Recommended Book Lists

The Holocaust

The Holocaust Camps

Book JacketByers, Ann
Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews.


The Diary Of A Young Girl : The Definitive Edition

Book JacketFrank, Anne
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic.


The Holocaust Heroes

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


I Have Lived A Thousand Years : Growing Up In The Holocaust

Book JacketJackson, Livia Bitto
This Holocaust memoir describes what happened to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944.


Anne Frank : The Biography

Book JacketMuller, Melissa
This first biography of Anne Frank offers a portrait of the remarkable figure.


Anne Frank: A Hidden Life

Book JacketPressler, Mirjam
Surviving friends and neighbors describe Anne as a child, and the people who protected her during the war describe the Secret Annex.


Maus : A Survivor's Tale

Book JacketSpiegelman, Art
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.


Night Trilogy Selections

Book JacketWiesel, Elie
Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.


We Are Witnesses : Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust

Book Jacket[edited] by Jacob Boas ; foreword by Patricia C. M
Jewish teenagers David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne all kept diaries and were all killed in Hitler's death camps. These are their stories, in their own words.


 

Other authors to read:

Alagna, Magdalena

Anflick, Charles

Axelrod, Toby

Ayer, Eleanor H.

Dvorson, Alexa

Giddens, Sandra

Kustanowitz, Esther

Lace, William W.

Tito, E. Tina