Bibliography of Children's Holocaust Books*

1. The Butterfly
by Patricia Polacco (Illustrator). School & Library Binding (May 2000)

Book Description
Since the Tall Boots??the Nazis??have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to be??not a ghost at all??but a young girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Monique's own basement, how could Monique not be surprised! Playing upstairs after dark, the two become friends until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending both of their families into a nighttime flight.
In the tradition of Pink and Say, Patricia Polacco once again dips into her own family's history to reveal her Aunt Monique's true story of friendship from the French Resistance.

2. Elisabeth
by Claire A. Nivola. Hardcover (March 1997)

Book Description
Ages 5?9. A simple true reminiscence about the disruption of war and the almost unfathomable reunion that mends a woman's heart many years after it's broken. The story opens on the eve of WW II in Germany, where the little girl (the author's mother, Ruth) lives with her family in secure surroundings. Her most beloved possession is a doll named Elisabeth. "The sun shone down on both of us and together we cast one shadow." When the family flees the Nazis, the girl can take nothing with her, not even Elisabeth. Years later, when the girl is grown and living in America, her six?year?old daughter asks for a doll that will "fill her arms like a real baby." The mother is drawn to a doll in an antique?store window and discovers that the doll is her own long?lost Elisabeth. Told in lyrical prose and illustrated in a muted palette with accents of bright color, this conveys the warmth and love of home and family, surviving across generations. Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

3. The Feather-Bed Journey
by Paula Kurzband Feder, Stacey Schuett (Illustrator). School & Library Binding
(September 1995)

Book Description
Ages 5-8. When Rachel and Lewis accidentally rip open Grandma's old feather pillow, they are puzzled by her great concern. She explains that the small pillow was once a large feather bed that belonged to her family in Poland. A child during World War II, Grandma and many other children kept warm with the feather bed in the crowded ghetto where they lived. The bed remained when Grandma left??first to hide with a Polish family, later to survive with others in the woods. At the end of the war, she was reunited with her mother and emigrated to the U.S. Eventually the bed (now reduced to pillow?size, the result of a fire) made its way back to its original owners, and Grandma has treasured it ever since. Feder's simple text meshes nicely with Schuett's acrylic and pastel artwork, providing young children with an emotional and thoughtful glimpse at a tragic chapter of history. Useful for introducing the Holocaust to primary listeners, this may also spur children to discover their own family stories. Kay Weisman

4. Flowers on the Wall
by Miriam Nerlove. Hardcover (April 1996)

Book Description
Ages 6?9. Life is hard for all Jewish families like Rachel's in 1938 Warsaw. The whole family works to make ends meet and Rachel is often left alone in their basement apartment. Papa manages to bring her some paints and brushes and, because they have no paper, begins to paint flowers on the apartment's bleak walls. Despite the growing horrors outside, Rachel and her family find some relief in the bright flowers inside their home.

5. Hiding from the Nazis
by David A. Adler, Karen Ritz (Illustrator). School & Library Binding (October 1997)

Book Description
In a straightforward, if somewhat dry, narrative, Adler recounts the story of Lore Baer, who, as a four?year?old Jewish child, was separated from her parents and sent to live with a Christian farming family in the Netherlands to escape capture by the Nazis. Ritz's watercolors, with their predominance of browns, grays, and blues, evoke an appropriately somber feeling. ?? Copyright © 1998 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

6. A Knock at the Door
by Eric Sonderling, Wendy Wassink Ackison (Illustrator). Paperback (April 1998)

Book Description
Although they don't know anything about her, a farmer and his wife take in a secretive, starving young woman and allow her to hide on their isolated farm when the Nazis come looking for her. Based on the experiences of the author's grandmother.

7. Let the Celebrations Begin
by Margaret Wild, Julie Vivas (Illustrator). Hardcover (August 1991)

Book Description
On the eve of the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp, several mothers gather scraps to make stuffed toys for a children's party. In the illustrations the children appear ragged and large?eyed from hunger but, on the whole, lively and cheerful. The story is based on an incident at Belsen, and it would be consoling to think that such joy was possible. But somehow the book seems to diminish the torment and agony of the inmates and to present too sanguine a view of one of the greatest crimes in history. ?? Copyright © 1992 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

8. A Picture Book of Anne Frank
by David A. Adler, Karen Ritz (Illustrator). Paperback (April 1994)

Book Description
A chronicle of the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, who kept a diary during her family's attempts to hide from the Nazis in the 1940s. Important dates in the life of Anne Frank and notes from the author are included.

9. Rose Blanche
by Roberto Innocenti. Hardcover (October 1999)

Book Description
In wartime Germany, Rose Blanche witnesses the mistreatment of a little boy, and follows the truck that takes him to a camp. Secretly, Rose Blanche brings him and other children food. "An excellent book to use not only to teach about the Holocaust, but also about living a life
of ethics, compassion, and honesty." School Library Journal.

10. The Lily Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust
by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim, Ronald Himler (Illustrator). Paperback (March 1995)

Book Description
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland. As World War II rages, all Jewish people are in danger. So that she will remain safe, Miriam is sent away from the city to live with a family who is not Jewish. If the soldiers come, she will hide behind a wall, in the secret lily cupboard. Miriam learns that even in the darkest of times, many heroes emerge.

11. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee (Illustrator). Hardcover (May 1997)

Book Description
Gr. 3?5. Five years old at the time, Hiroki Sugihara tells the poignant story of how his father saved the lives of 10,000 Jews while he was serving as a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940. Going against the explicit orders of his government, he sat night after night hand?writing exit visas for people trying to escape from the Nazis. The sepia?tones of the illustrations lend a serious, appropriate dignity to the people the artist so beautifully portrays. A Parents' Choice Gold Award.

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12. Otto: Biography of a Teddy Bear
by Tomi Ungerer. Hardcover (November 1999)

Book Description
Starting life in Germany as a birthday present for David, a young Jewish boy, on the eve of World War II, Otto the teddy bear is passed to David's playmate, Oskar, when David is taken away by the Germans. Years later, having traveled to New York with an American GI, Otto ends up in an antique store. One day he is spotted in the window by Oskar, now an elderly man. A newspaper feature about Otto enables Oskar to reunite with his friend David, a concentration camp survivor now living in Brooklyn.

1. Anna Is Still Here
by Ida Vos, et al. Paperback (March 1995)

Book Description
Anna Markus, in Hide and Seek (Houghton), was a hidden child in Nazi?occupied Holland for three years. Now thirteen, she has been reunited with her parents, who are loving but unable to speak of their own time in hiding and the loss of family and friends. A striking and, ultimately, hopeful account of how the human spirit survives and recovers. Copyright © 1993 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

2. Anne Frank
by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Malcah Zeldis (Illustrator). School & Library Binding
(September 1997)

Book Description
A biography that introduces young children to the story of the Holocaust follows Anne Frank who, by studying, writing in her diary, and putting up pictures of film stars, bravely tries to retain a sense of normalcy in the face of turmoil.

3. Anne Frank (First Books - Biographies)
by Rachel Epstein. Paperback (March 1998)

Book Description
This accessible biography provides historical background for better understanding of the events surrounding Anne's diary entries. Epstein focuses on Anne but puts her experiences in the context of what was happening in Europe in the 1940s. Archival photos and schematic drawings of the building that housed the secret annex supplement the readable text. The last chapter discusses how Anne's diary was found and published. Copyright © 1998 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

4. Anne Frank: Child of the Holocaust (The Library of Famous Women)
by Gene Brown. Library Binding (August 1997)

Book Description
In "The Library of Famous Women" series, an easily read biography with enough historical data to provide a clear context and many photos of people, places, and events. The bulk of the book covers the period of the diary, which is discussed with some depth and sensitivity, though sidebar quotes from Anne herself shine in comparison to Brown's rather pedestrian style. The beginning and concluding sections, especially, are awkwardly written, with choppy sentences and illogical transitions. An adequate supplementary book. Brief glossary and bibliography; index. Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

5. Anne Frank: Life in Hiding (An Avon Camelot Book)
by Johanna Hurwitz, Vera Rosenberry (Illustrator). Mass Market Paperback
(December 1999)

Book Description
From July 1942 until August 1944, a young girl named Anne Frank kept a diary. Keeping a diary isn't unusual. Lots of girls do. But Anne's diary was unique. It chronicled the two years she and her family spent hiding from the Germans who were determined to annihilate all the Jews in Europe.
In this sensitive and thoughtful introduction to the Holocaust and to the life of one of its best known victims, acclaimed author Johanna Hurwitz deftly evokes the background of World War II while capturing the unforgettable spirit and tragedy of Anne's life.

6. Behind the Bedroom Wall
by Laura E. Williams, et al. Paperback (June 1996)

Book Description
In 1939, ten?year?old Korinna Rehme becomes a member of her local Jungmaedel, a Nazi youth group. She believes that Hitler is helping the world by dealing with what he calls the "Jewish problem." When Korinna discovers that her parents are secretly hiding Jews in their house and helping them to escape the city, she is shocked. And her loyalties are put to an extreme test when a neighbor tips off the Gestapo.

7. The Children We Remember: Photographs from the Archives of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
by Chana Byers Abells. Library and School Binding (August 1986)

Book Description
An unforgettable photo essay about the children who lived and died during the Holocaust. A story of death and loss and of courage and endurance. Photographs from the Archives of Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Jerusalem, Israel. Duotone illustrations.

8. Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas. Paperback (April 1993)

Book Description
A young Jewish boy recalls life in Hitler's Germany. First his family is forced out of their home in Frankfurt and sent on a long journey to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to Auschwitz??the Nazi death camp. Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust. This book was written in conjunction with an exhibit called "Daniel's Story: Remember the Children" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

9. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
by Ellen Levine. Hardcover (May 2000)

Book Description
History comes alive in this moving story of the heroic Danes who defied the Nazis during the occupation of Denmark. Levine (A Fence Away From Freedom, 1995, etc.) weaves a historical narrative into the real?life experiences of 21 Danes who were young in 1940. She
puts the account of a very small country that managed to save nearly all of its Jewish citizens from German concentration camps in context by asking how this could have happened. Citing Edmund Burke??The one condition necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing??Levine makes her point that the Danish people refused to do exactly that. Beginning with the Nazi invasion of Denmark on April 9, 1940, Levine depicts the Nazi occupation from 1940-43. Then she takes the reader back in time to understand the migration of the Jewish
people to Denmark; the freedom of religion they enjoyed there; and the history of ghettoization and anti-Semitism in other countries. She picks up the story again to describe the resistance movement and the events leading up to the hiding and ferrying of Jews out of the country to Sweden. The photographs, from the dramatic cover to the portraits of the interviewees, are dramatic and effective. Source notes, biographical sketches of the people interviewed, a chronology, and an author's explanation of her research technique are both interesting and
useful as research tools. A fascinating blend of historical background and the impact of events on real people. Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

10. Elie Wiesel: Bearing Witness (Gateway Biography)
by Michael Pariser. Library Binding (August 1994)

Book Description
Recounting the life of an Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize?winning writer, a young reader's introduction to the Holocaust and one of its notable figures tells of his courage, dedication to justice, and literary achievements.

11. Escape from the Holocaust
by Kenneth Roseman. Paperback (September 1998)

Book Description
As a young Jewish medical student in Berlin in the 1930's, the reader is confronted with choices that could mean the difference between freedom and slavery, life and death.

12. Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust
by Ruth Yaffe Radin. Hardcover (April 2000)

Book Description
When the Nazis invade Poland, nothing is safe anymore. Ten?year?old Sarah and her family must leave their home and live in a Jewish ghetto surrounded by barbed wire. There, life is a nightmare of cold and hunger where Nazi soldiers kill Jews at will. But Sarah still hears stories that give her hope??stories about a man who lives in the nearby forest, fighting the Nazis and sheltering the Jews.
Sarah's brother thinks they should try to escape to the forest. Her parents think they will be safer where they are. Sarah doesn't know who is right. But as life in the ghetto grows worse and worse, the forest may be their only hope.
Based on a true story of life during the Holocaust, this is a heartrending novel of one family's struggle to survive.

13. The Faces of Resistance
by Stuart A. Kallen. Library and School Binding (December 1994)

Book Description
Gr 5-7. These books offer material that has been better presented in other titles. Bearing Witness tells of the liberation of the concentration camps, of the difficulties confronting liberated Jews, the trials of some Nazi leaders, and some key events since the war, such as the Eichmann trial. Kallen points out the irony of our "Operation Paperclip," which made it easier for war criminals to enter the U.S. than for Holocaust survivors. Faces describes organized
resistance fighting, the work of rescuers in different European countries, and individuals such as Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler. Holocaust attempts to tell of the Nazi rise to power and the "Final Solution." Kallen is at times eloquent, especially in distinguishing between the Holocaust and other atrocities and in assessing the frightening rise of anti?Semitism in much of the world today. However, the books are too short, too repetitive, and too carelessly assembled to be wise purchases. In Holocaust, Joseph Goebbels is spelled "Goebbles" in both text and index, while in Witness it is spelled correctly. Twice the author states that Anne Frank died on a death march, thus negating the good parts of the text. Perhaps worst of all are the poorly reproduced, murky black?and?white photographs.

14. Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Freidl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin
by Susan Goldman Rubin. School and Library Binding (March 2000)

Book Description

15. A Frost in the Night: A Novel
by Edith Baer. Paperback (October 1998)

Book Description
It is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her. Edith Baer has written a novel distilled from memory, love, loss, and sorrow which depicts a girl's impressions of a nation beginning to destroy itself and an entire way of life. A Frost in the Night was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and won the Arnold Gingrich Award for Literature when it was first published in 1980. FSG's reissue coincides with the proud occasion of the publication of its long-awaited companion, Walk the Dark Streets.

16. Good Night, Maman
by Norma Fox Mazer, et al. Hardcover (October 1999)

Book Description
Karin Levi's world of family, school, and friends is torn apart when the German army occupies Paris in June of 1940. Karin and her brother, Marc, like Jews all over Europe, find themselves on the run, seeking safety wherever they can find it. When Marc obtains two coveted places aboard a ship bound for the United States, Karin knows that crossing the ocean means she may never see her beloved parents again. Yet she and Marc have little choice if they are to survive. Karin's unforgettable story revealing the little-known world of a handful of European refugees in World War II America, tells of survival, of growing up, and of love's ability to endure even the most extraordinary circumstances.

17. Good-Bye Marianne
by Irene N. Watts, Iren N. Watts. Paperback (April 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 5-8. "Dogs and Jews not admitted." Watts was one of the 10,000 Jewish children who were sent from Nazi Europe to Britain in the Kindertransport rescue operation in 1938; her moving autobiographical novel personalizes what it was like to be a Jewish child in Berlin at the time. Marianne Kohn, 11, is locked out of her Berlin school; synagogues and Jewish shops are looted and burned; her father is in hiding; the streets are loud with violence and marching Nazi youth. As the violence gets closer and Marianne must hole up in her apartment, she fiercely resists her mother's decision to send her away. Olga Drucker's Kindertransport (1992) and Dorith Sim's picture book In My Pocket (1997) tell of the children's leaving and their journey to foster homes. Here the focus is on the racist persecution that drove parents to send their children away to safety. The mother is idealized, but her heartbreaking letter to Marianne ("One day you will understand why I had to let you go") is as unforgettable as their anguished parting. Hazel Rochman

18. The Grey Striped Shirt : How Grandma and Grandpa Survived the Holocaust
by Jacqueline Jules, Mike Cressy (Illustrator). Paperback (November 1997)

Book Description
Gr. 3-4. While visiting her grandparents, Frannie discovers an old striped shirt, and eventually musters up the courage to ask why her grandmother has saved this ugly garment. Slowly, over a period of years, her grandparents share with her their experiences during the Holocaust. What makes this title different from others is that Frannie asks the question, "Why didn't the Jews fight back? Why didn't they do something to keep the Nazis from killing them?" Some of the acts of the resistance movements are explained, but Grandma states the most meaningful act of all, "We fought the Nazis by staying alive." And it is up to Frannie to tell their story and keep it alive. The dedication of the grandparents to celebrating life is evident not only in their love for their grandchild, but also in their beautiful garden. This is a moving book, just perfect for those too old for David Adler's The Number on My Grandfather's Arm (UAHC, 1987), and not quite ready for Lois Lowry's Number the Stars (Houghton, 1989). It is amply illustrated with full page black and white pictures that capture the moods and emotions of the text.

19. The Hidden Children
by Howard Greenfeld. Paperback. (October 1997)

Book Description
Gr. 5-10. Greenfeld uses personal interviews to reinforce his research and illuminate the stories of the thousands of Jewish children hidden in homes, convents, and institutions during World War II. Illustrated with black?and?white photographs, the moving stories and dramatic facts make inspiring, and often troubling, reading. A lovely, important book about heroism and survival. Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

20. Hide and Seek
by Ida Vos, Terese Edelstein (Translator), Inez Smidt (Translator) Paperback (March 1995)

Book Description

Originally published in Holland in 1981, this novel, based on events in the author's life, relates one Jewish family's experiences during the German occupation in World War II. Eight?year?old Rachel Hartog first notices small changes and restrictions and then must go into hiding until the end of the war. An excellent addition to World War II novels. Copyright © 1991 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

21. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust
by Maxine B. Rosenberg, John Sherrill. Paperback (March 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 5-10. Rosenberg has compiled fourteen first?person recollections from Jews who, as children, hid from Nazi oppressors during the Holocaust. Despite differences in nationality and circumstances, the effect on these people was similar, as they suffered separation from families and loss of identity. A testament to a bitter chapter in history - one which should never be forgotten. Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

22. Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust
by David A. Adler, Karen Ritz (Illustrator). School & Library Binding (September
1994)

Book Description
Gr. 3-5. Through the biographies of two Jewish children, this picture book for older readers will bring home to grade?schoolers what the Holocaust meant to kids like them. Nothing is sensationalized, but the facts are terrifying. The history is told from the point of view of children who were there, and no false comfort is offered. Hilde Rosenzweig lived happily with her family in Frankfurt, Germany, until Hitler came to power, and her life was restricted by vicious anti-Semitism. Eli Lax never met Hilde: he lived in Czechoslovakia in a mountain village. Then World War II broke out, and the Nazis came. "They planned to kill every Jew in Europe." The SS murdered Hilde in a freight train filled with poisonous gas. Eli died in the gas chambers in Auschwitz. The text is quiet, the particulars inexorable, drawn from Adler's interviews with the surviving relatives. The illustrations are powerfully realistic, contrasting the light-filled happiness of the pre-Nazi times with the gray-toned and sepia scenes of the roundups and camps. One unforgettable picture shows Eli in bed, rigid with terror, hearing his cousins scream as they are taken away in the night. In fact, the pictures are almost overwhelming at times, taking up much of every page. Leitner's autobiographical The Big Lie (1992) is just as stark and uncompromising, but the restrained occasional charcoal illustrations allow for some distance. Despite the format, Hilde and Eli is not for very young children. It will be an important resource in the middle grades, especially in curriculum units where kids can talk about it together with an adult. Hazel Rochman.

