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There are many excellent books available. This list is just a sampling. For additional books, dvds, and teaching materials,
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Ban, Noemi and Dr. Ray Wolpow.
Sharing is Healing: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story.
Bellingham, WA: Holocaust Educational
Publications, 2003.
Written with short sentences, Noemi Ban shares her experiences during the Holocaust in this memoir created for students.
From introduction: “Noemi is an award-winning 6
th
grade teacher…Noemi wrote this book thinking of the many students that
she has taught. Some of them were good readers. Others were learning how to read better. Noemi wanted to make sure that
all students could read it.” Quote is from the introduction to the book. Ms. Ban lives in Bellingham, WA. (Non-fiction)
Codell, Esme Raji.
Vive La Paris.
NY: Hyperion, 2006.
Chosen as one of the books for the Seattle Public Library’s 2009 “Global Reading Challenge.” Paris, a young African American
girl finds herself with a witty, quirky piano teacher, who turns out to be a Holocaust survivor. (Fiction)
Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz.
Ten Thousand Children.
NJ: Behrman House Inc., 1999.
True stories told by children
who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. First person accounts. (Non-fiction)
Levine, Karen.
Hana’s Suitcase.
IL: Albert Whitman & Co., 2003.
Concerned that Japanese children would never learn about the Holocaust, Fumiko Ishioka, the director of the Tokyo
Holocaust Education Center in Japan, wanted tangible evidence. She appealed to the Auschwitz Museum in Poland to loan
her a few artifacts, and she received a battered suitcase with the name “Hanna Brady” written on it.
Hana’s Suitcase
alternates between Fumiko’s and her students’ quest to find clues to Hana’s life, and Hana’s own story. (Non-Fiction)
Lowry, Lois.
Number the Stars.
NY: Yearling Book, 1989.
This is a good book for the whole class to read. A story of a young Danish girl who must find remarkable courage to save her
Jewish friend from the Nazis. (Fiction)
Matas, Carol.
Daniel’s Story.
NY: Scholastic Inc., 1993.
The story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a young boy. Published in conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum. USHMM created a companion video. (Fiction)
Rogow, Sally M.
Faces of Courage: Young Heroes of World War II.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Granville Island Publishing,
2003.
A compilation of 12 stories of courageous teenagers from all across Europe who resisted the Nazis. (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
Roy, Jennifer.
Yellow Star.
Marshall Cavendish, 2006.
2009 Nominee for the Sasquatch Award. Ideal for grade 5-9, but great for any age reader. In thoughtful, vividly descriptive,
almost poetic prose, Roy retells the true story of her Aunt Syvia's experiences in the Lodz Ghetto during the Nazi occupation
of Poland. (Non-fiction)
Volavkova, Hana and USHMM, Editors.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly…: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin
Concentration Camp, 1942 – 1944.
NY: Schocken Books, 1993.
“A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp between the years 1942
– 1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates of Terezin, we see the daily misery
of these uprooted children, as well as their courage and optimism, their hopes and fears.” (Non-fiction)
