8th Grade Holocaust Bibliography

940.53 ADL	Adler, David A. We remember the Holocaust. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1995, c1989. Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences of the persecution and the death camps.
940.53 KLU	Aliav, Ruth, 1914-. The secret ship. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1978. The author relates the tremendous obstacles involved in the rescue of European Jews who were being secretly and illegally transported to Palestine on the ship "Hilda" to escape destruction by the Nazis.
943.086 AYE	Ayer, Eleanor H. Parallel journeys. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1995. An account of World War II in Germany as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
940.53 AYE	Ayer, Eleanor H. The survivors. Lucent Books, c1998. Describes the conditions of Holocaust survivors when they were liberated as well as their struggle as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
940.53 BAC	Bachrach, Susan D., 1948-. Tell them we remember : the story of the Holocaust. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1994. Presents the story of the Holocaust and shows how it affected the lives of innocent people throughout Europe, using artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories from the collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
BAER	Baer, Edith. Walk the dark streets : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
BARTOLETTI, S.C.	Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The boy who dared. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008. In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, 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.
BENNETT, C.	Bennett, Cherie. Anne Frank and me. New York : Puffin, 2002, c2001. 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.
921 BRITTON-JACKSON	Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust. 1st ed. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1997. Elli Friedmann describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz and recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenaged camp inmates.
BOYNE, J.	Boyne, John, 1971-. The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable. 1st trade pbk. ed. Oxford ; : David Fickling Books, 2006. 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.
940.53	Lodz ghetto : inside a community under siege. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1989. Personal writings document the progression of the Holocaust through the Lodz ghetto.
PB CORMIER	Cormier, Robert. Tunes for bears to dance to. New York : Delacorte, c1992. Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.
DENENBERG	Denenberg, Barry. One eye laughing, the other weeping : the diary of Julie Weiss. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2000. During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
DOGAR, S.	Dogar, Sharon. Annexed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010. A fictional account of life with Anne Frank hidden in the secret annex from Peter's point-of-view, following as he becomes closer with Anne, begins to question his own religion, and is forced to suppress his own desires to join the fight.
DRUCKER	Drucker, Malka. Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Skylark, c1993. 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.
921 FRANK	Frank, Anne. Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl. New York: Pocket, c1952.
921 FRANK	Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Doubleday, 1995. A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
150.19 FRA	Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's search for meaning. Revised and updated. New York : Washington Square Press, 1985. Dr. Frankl recounts details of his experiences in a Nazi death camp and tells how they led to his development of the theory of logotherapy which contends that man has the freedom to transcend suffering and find meaning in his life regardless of his circumstances.
FRIEDMAN, D.	Friedman, D. Dina. Escaping into the night. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006. 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.
940.53 GLI	Glick, Susan. Heroes of the Holocaust. San Diego : Lucent Books ;, c2003. Introduction: The importance of heroes -- The Holocaust -- Oskar Schindler: a kind Nazi -- Raoul Wallenberg: a man with a mission -- Vladka Meed: between two worlds -- Andr'e Trocm'e: "We will not betray them" -- Hannah Senesh: poet, parachutist, partisan -- Jan Karski: if only they would listen. Profiles six individuals, some Jewish and some Gentile, who acted heroically in opposing the Nazi persecution of Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.
921 HANNAM	Hannam, Charles. A boy in that situation : an autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, c1977. Summary: The author describes his growing-up years as a Jew in Nazi Germany and his subsequent life at school in England.
940.53 HIL	Hillman, Laura. I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005. The author tells of her experiences in eight concentrations 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.
940.53 IPP	Ippisch, Hanneke. Sky : a true story of resistance during World War II : illustrated with photographs, documents, and letters from the author's collection. 1st ed. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996. The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.
ISAACS	Isaacs, Anne. Torn thread. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2000. 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.
940.53 JAC	Jacobsen, Ruth, 1932-. Rescued images : memories of a childhood in hiding. New York : Mikaya Press, c2001. Jacobsen's memoir focusing on the series of families that helped to hide her family from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The illustrations are collages that include the author's family photos taken during her childhood.
JUNG, R.	Jung, Reinhardt, 1949-. Dreaming in black & white. New York : P. Fogelman, 2003, c2000. A boy dreams that he is a student during the period of the Nazi Third Reich in Germany, where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped.
KACER, K.	Kacer, Kathy. The night spies. Toronto : Second Story Press, c2003. Presents a fact-based story in which Gabi and her young cousin Max, hiding in a hayloft to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II, begin taking late-night excursions into the nearby woods and come across information that leads to their involvement with the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers.
KENEALLY	Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's list. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982. The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factorycamp to protect Jews in World War II Germany.
921 KOEHN	Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany. New York: Bantam, c1977.
KOSITSKY, L.	Kositsky, Lynne, 1947-. The thought of high windows. Toronto, ON ; : Kids Can Press, c2004. 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.
KUZNETSOV	Kuznetsov, Anatoly. Babi Yar. New York: The Dial Press, c1967.
LAIRD	Laird, Christa. But can the phoenix sing? 1st American ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1995. Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of his stern and remote stepfather's hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read while his stepfather is away in Australia.
940.53 LEI	Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella. New York: Laurel, c1978.
921 LEVI	Levi, Primo. The drowned and the saved. New York : Summit Books, c1988. Translation of: Sommersi e i salvati. Presents the view that accurate memory of the concentration camps and of what happened there is essential if their re-emergence is to be prevented.
940.53 LEV	Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c2000. An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.
LEVITIN, S.	Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Room in the heart. New York : Speak, 2005, c2003. 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.
