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"I have lived a thousand years:" Readings on the Holocaust
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NON-FICTION

Bau, Joseph
DEAR GOD, HAVE YOU EVER GONE HUNGRY?
An "illegal" in the ghetto, sent to a concentration camp, he survived because his wife put him on Schindler's list.  
DS135.P62 K6789313 1998

Bauman, Janina
WINTER IN THE MORNING: A YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE IN THE WARSAW GHETTO AND BEYOND
After a sheltered childhood, Janina is forced to live in the ghetto with her mother and sister.
DS135.P63 B383 1986

Bergman, Tamar
ALONG THE TRACKS
Separated from his family while fleeing the Nazis, Yankele travels along the train tracks, trying to survive and find his family. 
DS135.P6 B3914 1991

Bernstein, Sara Tuvel
THE SEAMSTRESS; A MEMOIR OF SURVIVAL
Expelled from school after throwing ink at an anti-Semitic professor, Sara became a dressmaker, tailoring to Romanian nobility, before being sent to Ravensbruck.
DS135.R73 B47 1999

Bitton-Jackson, Livia
I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS: GROWING UP IN THE HOLOCAUST
What is death all about?  What is life all about? These are the questions of thirteen-year-old Elli Friedman.
DS135.H93 J33

Burger, Harry
BIANCASTELLA: A JEWISH PARTISAN IN WORLD WAR TWO
After hiding with his mother in France, the teenaged Austrian went to Italy and joined the resistance, evading capture for seven years.
DS135.A93 B87 1997

Frank, Anne
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
Kept while hiding with her family in an Amsterdam warehouse.
DS135.N6 F73313 1996x

Fenelon, Fania
PLAYING FOR TIME
A Paris cabaret singer, member of the resistance, and a Jew, she was chosen to perform in the orchestra for the Auschwitz staff.
D810.J4 F39613 1997

Friedlander, Albert, ed
OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND: A READER OF HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
Works by Anne Frank, Eli Weisel, Primo Levy, and others.
D804.3 .O87 1999

Handler, Andrew and Susan V. Meschel
YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAK: SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST IN HUNGARY
A girl who wanted to swim in the Olympics, a boy who lies about his age to join a work unit.  Eleven survivors remember.
DS135.H93 A18 1993

Horn, Joseph
MARK IT WITH A STONE
September 1, 1939, was to be the best day in twelve-year-old Joseph's life.  He was to begin high school...He never made it.
DS135.P62 R318 1996

Krall, Hanna
SHIELDING THE FLAME
An intimate conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
DS135.P62 W277713 1986

Lobel, Anita
NO PRETTY PICTURES:  A CHILD OF WAR
A Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator recalls her childhood in concentration camps and her recovery in Sweden.
DS135.P63 L63 1998

Nieuwsma, Milton J.
KINDERLAGER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF YOUNG HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Three of Auschwitz's youngest survivors.
DS135.P63 A144 1998

Nir, Yehuda
THE LOST CHILDHOOD
A boy's adolescence in Lwow, Poland, under both the Red Army and Nazi occupations.
DS135.P6 N496 1989

Opdyke, Irene Gut
IN MY HANDS: MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER
How a young Catholic woman became a spy for the Jews while working as a waitress in a Nazi officers' dining room.
D804.66 .O73 1999

Posner, Gerald L.
HITLER'S CHILDREN: SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LEADERS OF THE THIRD REICH TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FATHERS
The children of Mengele, Hess and Goering struggle with their fathers' actions.
DD256.6 .P66 1991

Reichel, Sabine
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DADDY? GROWING UP GERMAN
A woman born after the war confronts the actions and legacy of her homeland.
DD256.6 .R415 1989

Reiss, Johanna
THE JOURNEY BACK
After three years hiding from the Nazis, Johanna's family finds being reunited is difficult.
DS135.N6 R44 1976

Rosenberg, Maxine B.
HIDING TO SURVIVE: STORIES OF JEWISH CHILDREN RESCUED FROM THE HOLOCAUST
Fourteen young lives saved by Gentiles who risked their own.
D804.3 .R6625 1994

Roubickova, Eva
WE'RE ALIVE AND LIFE GOES ON: THERESIENSTADT DIARY
Eva struggles to survive and is touched by the kindness of strangers during her four years in a concentration camp.
DS135.C97 R68 1998

Soumerai, Eve Nussbaum and Carol D. Schultz
DAILY LIFE DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Overview of the Holocaust from the rise of Nazi Germany to the Nuremberg trials.
D804.I95 S68 1998

Zyskind, Sara
STOLEN YEARS
A child in Poland becomes a young woman who survived Auschwitz and Mittelstein.
DS135.P62 L64913 1988x

FICTION

Bat-Ami, Miriam
TWO SUNS IN THE SKY
Adam, a Jewish resident of America's only camp for wartime refugees, and Chris, a Christian girl from town, fight a mutual attraction.

Dillon, Ellis
CHILDREN OF BACH
When their parents are taken prisoner, Peter and his siblings - all Hungarian musicians - attempt to escape Nazi persecution.

Fink, Ida
THE JOURNEY
Using false papers, two young sisters flee the ghetto to work as hired labor in the factories and farms of wartime Germany.  How long can they fool the Gestapo?

Keneally, Thomas
SCHINDLER'S LIST
How the acts of a single person saved thousands of lives.

Matas, Carol
GREATER THAN ANGELS
As the Nazis gain control in France, the people of Le Chambon shelter Anya and other Jewish children.

Morpurgo, Michael
WAITING FOR ANYA
French villages assist Jewish children in their daring dash for freedom over steep, tortuous mountains to Spain.

Nolan, Han
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE
Hillary, a neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma in a Jewish hospital where, in her mind, she becomes Chana, a girl in the Jewish ghetto.

Orlev, Uri
THE ISLAND ON BIRD STREET
A young Jewish boy lives alone for months in an abandoned house in the Warsaw ghetto.

Orlev, Uri
THE LADY WITH THE HAT
Finding his home and family gone after the war, Yulek enters Palestine to start anew.

Roth-Hano, Renee
TOUCH WOOD: A GIRLHOOD IN OCCUPIED FRANCE
Semi-autobiographical account of how Renee and her sisters survived by hiding in a Catholic women's residence in Normandy.

Vos, Ida
ANNA IS STILL HERE
The war is over, but Anna is haunted by her years of hiding from the Nazi soldiers.

Winter, Kathryn
KATARINA
A Slovakian girl hiding with peasants is forced to leave when her Judaism is discovered.

Yolen, Jane
BRIAR ROSE
The bright tale of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the dark tale of the Holocaust.

Yolen, Jane
THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC
Tired of remembering, Hannah resists attending Jewish holiday celebrations with her family - until she is transported back to 1940s Poland.


Compiled by Kendall Brothers, Alice F. Stern, Young Adult Room, Boston Public Library, 2000.


 


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