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FIC MAT 1. After the War by Carol Matas

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FIC MAT 1. After the War by Carol Matas

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  1. FIC MAT 1. After the War by Carol Matas Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent. “The story is strong and compelling --- a thought-provoking novel that offers great insight.” School Library Journal

  2. 92 APP 2. Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman Alicia tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope. “Alicia's story is one of the most compelling memoirs of Holocaust survival I've ever read. It's a young girl's personal story, and non-political. Yet her experiences intimately document the political upheaval during the War years in Eastern Europe.”  Amazon.com Review

  3. 92 KLE 3. All But My Lifeby Gerda Weissmann Klein Memoir of a Polish woman who spent World War II in a German work camp until her rescue by the man she later married. "Soul searching and human . . . A moving personal testament to courage.“ Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times“An unforgettable reading experience . .  All But My Life is one of the most beautifully written human documents I have ever read. In this respect it is as sensitive and 'disturbing' a story as is The Diary of Anne Frank.” Library Journal 

  4. FIC RAM 4. And the Violins Stopped Playingby Alexander Ramati During World War II, the Gypsies were targeted for extermination in a campaign that was second only to the campaign against the Jews. Thousands of Gypsies perished. This book is a recreation of the horrifying story of their flight from a comfortable life in Warsaw to their ultimate imprisonment. “Alexander Ramati’s evocative story of the little-known Gypsy holocaust portrays the life and customs of the Lowland Gypsies with the love born of knowledge. Above all it is a story from World War II, powerfully brought to light and life.” Franklin Watts

  5. FIC VOS 5. Anna is Still Here by Ida Vos 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. “I thought that ‘Anna Is Still Here’ by Ida Vos was a moving novel that told a story of a Jewish family torn apart during the war and their struggle after the completion of the war. Ida Vos gave such realistic personality traits to each character that I found myself feeling a strange closeness to each. It seemed the more I read the more I felt each characters' emotions. I highly recommend this novel to anyone that enjoys piercingly realistic stories and also to those that like to read books that touch your heart and your soul and leave you a changed person.” Amazon.com Review

  6. 92 FRA and classroom copies 6. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank One of the most famous autobiographies of all time, the book tells the story of Anne Frank's ordeal as she hides from the Nazi's in an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. “Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.” Amazon.com Review

  7. 7. Behind the Bedroom Wallby Laura Williams A loyal member of Hitler's Jugend has some choices to make when she discovers that her parents are hiding a Jewish family. “The atmosphere and mood of the times are palpable, with Korinna and her family forced to flee Germany. If the characters are "types," such as the brave father, the nasty so-called "best" friend, and the vicious Gestapo agent, they are clearly drawn and appropriately employed in a fast-moving, believable plot with an inevitable ending.” Amy Kellman, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

  8. 940.53 LEI 8.The Big Lie: A True Storyby Isabella Leitner Isabella Katz recounts her memories of Auschwitz and how she survived. “This book conveys its message powerfully and responsibly.” Publishers Weekly

  9. FIC BOY 9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamasby John Boyne Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. “The combination of strong characterization and simple, honest narrative make this powerful and memorable tale a unique addition to Holocaust literature for those who already have some knowledge of Hitler's Final Solution.” Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library

  10. FIC YOL 10. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen Linking a fairy tale with the Holocaust, Yolen creates a powerful novel about a young woman's discovery of her grandmother's past. “Yolen's recasting of the Sleeping Beauty tale is not fantasy; rather, it is a story evocatively grounded in the horror of the Holocaust. Both heartbreaking and heartwarming, Yolen's novel is a compelling reminder of the Holocaust as well as a contemporary tale of secrets and romance.” Booklist

  11. 92 SEN 11. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis -- in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp. “This story wrenches the heart, but makes one rejoice as well.“ Publishers Weekly 

  12. FIC OBE 12. Childhood by Jona Oberski The author recreates the Holocaust through the eyes of a very young child, experiencing the baffling walls of discrimination that isolated his Dutch family during Nazi occupation and the walls of concrete and steel at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. “The horrible is told in a manner which neither harrasses nor depresses you. The purity in it which leaves you speechless, a humanity which gives you no rest. This is a book that matters.” Die Zeit

