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Juvenile

  • I Never Saw Another Butterfly  (Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration camp l942-l944).
  • Clara’s Story  (Clara Isaacman as told to Joan Adess Grossman).
  • Holocaust  Volumes l through 8 - Index
  • A Picture Book of Anne Frank  Adler, David A. Illustrated by Karen Ritz
  • We Remember the Holocaust  Adler, David A.  
  • Hilde and Eli -Children of the Holocaust  Adler, David A. – illustratd by Karen Ritz  
  • Child of the Warsaw Ghetto  Adler, David A. Illustrated by Karen Ritz  
  • Holocaust Jews & History from Ancient Times to August l935  Altman, Linda Jacobs  Vol. 1 - Forever Outsiders
  • Hitler’s War Against the Jews  Altshuler, David A.,/Luch S. Dawidowicz  A Young Reader’s Version of the War Against the Jews l933-l945
  • In Kindling Flame  Atkinson, Linda  The story of Hannah Senesh l92l-l944
  • I Am A Star - Child of the Holocaust  Auerbacher, Inge  One of l00 children who survived Czechoslovakia’s Terezin concentration camp
  • Holocaust January l942 to June l943  Ayer, Eleanor H.  Vol. 4 - A Firestorm Unleashed
  • Holocaust July l943 to April l945  Ayer, Eleanor H.  Vol. 5 - Inferno
  • Holocaust May l945 and After  Ayer, Eleanor H. & Stephen D. Chicoine  Vol. 6 - From The Ashes
  • Parallel Journeys  Ayer, Eleanore with Helen Waterford & Alfons Heck  An account of World War II told in alternating fashion from Alfon’s and Helen’s different perspectives.
  • The Resistance  Bachrach, Deborah  
  • Tell Them We Remember - The Story of the Holocaust  Bachrach, Susan D. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  
  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years Growing up in the Holocaust  Bitton-Jackson, Livia  
  • We Are Witnesses  Boas, Jacob  Five Diaries of Teenagers who died in the Holocuast
  • Daniel’s Story  Carol Matas Published in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  
  • Raising Compassionate, Courageous Children In A Violent World  Cohn, Dr. Janice  
  • Kindertransport  Drucker, Olga Levy  An autobiogaphical story covers Olga’s six difficult years in England and ends with the author’s immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents in l945.
  • Drowning - Growing up in the Third Reich  Durlacher, Gehard  
  • Finkelstein, Normal H. - A brief introduction to the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis in World War II.
  • Beyond the Diary  Frank, Anne  A Photographic Remembrance
  • Flying Against The Wind  Friedman, Ina R.  Biography of one of the few young Germans to resist the Nazis and the story of growing up in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.
  • The Other Victims  Friedman, Ina R.  First-Person stories of Non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis
  • Assignment: Rescue- Fry, Varian - An exciting, true story of World War II- Varian Fry describes the methods he used to get thousands of hunted men and women to safety.
  • Susan B. Anthony - And Justice For all  Gehret, Jeanne  
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  The History of a Hatred 70A.D.-l932
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Nazis Seize Power l933-l939
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Faces of Resistance
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  Holocausts in Other Lands
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Holocuast l940-l944
  • The Holocaust  Kallen, Stuart A.  Bearing Witness Liberation and The Nuremberg Trials
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Lost Kingdoms of Africa
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  Days of Slavery
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Twentieth Century and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  The Civil Rights Movement
  • Black History and The Civil Rights Movement  Kallen, Stuart A.  Struggle into the l990’s
  • I Have A Dream - Maya Angelou  Kallen, Stuart A.  
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit  Kerr, Judith  
  • Promise of a New Spring  Klein, Gerda Weissmann  
  • Hana's Suitcase - Levine, Karen
  • Raoul Wallenberg - The Man Who Stopped Death  Linnea, Sharon
  • No Pretty Pucture a child of war, Lobel Anita  
  • Hitler  Marrin, Albert  
  • Never To Forget - The Jews of the Holocaust  Meltzer, Milton  
  • Jerusalem Mosaic - Young Voices from the Holy City  Mozeson, I.E. & Lois Stavsky  
  • Raoul Wallenberg - People Who Have Helped the World  Nicholson, Michael & David Winner  The Swedish diplomat who saved l00,000 Jews from the Nazi Holocaust before mysteriously disappearing
  • Remnants: The Last Jews of Poland  Niezabitowska, Malgurzata  
  • The Lilac Bush  Novack, Judith Mandel  Written through the eyes of a young woman who, in l947, arrives in New York from the death camps of Nazi-occupied Europe, to find that no one is interested in hearing about the war.
