Holocaust Books in the Terman School Library

Duffy - Compare and Contrast Essay

920 Axe Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose Axelrod, Toby

Biographies of two German students who opposed Hitler and the Nazis.

920 Aye Parallel Journeys Ayer, Eleanor

Two riveting stories from two people with different perspectives who survived the nightmare that was World War II.

920 Fri The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by

the Nazis Friedman, Ina

Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and

blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

920 GRE The Hidden Children Greenfeld, Howard

Describes the experiences of those Jewish children who were forced to go into

hiding during the Holocaust and survived to tell about it.

920 Hol Holocaust Memories: Speaking the Truth Landau, Elaine

Contains personal narratives in which eight concentration camp survivors

discuss their experiences in Germany under the Nazi regime during WW II.

920 Hol Why Do They Hate Me?: Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict Holliday, Laurel

Shares the writings of children caught up in the Holocaust, World War II, the

Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.

920 ROS Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the

Holocaust Rosenberg, Maxine

First person accounts of fourteen Holocaust survivors who as children were

hidden from the Nazis by non-Jews.

920 Rus Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II

Russo, Marisabina

The author shares the story of how her grandmother, mother, and two aunts

survived the Holocaust of World War Two and came to America to start a new

life.

921 Arnothy I Am Fifteen - and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy, Christine

A young girl describes her experiences during the siege of Budapest while

living in a burnt-out basement during World War II.

921 Bleier Inge: A Girl's Journey Through Nazi Europe Bleier, Inge

Presents the true story of Inge Joseph Bleier who survived World War Two by

fleeing Germany leaving her family behind and seeking shelter with the Swiss

Red Cross until eventually taken away to a camp by French gendarmes.

921 Brady Hana's Suitcase: A True Story Levine, Karen

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating

chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center

learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

921 Drucker Kindertransport Drucker, Olga

The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power

that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her

experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.

921 Hillman I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List

Survivor Hillman, Laura

The author tells of her experiences in eight concentration camps as a young

Jewish woman in World War II Germany, and shares the story of how she and her

husband met and fell in love in spite of their situation, and how they were

saved by being put on the list to work at Oskar Schindler’s factory.

921 Jackson I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

Jackson, Livia

A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at

Auschwitz concentration camp where she was taken at the age of thirteen in

1944 when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

921 Lobel No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War Lobel, Anita

The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her

experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden

afterwards.

921 Lonek Lonek's Journey: the True Story of a Boy’s Escape to Freedom

Whiteman, Dorit

Recounts the true story of an eleven-year-old Jewish boy who escaped from

Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and a Siberian slave labor camp to find freedom

in Palestine.

921 Mandelbaum Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps Warren, Andrea

A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he

was a teenager.

921 Millman Hidden Child Millman, Isaac

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in

Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

921 Opdyke In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer Opdyke, Irene

Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and

saved Jews during the Holocaust.

921 Siegal Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944

Siegal, Aranka

Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and

1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.

921 Spiegelman Maus: A Survivor's Tale Spiegelman, Art

Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and

about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his

story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis

as cats.

921 Tryszynska Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen McCann, Michelle

A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of

more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during

the winter of 1944/45.

921 Weissberger The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin

Rubin, Susan

Contains the author's first-hand account of her childhood experiences in the

Terezin concentration camp during World War II. Includes photographs.

940.5 REI The Upstairs Room Reiss, Johanna

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding

in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

940.53 Kri Memories of Survival Krinitz, Esther

Presents a collection of embroidered panels depicting the childhood memories

of the author's mother and her survival of the Holocaust in Poland during

World War Two.

940.53 KUB Yossel, April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Kubert, Joe

A graphic novel in which a young boy struggles to survive in the Warsaw ghetto

during World War II.

940.53 MEL Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust

Meltzer, Milton

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.

940.53 Nir The Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir Nir, Yehuda

Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy

and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as

Catholics.

940.53 Wie Night Wiesel, Elie

A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in

a Nazi concentration camp.

