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Adler, David A., and Karen Ritz. Child of the Warsaw Ghetto. Holiday House, 1995. RL grades 4-6
Bunting, Eve. The Terrible Things. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1980. RL grades 4-8
Hesse, Karen. The Cats in Krasinski Square. New York: Scholastic Press, 2004. RL grades 2-5
Innocenti, Roberto. Rose Blanche. Mankato: Creative Education, Inc., 1985. RL grades 4-8
Levine, Karen. Hana’s Suitcase. Morton Grove, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Co., 2003. RL grades 4-7
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin. Holiday House, 2008. RL grades 5-8
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Fireflies in the Dark. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000. RL grades 5-8
Talbott, Hudson. Forging Freedom. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000. RL grades 4-7
Abells, Chana Byers. The Children We Remember. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1986. RL ages 8-12
Adler, David A. Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust. New York: Holiday House, 1994. RL ages 6-9
Adler, David A. We Remember the Holocaust. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. RL grades 4-7
Anflick, Charles. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Resistance. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Ashby, Ruth. Anne Frank Young Diarist. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005. RL grades 3-4
Auerbach, Inge. I am a Star: Child of the Holocaust. New York: Penguin Puffin Books, 1986. RL grades 4-6
Ayer, Eleanor H. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: In the ghettos. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Axelrod, Toby. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Rescuers defying the Nazis. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Berg, Mary. The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto. Oneworld Publications, 2007.
Bishop, Claire. Twenty and Ten. New York: Viking Penguin, 1952. RL ages 9-12
Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997. RL grades 8-12
Blankman, Anne. Prisoner of Night and Fog. Scholastic, 2014. RL grades 7-9
Campbell Bartoletti, Susan. Hitler Youth. New York: Scholastic Press, 2005.
Campbell Bartoletti, Susan. The Boy Who Dared. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Suitable for grades 3-8
Chapman, Fern Schumer. Is It Night or Day? Scholastic, 2014. RL grades 7-9
Cheng, Andrea. Marika. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002. RL grades 4-8
Chiga, Krystyna. The Girl in the Green Sweater. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
Cohen, Danny. Train. Unsilence, 2015. Suitable for ages 13+
Cretzmeyer, Stacy. Hidden Child of the Holocaust. New York: Troll, 1999.
DeSaix, Deborah Durland. Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon. New York: Holiday House, 2007.
Eitan, Senesh; Hannah Senesh. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007.
Filipovich, Zlata. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. RL grades 7 and up
Fishman, K. Heidi. Tutti’s Promise: a Novel Based on a Family’s True Story of Courage and Hope during the Holocaust. MB Publishing, 2017. RL grades 5-9
Garner, Eleanor Ramrath. Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1999. RL grades 6-9
Giddens, Sandra. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Escape. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Scholastic Press, 2017. RL grades 4-8
Hesse, Monica. Girl in the Blue Coat. Little Brown, 2017. RL grades 8 and up
Houston, Jeanne Wakatuski. Farewell To Manzanar. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. RL grades 7-10
Hughes, Dean. Soldier Boys. New York: Simon Pulse, 2001. RL ages 10-14
Hurwitz, Johanna. Anne Frank: Life in Hiding. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988. RL grades 3-6
Ippisch, Hanneke. Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II. New York: Troll, 1996. RL grades 5 and up
Isaacs, Anne. Torn Thread. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000. RL grades 6-8
Iturbe, Antonio, and Lilit Zekulin Thwaites. The Librarian of Auschwitz. Thorndike Press, 2018. RL grade 8 and up
Janeczko, Paul B. Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2011.
Kallan, Stuart A. The Holocaust: 1940-1944. Minneapolis: Abdo Consulting Group, Inc., 1994. RL grades 5-7
Klein, Gerda Weissmann. All but My Life. Hill and Wang, 2001. RL grade 9 and up
Kor, Eva and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. Surviving the Angel of Death. Terre Haute: Tanglewood, 2011.
Kustanowitz, Esther. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: The children of the Holocaust. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Kustanowitz, Esther. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: The hidden children of the Holocaust. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-8
Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys: the Story of Auschwitz. Stellar Books, 2013. RL upper HS – adult – graphic/violent content
Leyson, Leon. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler’s List. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013.
Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998.