23. The History of a Hatred (The Holocaust)
by Stuart A. Kallen. Library Binding (December 1994)

Book Description
Gr 4?6. Three brief titles marred by shoddy research and bookmaking. While care has been taken to match the black?and?white photographs and reproductions which range from faded and grainy to dark and indistinguishable with the text, nowhere are these illustrations identified or credited. Hatred presents the history of anti?Semitism in an accessible manner; however, Kallen gives a rather disjointed discussion of the life of Jesus from the Jewish perspective. In Holocausts, the bibliography is meaningless and the author offers no documentation for the information, which is heavily laden with rhetoric and is very short on solid facts. Nazis repeats
some of the material found in the first title, but attention to detail is mediocre, allowing for misspellings, grammatical errors, and some unanswered questions. The author simply states, "Goering was a drug addict, beloved by the Germans for his vicious sense of humor and enjoyment of drink," without further explanation.

24. Hitler Youth: Marching Toward Madness (Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust)
by Alexa Dvorson. Library Binding (October 1998)

Book Description
Edgar Gielsdorf was an ordinary seven?year?old. He followed his father everywhere. He even followed him to Hitler's speeches. Edgar was intrigued by how intent the listeners were at these gatherings. He was so intrigued he eventually joined the Hitler Youth, an organization that had many exciting activities for kids?games, field trips, and the like. After they became regular attendees, they were given lessons that led them to believe that Hitler, his party and policies was the only way Germans would find the good life they deserved. They pledged allegiance to him and his causes. Hitler Youth was just a pre?staging organization for future German soldiers?men that Hitler knew he would need in a war. Edgar recounts his misguided beliefs and the events that led him to finally realize the cult?like effect that the youth movement had on him. This type of material is often omitted when discussion of World War II occurs. It really is necessary because it helps to answer the questions about what the Germans did and why. Wonderfully told and touchingly concluded, there is a lesson here for all misguided youths. This book is part of the "Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust" series. Scott S. Floyd

25. The Holocaust (New Perspectives)
by R. G. Grant. Library Binding (February 1998)

Book Description
Gr 6-10. Examines the early persecution of Jews in Germany, the rise to power of the Nazis, the concentration camps, and other historical events surrounding the Holocaust.
In an absurd belief that Jews were a threat to the German people, the Nazis planned to seek out and kill every Jewish man, woman, and child living in Europe. How had such a belief arisen? How was the plan developed and put into action? What was the experience of people in the ghettos and extermination camps? What happened in the end, and how is the Holocaust remembered? This book shows events from the points of view of German perpetrators and onlookers and of Jewish survivors.

26. Hostage to War: A True Story
by Tatiana Vasileva, Griffin Amy (Editor), Anna Trenter (Translator). Paperback (December 1999)

Book Description
Gr. 7-10. The suffering of millions of Russian civilians during World War II is personalized in this diary narrative of one survivor, who was 13 when the Nazis invaded Leningrad in 1941. She tells it quietly. First, there are the German occupation and her experience at home of hunger, cold, disease, brutality. Then she spends years in forced labor camps and factories in Germany. Finally, when the war is over, she records the wrenching homecoming scenes ("Mama is unrecognizable") and her determination to go back to school. Always, even in the worst times, there are a few people who help her. The English translation is
from a German translation of the original Russian, but it reads smoothly. The diary format is contrived; it is just a way for her to write in the first person and the present tense, but it works fine, and readers will accept that what sustained her in those wartime years was to imagine she was writing personal letters telling her mother what was happening. An afterword fills in the historical background. This is a strong voice to add to the eyewitness accounts of what it was like to be a teenager in wartime. Hazel Rochman

27. I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust
by Inge Auerbacher, Israel Bernbaum (Illustrator). Paperback (February 1993)

Book Description
Inga Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's ?? until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and she and her parents were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. The Auerbachers defied death for three years until they were freed.
This story allows even the youngest middle reader to understand the Holocaust.

28. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong (Contributor). Hardcover (August 1999)

Book Description
When World War II began, Irene Gutowna was a 17 year-old Polish nursing student. Six years later, she writes in this inspiring memoir, "I felt a million years old." In the intervening time she was separated from her family, raped by Russian soldiers, and forced to work in a hotel serving German officers. Sickened by the suffering inflicted on the local Jews, Irene began leaving food under the walls of the ghetto. Soon she was scheming to protect the Jewish workers she supervised at the hotel, and then hiding them in the lavish villa where she served as housekeeper to a German major. When he discovered them in the house, Gutowna became his mistress to protect her friends later escaping him to join the Polish partisans during the Germans' retreat. The author presents her extraordinary heroism as the inevitable result of small steps taken over time, but her readers will not agree as they consume this thrilling adventure story, which also happens to be a drama of moral choice and courage. Although adults will find Irene's tale moving, it is appropriately published as a young adult book. Her experiences while still in her teens remind adolescents everywhere that their actions count, that the power to make a difference is in their hands. Wendy Smith

29. The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev, Uri Oriev. Paperback (January 1992)

Book Description
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 constantly life?threatening conditions.

30. Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story
by Malka Drucker, et al. Paperback (August 1994)

Book Description
At her family's traditional Passover seder in Israel, eight-year old Marissa hears the story of her father Jacob and her Uncle David's experiences as children in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Alex and Mela hide the boys in their home. After the war, the authorities insist that Jacob and David must leave the people they now regard as their parents, and it is sixteen years before the boys locate them again. This is a heartening novel, based on a true story, of great courage in the midst of the madness of war. Copyright © 1993 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

31. Katarina: A Novel
by Kathryn Winter, Kitarina Winter. Hardcover (April 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 7-12. Katarina is eight at the start of this autobiographical novel about a Jewish orphan in hiding in Slovakia during World War II. At first, she is cared for by her loving aunt, but then they must part in anguish, and Katarina is sent to hide with a farm family. Forced to leave the farm, she wanders the roads until a Christian orphanage takes her in, and she stays there for the duration of the war. The pace is sometimes slow and the telling disjointed, but there is a dramatic immediacy in the child's bewildered view of the shifting realities she must get used to in order to survive. How do you find your voice when you have had to whisper for months? How do you find privacy in a crowded space? At the center is her confusion about her Jewish identity, especially when the kind Catholic maid takes the child to mass and secretly teaches her Catholicism. People are drawn with complexity; some hate her as a Jew; one Protestant nun and a German officer help her. Through her three years of wandering and hiding, her memories sustain her, but at the end, when she finally gets home, there is no one left alive. The writer now lives in California. Her story will move readers with its honesty about her survival and the horror she escaped. Hazel Rochman

32. The Key Is Lost
by Ida Vos, Terese Edelstein (Translator). Hardcover (May 2000)

Book Description
Like the classic Hide and Seek (1991), this Holocaust survivor story is based on Vos' own
experience as a child in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland. The immediate, present?tense narrative tells it from the child's bewildered viewpoint as she and her sister are separated from their parents and forced from one secret hideout to another. They must change their names and deny who they are. Always they depend on the kindness of strangers, who risk their own lives, even starve themselves, to save the children. The ending is happy but still realistic: the children are reunited with their parents after the war, yet the celebration is muted by the loss of all those relatives and friends who have not come back. This is a good book to introduce the Holocaust to middle?grade readers, who will identify with the terror in the home, but will not be ready to confront the violent details of the genocide. Connect this with escape stories of the Underground Railroad. Hazel Rochman

33. Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors
by Milton J. Nieuwsma (Editor)

Book Description
At the Auschwitz?Birkenau concentration camp, the Nazis created a special section for children called the Kinderlager. Three young acquaintances from the town of Tomaszw Mazowiecki ended up together in the Kinderlager and managed to struggle through and
survive that terrible place.
Using their own words, Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenenbaum, and Rachel Hyams document their story in Kinderlager, describing their lives before the war, their arrival at the camp, their liberation by the Soviet Army in January 1945, and the lives they rebuilt after the war. It is a story filled with horror and unspeakable tragedy ? but also one of remarkable courage and hope. From the Inside Flap

34. The Man from the Other Side
by Uri Orlev, Hillel Halkin (Translator). Paperback (January 1995)

Book Description
Fourteen year-old Marek regards the Jews in the ghetto as strange and ugly people until he meets a kind, intelligent young Jewish man and helps him to hide from the hated German soldiers in Marek's grandparents' home. Through his new friend, Marek becomes involved, briefly and courageously, with the tragic events of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Riveting. Copyright © 1991 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

35. Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz
by Elaine Murray Stone, Patrick Kelley (Illustrator). Paperback (June 1997)

Book Description
Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish friar who founded the Militia of the Immaculate and two monasteries, and who wrote and published periodicals and newspapers. Kolbe became a political prisoner in Auschwitz in 1941. He offered his life in place of another man condemned to death, and in so doing became a martyr to the truth ?? the truth about religion, and about the twin evils of those despicable political systems, Nazism and Communism. Maximilian Kolbe: Saint Of Auschwitz is the story of a most remarkable man, a life that teaches us all about sanctity, perseverance, self-sacrifice, and Christian love. This is an heroic story of a humble man. Midwest Book Review.

36. Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend
by Alison Leslie Gold. Paperback (April 1999)

Book Description
This is as much the story of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who endured the horrors of Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, as it is about Anne Frank. Pick-Goslar's narrative is interwoven with memories of her friend Anne and their comfortable life before the Nazis. Although the reminiscences are not always skillfully blended, this account is still moving and memorable and will no doubt be used to accompany The Diary of Anne Frank. Copyright © 1998 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

37. My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto
by Mendel Grossman(Photographer), Frank Dabba Smith. Hardcover (May 2000)

Book Description
With a camera hidden under his raincoat, Grossman secretly photographed life in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. He distributed some of the prints and hid the negatives in the walls of his room. He died on a forced march in Germany in 1945, but his close friend saved some of the photos, which are now in a museum exhibit in Israel. Sixteen of his stirring full?page, black?and?white photos are included here, with brief text contributed by Frank Dabba Smith opposite each photo. There are crowd scenes of people being forced into the ghetto as well as sudden closeups of individuals??the shocked child in the cover photo; the boy sharing food with his little sister. A fine introduction talks about the pictures' "nervous, heroic, agitated" quality and discusses whether art can come from such suffering. What doesn't work here is Smith's commentary, a fictionalized first?person narrative, presumably in Grossman's voice. Grossman's life story, relegated to an afterword, is the real drama, the facts of the artist as secret witness. Hazel Rochman

38. The Nazis Seize Power, 1933-1941 (The Holocaust)
by Stuart A. Kallen

Book Description
Gr 4-6. Three brief titles marred by shoddy research and bookmaking. While care has been taken to match the black?and?white photographs and reproductions which range from faded and grainy to dark and indistinguishable with the text, nowhere are these illustrations identified or credited. Hatred presents the history of anti-Semitism in an accessible manner; however, Kallen gives a rather disjointed discussion of the life of Jesus from the Jewish perspective. In Holocausts, the bibliography is meaningless and the author offers no documentation for the information, which is heavily laden with rhetoric and is very short on solid facts. Nazis repeats some of the material found in the first title, but attention to detail is mediocre, allowing for misspellings, grammatical errors, and some unanswered questions. The author simply states, "Goering was a drug addict, beloved by the Germans for his vicious sense of humor and enjoyment of drink," without further explanation.

39. The Night Crossing
by Karen Ackerman, Elizabeth Sayles (Illustrator). Paperback (May 1995)

Book Description
Gr. 2-5. With the air of family history reshaped as fiction, a Jewish family's escape on foot from Innsbruck to Switzerland just after Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria. Ackerman's unadorned narrative begins with midnight arrests and the betrayal of friends, but these are described so matter-of-fact that they lose most of their terror. Deciding to flee, Clara's parents sell their valuables, including Mama's wedding ring but not two heirloom Sabbath candlesticks. Stitched into older sister Marta's petticoat, these provide the chief drama: Since they tend to clank together, they are re-hidden, at the border, inside another treasure two dolls that Grandmother carried years ago on her "night crossing" from Russia to escape the pogroms, and which Clara has insisted on bringing. (This seems incredible: why wasn't the problem with the candlesticks resolved sooner, since silence has been vital throughout the long journey?) An epilogue follows the family to England and relative prosperity during the war, noting that many neighbors and relatives were less fortunate. Realistic if rather gentle, a simple dramatization that will be useful in introducing young children to the Holocaust. B&W illustrations not seen. Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

40. A Nightmare in History : The Holocaust, 1933-1945
by Miriam Chaikin. Paperback (April 1992)

Book Description
Traces the history of anti?Semitism from biblical times through the twelve years of the Nazi era, 1933?1945, and describes Hitler's plans to annihilate European Jews by focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Auschwitz?Birkenau concentration camps. Also discusses the continuing effort to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

41. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (An Avon Camelot Book)
by Anita Lobel. Paperback (February 2000)

Book Description
Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. A Caldecott-winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel endured the horrific childhood she did. From age 5 to age 10, Lobel spent what are supposed to be carefree years hiding from the Nazis, protecting her younger brother, being captured and marched from camp to camp, and surviving completely dehumanizing conditions. A terrifying story by any measure, Lobel's memoir is all the more haunting as told from the first-person, child's-eye view. Her girlhood voice tells it like it is, without irony or even complete understanding, but with matter-of-fact honesty and astonishing attention to detail. She carves vivid, enduring images into readers' minds. On hiding in the attic of the ghetto: "We were always told to be very quiet. The whispers of the trapped grown-ups sounded like the noise of insects rubbing their legs together." On being discovered while hiding in a convent: "They lined us up facing the wall. I looked at the dark red bricks in front of me and waited for the shots. When the shouting continued and the shots didn't come, I noticed my breath hanging in thin puffs in the air." On trying not to draw the attention of the Nazis: "I wanted to shrink away. To fold into a small invisible thing that had no detectable smell. No breath. No flesh. No sound."
It is a miracle that Lobel and her brother survived on their own in this world that any adult would find unbearable. Indeed, and appropriately, there are no pretty pictures here, and adults choosing to share this story with younger readers should make themselves readily available for explanations and comforting words. (The camps are full of excrement and death, all faithfully recorded in direct, unsparing language.) But this is a story that must be told, from the shocking beginning when a young girl watches the Nazis march into Krakow, to the final words of Lobel's epilogue: "My life has been good. I want more." Brangien Davis

42. Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry. Mass Market Paperback (March 1998)

Book Description
The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life through the eyes of 10 year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newberry Medal.

43. One More Border : The True Story of One Family's Escape from War-Torn Europe
by William Kaplan, et al. Hardcover (November 1998)

Book Description
Kaplan tells how, as a boy, his father escaped the Nazis, traveling with his family from Lithuania to Canada via Russia and Japan. The illustrations often seem oddly contemporary, and the photos and lengthy captions, while offering helpful information, break the flow of the tension-filled story. Readers of Ken Mochizuki's Passage to Freedom, however, will appreciate this "Sugihara survivors" story.

44. Parallel Journeys
by Eleanor H. Ayer, et al. School & Library Binding (June 1995)

Book Description
With Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Alternating chapters contrast the wartime experiences of two young Germans, Waterford, who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp, and Heck, a member of the Hitler Youth. The volume is composed mainly of excerpts from their published autobiographies, connected by Ayer's overall account of the era. A powerful and painful picture emerges, vividly describing life before, during, and, most impressively, after the Holocaust. Copyright © 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

45. People of the Holocaust: 2 Vol. Set
by Linda Schmittroth(Editor), Mary Kay Rosteck (Editor). Hardcover (May 1998)

Book Description
Gr 5 and up. Profiles sixty women and men who were caught up in the Holocaust, including Nazi perpetrators and their victims, world leaders and policy makers, and those who showed their humanity and courage by resisting Hitler's reign of genocidal terror.

46. A Pocket Full of Seeds (A Puffin Book)
by Marilyn Sachs, Ben Stahl (Illustrator). Paperback (January 1994)

Book Description
Nicole parents, Jews in unoccupied France, decide to take a chance and wait out the war. Then one awful day Nicole comes home from school to find her entire family gone. The Nazis who have taken them are still looking for her. Where can she hide? "A significant addition to the collection of children's books dealing with World War II." The Boston Globe. An ALA Notable Book; and a New York Times Outstanding Children's Book of the Year.

47. The Secret of Gabi's Dresser
by Kathy Kacer. Paperback (September 1999)

Book Description

48. The Shadow Children
by Steven Schnur, Herbert Tauss (Illustrator). Hardcover (October 1994)

Book Description
Etienne, a French boy, notices groups of ragged children near his grandfather's farm. Grand?pére insists that the boy is imagining things; later, he reluctantly reveals a dark secret. During the war, the villagers had sheltered hundreds of Jewish children, but when the Nazis came, the townspeople were fearful for their own safety and only stood and watched as the children were taken away. The ghosts of these children have haunted the village ever since. A thought?provoking story of unredeemed guilt, ideal for class discussions. Copyright © 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved

49. Shrinking Circle : Memories of Nazi Berlin 1933-39
by Marion Freyer Wolff. Paperback (November 1998)

Book Description
A memoir of the author's girlhood in Nazi Berlin during Hitler's rise to power.

