fiction

 

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (YA  BOY)

 Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

 

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen  (FIC  YOL)

 After her grandmother's death, Becca investigates her mementos and discovers her harrowing teenage years, including survival in a mass grave and Nazis killing her husband.

 

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman (J FLE)

 Freddie is a struggling ventriliquist in post war Europe. He is haunted by a dybbuk (jewish spirit) who wants revenge for his death and that of his sister by an SS officer.

 

Escape to the Forest by Ruth Yaffe-Radin (J RAD)

 Are ten-year-old Sarah and her brother safer in the Warsaw Ghetto  or in the woods.

 

Escaping into the Night by D. Dina Friedman  (YA  FRI)

Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski  escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.

 

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl  (RL PER)

 The author relates the horrors that she witnessed as her family was sent to the death camps and death trains.

 

Greater Than Angels by Carol Matas  (YA MAT)   

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.

 

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan   (RL NOL)

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.

 

The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev (J ORL)

 Alex’s parents have both “disappeared” so Alex spends the winter  alone in hiding at 78 Bird Street.

 

Milkweed: A Novel by Jerry Spinelli (YA SPI)

A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in a Warsaw ghetto, which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. 

 

Room in the Heart by Sonia Levitin  (YA LEV)   

 After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie and Niels with their friends and families find various

 ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.

 

Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev (YA ORL)

Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.

 

Sisterland by Linda Newbery   (YA NEW)

When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II.

 

Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy (YA ROY)

 Over 250,000 Jews went into the Lodz Ghetto in 1939.  Only 877 remained when they were liberated in 1944.

 

nonfiction

After the Holocaust by Howard Greenfeld (J D804.48 G74)

 Interviews and photographs from more than 65 Holocaust survivors.

(J D805 P7 Z8713)

The Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Hovac

 Ana spent 6 months In Auschwitz.  While she was there she kept her diary on scraps of paper and bits of newspaper.  It became this book.

 

Forging Freedom by Hudson Talbott (J D804.66 P747 2000)

 The story of one man who smuggled Jews to freedom.

 

The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust  (D803  A495)

 Many groups of people, such as Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and homosexuals, were persecuted and killed by the Nazis because of  Adolf Hitler's hatred for them and his plan to create a "master race."

 

Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine (J DS135 C97B6655)

 Hana died in the Holocaust, but the suitcase she packed to take with her survived. 

Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon by Deborah DeSaix (DS135 F89 D47 2007)

 The story of a French community who remembered their own  persecution and knew they had to do what was right.

 

In My Hands:  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke (J D804.66 073 1999)

 Irene was 17 when the war in Poland began.  Her first act of defiance was hiding food under the fence of  the ghetto, then she

 passed information she picked up at the officers’ dining room where she worked.  She had to deliver her friends from evil.

 

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman (J DS135 G5 H48654)

 Hannalore left her school to be deported with her mother. After 8 labor and concentration camps, she ended up on Schindler’s List

 which meant she might be given the chance to survive.

 

Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps and the Teen Soldiers Who Liberated Them by E. Tina  Tito 

(D 804.34 T57) The story  of two survivors of World War II concentration camps, and two American soldiers who helped liberate the camps.

 

Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold (DS135 N6 P493)

 Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive.

 

Smoke and Ashes:  The Story of the Holocaust by Barbara Rogasky  (J D804.3 R64 2002)

 The reasons why the Nazis hated the Jews,  the development of the plan to exterminate them, and what happened after the war.

 

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by A. Warren  (DS 135  P63  M289)

 The words and memories of Jack Mandelbaum  present a harrowing account of a Jewish boy's experience in Nazi prison camps.