  • You Can’t Say You Can’t Play  Paley, Vivian Gussin  
  • A Place To Hide  Pettit, Jayne  True Stories of Holocaust Rescues
  • Why Does That Man Have Such a Big Nose?  Quinsey, Mary Beth  
  • So Young to Die- The Story of Hannah Senesh, Ransom, Candice F. - Abiography of a courageous rescuer.
  • The Upstairs Room  Reiss, Johanna  
  • Friedrich- Richter, Peter Hans 
  • Smoke and Ashes - The Story of the Holocaust  Rogasky, Barbara  
  • Hispanic Heritage - Vol. 6  Sanchez, Richard  The Fight for Civil Rights and a New Freedom
  • Fighting Fair  Schmidt, Fran & Alice Friedman  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for Kids
  • Peace Begins With You  Scholes, Katherine Illustrated by Robert Ingpen  
  • Holocaust September l935 to December l938  Sherrow, Victoria  Vol. 2 - Smoke to Flame
  • HolocaustJanuary l939 to December l94l  Sherrow, Victoria  Vol. 3 - The Blaze Engulfs
  • The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler- Shirer, William L.
  • Holocaust A Collection of Primary Sources  Shulman, Dr. William L.  Vol. 7 - Voices and Visions
  • Holocaust A Comprehensive Listing of Media for Further Study  Shulman, Dr. William L.  Vol. 8 - Resource Guide
  • Lest We Forget (2)  Smolar, Leivy  The murder of the six million Jews of Europe
  • Uncertain Roads - Searching for the Gypsies  Strom, Yale  
  • Forging Freedom  Talbott, Hudson  A true story of heroism during the Holocaust
  • We Are All Alike...We Are All Different  The Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners  
  • Hostage to War- Wassiljewa, Tatjana - A true story
  • I Promised I Would Tell  Weitz, Sonia Schreiber Edited by Susan Belt Cogley  Her Poetry & Testimony During the Holocaust
  • In the Mouth of the Wolf  Zar, Rose
     

FICTION

  • The Number on My Grandfather's Arm  Adler, David A.  
  • Maria Teresa  Atkinson, Mary – illustrated by Christine Engla Eber  
  • Twenty and Ten  Bishop, Claire Huchet  Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.
  • Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad  Brill, Marlene Targ  Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the l840's, helps a fleeing slave excape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
  • Smoky Night  Bunting, Eve  Smoky Night is a story about cats and people who couldn't get along until a night of rioting brings them together.
  • Terrible Things An Allegory of the Holocaust  Bunting, Eve - illustrated by Stephen Gammell  In this allegory, the author’s reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are caried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.
  • Sitti’s Secrets   Nye, Naomi Shihab - illustrated by Nancy Carpenter  A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.
  • Big Al   Clements, Andrew - illustrated byYoshi  
  • Molly's Pilgrim  Cohen, Barbara  Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarrassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
  • The Christmas Menorahs - How a Town Fought Hate  Cohn, D.S.W. Janice - illustrations by Bill Farnsworth  
  • Your Name is Renee - Ruth’s Story as a Hidden Child  Cretzmeyer, Stacy  The Wartime experiences of Ruth Kapp Hartz
  • Everybody Cooks Rice  Dooley, Norah - illustrations by Peter J. Thornton  
  • The Sneetches and Other Stories  Dr. Seuss  
  • Jacob’s Rescue - A Holocaust Story  Drucker, Malka & Michael Halperin  
  • Nadia's Hands  English, Karen  A loving story of a Pakistani American girl who comes to an understanding of the rich culture she has inherited.
