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Recommended Readings

This booklist was prepared with the assistance of the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut.
Topics include survivor's stories, fiction, historical analysis, photo essays, stories of resistance,
righteous gentiles and much more. Additional titles will be found in libraries throughout the region.


Children Teens Videos Adults

 

For Children

J KUS Brundibar Tony Kushner
J Uncat PA Number the stars Lois Lowry
J The cats in Krasinski Square Karen Hesse
J 940.53 GOL Memories of Anne Frank Allison Leslie Gold
J B Frank Anne Frank; Beyond the Diary Ruud van der Rol & Riam Verhueven
J 940.53 DEN Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and her Family Barry Denenberg
J B Wiesel Elie Wiesel : voice from the Holocaust Michael Schuman
J B Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal: Tracking down Nazi Criminals Laura Jeffrey
J Orlev The Island on Bird Street Uri Orlev
J Daniel's story Carol Matas

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Middle School

B Appleman Alicia: my story Appleman-Jurman
T B Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl Anne Frank
J I am a star: child of the Holocaust Inge Auerbacher
T Yolen The Devil’s Arithmetic Jane Yolen
T 940.5318 AYE Parallel journeys Eleanor Ayer
940.5318 RAS Escape from Sobibor Richard L. Rashke
940.53 SPI Maus : a survivor's tale, I, II, III Art Spiegelman
J 940.53 S The righteous gentiles Victoria Sherrow
J 940.53 CHA A nightmare in history : the Holocaust, 1933-1945 Miriam Chaikin
J 940.5318 GRO My secret camera: life in the Lodz ghetto Mendel Grossman
J 940.43 N Kinderlager: an oral history of young Holocaust survivors Milton Nieuwsma
T B Lobel No pretty pictures: a child of War Anita Lobel
T B Senesh In kindling flame: the story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 Linda Atkinson
940.5316 H Into the arms of strangers: stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris
741.9 I I never saw another butterfly : children's drawings and poems from Terezín Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 Státní * Zidovské muzeum( Czechoslovakia)
T 940.53 GRE The hidden children Howard Greenfeld
T 940.5318 CHI Children in the Holocaust and World War II: their secret diaries Laurel Holliday
940.5318 BAC Tell them we remember: the story of the Holocaust with images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Susan D. Bachrach
T 940.53 ZEI The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising KarenZeinert
T 940.53 FRI The other victims Ina Friedman
T 940.5318 Liberation: teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who TIT liberated them E. Tina Tito
940.5472 In the Camps Erich Hartmann

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Videos

940.5318 LOS The lost children of Berlin
940.53161 INT Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport
940.5318 SEC Secret Lives: hidden childrenand their rescuers during WWII
B FRAN K Anne Frank: the life of a young girl
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  Judgment at Nuremberg
  Survivors of the Holocaust
  Au revoir les enfants

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For Adults

940.5318 REE Auschwitz : a new history Laurence Rees
940.5318 BER The world must know : the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Michael Berenbaum
940.5318 DWO Holocaust: a history Deborah Dwork
940.5318 SHR Denying history: who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it? Michael Shermer
940.5405 LIF The Nazi doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide Robert Jay Lifton
940.5318 COH The Avengers Rich Cohen
940.531 SCH The Twentieth Train Marion Schreiber
808.813 HOL Holocaust Poetry compiled by Hilda Schiff
940.5318 WIE Night Elie Wiesel
F The forgotten Elie Wiesel
F Nothing makes you free: writings by descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors Melvin Bukiet
F The wall John Hersey
F Leeway cottage Beth Gutcheon

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BOOKS BY LOCAL SURVIVORS

Survivors, a personal Story of the Holocaust Jacob Biber

Judaism is Indestructible, A Rabbi’s Holocaust Memoir Isidore Greengrass

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