Great Valley Middle School Library
Fiction books on the Holocaust
Behind the Bedroom Wall FIC WIL
Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group
when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom
wall.
Escape from Warsaw
FIC SER
Describes how three children of the Balicki family survived World War II and were
reunited with their parents in the international children's village in Switzerland.
Greater Than Angels
FIC MAT
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared
for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
Island on Bird Street
FIC ORL
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 lifethreatening conditions.
Jacob’s Rescue
FIC DRU
In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood
when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children
from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
Honey Cake
FIC STU
David and his family live in Denmark during the Nazi occupation until September 1943,
when their neighbors help smuggle them to Sweden to escape Hitler's orders to send the
Danish Jews to concentration camps.
Sarah’s Key
FIC DER
American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and
stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels
Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
Postcards From No Man’s Land
FIC CHA
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a
daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically,
nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate
Holland from its German occupation
The Devil’s Arithmetic
FIC YOL
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.
To Fight in Silence
FIC WUO
During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a young Norwegian joins with his Danish
cousins in the secret plan to prevent the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.
Torn Thread
FIC ISA
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor
camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
FIC KER
Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's
as they travel from Germany to England.
Why There Is No Heaven on Earth FIC SEV
The narrator, a Russian Jew, remembers the rare and amazing friend of his childhood,
before the Nazi invasion of Russia separated them forever.
Black Radishes
FIC MEY
Gustave, having been forced to move from Paris to the countryside after his parents
decided it was not safe for Jews to live in the city during World War II, meets a Catholic
girl named Nicole, whose family is part of the French Resistance, and together they
devise a plan to rescue his friend and family members from the Nazi occupied territory.
Annexed
FIC DOG
The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.
Is It Night or Day?
FIC CHA
Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt
and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to
assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of
everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that
saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.
Once
FIC GLE
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.
The Entertainer & the Dybbuk
FIC FLE
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. Includes author's note
which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and
1940s.
Guardian Angel House
FIC CLA
When the Nazis invade Hungary, Susan and her sister are sent to a convent in order to
protect them from persecution, where they try to adapt to the rules and rituals of a new
religion and worry they will be found.
The Devil in Vienna
FIC ORG
A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school,
but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.
Simon’s Escape
FIC PRY
Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the
filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto, but when his family is all taken away, Simon
escapes to fight for survival in the countryside.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
FIC BOY
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.
Escaping Into the Night
FIC FRI
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.
Milkweed
FIC SPI
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in
by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi
regime.
Goodnight, Maman
FIC MAZ
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin
Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New
York.
The Final Journey
FIC PAU
During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and
comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets
when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey
to an unknown destination.
Schindler’s List
FIC KEN
The story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a
factory camp to protect Jews in World War II Germany.
After the War
FIC MAT
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.
Far Above Rubies
FIC POL
In 1940, a Dutch woman insists on accompanying her six stepdaughters when they are
deported to Auschwitz and attempts to keep them alive.
In My Enemy’s House
FIC MAT
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must
decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to
survive.
Waiting for Anya
FIC MOR
Jo and Benjamin devise an elaborate escape plan to save a band of Jewish children in
Vichy, France during World War II.
Hitler’s Canary
FIC TOK
Based upon the true experiences of the author's father, tells the fictional story of ten-yearold Bamse and his Jewish friend, Anton, who participated in the Danish Resistance
during World War II.
Emil and Karl
FIC GLA
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.
Yellow Star
FIC ROY
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten,
a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi
occupation.
Daniel Half Human & the Good Nazi
FIC CHO
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.
Run, Boy, Run
FIC ORL
Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must
survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Katerina
FIC WIN
During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout
Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as
the war ends.
Daniel’s Story
FIC MAT
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his
imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
Wartime Lies
FIC BEG
A novel about an orphaned boy and his gallant aunt, and how, assuming false identities,
they survive the horrors of war
Nonfiction stories/memoirs of the Holocaust
Assignment: Rescue 940.54 FRY
Children and War
940.54 CRO
Anne Frank Remembered
940.5318 GIE
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
940.53 BIT
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
741.94 INE
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Lost Childhood
940.53 ZAR
940.53 PAC
The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
940.5318 BER
Raoul Wallenberg: the Man Who Stopped Death
The Cage
940.53 SEN
The Faces of Resistance
362.87 KAL
The Holocaust Lady
921 SEN
Night 940.5318 WIE
The Secret Ship
To Life
940.53 KLU
940.53 SEN
921 WAL
Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust
Survival In Auschwitz
We Are Witnesses
940.5318 SMI
940.5318 LEV
940.5318 WE
We Remember the Holocaust
940.53 ADL
Children of the Holocaust
940.53 FIT
Courageous Teen Resisters
940.53 BYE
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust 940.5318 SUR
The Envoy
940.5318 KER
Escape: Teens on the Run
940.53 ALT
Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives 940.53 ALT
In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
The Year of Goodbyes
940.5318 MCC
940.5318 LEV
Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom
940.5318 GID
Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival
940.5318 KRA
Never Again: Survivors of the Holocaust
940.53 STE
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir
940.5318
Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and her Family
Parallel Journeys
940.5318 AYE
Escapes from Nazi Persecution
Heroes of the Holocaust
The Upstairs Room
940.5318 CUR
940.5318 FIS
940.5318 REI
Behind the Secret Window
940.5318 TOL
Until We Meet Again
940.5318 KOR
940.5318 DEN
All But My Life
Clara’s War
940.5318 KLE
940.5318 KRA
Storming the Tulips
940.5318 SAN
Hana’s Suitcase
940.5318 LEV
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Hidden Child
940.531 MIL
The Hiding Place
921 TEN
Diary of a War Child 921 TAM
Your Name is Renee 921 HAR
940.5318 WAR