50. A Special Fate: Chiuneory Sugihara : Hero of the Holocaust (Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: A Hero of the Holocaust)
by Alison Leslie Gold. School & Library Binding (April 2000)

Book Description
The story told in Ken Mochizuki's picture book Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story (rev. 11/97) is told in greater depth in this biography of the Japanese diplomat responsible for "one of the largest rescues of Jews in the Holocaust." In 1939, Chiune Sugihara was appointed vice consul to Lithuania. The following year, he and his family woke up one day to find over a hundred Jewish refugees outside the consulate, all hoping for visas that would allow them to travel through the Soviet Union to Japan?from where they planned to continue on to Curacao or Shanghai. Sacrificing his career, Sugihara disobeyed his government and issued thousands of visas, ultimately saving the lives of an estimated six thousand Jews. Alison Leslie Gold's inclusion of the stories of Masha Bernstein and Solly Ganor, two Sugihara visa recipients, both children at the time, gives the biography a compelling slant for young readers. Despite occasionally stiff prose, the account remains engaging and dramatic. Photos are included, and an epilogue fills readers in on Sugihara's life after the war, including his reception, in 1985, of both Israel's Righteous Among the Nations medal and Japan's Nagasaki Peace Prize. Copyright © 2000 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

51. The Spider's Web
by Laura E. Williams, Erica Magnus (Illustrator). Paperback (May 1999)

Book Description
The message is heavily overstated in this novel, but the dramatic story will hold middle-graders. Lexi is a contemporary German girl, who joins a neo-Nazi group to find friends and escape her unhappy home. She mouths all the racist slogans and finds herself drawn into the skinheads' escalating violence, which culminates in the beating of a black kid and the burning of a synagogue. What saves Lexi is her encounter with an old woman, Ursula, who was once a member of the Hitler Youth ("I didn't know any better. But now I know") and who is haunted by her youthful betrayal of a Jewish friend. The parallels are contrived as Ursula's flashbacks are woven into the narrative and Lexi unwittingly betrays a friend. The characters are stock, including idealized Jews. However, the account of the innocent, troubled kid drawn to bigotry would be a good start for classroom discussions. Erica Magnus' occasional drawings extend the drama, especially the shocking pictures of Lexi with a swastika tattoo on her bald head. Hazel Rochman

52. Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport
by Anne L. Fox (Epilogue), Eva Abraham?Podietz (Epilogue). Paperback (December 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 5-8. The Kindertransport was a rescue operation that saved 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe between December 1938 and September 1939 and found homes for them in England. Only 1,000 of them ever saw their families again. Olga Levy Drucker's Kindertransport (1992) is one survivor's detailed story. The authors of this book were also Kinder who got away to England, and they have written a profoundly moving, accessible account that combines the history of the time with the first?person testimonies of 21 survivors . Each chapter begins with the big picture, life under Hitler, Kristallnacht, preparing to leave, the journey, life in England through the war years and afterward and then includes brief vignettes by Kinder who remember how it was for them; finally, a brief note summarizes what happened to each child afterward. The design is like an open scrapbook, with different size typefaces, snapshots, news photos, and marginal notes; and the combination of the general overview with personal memories will bring readers, from middle grades through adult, close to the experience. These people escaped; the brutality is offstage, but the anguish is in the childhood details. What was it like to say good-bye to your parents, knowing you might never see them again? To arrive in a new country, learn a new language, and live with strangers? To discover after the war that your family was gone? Or to find your parents, leave your foster home, and try to be a family again? The authors' quiet final note is rooted in the survivors' stories: the Kinder have learned, among other things, to appreciate people's differences and to remember the kindness of strangers. Hazel Rochman.

53. Tracking the Holocaust
by Gerda Haas. Library Binding (December 1995)

Book Description
The Holocaust accounts of eight individuals, including Haas, are related along with background information about World War II. Haas's intent, "to present human experience in historical context and impress the reader with the geographical range of the Holocaust," results in a book that jumps back and forth in time from country to country . Nevertheless, the book is moving and well researched. Maps and archival photographs are included.

54. A Traitor Among Us
by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. Hardcover (June 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 6-9. Set in a village in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1944, this is an exciting World War II thriller. Thirteen year-old Pieter Van Dirk is drawn into helping the Dutch Resistance movement. He hides a wounded American soldier, transmits secret messages by shortwave radio, and disguises himself to deliver counterfeit ration cards for Resistance fighters. We feel Pieter's struggle to be brave, all the more so because he is so afraid; in fact, there's some overwriting as fear pounds in his head, his blood freezes, his heart clutches, his bones freeze. What will hold readers is not only the thrilling action of the kid in the underground army but also the spy story: Who is the secret Nazi informer in the village? Is it the doctor? Pieter's teacher? His neighbor? His best friend? The suspense rises to the very last chapter. Hazel Rochman

55. Understanding the Holocaust
by George Feldman(Editor), Linda Schmittroth (Editor). Hardcover (August 1998)

Book Description
Gr 8 and up. This overview describes the Holocaust, the events that led up to it, and how the Nazis attempted to eradicate an entire people while fighting a war on two fronts. Sidebars provide information on related individuals, events, and policies. Black-and-white photographs help clarify the text. Each volume has the same time line; annotated list of sources for further reading, organized by topic; and cumulative index of names, places, subjects, and terms. Both books also have a table of "Jewish Victims of the Holocaust by Country of Origin." While this is of value, a table including the number of Jews in the country immediately before the war and their percentage to the total population would provide a truer picture. For instance, although 105,000 Jews died in the Netherlands and 3,000,000 perished in Poland, the figures represent 85% of the pre-war population in both countries.

56. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Cornerstones of Freedom)
by Philip Brooks. Paperback (March 1997)

Book Description
Describes the planning and building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and examines its exhibits documenting the European Holocaust from 1933 to 1945.

57. We Remember the Holocaust
by David A. Adler. Paperback (April 1995)

Book Description
Photographs. A collage of memories, illustrated by a plethora of vintage photographs showing the contributors, each of whom is a survivor of the holocaust. The statements vary, but they form an unforgettable picture of a terrible time. Copyright © 1990 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

58. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by Judith Kerr(Illustrator). Paperback (November 1997)

Book Description
Anna was only nine years old in 1933, too busy with her school work and friends to take much notice of Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something you were because your parents and grandparents were Jewish. But then one day her father was unaccountably, frighteningly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, were hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy.
Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family embark on an adventure that would go on for years, in several different countries. They learn many new things: new languages, how to cope with the wildest confusions, and how to be poor. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills to being a refugee. And as long as the family stayed together, that was all that really mattered.

59. When the Soldiers Were Gone
by Vera W. Propp. Hardcover (February 1999)

Book Description
Gr. 4-9. Young Henk is shocked to learn that the two strangers at the door are his real parents, come to reclaim him from the Dutch farming couple who had protected him for three years from the Nazis. This fictionalized account of an actual "hidden child's" post-WWII experience is written in spare, ingenuous style, effectively capturing an eight year-old's view of a reasonably familiar, comfortable world suddenly turned upside down. His initial upset calmed by the patient, loving adults around him, he gradually adapts to living in a war-damaged town, to answering to his real name, "Benjamin," and to a new baby brother (actually an orphaned cousin) as his buried memories slowly begin to resurface. Propp's protagonist never develops a distinct personality, but his experiences at home, at school, and at play focus not so much on wider historical issues as on what would be important to a child: food, friends, a sense of belonging. Readers whose interest in hidden children has been sparked by such nonfiction works as Maxine B. Rosenberg's Hiding To Survive (1994) will find this an edifying look at the difficulties younger survivors faced in making the transition to peacetime. Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

60. Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution
by Michael Leapman. Hardcover (September 1998)

Book Description
Gr. 8-12. Many thousands of children in Europe during World War II were stolen from their parents, screened in racial tests, and then selected for "Germanization" and adoption by German families; many never saw their parents again. Their experiences make up a significant part of this powerful collective biography, written without sensationalism by a British journalist who directed a BBC film about the Nazis' selective breeding program. Also included is a harrowing story, one that is seldom told, about a Gypsy child in Auschwitz. Then there is the boy from Lidice, the Czech town where all the men and most of the children were massacred by the Nazis. Each chapter begins with general historical background and then describes what happened to one child, often based on Leapman's interview with the adult survivor. Some of the other chapters about children in hiding, and about those on the Kindertransport, will be more familiar from other Holocaust memoirs. Their painful stories show that even for those who found their families after the war, the reunion was sometimes difficult, as in the case of the Jewish child who did not want to give up the faith of the Catholics who had kept her safe. Unfortunately, the book's typeface is small and cramped, with almost no margins, but black-and-white photos document the gripping text, and the family snapshots break your heart. Hazel Rochman

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61. Bearing Witness: Liberation and the Nuremberg Trails
by Stuart A. Kallen. Library Binding (December 1994)

Book Description
Gr 5-7. These books offer material that has been better presented in other titles. Bearing Witness tells of the liberation of the concentration camps, of the difficulties confronting liberated Jews, the trials of some Nazi leaders, and some key events since the war, such as the Eichmann trial. Kallen points out the irony of our "Operation Paperclip," which made it easier for war criminals to enter the U.S. than for Holocaust survivors. Faces describes organized resistance fighting, the work of rescuers in different European countries, and individuals such as Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler. Holocaust attempts to tell of the Nazi rise to power and the "Final Solution." Kallen is at times eloquent, especially in distinguishing between the Holocaust and other atrocities and in assessing the frightening rise of anti-Semitism in much of the world today. However, the books are too short, too repetitive, and too carelessly assembled to be wise purchases. In Holocaust, Joseph Goebbels is spelled "Goebbles" in both text and index, while in Witness it is spelled correctly. Twice the author states that Anne Frank died on a death march, thus negating the good parts of the text. Perhaps worst of all are the poorly reproduced, murky black-and-white photographs.