921 LOBEL	Lobel, Anita. No pretty pictures : a child of war. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1998. 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.
LOWRY	Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1989. Summary: 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.
MATAS	Matas, Carol. Code name Kris. New York: Charlles Scribner's Sons, c1989. After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement.
MATAS	Matas, Carol. The garden. New York: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, c1997. After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.
MATAS	Matas, Carol, 1949-. Daniel's story. Scholastic, 1993. Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
MATAS, C.	Matas, Carol, 1949-. Greater than angels. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999, c1998. Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
MATAS, C.	Matas, Carol, 1949-. In my enemy's house. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000, c1999. When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
NAPOLI	Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in water. New York: Puffin Books, c1997. After being taken from a local movie theater - along with other Italian boys, including his Jewish friend - by Germans, Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to amke his way back home to Venice.
NEWBERRY	Newbery, Linda. Sisterland. 1st American ed. Oxford ; : David Fickling Books, [2004], c2003. When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II.
940.53 NIR	Nir, Yehuda, 1930-. The lost childhood : a World War II memoir. 1st Scholastic Press ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2002. 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.
ORGEL, D.	Orgel, Doris. The devil in Vienna. New York : Speak, c2004. 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.
ORLEV, U.	Orlev, Uri, 1931-. Run, boy, run : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 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.
PUSEWANG, G.	Pausewang, Gudrun. The final journey. New York : Puffin Books, 1998. During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.
940.53 PER	Perl, Lila. Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1996. The author tells the story of her family's experiences as Jews in Hitler's Germany, tracing their horrifying journey from their home country to Holland and back again, living in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Bergen-Belson.
POLAK, M.	Polak, Monique. What world is left. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2008. Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.
PRESSLER	Pressler, Mirjam. Malka. New York : Speak, 2005. 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.
PB REISS	Reiss, Johanna. The upstairs room. New York : Crowell, 1972. 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.
PB REUTER	Reuter, Bjarne B. The boys from St. Petri. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1994. In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.
ROY, J.	Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967-. Yellow star. 1st ed. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, c2006. 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.
940.53 SCH	Schneider, Helga. Let me go. New York : Penguin Books, 2004. Helga Schneider, abandoned in 1941 by her mother who joined the Nazi SS and went to work as a guard at Auschwitz, discusses her second and final meeting with the woman, who at age eighty-seven and confined to a Vienna nursing home, remained unrepentant about her past.
808 BEA	Bearing witness : stories of the Holocaust. New York : Orchard Books, c1995. Offers a multifaceted view of the Holocaust, through fiction and nonfiction stories, memoirs, poems, the comic strip Maus II, and a film script.
940.53 SEN	Sender, Ruth Minsky. The cage. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 1997, c1986. A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
SERRAILLIER, I	Serraillier, Ian. Escape from Warsaw. New York : Scholastic, [1990?]. Describes how three children of the Balicki family survived World War II and were reunited with their parents in the international children's village in Switzerland.
921 SIEGAL	Siegal, Aranka. Upon the head of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1981. Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.
940.54 SNY	Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York : Basic Books, c2010. Hitler and Stalin -- The Soviet famines -- Class terror -- National terror -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe -- The economics of apocalypse -- Final solution -- Holocaust and revenge -- The Nazi death factories -- Resistance and incineration -- Ethnic cleansings -- Stalinist antisemitism -- Humanity. Examines the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, describing how the killings were more widespread than many believed, and explores how those crimes influenced other events in modern history.
940.53 SPI	Spiegelman, Art. Maus : a survivor's tale. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, [1997]. My father bleeds history -- And here my troubles began. 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.
940.53 SPI	Spiegelman, Art. Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began. New York : Pantheon Books, c1991. A continuation of the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the author relates, in cartoon form, his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II.
SPINELLI	Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, c2003. A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
940.53 TEN	Ten Boom, Corrie. The hiding place. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1974, c1971. The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground.
921 VELMANS	Velmans-Van Hessen, Edith, 1925-. Edith's story. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Soho Press, c1998. Dutch Jew Edith Velmans recounts her experiences during World War II, focusing on the time she spent in hiding with a Dutch family.
PB VOIGT	Voigt, Cynthia. David and Jonathan. New York : Scholastic, c1992. The relationship between two close friends, Henry and Jonathan, changes when Jonathan's cousin David, a victim of the Holocaust, comes to live with David's family.
WIESEL	Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam, c1960.
WIESEL, E.	Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Dawn. Pbk. ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006. An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to kill an English officer in Palestine as a reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.
WIESEL, E.	Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Day. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006. A Holocaust survivor who cannot seem to forge ahead with his life, steps off a curb into the path of a taxi in Times Square, and hovers between life and death while reliving the horror and tragedy of his past.
WIESEL, E.	Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Night. 1st ed. of this translation. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006. Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
WILLIAMS	Williams, Laura E. Behind the bedroom wall. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions ;, 1996. Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.
WISEMAN, E.	Wiseman, Eva, 1947-. My canary yellow star. 1st U.S. ed. Toronto : Tundra Books ;, 2002, c2001. A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.
921 SCHINDLER	Wukovits, John F., 1944-. Oskar Schindler. San Diego : Lucent Books ;, c2003. A biography of the profit-hungry businessman who became a protector and savior of the Jews during the Nazi holocaust.
PB YOLEN	Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. 1st ed. New York : T. Doherty Associates, 1992. The tale of Sleeping Beauty and the dark tale of the Holocaust twined together in a story of darkness and redemption.
ZUSAK, M.	Zusak, Markus. The book thief. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf :, c2006. 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.