Holocaust Reading List

Fiction

Baer, Edith. Walk the Dark Streets. 1998. (YA FIC)
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.

Douglas, Kirk. The Broken Mirror. 1997. (YA FIC)
After the Nazis destroy his family, twelve-year-old Moishe gives up his Jewish faith, calls himself Danny, and is taken to New York where he tries to make the best of his life in a Catholic orphanage.

Dubis, Michael. The Hangman. 1997. (YA FIC)
The tale of a young man who joins the ranks of Nazi Germany's SS forces, earns the reputation of being a ruthless killer, and then discovers his family is Jewish.

Gille, Elisabeth. Shadows of a Childhood: a Novel of War and Friendship. 1998. (YA FIC)
Haunting stories about Jewish life in Poland before and after World War II.

Matas, Carol. Daniel's Story. 1993. (YA FIC)
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Matas, Carol. Greater than Angels. 1998. (YA FIC)
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.

Matas, Carol. In My Enemy's House. 1999. (YA FIC)
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during WW II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to decide.

Mazer, Norma Fox. Good Night, Maman. 1999. (YA FIC)
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.

Morpurgo, Michael. Waiting for Anya. 1990. (YA FIC)
Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water. 1997. (YA FIC)
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.

Nolan, Han. If I Should Die Before I Wake. 1994. (YA FIC)
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.

Orlev, Uri. The Island on Bird Street. 1983. (YA FIC)
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.

Pausewang, Gudrun. The Final Journey. 1996. (YA FIC)
Hiding in the basement of her former home after Hitler comes to power, Alice finds herself on the run with her grandfather after her grandmother is taken prisoner.

Ray, Karen. To Cross a Line. 1995. (YA FIC)
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.

Vos, Ida. Anna is Still Here. 1993. (YA FIC)
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.

Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. 1988. (YA FIC)
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Non-fiction

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia: My Story. 1988. (YA 940.53184771 AP52)
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age thirteen, the author went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy.

Ayer, Eleanor H. The Survivors. 1998. (YA 940.5318 AY24S)
Describes the conditions of Holocaust survivors when they were liberated as well as their struggle as they attempt to rebuild their lives.

Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: the Story of the Holocaust. 1994. (YA 940.5318 B125T)
Draws on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's collection of artifacts, photographs, maps and taped oral and video histories to teach young people about this period of history.

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel. The Seamstress: a Memoir of Survival. 1997. (YA 940.5318498 B458S)
The true story of Seren (Sara) Tuvel Bernstein's struggle for survival during wartime.

Byers, Ann. The Holocaust Overview. 1998. (YA 940.5318 B991J)
Examines Hitler's treatment of the Jews, before and during World War II, from their early exclusion from German society to the later policy of extermination.

Del Calzo, Nick. The Triumphant Spirit: Portraits & Stories of Holocaust Survivors, Their Messages of Hope & Compassion. 1997. (YA 940.5318 D377T)
Personal narratives and photographs of Holocaust survivors.

Frank, Anne. Diary of Anne Frank. (YA 940.5315 F851)
From her fourteenth to sixteenth birthday, Anne keeps track of her thoughts, hopes, and dreams while hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland.

Fremon, David K. The Holocaust Heroes. 1998. (YA 940.5318 F886H)
Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

Fried, Hedi. The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life. 1996. (YA 940.5318498 F912R)
The autobiographical story of Hedi Fried's grim struggle to survive death and labor camps and her brave efforts to start a meaningful life in Sweden.

Jackson, Livia Bitton. I Have Lived a Thousand Years; Growing up in the Holocaust. 1998. (YA 940.5318438 J135I)
In this autobiographical account, Nazis invade thirteen-year-old Elli's Hungarian home and ship her to a concentration camp where she is selected for work detail.

Novac, Ana. The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow. 1997. (YA 940.5318 N856B)
Believed to be the only record to have survived the Auschwitz death camp, the journal of fourteen-year-old Ana Novac is a testimony to the nightmare conditions that were endured there and the methods by which it's victims survived.

Rice, Earle. The Final Solution. 1998. (YA 940.5318 R361F)
Discusses the origins, development, and implementation of the Final Solution, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.

Sherrow, Victoria. The Righteous Gentiles. 1998. (YA 940.5318 SH57R)
Presents an overview of non-Jews throughout Europe who tried to save Jews from persecution and extermination by the Nazis.

Silten, R. Gabriele S. Between Two Worlds: Autobiography of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust. 1995. (YA 940.5318 SI36B)
A memoir of those dark years from a child's-eye point of view.

Stein, Andre. Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust. 1994. (YA 940.5318 ST34H)
In these ten stories, readers relive a time of unbelievable cruelty and of unexpected compassion, through the all-seeing eyes of youth.

Strahinich, Helen. The Holocaust: Understanding and Remembering. 1996. (YA 940.5318 ST81H)
Discusses the circumstances leading up to and the brutal realities of the murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis.

Ten Boom, Corrie. The Hiding Place. 1973. (YA 949.2 T251H)
Describes how a Dutch watchmaker's daughter became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century.

Van der Rol, Ruud. Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance. 1993. (YA 940.5315 F851V)
More than one hundred photographs, many never before published, make up a poignant memoir of Anne Frank's struggle to survive during a time that must never be forgotten.

Yeatts, Tabatha. The Holocaust Survivors. 1998. (YA 940.5318 Y34H)
Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and efforts of the survivors to begin new lives.

We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust. 1995. (YA 940.5318 W369W)
Jewish teens David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne tell their tragic stories as victims at Hitler's death camps through journal entries that introduce the horrors of the Holocaust to present-day readers.

Compiled by Robert Dana, Librarian, Young Adult Department. 4/00. Holdings checked 7/06 KRL

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