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We are Witnesses : Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
Written in the midst of "an inferno of suffering," these fragile yet powerful records are a "sign of peace" to all of us. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible.
196 p. 1995
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
The Boy Who Dared
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, 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.
202 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Bennett, Cherie
Anne Frank and Me
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.
291 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book
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Boyne, John
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas : a Fable
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.
215 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Chapman, Fern Schumer
Is it Night or Day?
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known.
205 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Chotjewitz, David
Daniel Half Human
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
325 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Dogar, Sharon
Annexed
The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.
341 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Fleischman, Sid
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
180 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Friedman, D. Dina
Escaping into the Night
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.
199 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Glatstein, Jacob
Emil and Karl
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together.
194 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Gleitzman, Morris
Once
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
163 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Greif, Jean-Jacques
The Fighter
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness, plus luck, to help him survive the horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on the life of Moshe Garbarz.
211 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Hillman, Laura
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree : a Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
The Gestapo had already killed her father and were deporting her mother and brothers. Hannelore could not bear to be separated from what was left of her family so she chose to go with them.
243 p. 2005
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Ippisch, Hanneke
Sky : a True Story of Resistance During World War II : Illustrated with Photographs Documents and Letters from the Author's Collection
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.
146 p. 1996
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Jablonski, Carla
Resistance. Book 1
With his father being held as a prisoner of war by the German army, it's up to Paul to be the man of the house. Paul has more to worry about than just his own family: his best friend, Henry Levy, is Jewish. When Henri's parents vanish, Paul and his sister Marie construct a plan to hide Henri from the Germans. But soon their secret leaks out ... to the Resistance!
121 p. 2010
Teen Graphic Novel
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Jackson, Livia Bitton
I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the Holocaust
The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
224 p. 1997
Teen Nonfiction Book (Biography)
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Keneally, Thomas
Schindler's List
"Here is the stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and prison camp Direktor Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II."
400 p. 1982
Adult Fiction Book
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Kor, Eva Mozes
Surviving the Angel of Death : the Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele's twins were granted the privileges of keeping their own clothes and hair, but they were also subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival...
141 p. 2009
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Levine, Karen
Hana's Suitcase : a True Story
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
vii, 111 p. 2003
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Munn, Heather
How Huge the Night : a Novel
In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they shelter a Jewish boy in their home.
304 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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