinson, Linda	In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944.
Axelrod, Toby	Rescuers Defying the Nazis: Non-Jewish Teens Who Rescued Jews.
Bernheim, Mark	Father of the Orphans: The Life of Janusz Korczak.
Bishop, Claire	Twenty and Ten.
Daniel, Jamie	Raoul Wallenberg: One Man Against Nazi Terror.
Fremon, David K.	The Holocaust Heroes.
Gold, Alison Leslie	A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust.
Innocenti, Roberto	Rose Blanche.
Levine, Ellen	Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews.
Littlesugar, Amy	Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story.
Lowry, Lois	Number the Stars.
Matas, Carol	Greater Than Angels.
Meltzer, Milton	Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust.
Mochizuki, Ken	Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
Morpurgo, Michael	Waiting for Anya.
Neimark, Anne E.	One Man’s Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust.
Opdyke, Irene	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.
Orlev, Uri	The Man from the Other Side.
Roberts, Jeremy	Oskar Schindler: Righteous Gentile.
Schur, Maxine	Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light.
Streissguth, Thomas	Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish Diplomat and Humanitarian.
Talbott, Hudson	Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust.
Toksvig, Sandi	Hitler’s Canary.

View from the Home Front—Axis

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell	Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow.
Chotjewitz, David	Daniel, Half-Human: And the Good Nazi.
Emmerich, Elsbeth	My Childhood in Nazi Germany.
Heyes, Eileen	Children of the Swastika: The Hitler Youth.
Orgel, Doris	The Devil in Vienna.
Vogel, Ilse-Margret	Bad Times, Good Friends: A Personal Memoir.
Williams, Laura. E.	Behind the Bedroom Wall.

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