Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - Holocaust

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne

Berlin 1942When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Movie...

John Boyne

Berlin 1942When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there...

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Published: Oct 2008

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old An...

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Published: May 2011

The Safest Lie

Angela Cerrito

This powerful historical novel tells the story of a young girl smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto by Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler.It's 1940. Nine-year-old Anna Bauman and her parents are among the 300,000 Polish Jews struggling to s...

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Published: Dec 2018

The Berlin Boxing Club

Robert Sharenow

p Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew; after all, he's never even been in a synagogue. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin don't care that Karl's family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by their attacks...

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Published: Oct 2012

Friedrich (Puffin Books)

Hans Peter Richter

The tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the 1930s, this award-winning novel is 'superb, sensitive, honest, and compelling' (The New York Times).

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Published: May 1987

Jacob's Rescue

Malka Drucker

Moving in with a Christian family in 1941 after the Jews of Warsaw are forced to move from their homes into walled-in ghetto developments, Jacob must pretend he is their son and keep from getting caught until the danger is past....

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Published: Jul 1994

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning, Anna and her brother awake to find her father gone! Her mother explains that their father has had to leave and soon they will secretly...

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Published: Jan 2009

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes. Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fight...

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Published: May 2003

Run, Boy, Run

Uri Orlev

"'Srulik, there's no time. I want you to remember what I'm going to tell you. You have to stay alive. You have to! Get someone to teach you how to act like a Christian, how to cross yourself and pray. . . . The most important thi...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding i...

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Published: Sep 2007

Behind the Bedroom Wall (Historical F...

Laura E. Williams

It's 1942. Thirteen-year-old Korinna Rehme is an active member of her local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by instituting a program to deal with what he calls...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Harmonica

Tony Johnston

When a family is torn apart by the brutal Nazi regime, a father's gift of a simple harmonica brings his son comfort-and ensures his survival. Based on the life of a Holocaust survivor.

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Published: Jul 2008

Journey to America

Sonia Levitin

A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.

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Published: Apr 1987

The Island on Bird Street

Uri Orlev

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 life-threatening conditions.

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Published: Jan 1992

Adam and Thomas

Aharon Appelfeld

HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor BookWINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish LibrariesFINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book AwardsAdam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who surviv...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Boy Who Dared

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking nonfiction novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave r...

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Published: Dec 2018

A History of the Holocaust (Single Ti...

Yehuda Bauer

The author traces the roots of anti-Semitism that burgeoned through the ages and provides a comprehensive description of how and why the Holocaust occurred.

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Published: Jan 2001

The Little Lion: A Hero in the Holoca...

Nancy Wright Beasley

In 1941 Laibale Gillman was a typical teenager living in Kaunas, Lithuania, when Nazi troops forced his family and thousands of other Jews into Kovno Ghetto, where they endured persistent threats of beatings, starvation and death. La...

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Published: Nov 2015

The City of Light (MomentBooks)

Bikel Theodore

A wonderful and inspiring story for ages 10 to 120!This charming book, based on a short story by legendary actor, singer and social justice activist, Theodore Bikel, tells the story of a young boy (Bikel) and his childhood in the City...

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Published: Nov 2019

Prisoner of Night and Fog

Anne Blankman

A gripping historical thriller set in 1930s Munich, Prisoner of Night and Fog is the evocative story of an ordinary girl faced with an extraordinary choice in Hitler's Germany. Fans of Code Name Verity will love this novel full of rom...

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Published: Apr 2015

Hidden Gold

Ella Burakowski

This true story follows the Gold family and the oldest daughter, Shoshana. The book begins with the Jewish family's idyllic prewar life in Poland. It then follows their journey during the war years, when they were forced to hide in a ...

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Published: Oct 2015

Is It Night or Day?

Fern Schumer Chapman

It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk

Sid Fleischman

"Why am I talking to you?" he asked aloud. "I don't believe in ghosts.""You want to know the truth," replied the dybbuk, "Neither do I. But here I am."Avrom Amos likes to crack jokes. He loves t...

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Published: Sep 2009

A Likely Place

Paula Fox

A little boy who can't spell or ever seem to please his parents spends a week with a kooky babysitter and makes a special friend.

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Published: Jul 2010

Once

Morris Gleitzman

Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salva...

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Published: May 2011

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto

Paul B. Janeczko

Paul B. Janeczko's stirring new collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there.Hitler hailed Terezín (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when i...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Sound of Freedom

Kathy Kacer

Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom.It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, ...

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Published: Mar 2018

The Winter Horses

Philip Kerr

From Philip Kerr, the New York Times bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels, comes a breathtaking journey of survival in the dark days of WWII in Ukraine, a country that remains tumultuous today. This inspiring tale capture...

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Published: Feb 2015

Ashes in the Snow (Movie Tie-In)

Ruta Sepetys

An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!This special movie tie-in edition features 16 pages of color movie st...

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Published: Dec 2018
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