62. Best Friends
by Elisabeth Reuter. Hardcover (December 1994)

Book Description
Gr 2-4. As Nazi propaganda and policies change attitudes in pre-World War II Germany, Judith and Lisa's friendship falters. Forbidden to see her friend, Lisa meets Judith secretly, until she declares that only she should be allowed to play with their favorite teddy bear since Judith is "just a Jewish girl." Although she regrets this outburst, she is never able to apologize, since Judith and her family are taken away on Kristallnacht. This story may have a powerful impact, but it will have difficulty finding an audience. The translators provide an explanatory note, but most young children will still have no idea what to make of the story. Older children may be turned off by the picture-book format. The illustrations of large-headed children with features that border on the grotesque are not likely to attract readers, either. Schools in which the Holocaust is taught at the elementary level may find this useful.

63. A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir
by Trudi Birger, et al. Hardcover (December 1992)

Book Description
The author, a survivor of the Holocaust, describes her ordeal of being held with her mother in the concentration camp at Stutthof.
This is the dramatic story of a Holocaust survivor who was literally snatched from the crematorium as the flames reached for her body. Trudi Birger's story is a story of choices: her choice to stand by her mother in the death camps, refusing opportunities to save herself; her choice not to escape from the cattle car carrying her from the Kovno ghetto to the Stutthof concentration camp on the Baltic; her choice to remain beside her mother to die in the gas chambers, though she had already been spared from selection. Miraculously, she was saved again. In this poignant, honest, and very human memoir, we retrace events of a privileged childhood that turned into forced labor and physical deprivation in the Kovno ghetto. We follow the precarious day-to-day survival in a death camp to the threat of death in the waning days of war. This is a memoir that pays tribute to love and devotion, the bond between mother and daughter: the story of a daughter who, by refusing to save herself, saved them both.

64. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: America Keeps the Memory Alive
by Eleanor H. Ayer. Library Binding (September 1994)

Book Description
A guided tour of the museum describes the exhibits on display and shows how the building achieves a great emotional impact by including motifs of the Holocaust in its layout and design. The book is especially useful for those who have not visited the museum; for those who already have, it affords yet another way of remembering. The accessible text is accompanied by color photographs; a time line is included. Copyright © 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

65. Play to the Angel
by Maurine F. Dahlberg. Hardcover (August 2000)

Book Description
In February 1938, in Vienna, twelve year-old Greta Radky is devastated to learn that her mother plans to sell the family piano. Greta's brother, a concert pianist, died the previous April, and her mother thinks of the piano as his. But Greta is an equally committed musician, and when she meets a mysterious piano teacher who agrees to work with her, she proves it. With his help the piano is saved, and inspired by his tiny angel doll, Greta practices furiously for her first recital. Then, on the day of the performance, the Nazis invade Austria. Suddenly Greta discovers her teacher's secret and knows that his life is in danger. Having stood up to her mother, Greta must now confront the Nazis...Maurine Dahlberg's fascinating first novel features an indomitable heroine in an unusual and subtle Holocaust setting.

66. Remember Not to Forget: A Memory of the Holocaust
by Norman H. Finkelstein, et al. Paperback (March 1993)

Book Description
Located just off the Mall in Washington, D.C., the official U.S. Holocaust Museum compels visitors to directly confront the horrors of this shocking historical event. In this book, Finkelstein clearly and succinctly describes for young people the origins of anti?Semitism and its culmination in Hitler's Germany.

67. Star of Fear, Star of Hope
by Jo Hoestlandt, et al. Hardcover (October 1995)

Book Description
Gr. 2-4. Like Richter's Friedrich (1970) for older readers, this picture book dramatizes the Holocaust from the point of view of a gentile child who watches the mounting persecution of a Jewish friend. Translated from the French, the story is narrated by Helen, who remembers herself at nine years old in 1942 when the Nazis occupied northern France. Why does her best friend, Lydia, have to wear a yellow star? Why are people in hiding and using strange names? What is Lydia afraid of? Helen quarrels with her friend, and then Lydia is taken away, and Helen never sees her again. The book won the Graphics Prize at the 1994 Bologna Book Fair. The pastel pictures in sepia tones are understated, with an old?fashioned, almost childlike simplicity. In contrast to the quiet pictures of the children together inside the house, there's a climactic double-page street scene of a long column of people carrying suitcases and being marched away by the French police. Without being maudlin or sensational, the story brings the genocide home. Hazel Rochman

68. Anne Frank
by Laura Tyler, Giani Renna (Illustrator). (May 1994)

Book Description
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.

1. Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. Paperback (January 1990)

Book Description
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman?Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality.

2. All But My Life
by Gerda Weissmann Klein, Gerda Klein Weissmann. Hardcover (April 1995)

Book Description
A Polish Jew records her experiences as a young girl during the Holocaust, including her struggle for survival in Nazi work camps, the destruction of her family, and the ordeal of a three?hundred?mile forced march during the winter of 1945, in a memoir that formed the basis of the documentary One Survivor Remembers.
Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three?year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S. Army and rescued by Lt. Kurt Klein, whom she married.

3. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
by Sara Nomberg-Przuytyk, Roslyn Hirsch (Translator). Paperback (September 1990)

Book Description
The author was incarcerated in Auschwitz from January 1944 to January1945. . . . The stories describe the struggle for survival of women prisoners, Jewish and non?Jewish, from all over Europe. For the most part those who survived did so by finding some niche in the administrative hierarchy of the camp.

4. Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust
by Hazel Rochman(Editor), Darlene Z. McCampbell (Contributor). Library Binding
(October 1995)

Book Description
Grades 7-12. Compiling twenty?four stories that reveal the human experience during the Holocaust, a wide?ranging anthology includes excerpts from Art Spiegelman's Maus, Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, and Carl Friedman's Nightfather.
From a comprehensive list of sources including poetry, novels, autobiographies, and first?person interviews, the authors have carefully chosen moving excerpts to bear witness to the events of the Holocaust. Beginning with stories of going into hiding and of daily life under Nazi edicts and restrictions, the selections move on to the brutal and terrifying experiences in the death camps and end with the liberation of the camps and accounts of survivors. As the authors say in the introduction about the variety of materials used, "Each writer finds a form to give voice to the unspeakable." The collection offers remarkable insights and will be invaluable to studies of the Holocaust.

5. Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir
by David Faber. Paperback (July 1997)

Book Description

6. Behind the Bedroom Wall
by Laura E. Williams, et al. Hardcover (June 1996)

Book Description
In 1939, ten?year?old Korinna Rehme becomes a member of her local Jungmaedel, a Nazi youth group. She believes that Hitler is helping the world by dealing with what he calls the "Jewish problem." When Korinna discovers that her parents are secretly hiding Jews in their house and helping them to escape the city, she is shocked. And her loyalties are put to an extreme test when a neighbor tips off the Gestapo.

7. The Big Lie: A True Story
by Isabella Leitner, Irving A. Leitner, Judy Pedersen. (Out of Print)

Book Description
A survivor of the Holocaust recounts her horrifying experiences, describing her family's deportation to Nazi concentration camps, her escape attempt with her sisters, and more.

8. The Cage
by Ruth Minsky Sender, Jim Coon. Paperback (August 1997).

Book Description
From the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the liberation of her concentration camp in 1945, the author chronicles an adolescence shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust but strengthened by the force of her own will.

9. Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries
by Laurel Holliday (Editor). Paperback (June 1996)

Book Description
In this unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children from across Nazi?occupied Europe and England, 23 boys and girls, aged 10 through 18, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through??and sometimes did not survive. With a power that recalls Anne Frank, the diarists record their experiences with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years.

10. The Final Journey
by Gudrun Pausewang, Patricia Crampton (Translator) Paperback (December 1998).

Book Description
Gr. 8?12. What was it like in the railway cattle cars bound for Auschwitz? This novel, first published in Germany in 1992, tells it from the viewpoint of an 11?year?old Jewish girl. Alice Dubsky has spent two years in hiding in a basement, protected from the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Now suddenly, crammed with nearly 50 people in the hot, stinking darkness of the train car, she faces the fact that they are prisoners being taken to a camp. That must be why her parents disappeared months before. She sees her grandfather die and witnesses the miracle of a baby born in the excrement, even as she learns for the first time from a young woman how babies are made. People cling to their possessions. Some share and help one another. Someone else dies. The train stops at sidings; people outside hear the cries and do nothing.

