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Books at the Plymouth District Library

Why do they hate me: young lives caught in war and conflict (1999)
Laurel Holliday
Teen Nonfiction: 909.04 H

Resistance: teen partisans and resisters who fought Nazi tyranny (1999)
Charles Anflick
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 A

Anne Frank in the world, 1929-1945 (2001)
(compiled) Anne Frank House
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 F

My father’s testament: memoir of a Jewish teenager, 1938-1945 (2000)
Edward Gastfriend
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 G

Escape: teens who escaped from the Holocaust to freedom (1999)
Sandra Giddens
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 G

I have lived a thousand years: growing up in the Holocaust (1997)
Livia Bitton-Jackson
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 J

No pretty pictures: a child of war (1998)
Anita Lobel
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 L

We are witnesses: five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust (1996)
Jacob Boas
Teen Nonfiction: 940.53 W

Liberation: teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who liberated them (1999)
E. Tina Tito
Teen Nonfiction: 940.531 T

The hidden children (1993)
Howard Greenfield
Teen Nonfiction: 940.5318 G

Hiding to survive: stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust (1994)
Maxine B. Rosenberg
Teen Nonfiction: 940.5318 H

The seamstress: a memoir of survival (1997)
Sara Tuvel Bernstein
Teen Biography: Bernstein

Four perfect pebbles: a Holocaust story (1996)
Lila Perl & Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Teen Biography: Lazan

An unbroken chain: my journey through the Nazi Holocaust (2000)
Henry A. Oertelt
Teen Biography: Oertelt

In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer (1999)
Irene Gut Opdyke
Teen Biography: Opdyke

Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust (1994)
Susan Bachrach
Youth NonFiction J940.531 B

Maus II: a survivor’s tale (and here my troubles began) (1991)
Art Spiegelman
Teen Graphic Novel: M

The cage (1986)
Ruth Minsky Sender
Teen Paperback: S

After the Holocaust (2001)
Howard Greenfield
Youth Nonfiction: J 940.53 G

We remember the Holocaust (1989)
David A. Adler
Youth Nonfiction: J 940.531 A

Surviving Hitler: a boy in the Nazi death camps (2001)
Andrea Warren
Youth Biography: Mandelbaum

Bearing witness: stories of the Holocaust (1995)
(selected by) Hazel Rochman
Adult Nonfiction: 808.8 B

Inferno: July 1943 – April 1945 (1998)
Eleanor H. Ayer
Adult Nonfiction: 940.53 A

The world must know: a history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust memorial (1993)
Michael Berenbaum
Adult Nonfiction: 940.53 B

Escape or die: true stories of young people who survived the Holocaust (1982)
Ina R. Friedman
Adult Nonfiction: 940.53 F

The beautiful days of my youth (1997)
Ana Novac
Adult Nonfiction: 940.53 N

Maus: a survivor’s tale (1997)
Art Spiegelman
Adult Nonfiction: 940.53 S

Daily life during the Holocaust (1998)
Eve Nussbaum Soumerai
Adult Nonfiction: 940.531 S

The boys: triumph over adversity (1996)
Martin Gilbert
Adult Nonfiction: 940.5318 G

The last selection: a child’s journey through the Holocaust (1991)
Goldie Szachter Kalib
Adult Nonfiction: 940.5318 K

An uncommon friendship: from opposite sides of the Holocaust (2001)
Bernat Rosner
Adult Nonfiction: 943.9 R

Inside Anne Frank’s house: an illustrated journey through Anne’s world (2004)
Hans Westra
Adult Biography: Frank

Night (1982)
Elie Wiesel
Adult Biography: Wiesel


Web Site Resources

General

America and the Holocaust - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
From PBS, The American Experience: American and the Holocaust

The Anne Frank Site - http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2
The official Anne Frank House site with photos, text and explanation of her story.

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy - http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/
The ThinkQuest Holocaust Memorial Site has many interactive features, including a virtual concentration camp tour.

The Holocaust\Shoah Page - http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html
"This Holocaust Page is maintained on behalf of millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust - May their voice never be silenced."

Holocaust Timeline - http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

Online Holocaust Encyclopedia from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/wgupris.htm
from the US Holocaust Museum

Yad Vashem - http://www.yadvashem.org/
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in, Jerusalem, Israel

For Teachers

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida
The holocaust presented through three perspectives: timeline, people and the arts. Includes student activities. Includes extensive resources.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Fellowship Teaching Resources - http://www.mandelproject.us/
Includes a large number of lesson plans and book reviews. Website created by Margaret Lincoln, Librarian, Lakeview High School, Battle Creek, MI

Student Resources

Do You Know, Will You Remember: Books and Websites About the Holocaust for Young Adults - http://nonesuch.flyingredslippers.org/holocaust.html

“Life in the Shadows": http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hiddenchildren/index/
Hidden Children and the Holocaust” exhibit from the US Holocaust Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – For Students - http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/

Prewar Jewish Life in Europe

YIVO Jewish Institute for Jewish Research - http://www.yivoinstitute.org/

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - http://www.yivoinstitute.org/publications/index.php?tid=109&aid=269

Virtual Shtetl - http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/

Shtetl Foundation and Museum - http://www.shtetlfoundation.org/

Righteous Gentiles

Irena Sendler Site - http://www.irenasendler.org/facts.asp
Information about Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker who rescued 2,500 Jewish Children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Site put together by students in Kansas who began research in 1999 for a class project.

Five profiles of Righteous Gentiles and their rescue accounts - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/

The Heroism of Chiune Sugihara by Veronica Green - http://www.remember.org/imagine/sugihara.html

Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States - http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/

Oscar Schindler - http://death-camps.org/occupation/schindler.html

Death Camps

Aktion Reinhard Camps – Aktion Reinhard or Operation Reinhard was the code name for the elimination of Polish Jewry. - http://death-camps.org/

Survivors

Cybrary of the Holocaust - http://remember.org/
This wide-ranging site contains numerous survivor's testimonials, material on the 5 million Non-Jewish Holocaust victims, and links to other genocide sites.

Holocaust Survivors- http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
Stories, images and audio from survivors of the Holocaust

How I Survived the Kevno Ghetto - http://www.aish.com/holocaust/people/How_I_Survived_the_Kovno_Ghetto.asp
How a teenager carved out hiding places and executed a split-second escape plan.

Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive - http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors - http://www.wfjcsh.org/


3/2007