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The Holocaust

 

Author

Title

   
Adelson, Alan Lodz Ghetto / Viking, 1989
Before being deported to concentration camps, Jews were restricted to ghettos, such as at Lodz, Poland.
(943.84. L822)
   
Atkinson, Linda In Kindling Flame: the Story of Hannah Senesh / Lee & Shepard, 1985
Senesh was a resistance fighter who became a martyr to the war in Hungary. (920 Se56a)
   
Ayer, Eleanor H. with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck Parallel Journeys / Atheneum, 1995
Helen Waterford was a victim of Nazi persecution; Alfons Heck was a Hitler Youth. Today they work together to describe how Nazism killed - body and soul. (943.086 Ay24p)
   
Fluek, Toby Knobel Memories of My Life In a Polish Village, 1930 - 1949/Random House, 1990
A painter shows how life changed in a Polish village from before Hitler's rise to power through the years following the Nazi defeat. (920 F671m)
   
Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First-person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted By the Nazis / Houghton Mifflin, 1990
Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, those with physical impairments and other victims of Nazi persecution tell their own stories. (940.53 F914o)
   
Gelman, Charles Do Not Go Gentle: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance In Poland, 1941-1945 / Archon, 1989
Jews did fight back against suppression, as recorded in this autobiography. (940.5315 G283d)
   
Gies, Miep Anne Frank Remembered: the Story of the Woman Who Helped To Hide the Frank Family / Simon & Schuster, 1987
Gies was one of only two people outside the secret annex who knew the Frank family hid there. She found Anne's diary after the family was arrested. (940.5315 G363a)
   
Holliday, Laurel Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries / Pocket, 1995
Some of these diarists did not survive, while others lived to adulthood. (940.5318 C437)
   
Horn, Joseph Mark It With a Stone / Barricade Books, 1996
A Polish-American survivor returns to the site of his imprisoned and tortured childhood. (940.5318 H783m)
   
Justman, Stewart The Jewish Holocaust For Beginners / Writers & Readers Publication, 1995
This graphic novel-style introduction presents facts about the Holocaust's effects. (940.5318 J985j)
   
Kalib, Goldie Szachter The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the Holocaust / University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
From childhood innocence to hiding, and then to discovery and persecution, one survivor recounts Auschwitz as she and her family experienced it. (940.5315 K124L)
   
Kuper, Jack Child of the Holocaust / Berkeley Books, 1993
The author spent a significant part of his early life as one of Hitler's condemned, the child of Polish Jews.
(940.5315 K946cr)
   
Landau, Elaine We Survived the Holocaust / F. Watts, 1991
16 Holocaust survivors give accounts of their survival and the influence the events of the past have had on their lives after World War II. (940.5318 W369)
   
Lindwer, Willy The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank / Pantheon Books, 1991
The famous girl diarist spent her last few months in a disease and terror-ridden Nazi death camp.
(940.53492 F8511)
   
Linnea, Sharon Raoul Wallenberg: the Man Who Stopped Death / Jewish Publication Society, 1993
Swedish diplomat Wallenberg saved Hungarian Jews from certain death - and then disappeared.
(920 W1565L)
   
Meyers, Odette Doors To Madame Marie / University of Washington Press, 1997
A Berkeley resident recounts her salvation from the Holocaust through the intervention of Righteous Gentiles in France. (920 M5749ad)
   
Novac, Ana The Beautiful Days of My Youth / Henry Holt, 1997
This young diarist kept a record of life in Auschwitz on tiny scraps of paper - which, like her, survived.
(940.5318 N856b)
   
Pretzel, M.M. Portrait of a Young Forger / Knightsbridge Publishing Co., 1990
Escaping the Holocaust sometimes required illegal actions, including forging documents of salvation.
(940.5315 P927pr)
   
Ramati, Alexander And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust / F. Watts, 1986
Like the Jews, Gypsies had no purpose in the Third Reich - except to be exterminated. (940.5315 R141a)
   
Rochman, Hazel and McCampbell, Darlene Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust / Orchard Books, 1995
This collection of writings provides eye-witness information about the Holocaust, from being labeled by the star to ending up in camps. (940.53 B38)
   
Roll, Rued van der Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance/Viking1993
Anne Frank's father was an amateur photographer. His record of the Frank family's prewar life is followed by a photo album of the secret annex. (940.53492 F851r)
   
Rubinstein, Erna F. After the Holocaust / Archon Books, 1995
Surviving Auschwitz was the beginning of adulthood for 4 sisters. The eldest tells their stories and those of other survivors. (920 R8226aa)
   
Sender, Ruth Minsky The Cage / Bantam, 1988
One survivor recounts her family's travails from ghettoization through deportation to concentration camp.
(940.53 Se55cr)
   
Spiegelman, Art Maus: A Survivor's Tale / Pantheon, 1986
The Pulitzer Prize-winning artist tells his father's story of arrest, internment and survival. (940.5315 Sp32m)
   
Spiegelman, Art Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II / Pantheon, 1991
Spiegleman continues his father's and his own story. (940.5315 Sp32m2)
   
Wilkomirski, Binjamin Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood / Schocken Books, 1996
This survivor became a victim of Nazi persecution before he had learned what "normal" life could be.
(940.5318 ZUK)
   
Zuker-Bujanowska, Liliana Liliana's Journal: Warsaw 1939-1945 / Dial Press, 1980
Like Anne Frank, Lilliana was a journal-keeping child during the Holocaust; unlike Anne, Liliana survived.
(943.8053 ZUK)