11. Five Chimneys
by Olga Lengyel. Paperback (October 1995)

Book Description
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven?month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept
her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz does not
retreat into self?pit or sensationalism. When Five Chimneys was first published (two years after World War II ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her "very frank, very well written book". Today, with "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, and neo?Nazis on the rise in western Europe, we cannot afford to forget the grisly lessons of the Holocaust. Five Chimneys is a stark reminder that the unspeakable can happen wherever and whenever ethnic hatreds, religious bigotries, and racial discriminations are permitted to exist. Midwest Book Review

12. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan. Paperback (November 1999)

Book Description
Perl collaborates with the three surviving members of the Blumenthal family to tell their moving story. In 1939, four?year?old Marion was interned with her family at the Westerbork camp in Holland; five years later they were imprisoned in the notorious Bergen?Belsen concentration camp. Illustrated with black?and?white photographs, the narrative is interspersed with facts about the rise of Hitler and the progress of the war. Copyright © 1996 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

13. The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust
by Jane Marks. Paperback (April 1995)

Book Description
They hid wherever they could for as long as it took the Allies to win the war ?? Jewish children, frightened, alone, often separated from their families. For months, even years, they faced the constant danger of discovery, fabricating new identities at a young age, sacrificing their
childhoods to save their lives. These secret survivors have suppressed these painful memories for decades. Now, in The Hidden Children, twenty?three adult survivors share their moving wartime experiences - some for the first time.
There is Rosa, who hid in an impoverished one?room farmhouse with three others, sleeping on a clay pallet behind a stove; Renee, who posed as a Catholic and was kept in a convent by nuns who knew her secret; and Richard, who lived in a closet with his family for thirteen months. Their personal stories of belief and determination give a voice, at last, to the forgotten. Inspiring and life?affirming, The Hidden Children is an unparalleled document of witness, discovery, and the miracle of human courage.

14. The Holocaust Heroes (The Holocaust Remembered Series)
by David K. Fremon. Library Binding (July 1998)

Book Description
Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

15. The Holocaust Overview (The Holocaust Remembered Series)
by Ann Byers. Library Binding (August 1998)

Book Description
In this introductory volume to the Holocaust Remembered series, Byers presents a comprehensive and dramatic history of the Holocaust aimed at middle?schoolers. Tracing anti?Semitism back to its earliest expression Byers shows how hatred against the Jews, coupled with the rise of National Socialism, provided the force that swept Adolf Hitler to power. She makes clear that, from the very beginning, Hitler methodically conducted a reign of terror against European Jews: boycotts of Jewish businesses, harassment conducted on city streets, the creation of the Nuremburg Laws, and much more. She also outlines the four?part strategy to eliminate the Jews: exclusion, expulsion, enclosure, and ultimately, extermination. Numerous black?and?white period photographs provide evidence of the horrors of WWII. This is a solid introduction to the series, but is also effective as a stand?alone volume, a starting point in the curriculum. Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

16. Holocaust Rescuers: Ten Stories of Courage (Collective Biographies)
by Darryl Lyman. Library Binding (March 1999)

Book Description
Each volume contains ten biographical profiles, illustrated with mediocre black?and?white
photographs. The entries highlight each subject's professional achievements; personal information is included but not explored with much depth. Despite a few factual errors and an occasionally flat writing style, the profiles will serve as good starting points for those doing basic research on these notable figures. Copyright © 1999 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

17. The Holocaust Survivors (The Holocaust Remembered Series)
by Tabatha Yeatts, Tabitha Yeatts. Library Binding (July 1998)

Book Description
The Holocaust Survivors covers the liberation of the concentration camps, the Nuremberg Trials, the creation of Israel, Nazi hunting, survivors starting over, and ways of remembering the Holocaust. It was a difficult book to write ?? both because it was hard on me emotionally and because I kept finding myself wondering, "How do I explain this to young people?" I'm pleased with the result, though. I have been especially pleased by the reactions of Holocaust survivors and their families. Tabatha Yeatts

18. The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath
By Gerda Weissman, Kurt Klein. Hardcover (February 2000)

Book Description
On May 7,1945, American troops entered the Czech village of Volary, where Kurt Klein, a soldier with the Third Army, met Gerda Weissmann. Klein was born and raised in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. in 1937. Weissmann was 15 when the Germans entered her hometown of Bielsko, Poland. She was one of 4,000 young Jewish women who had been forced to march 350 miles during the bitter winter months of 1945 from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border, and she was one of the few survivors. Klein's parents died in the Holocaust, and none of Weissmann's family survived. Klein and Wiessmann were forced to separate soon after liberation (he returned to the U.S. and was discharged from the army), and their correspondence lasted a year??until they were married in Paris on June 18, 1946. Additional passages between their letters relate events in World War II, the plight of the Jews, the fate of relatives, and how Klein and Weissmann coped with the pain of their losses. George Cohen

19. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
by Livia Bitton-Jackson. Paperback (March 1999)

Book Description
Gr. 8?12. In a graphic present?tense narrative, this Holocaust memoir describes what happens to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. For those who have read Leitner's stark The Big Lie (1992), this is a much more detailed account, with the same authority of a personal witness. Horrifying as her experience is, she doesn't dwell on the atrocities. There is hope here. Unlike many adult survivor stories, this does not show the victims losing their humanity. The teenager and her mother help each other survive; they save each other from the gas chambers. Even in the slaughter of the cattle trucks strafed by machine?gun fire, "words of comfort emerge from every corner." The occasional overwriting about "drowning in a morass of pain and helplessness" is unfortunate. The facts need no rhetoric. On every page they express her intimate experience. After the war, the teenager finds her brother, hears how her father died. She wonders whether she dare enjoy the luxury of being a girl, of "having hair." A final brief chronology of the Holocaust adds to the value of this title for curriculum use with older readers. Hazel Rochman

20. If I Should Die Before I Wake
by Han Nolan. Hardcover (March 1994)

Book Description
As Hilary, a Neo?Nazi, lies in a coma in the hospital, she becomes Chana living in Poland during World War II. More vivid to her than her real existence, her life as Chana includes deportation to Auschwitz and survival told in graphic terms that come perilously close to sensationalism. The details of the experience leave little room for characterization, and the book ends without imparting to the reader a sense of catharsis or empathy. Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

21. The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev, et al. Hardcover (March 1984)

Book Description
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 constantly life?threatening conditions.

22. The Lady With the Hat
by Uri Orlev, Hillel Halkin (Translator). Hardcover (April 1995)

Book Description
Yulek, a seventeen?year?old concentration camp survivor, makes his way to Palestine after World War II ends. There he meets Theresa, who was saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns. Together they struggle to re?adjust to life after war. "A love story, a survival story, adventure, search, and suspense, all combine into the absorbing tale of a Holocaust survivor and newfound relative." - Voice of Youth Advocates ALA Notable Book Mildred L. Batchelder Award

23. My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz
by Livia Bitton-Jackson. School and Library Binding (March 1999)

Book Description
In a sequel to the well?received I Have Lived a Thousand Years (1997, not reviewed), Bitton?Jackson writes of her life as Elli Friedmann in 1945, when she, her brother, and mother were liberated from Auschwitz and sent back to their former home in Czechoslovakia. Finding only a shell of the place they had known, they struggled to rebuild some semblance of life and waited for the return of Elli's father. When they realized he was gone for good, their only hope
through all their efforts was the prospect of obtaining papers that would allow them to emigrate to America. Through the long years that they waited, Elli found work teaching, and helping other Jews escape to Palestine, a dangerous and illegal undertaking. When they finally arrived in New York City, relatives welcomed them; an epilogue collapses most of the author's adult life into a few paragraphs so readers will know the directions her life took. Interesting and inspiring, this story makes painfully clear how the fight to survive extended well beyond the war years; the discomforts and obstacles the author faced and articulates in such riveting detail will make readers squirm at the security and ease of their own lives. Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

24. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
by Milton Meltzer. Paperback (September 1991)

Book Description
By the time World War II was over, the dead included six million Jews??killed specifically because they were Jewish. This collection of first?person accounts of the Holocaust serves as a timeless reminder of how Europe's Jews reacted to the threat of extermination, emphasizing the wide variety of resistance efforts. Illustrated with photographs.

25. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
by Anita Lobel. Hardcover (September 1998)

Book Description
Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. A Caldecott?winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel endured the horrific childhood she did. From age 5 to age 10, Lobel spent what are supposed to be carefree years hiding from the Nazis, protecting her younger brother, being captured and marched from camp to camp, and surviving completely dehumanizing conditions. A terrifying story by any measure, Lobel's memoir is all the more haunting as told from the first?person, child's?eye view. Her girlhood voice tells it like it is, without irony or even complete understanding, but with matter?of?fact honesty and astonishing attention to detail. She carves vivid, enduring images into readers' minds. On hiding in the attic of the ghetto: "We were always told to be very quiet. The whispers of the trapped grown?ups sounded like the noise of insects rubbing their legs together." On being discovered while hiding in a convent: "They lined us up facing the wall. I looked at the dark red bricks in front of me and waited for the shots. When the shouting continued and the shots didn't come, I noticed my breath hanging in thin puffs in the air." On trying not to draw the attention of the Nazis: "I wanted to shrink away. To fold into a small invisible thing that had no detectable smell. No breath. No flesh. No sound."
It is a miracle that Lobel and her brother survived on their own in this world that any adult would find unbearable. Indeed, and appropriately, there are no pretty pictures here, and adults choosing to share this story with younger readers should make themselves readily available for explanations and comforting words. (The camps are full of excrement and death, all faithfully recorded in direct, unsparing language.) But this is a story that must be told, from the shocking beginning when a young girl watches the Nazis march into Krakow, to the final words of Lobel's epilogue: "My life has been good. I want more." Brangien Davis

26. The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis
by Ina R. Friedman, Ana R. Friedman. Paperback (November 1995)

Book Description
Friedman effectively pairs substantial explanation of historical events with personal narrative developed from extensive interviews. The frank discussion of Nazi treatment of gypsies, homosexuals, clergy, and others is very sobering, but there are also survival stories.
Copyright © 1990 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

27. Promise of a New Spring: The Holocaust and Renewal
by Gerda Weissman Klein, Vincent Tartaro (Illustrator). Paperback (July 1982)

Book Description

28. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
by Milton Meltzer. Library Binding (August 1988)

Book Description
A companion to Never to Forget, this is the story of those Gentiles who sought to rescue their Jewish neighbors from annihilation during WWII. "A story that needs telling."??School Library Journal, starred review. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.

29. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
by Gay Block, Malka Drucker, Cynthia Ozick (Preface). Paperback (May 1998)

Book Description
"Gay Block has photographed her subjects with great psychological insight and a total lack of technical artifice . . . . These photographs begin to negate the idea that evil is more interesting than goodness."
RESCUERS has been made into a three?part mini?series which airs on Showtime in October 1997, May 1998 and Fall 1998. Produced by Barbra Streisand and Cis Corman, the October film features actresses Elizabeth Perkins and Sela Ward as single women who acted alone to save Jewish lives.

30. Shadow of the Wall
by Christa Laird. Paperback (April 1997)

Book Description
This intense novel tells the story of Misha and his family, whose fictional lives in the Warsaw Ghetto intersect with the true story of Janusz Korczak, the brave man who struggled to maintain his home for orphans until he was deported, with all his children, to the death camp at Treblinka. Copyright © 1990 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

31. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust
by Susan D. Bachrach. Paperback (October 1994)

Book Description
Gr. 5?9. One and a half million children and teenagers were murdered by the Nazis. This photo?history, produced in association with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, focuses on what happened to young people whose world of family and friends, school and play, was destroyed. More than 30 short, accessible chapters cover the general history, including the rise of Hitler, the ghettos, the transports, the camps, the gas chambers, and the movements of resistance and rescue. Sidebars tell the ongoing stories of individual young people and show their ID photos; some of the individuals are pictured several times during the period 1933?45, but many don't survive. The writing is direct, with no histrionics or gimmicks. A wealth of material drawn from the museum's large collection of photographs and taped oral and video histories supports the facts. The systematic murder is confronted here. We're told of the brutality, the medical experiments, and the corpses stacked up like cordwood, and there are pictures of the death marches and the gas chambers. The Jews were the main target of Nazi hatred, but throughout the book, Bachrach also talks about other groups and individuals including Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled who were marked as enemies of the state. The book's design is clear, with a spacious chronology at the back, a long bibliography, subdivided by genre and reading level, and an appendix of population figures by country. This is one of the best books available for introducing the subject to young people and an excellent text for the Holocaust curriculum now required in many states. Hazel Rochman

32. Thanks to My Mother
by Schoschana Rabinovici, Mirjam Pressler, James Skofield (Translator). Hardcover (April 1998)

Book Description
Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her city of Vilnius, Lithuania. Soon her family would face the hunger and fear of the Vilnius ghetto, but worse was to come. When the ghetto was liquidated, some Jews were selected for forced labor camps; the rest were killed. Susie would live??because of the ingenuity and courage of her mother. It was her mother who disguised Susie as an adult to fool the camp guards; who fed her body and soul through gruesome conditions in three concentration camps; who showed her the power of the human spirit to survive. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking and compelling scenes that you will never forget.

33. To Life
by Ruth Minsky Sender. Paperback (March 2000)

Book Description
Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, as long as there is life, there is
hope, and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home.
Picking up where her acclaimed memoir The Cage leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty.

34. Under the Domin Tree
by Gila Almagor, Hillel Schenker (Translator). School & Library Binding (May 1995)

Book Description
Gr. 7?10. This autobiographical novel translated from the Hebrew is about young Holocaust survivors in an agricultural youth village in Israel in 1953. They are teenagers torn from parents, language, and country. There was Europe, Nazis, death camps; few talk about it. Here is Hebrew, friendship, work, routine. Interwoven with the account of daily life are individual stories of horror and loss. The dream of everyone is to find a relative, a lost parent. Miraculously, one girl's father is found, but he dies before she can get to Poland to see him. Another girl has the opposite problem: an unsavory couple claim her as their daughter so that they can grab her reparations. The narrator, Aviya, is warm about the sense of community, candid about the tensions and the longing for privacy. Unfortunately, Aviya's love story and her search for her father's grave are the least convincing parts of the novel. What holds you is the dramatic immediacy of the survivor experience and the personal struggle to find a place in a haunted present. Hazel Rochman

35. The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss. Paperback (July 1987)

Book Description
"In this fine autobiographical novel, Johanna Reiss depicts the trials of her Dutch?Jewish family during World War II. . . . The youngest of three daughters tells how she and her sister hid for more than two years in the upstairs room of the peasant Oosterveld family. . . . Offers
believable characterizations of unremarkable people who survived, if not thrived, and displayed an adaptability and generosity probably beyond their own expectations." SLJ.

36. We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
by Jacob Boas. Mass Market Paperback (November 1996)

Book Description
Foreword by Patricia C. McKissack. Narrative accounts of five young Jews, including Anne Frank, whose diaries hold their observations and emotions, give immediacy to the horrors of the Holocaust. The text provides historical information and compares the experiences of the diarists, quoting liberally from the teenagers' writings. Although these condensed versions lack the impact of a complete diary, the cumulative effect of the five journals is overwhelming. Copyright © 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

37. Writers of the Holocaust (Global Profiles)
by Sherri Lederman Mandell. Hardcover (March 1999)

Book Description
Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel, and Jerzy Kosinski are included among ten European writers who chronicled the Holocaust in poetry, memoirs, and fiction. Each entry, written in encyclopedia?quality prose, examines the author's career and includes quotes from significant works, but personal information is limited, resulting in incomplete profiles. Individual chronologies and bibliographies accompany each entry; the black?and?white photos are sometimes poorly reproduced. Copyright © 1999 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

38. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust
by Barbara Rogasky

Book Description
Examines the causes, events, and legacies of the Holocaust which resulted in the extermination of six million Jews.
Smoke and Ashes was named a 1988 ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a 1988 ALA
Notable Children's Book.

Additional Readings for High School and Adults

Arad, Yitzhak, Yisrael Gutman, and Abraham Margaliot, eds. Documents on
the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany
and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, in
cooperation with the Anti?Defamation League and Ktav Publishing House,
1981.

The Auschwitz Album. New York: Random House, 1981.

Berenbaum, Michael, ed. A Mosaic of Victims: Non?Jews Persecuted and
Murdered by the Nazis. New York: New York University Press, 1990.

Blady Szwajger, Adina. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's
Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Bower, Tom. The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1987.

Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Batallion 101 and the
Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Dafni, Reuven, and Yehudit Kleiman. Final Letters: From the Victims of the
Holocaust. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S., ed. A Holocaust Reader. New York: Behrman House,
1976.

Dwork, Deborah. Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Eisen, George. Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the
Shadows. Amherst: University of Massachusettes Press, 1988.

Glatstein, Jacob, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes, eds. Anthology of
Holocaust Literature. Philadelphia: Jewish Publicatoin Society of America,
1969.

Hass, Aaron. In the Shadow of the Holocaust. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University
Press, 1990.

Kalib, Goldie Szachter. The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the
Holocaust. Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press, 1991.

Kaplan, Chaim. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Rev. ed. New York:
Collier Books, l973.
Note: Published earlier under the title Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of
Chaim A. Kaplan. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Lagnado, Lucette Matalon, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames: Dr.
Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York:
William Morrow and Co., 1991.

Langer, Lawrence L. Art From the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1995.

Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Lester, Elenore. Wallenberg, the Man in the Iron Web. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice Hall, 1982.

Lewin, Rhoda G. Witness to the Holocaust: An Oral History. Boston: Twayne
Publishers, 1990.

Millu, Liana. Smoke over Birkenau. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society,
1991.

Nyiszli, Mikl¢s. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. New York: F. Fell,
1960.

Rubinowicz, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. Edmonds, Wash: Creative
Options, 1982.

Ryan, Allan A. Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York:
Hill and Wang, 1993.

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder. New
York: McGraw?Hill, 1974.

Simpson, Christopher. Blowback: The First Full Account of America's
Recruitment of Nazis, and its Disastrous Effect on our Domestic and Foreign
Policy. New York: Weidenfled & Nicholson, 1988.

Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon, 1986.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began.
New York: Pantheon, 1991.

Vegh, Claudine. I Didn't Say Goodbye: Interviews with Children of the
Holocaust. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.

Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
1983.

Vrba, Rudolph. I Cannot Forgive. New York: Grove Press, 1964.

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. New York: Schocken Books, 1977.

Wood, E. Thomas and Stanislaw M. Jankowski. Karski: How One Man Tried to
Stop the Holocaust. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust,
1941?1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Young, James E. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Zuckerman, Abraham. A Voice in the Chorus: Life as a Teenager in the
Holocaust. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1991.

Zuroff, Efraim. Occupation: Nazi Hunter; The Continuing Search for the
Perpetrators of the Holocaust. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1994; Los Angeles: Simon
Wiesenthal Center, 1994.

* Holocaust bibliographies are from amazon.com, bn.com, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.