  13. 13. Clara’s Warby Kathy Kacer In the midst of the horror of Terezin, a ghetto built by the Nazis to show how well they treated Jews, Clara manages to make some friends who help her. “Clara's War gives the Jewish children of Czechoslovakia a memorable, albeit fictional, face and voice. Despite its difficult subject matter (the cruel and inhuman annihilation of Europe's Jews), Clara's War proves easy to read and understand.”  Lynne Remick

  14. FIC MAT 14. Daniel's Story by Carol Matas Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933.  He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. “Daniel tells his story through the pictures he has; at first real photographs, and then the images in his head. He is a courageous, sensitive, heroic individual who personalizes the events of the Holocaust. His voice rings true; he is portrayed as an extraordinary youth.” Susan Kaminow

  15. FIC ORG 15. The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel Inge and Lieselotte are best friends, the kind of friends who almost always know what the other is thinking.  But by 1937 in Vienna, Inge is Jewish, and Lieselotte, at the insistence of her Nazi father, is in the Hitler Youth. Their friendship has become unwise, even dangerous, to maintain. “Full of anguish, fury, admiration, scorn - it couldn't be a more effective story or a more powerful illustration of the reason never to forget.”  Publishers Weekly

  16. FIC YOL and classroom copies 16. The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she -- and we -- need to remember the past. “The book's simplicity is its strength; no comment is needed because the facts speak for themselves. This brave and powerful book has much it can teach a young audience.”  Publisher’s Weekly

  17. FIC GLA 17. Emil and Karlby Jacob Glatstein In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together. “Finding themselves on their own, nine-year-old Viennese friends Emil and Karl are witnesses to the grotesque humiliation and cruelty of a civilized society gone mad. Polish-born Glatshteyn wrote his harrowing tale of Nazi occupation as it was happening: the novel was published in Yiddish in 1940; his unflinching portrait is a revealing as well as an important document.” Horn Book

  18. FIC SER and classroom copies 18. Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier During 1942 in Warsaw, Edek shoots a Nazi Storm Trooper. Edek and his two sisters must escape from the secret police. “It was fast reading, had lots of ups and downs, and had a happy ending. Great for middle-schoolers.” Barnes and Noble.com Review

  19. 19. Escaping into the Nightby D. Dina Friedman Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II. “This vivid novel describes the many ways--both positive and negative--war alters the human spirit.” Horn Book

  20. FIC HEU 20. A Family Secretby Eric Heuvel While going through the contents in her grandmother Helena's attic, Jeroen is told a surprising story set in a time when Helena lived under German occupation in Europe and about her suspicions that her father, a police man, had something to do with her best friend being taken away. “*Starred Review* this moving graphic novel translated from the Dutch tells of Holocaust perpetrators, rescuers, collaborators, and bystanders through the experience of one family under Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. It is in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus (1986), not only in format and the historical facts of the millions who perished, but also in the unsentimental truth of the complex humanity: victims are far from saints, survivors are haunted by guilt.” ALA Booklist

  21. 21. The Fighterby Jean-Jacques Greif Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness, plus luck, to help him survive the horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II. “In this unique juvenile Holocaust novel, the adult main character's present-tense, first-person narrative (based on a family friend's memoir) results in a sometimes unbearable immediacy.” Horn Book

  22. FIC PAU 22. The Final Journeyby Gudrun Pausewang During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination. “Readers learn of the unfounded hatred directed toward the Jews, their inhumane treatment, and the maturity that comes quickly with tragedy. However, Pausewang also shows that love and an optimistic spirit can prevail in spite of horrendous circumstances.” ALAN Review

  23. 92 LAZ 23. Four Perfect Pebblesby Lila Perl and Marion Lazan If she could find four perfect pebbles of almost exactly the same size and shape, it meant that her family would remain whole. Mama and Papa and she and Albert would survive Bergen-Belsen. The four of them might even survive the Nazis' attempt to destroy every last Jew in Europe. “*Starred Review* Perl weaves the history of the Holocaust with a survivor’s personal memories of what happened to her family. The writing is direct and devastating, with no rhetoric or sensationalizing. The truth is in what’s said and in what’s left out.” ALA Booklist

