HOLOCAUST BIBLIOGRAPHY
FICTION
CALL NO.
AUTHOR
TITLE AND DESCRIPTION
FIC
BEN
Benchley, Nathaniel
Bright Candles; A Novel of Danish Resistance
Harper, 1974
A sixteen-year-old Dane, Jens, keeps his work
for the Danish underground a secret from the
family through the war years.
FIC
BOR PB
Boraks-Nemetz,
Lillian
The Old Brown Suitcase; A Teenager's story of
War and Peace.
Slava, a 14 year old immigrant girl relates her
experience as a Jewish child persecuted by the
Nazis, and her attempts at a new life.
FIC
CAR
Carter, Peter
The Hunted
Corporal Vito Salvani and the Jewish boy,
Judais, are trapped in enemy territory where
they must flee the Gestapo.
FIC
COR
Cormier, Robert
Tunes for Bears to Dance To. Delacorte, 1992
Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's
problems by watching the woodcarving of
Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor,
but when Henry is manipulated into betraying
his friend he comes to know true evil.
FIC
DRU
Drucher, Malka and
Michael Halperin
Jacob's Rescue: a Holocaust Story. Jewish
Holocaust - Poland
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.
SC
FIN
Fink, Ida
A Scrap of Time and other Stories.
Pantheon Books. 1987.
Translation of: Skrawek
Czasuopowiadania. Contains twenty-three
Stories about life in Poland at the time of the
Jewish Holocaust.
(pg.1)
FIC
FOR
Forman, James
The Survivor. Farrar. 1976.
A tragic and realistic story spanning the
whole of World War II by portraying the
destruction of the Ullman clan of Amsterdam.
only David survives.
FIC
GEH
Gehrts, Barbara
Don't Say a Word. McElderry Bks. 1986.
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.
FIC
GRE
Greene, Bette
Summer of My German Soldier. Bantam.
1984, c. 1973.
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the
beginning of some shattering experiences for
a 12-year-old girl in Arkansas.
FIC
HAU
Haugaard, Eric
Christian
Chase me, Catch Nobody! Houghton, 1980.
On a school trip to Germany in 1937, a
Danish teenager becomes involved in the rescue
of a young Jewish girl.
FIC
HOL
Holm, Anne
North to Freedom. Harcourt, 1963.
Twelve-year-old David must make his way in
an unfamiliar world after an escape from a
prison camp where he has lived most of his life.
FIC
KEN
Kenneally, Thomas
Schindler's List. Simon. 1982
FIC
KER
Kerr, Judith
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Coward. 1971.
Based on the author's experiences as a child,
she tells how a German Jewish girl and her
family left their home in Berlin in 1933 and
tried to subsist in wartime Europe.
FIC
KER
Kerr, M. E.
Gentlehands. Harper. 1978. Gr. 7-12.
A young man discovers his long-estranged
grandfather that he has just come to know and
admire is a Nazi war criminal.
(pg.2)
FIC
LEV
Levoy, Miriam
Alan and Naomi. Harper. 1977. Gr. 6-8
Even Alan's close friendship and caring cannot erase the trauma Naomi has suffered by
witnessing her father's death at the hands of
the Nazis.
FIC
LOW
Lowry, Lois
Number the Stars. Hoyt Houghton, 1990.
1990 Newbery Award Medal Winner.
Ten-year-old Ann Marie and her best friend
Ellen watched the Nazi's fill Copenhagen. The
Jews of Denmark are to be "relocated" and Ann
Marie, through a simple act of courage, saves
her best friend's life.
FIC
MAG
Magorian, Michelle
Good Night, Mr. Tom. Harper Trophy. 1981.
A battered child learns to embrace life when
he is adopted by an old man in the English
Countryside during the Second World War.
FIC
MAT
Matas, Carol
Daniel's Story. Scholastic 1993.
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis
rise to power in Germany, describes his
imprisonment in a concentration camp and
his eventual liberation.
FIC
MOS
Moskin, Marietta D.
I am Rosemarie. John Day. 1972.
A mainly autobiographical account of a
young girl's experiences between 1940 and
1945 beginning in Amsterdam and then to
the camp of Bergen- Belson.
FIC
ORL
Orlev, Uri
Island on Bird Street. Translated by Hillel
Halkin. Houghton, 1984.
In the Warsaw Ghetto, Alex awaits for his
father. He escaped the Nazi roundup and lives
hidden in an abandoned house learning to
survive on his own.
FIC
ORL
Orlev, Uri
The Man From the Other Side. Houghton
Mifflin. 1991.
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.
(pg.3)
FIC
RIC
Richter, Hans Peter
Friedrich. Puffin Books, 1970, 1961
The unforgettable and tragic story of
Friedrich and his friend the narrator. As a
Jewish youth, Friedrich was expelled from
school, became an orphan, and finally was a
refugee hiding with no one to care for him.
FIC
SIE
Siegal, Aranka
Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation
1945 - 1948. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985.
Liberated from a concentration camp at the
end of World War II, 15 year old Piri starts a
new life in Sweden.
FIC
SUH
Suhl, Yuri
On The Other Side of the Gate. Watts. 1975
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish
couple when they are confined to a ghetto
during the German occupation of Poland in
World War II.
FIC
VOS
Vos, Ida
Anna is Still Here. Houghton Mifflin. 1993.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden
child" in Nazi occupied Holland during World
War II, gradually learns to deal with the
realities of being a survivor.
FIC
YOL
Yolen, Jane
The Devil's Arithmetic. Viking 1988.
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 villagers are deported
to Auschwitz with Hannah among them.
April 9, 2001
(pg.4)