  • Paul and Sebastian  Escudie, Rene and Ulises Wensell  Paul, who lives in a trailer, and Sebastian, who lives in an apartment, are discouraged from playing with each other, until they get lost together during a class outing.
  • The Feather-Bed Journey  Feder, Paula Kurzband - illustrated by Stacey SchuettAs  She rescues the insides of a torn feather pillow. Grandma tells about her childhood in Poland, about the Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II, and about the origin of this special pillow.
  • Remember Not To Forget  Finkelstein, Norman H..  A Memory of The Holocaust
  • I’m Somebody Too  Gehret, Jeanne  '
  • Eagle Eyes  Gehret, Jeanne M.A. - illustrations and design by Susan Covert  A child’s guide to paying attention.Like a river overflowing its banks, Ben wreaks havoc until he learns to recognize and control his attention deficit disorder.
  • The Don’t-Give-Up Kid and Learning Differences  Gehret, Jeanne M.A. - illustrations and design by Sandra Ann DePauwAs  Alex becomes aware of his different learning style, he realizes his hero Thomas Edison had similar problems.
  • Don’t Say A Word  Gehrts, Barbara  Living in Berlin during World War II, Anna finds herself and her family growing more and more aware of the dangerous direction in which her country is moving as her friends start to die.
  • Letter From Rifka  Hesse, Karen  In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in l9l9 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
  • The Colors of Us  Katz, Karen  Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.
  • The Land of Many Colors  Klamath County YmCA Family Preschool - illustrated by Rita Pocock  Preschoolers present their views on resolving conflicts and solving problems.
  • Mischling, Second Degree - My Childhood in Nazi Germany  Koehn, Ilse  The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.
  • Hats Off to Hair  Kroll, Virginia  Exquisite paintings of real kids from many cultures show us the beauty, the splendor, and the wonder of our hair.
  • Shadow of the Wall  Laird, Christa  Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization
  • Journey to America - Levitin, Sonia - The story of one Jewish family that escaped from Germany shortly before the start of the Second World War.
  • Alan and Naomi  Levoy, Myron  In New York of the l940’s a boy tries to befriend a girl traumatized by Nazi brutality in France.
  • Number The Stars  Lowry, Lois  In l943, 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.
  • You Be Me - I’ll Be You  Mandelbaum, Pili  A brown skinned daughter and her white father experiment to see what it would be like to have the other’s skin color.
  • Lisa’s War  Matas, Carol  
  • Tusk Tusk  McKee, David  A first lesson in tolerance.
  • The Black Snowman  Mendea, Phil - illustrated by Carole Byard  
  • Baseball Saved Us  Mochizuki, Ken   Surrounded by guards, fences, and desert, Japanese-Americans in an internment camp create a baseball field.
  • Dan, My New Neighbor  Moulton, Grace - illustrated by Jan Van Der Voo  
  • Emma, Moulton, Grace - illustrabed by Jan Van Der Voo  
  • My Friend Lucy,  Moulton, Grace - illustrated by Jan Van Der Voo  
  • Something Different in the Bank,  Moulton Grace - illustrated by Jan Van der Voo  
  • My Father,  Moulton Grace - illustrated by Jan Van der Voo  
  • Life is Not so Sweet,  Moulton Grace - illustrated by Jan Van der Voo  
  • My Friend Andrew,  Moulton Grace - illustrated by Jan Van der Voo  
  • The Devil in Vienna,  Orgel, Doris -  A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in l938 the thirteen year olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.
  • Mrs. Katz and Tush,  Polacco, Patricia  - Larnel asks neighbor, Mrs. Katz, to adopt an abandoned kitten. She agrees, on one condition: that he helps her care for the kitten. As Larnel grows to love Mrs. Katz, he also learns about the suffering and triumph black history shares with the Jewish heritage.
  • The Keeping Quilt,  Polacco, Patricia  - A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
  • Christmas Tapestry,  Polacco, Patricia  - When a bad leak ruins the sacristy wall in his father's church, Jonathan Weeks thinks his first Christmas Eve service in Detroit will be spoiled too. Luckily, he and his father find a beautiful tapestry, just the thing to cover the damage.