  24. 940.53 LEI 24. Fragments of Isabellaby Isabella Leitner Isabella Katz recounts her memories of Auschwitz and how she survived. “This was the best account of life in a German concentration camp that I have ever read. Once I started reading it I could not put it down. The reader gets so engrossed in the book that you not only feel for the characters, but you feel as if you are one of the characters.”  Amazon.com Review

  25. FIC RIC and classroom copies 25. Friedrichby Hans Peter Ricter A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew named Friedrich, during the Nazi regime. “I think the most affecting aspect of Friedrich is the slow development of the horror of the Third Reich. At first, both boys (Friedrich and the narrator) think being a member of the Jungvolk is great, but over time comes the slow realization that the world is not all fun and games.” Amazon.com Review

  26. FIC BEL 26. Go Down to Silenceby G. K. Belliveau Jacob Horowitz visits a friend, a former member of the Belgian underground, and together, the two men share the experiences they had during the Holocaust with Jacob's estranged son. “In this refreshingly unpredictable novel, Belliveau fictionalizes the boyhood experiences of an actual Belgian Holocaust survivor. As readers get to know Jacob Horowitz, now an elderly Cleveland businessman, through flashbacks to his harrowing wartime experiences in the Belgian underground, we never know what to expect.” Publishers Weekly

  27. FIC MAZ 27. Good Night, Mamanby Norma Fox Mazer In June 1940, twelve-year-old Karin Levi's world is torn apart as the German army occupies Paris. Karin, her older brother, Marc, and their Maman must flee. But Maman falls ill and is unable to travel, forcing Karin and Marc to leave her behind. “Karin’s unforgettable story - revealing the little-known world of a handful of European refugees in World War II America - tells of survival, of growing up, and of love’s ability to endure even the most extraordinary circumstances.” Barnes and Noble.com Review

  28. 28. Gotz and Meyerby David Albahari Imparting the story of the systematic 1942 execution of five thousand Belgrade concentration camp prisoners in a transport truck, a school teacher recreates historical events for his students on a school bus. “This stirring novel draws on a wealth of archival materials, maps, and Nazi bureaucratic records about the concentration camp at the Belgrade Fairgrounds, from where, over five months in 1942, 5,000 Jews were loaded into a truck and killed.” ALA Booklist 

  29. FIC MAT 29. Greater than Angelsby Carol Matas Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation. “An inspiring and memorable lesson in courage." Publishers Weekly

  30. 30. Hana's Suitcaseby Karen Levine A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her. “The account, based on a radio documentary Levine did in Canada (a CD of the broadcast is included), is part history, part suspenseful mystery, and always anguished family drama, with an incredible climactic revelation.” ALA Booklist 

  31. 31. Hidden Childby Isaac Millman The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s. “An inspiring and powerful view of this tragic period in human history.” Rita Soltan

  32. FIC VOS 32. Hide and Seekby Ida Vos A young Jewish girl living in Holland tells of her experiences during the Nazi occupation, her years in hiding, and the aftershock when the war finally ends. “Although the feelings of the hidden and their protectors lack the complexity that characterizes Johanna Reiss's The Upstairs Room , Vos's novel deserves special attention for its sensitive and deeply affecting consideration of life after liberation.” Publishers Weekly

  33. 92 BIT 33. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson An inspiring and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps of World War II with her mother and brother. “In a graphic present-tense narrative, this Holocaust memoir describes what happens to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. For those who have read Leitner's stark The Big Lie (1992), this is a much more detailed account, with the same authority of a personal witness.” ALA Booklist

  34. 92 HIL 34. I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor by Laura Hillman The author tells of her experiences in eight concentrations camps as a young Jewish woman in World War II Germany, and shares the story of how she and her husband met and fell in love in spite of their situation, and how they were saved by being put on the list to work at Oskar Schindler's factory. “*Starred Review* There are many young adult Holocaust memoirs, but few of them deal with a teenager's survival in the concentration camps. That makes Hillman's affecting account particularly noteworthy.” ALA Booklist

