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Remembrance
Writings about the Holocaust
Novels
The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In October, 1942, 17-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets,
recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war
to the German people.
Anne Frank and Me
Cheri Bennett
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living
the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable
John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called Out-With in 1942, Bruno,
the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Daniel Half Human
David Chotjewitz
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power,
Daniel learns that he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved
Hamburg, Germany is becoming nightmarish.
A Thread of Grace
Mary Russell Doria
It is September,1943, and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and
her father are among the thousands of refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to
find safety now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The
Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as seemingly overnight it becomes an open
battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and Italian civilians trying to survive.
Schindler’s List
Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and
war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps,
gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.
Briar Rose
Jane Yolen
Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories
about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a
remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey
that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.
The Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a
small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young
German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish
man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets
of Warsaw and steals food for himself and the orphans. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi
someday, with tall, shiny jackboots and a gleaming eagle hat of his own. Until the day that
suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the
ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.
memoirs
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as
well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the
Nazi occupation of Holland.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow Susan Campbell Bartoletti
By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the
Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti
explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people.
Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Speigelman
It is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist
coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive.
Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of
familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York
Times)
The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom
After being arrested in The Netherlands in 1944 for helping Jews escape the Nazi regime, Corrie
spent the last year of World War II in various prison camps. After the war, she was invited to share
her experiences in over sixty countries and was honored by the state of Israel for her work during
the war.
Night
Eli Wiesel
A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized
witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Andrea Warren
Living happily in Poland, twelve-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he is Jewish. Then
Hitler comes to power. Forced to work for the Nazis, then torn from his family as they are herded
into a concentration camp, Jack fights to survive. Each day is a struggle to get enough food, stay
clean, and avoid physical harm. Jack's friend tells him to think of it as a game, to work hard and not
take anything personally. But life in the camps is brutal, and Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a
prisoner's spirit.