  • The Hand-Me-Down Horse,  Pomeranc,Marion Hess  - Before she leaves for America, Aunt Rachel gives David a box full of English words to learn, and then one day an old rocking horse appears at his door.
  • David and Max,  Provost, Gary and Gail Levine-Provost  
  • The Little Rider,s  Shemin, Margaretha
  • The Power of Light, Singer, Isaac Bashevis o- Eight Stories for Hanukkah  
  • Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms,  Silton, Faye  
  • All Kinds of Children,  Simon, Norma.  - Presents the things that children all over the world have in common, including their need for food, clothes, people to love them, and the opportunity to play.
  • Sleeping Ugly,   Yolen, Jane - illustrations by Diane Stanley  
  • Uncle Misha’s Partisans,  Suhl, Yuri - A story of Young Freedom Fighters during World War Two
  • I Like to be Little,  Zolotow, Charlotte - illustrated by Erik Blegvad  A little girl, answering her mother’s question about why she likes to be little, describes some of the special pleasures of being a child.
  • Just Like Us,  Oram, Hiawyn - pictures by Daniel Baird  Billy lives on this side of the wall, which he is forbidden to cross. But he is a curious little boy, and when he crawls through a convenient hole to explore, he finds a surprise waiting for him.
  • The Island on Bird Street , Orlev, Uri - translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin  During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
  • The Man from the Other Side,  Orlev, Uri  Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen year old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
  • Chicken Sunday,  Polacco, Pagtricia   -Though ethnic differences too often divide people, this story merges various traditions with the innocent acceptance of childhood.
  • Friedrich  Richter, Hans Peter - A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.
  • Touch Wood - A Girlhood in Occupied France  Roth-HanoIn, Renee  this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Reneem a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renee and her sisters escape to the shelter of a Catholic women’s residence in Normandy.
  • Angel Child, Dragon Child , Surat, Michele Maria - pictures by Vo-Dinh Mai  
  • Lovable Lyle,  Waber, Bernard  -Why Lyle is disliked and how he convinces everyone that all crocodiles aren't bad is the dilemma in this delightful picture book.
  • Auschwitz Explained to My Child,  Wieviorka, Annette-  Answers to a daughters questions about the Holocaust.
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic,  Yolen, Jane  - Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
  • The Endless Steppe, Esther Hautzig - In June 1941, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded in crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.
  • Uopon The Head of The Goat, Aranka Siegal - Nine year old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and  now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
  • Grace In The Wilderness, Aranka Siegal - Liberated from a German concentration camp at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.
  • Katarina, Kathryon Winter - It is 1942 and eight oyear old Katarina's carefree life in Slovakia is about to change.
  • The Key Is Lost, Ida Vos - Her name has been Eva Zilverstijn her whole life long. Until today. In a couple of hours the entire Zilverstijn family must go into hiding from the Germans, who want to kill all the Jews in Holland.
  • Torn Thread, Anne Isaacs - June 1943, and for four years the Nazi armies have occupies the Polish town of Bedzin. Twelve year old Eva, along with her father and sister, have been  forced to leave their home and move in a tine attic in the Jewish ghetto. But Eva's life takes an turn when she and her  sister are imprisoned in a Nazi work camp.
  • Waiting for Anya, Michael Morpurgo - Jo has spent  most of the war waiting for the war to end and praying for the end to come quickly. Living in Lescun, France, Jo had thought he might escape.
  • To Life, Ruth Minsky Sender-A holocaust survivor recounts her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp, search for surviving family members, and long and difficult ordeal of trying to immigrate with her husband and two children to America
  • Summer of my German Soldier, Bette Greene- A Jewish girl risks everything for a German soldier.
  • Foster's War, Carolyn Reeder- Everything is changing around the boy and he wants every one to be safe and stay together.
  • Escape from Warsaw, Ian Serraillier- Young children escape from Warsaw in search for their father.
  • Anna is Still Here, Ida Vos- About a girl who survived the Holocaust who is haunted by her past.
  • Grace in the Wilderness, Aranka Siegal- Liberated from a German concentration camp at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.
  • Greater than Angels, Carol Matas-Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizen of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France during the German occupation.
  • After the War, Carol Matas - After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.