F Bat Two Suns in the Sky Bat-Ami, Miriam

In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love

with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents'

conviction that they do not belong together.

F Ben Anne Frank and Me Bennett, Cherie

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.

F Boy The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Boyne, John

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.

F Che Marika Cheng, Andrea

Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be

of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II.

F Cho Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi Chotjewitz, David

In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism

buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the

friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming

nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin’s reunion in 1945 in interspersed

chapters.

F Dru Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story Drucker, Malka

In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of

his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and

other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.

F Fri Escaping Into the Night Friedman, D.

Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees

to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to

survive World War II.

F GIF Lily's Crossing Giff, Patricia

During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a

young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world

differently.

F Gla Emil and Karl Glatstein, Jacob

In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan,

are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them

even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.

F Gra Resistance Graber, Janet

In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that

her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother,

to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the

resistance movement.

F Gre Summer of My German Soldier Greene, Bette

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some

shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

F Isa Torn Thread Isaacs, Anne

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland

to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

F Kos The Thought of High Windows Kositsky, Lynne

Esther, a Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, is able to deal with the

horrors of the war as well as the normal agonies of teenage life with thoughts

of flying out of ever-higher windows.

F Las The Night Journey Lasky, Kathryn

A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother

to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.

F Lev Journey to America Levitin, Sonia

A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations

before they are once again united.

F Lev Room in the Heart Levitin, Sonia

After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie

Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try

to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and,

ultimately, to survive.

F Low Number the Stars Lowry, Lois

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie

learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend

from the Nazis.

F Mat Daniel's Story Matas, Carol

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes

his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

F Mat After the War Matas, Carol

After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-

old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to

Palestine.

F Maz Good Night, Maman Mazer, Norma

After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-

old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in

Oswego, New York.

F Mor Waiting for Anya Morpurgo, Michael

Jo and Benjamin devise an elaborate escape plan to save a band of Jewish

children in Vichy, France during World War II.

F Nap Stones in Water Napoli, Donna

After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with

other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in

Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make

his way back home to Venice.

F Org The Devil in Vienna Orgel, Doris

A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they

started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close

relationship difficult to maintain.

F Orl The Island on Bird Street Orlev, Uri

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.

F Orl The Lady With the Hat Orlev, Uri

In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to

survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing

to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is

looking for him.

F Orl The Man From the Other Side Orlev, Uri

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-

year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before

the Jewish uprising.

F Orl Run, Boy, Run: A Novel Orlev, Uri

Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto

and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.

F Pre Malka Pressler, Mirjam

In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a

dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they

were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a

ghetto.

F Ric Friedrich Richter, Hans

A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the

Nazi regime.

F Roy Yellow Star Roy, Jennifer

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just

turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz

ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

F Sac A Pocket Full of Seeds Sachs, Marilyn

During World War II in occupied France, a young Jewish girl returns from an

overnight visit with a friend to find her family has disappeared.

F Sch Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness Schmidt, Gary

Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares

stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the

women and children who listen.

F Ser Escape from Warsaw Serraillier, Ian

During 1942 in Warsaw, Edek shoots a Nazi Storm Trooper. Edek and his two

sisters must escape from the secret police.

F Spi Milkweed: A Novel Spinelli, Jerry

The hardship and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi

occupation of World War II is captured through the eyes of a young Jewish

orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable

circumstances.

F Vos Anna is Still Here Vos, Ida

Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland

during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a

survivor.

F Vos The Key is Lost Vos, Ida

When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there,

twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding

place to another.

F Wol Someone Named Eva Wolf, Joan M.

From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is

taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained

as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she

remembers her true name and history.

F Yol The Devil's Arithmetic Yolen, Jane

Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when

opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during

World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and

learns why she, and we, need to remember the past.

F Yol Briar Rose Yolen, Jane

In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman learns that her

grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.

F Zus The Book Thief Zusak, Markus

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.

Created Feb. 2008