Lowry, Lois. Number The Stars. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1989. RL ages 10-14
Mazzeo, Tilar J., et al. Irena’s Children: a True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2016. RL grades 5-8 YOUNG READERS EDITION
Mochizuki, Ken. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. New York: Lee & Low Books, 1997.
Propp, Vera W. When the Soldiers Were Gone. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. RL grades 4-6
Rabinovici, Schoschana. Thanks to My Mother. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998. RL grades 8+
Rappaport, Doreen. Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2012.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin.
Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray. New York: Philomel Books, 2011. RL grade 6 Lexile 490 Interest level 7-12
Sharenow, Robert. The Berlin Boxing Club. New York: Scholastic, 2012. RL grade 5.7 Lexile 880
Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Thomson, Ruth. Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2011.
Tito, E. Tina. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Liberation. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-9
Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of Hidden Children During World War II. New York: Scholastic Press, 2004. RL ages 10+
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. Mainstream Publishing, 2017. RL upper HS – adult graphic violence
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992.
Wilson, Paul (editor) We are Children Just the Same: Vedem the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin.
Zullo, Allan and Mara Borsun. Heroes of the Holocaust: True stories of rescuers by teens. New York: Scholastic Press, 1995.
Zusak, Mark. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Bachrach, Deborah. The Holocaust Library: The Resistance. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998. RL grades 5 +
Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Bergen, Doris. The Holocaust: A Concise History (Critical Issues in World and International History). New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009.
Brooks, Philip. Viewing the Holocaust Today. Chicago: Heinemann, 2003. RL ages 9-12
Byers, Ann. The Holocaust Overview. Springfield: Enslow Publilshers, Inc., 1998. RL ages 10-12
Chaikin, Miriam. A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust 1933-1945. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. RL grades 7-10
Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz. Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. West Orange: Behrman House, Inc., 1999. RL grades 5-8
Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. RL ages 10-14
Greenfield, Howard. After the Holocaust. New York: Scholastic Press, 2001. RL ages 12+
Greenfield, Howard. The Hidden Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. RL ages 8+
Kallan, Stuart A. Bearing Witness: Liberation and the Nuremberg Trials. Minneapolis: Abdo Consulting Group, Inc., 1994. RL grades 5-7
Kallan, Stuart A. The Faces of Resistance. Minneapolis: Abdo Consulting Group, Inc., 1994. RL grades 5-7
Lace, William W. The Holocaust Library: The Death Camps. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998. RL grades 5+
Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution. New York: Penguin Group, 1998. RL ages 10 +
Levy, Edith Rechter. The Holocaust in Perspective. West Virginia: Dr. Edith R. Levy, 2000.
McElroy, Lorie M. (Editor). Voices of the Holocaust. Detroit : UXL, 1998.
Murphy, Louise. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Nieuwsma, Milton J. Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors. New York: Holiday House, 1998. RL ages 10+
Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds. Women and the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Pettit, Jayne. A Place to Hide: True Stories of the Holocaust and Resistance. New York: Scholastic Press, 1993.
Perl, Lila, and Marion Blumenthal Lazan. Four Perfect Pebbles: a True Story of the Holocaust. Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. RL grades 6-10
Rosenberg, Maxine B. Hiding to Survive. New York: Clarion Books, 1994. RL grades 5-10
Schmittroth, Linda. People of the Holocaust. Detroit : UXL, 1998.
Shuter, Jane. Life and Death in Hitler’s Europe. Chicago: Heinemann, 2003. RL grades 7-12
Shuter, Jane. Resistance to the Nazis. Chicago: Heinemann, 2003. RL grades 7-12
Shuter, Jane. Survivors of the Holocaust. Chicago: Heinemann, 2003. RL grades 7-12
Stein, R. Conrad. World at War: The Holocaust. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1986.
Stephens, E. , J. Brown and J. Rubin. Learning About…The Holocaust Literature and other Resources for Young People. North Haven: Library Professional Publishing, 1995.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Exemplary Lessons Initiative 2003-2004. Washington, D.C.: USHMM, 2004.
Van der Rol, Ruud, and Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary. New York: Puffin Books, 1995. RL Grade 5+
Volavkova, Hana. …I Never Saw Another Butterfly….New York: Schoken Books, 1993.
Warren, Andrea. Surviving Hitler. New York: Harper Collins, 2001. RL grades 5-8
Willoughby, Susan. Art, Music, and Writings from the Holocaust. Chicago: Heinemann, 2003.
Zapruder, Alexadra, Ed. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.