Fiction and Nonfiction about the Holocaust
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Smoke and Ashes
by Barbara Rogasky
Gr. 6-12. First published in 1988, this authoritative history has now been expanded to include newly available facts and crucial issues for discussion. The core …
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The Nazi Officer's Wife
by Edith H. Beer
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she …
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by Judith Kerr
Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930s as they are divided, reunited, and travel from Germany through …
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Until We Meet Again
by Michael Korenblit
1942. A small town in Poland. Two Jewish families flee to hiding places, hoping to evade deportation by the Nazis. At the last moment, 17-year-old …
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The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the …
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The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
The account of World War II Jewish refugees hiding in occupied Amsterdam from the viewpoint of a young teenaged girl in the group.
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Anne Frank and Me
by Cherie Bennett
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole Burns finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in …
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Hana's Suitcase
by Karen Levine
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Hana Brady was written on the outside. Children who saw …
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Those who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of …
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
Historical fiction about a man and the Jews he saved from the Holocaust in Poland.