  35. FIC NOL 35. If I Should Die Before I Wakeby 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. As she lies in a coma in the hospital, she is transported back to World War II and becomes Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration camps. “This is an intriguing and touching story that weaves the terrible drama of the Nazis' destruction of an entire population together with the age-old belief in reincarnation and past lives.” Judy Chernak

  36. 940.53 OPD 36. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuerby Irene Gut Opdyke Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust. “Her enormous courage is all the more compelling because the events in her life are true, and her transformation from an innocent schoolgirl to a determined resistance fighter will inform and inspire readers.” Cyrisse Jaffee

  37. 92 ZAR 37. In the Mouth of the Wolfby Rose Zar The author describes her experiences in wartime Poland and how she survived the Holocaust by passing herself off as an Aryan. “The genocide of six million Jewish citizens from various European countries is an incomprehensible number and the collaboration or passivity of a majority of their neighbors and community leaders, who aided in their murder and other crimes against humanity, is a history too monstrous to imagine then or now. However the witness of survivors like Rose Zar and the testaments left behind like those of Anne Frank and others makes it clear to the rest of us, what really did happen and for us, to be constantly on call, so to speak, to respond to brutality, because the unthinkable is possible.” Amazon.com Review

  38. 38. Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europeby Inge Joseph BleierIn early 1939, after Kristallnacht, young Inge Joseph's family in Germany is broken apart, and her desperate mother sends her alone to Brussels to live with wealthy relatives. But she soon finds herself one of a hundred Jewish children fleeing for their lives following Hitler's invasions of Belgium and France. “This book is based on a 66-page manuscript that he found after her death in Chicago in 1983. Gumpert also found some of her personal letters, and he was able to interview many of her friends and relatives, who gave him a number of black-and-white photos. The result is a compelling account of one woman's personal Holocaust struggle.” ALA Booklist

  39. FIC ORL 39. The Island on Bird Streetby Uri Orlev During World War II, Alex, 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. “This is an interesting book that really brings you into the mind of a Jewish child living during the Holocaust. It tells the story of an 11 year old boy named Alex who lives with his father in the Warsaw Ghetto.” Amazon.com Review

  40. FIC DRU 40. Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin 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. “Characters are well developed and multidimensional, and the story is a poignant one.” School Library Journal

  41. FIC BEC 41. Jacob the Liarby Jurek Becker Jacob, a Jewish man, overhears the good news of the Red Army's advance while being detained in a German military office, but his neighbors will not believe the report until he tells them he owns a radio, forcing him into making up regular radio broadcasts that cause a resurgence of hope in his ghetto community. “Acclaimed as the most remarkable novel of the Holocaust ever written in Germany, Jacob the Liar breaks with the genre's tradition of unremitting realism to offer a suspenseful and masterfully crafted tale of hope, desire, and the life-giving force of fiction.”  from the Publisher

  42. FIC WIN 42. Katarinaby Kathryn Winter During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as the war ends. “Her story will move readers with its honesty about her survival and the horror she escaped.”  ALA Booklist

  43. 92 LON 43. Lonek’s Journey: the True Story of a Boy’s Escape to Freedomby Dorit Bader Whiteman Through the astonishing journey of one Polish Jewish boy, this true escape story brings a seldom-told part of World War II history close. Lonek is 11 when the Nazis invade his Polish hometown in 1939. First he hides in a hole under the stable of friendly neighbors; then his family makes the dangerous escape to Russian-occupied Poland, from where the family members are deported in a horrific three-week crossing to the harsh Siberian slave-labor camps. The story is written from Lonek's point of view and filled with the wide eyed optimistic wonder of this young boy - captioned photographs and a glossary remind readers how lucky he was to have survived. Vicki Reutter

  44. FIC ORL 44. The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev 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. “Based on a true story of a Polish boy living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw just before the 1943 uprising, this understated but very revealing fictional memoir follows 14-year-old Marek through some harrowing experiences as he is drawn into this Jewish battle for survival--on both sides of the Ghetto wall.” School Library Journal

  45. 45. Marikaby Andrea Cheng Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II. “The clear, quiet prose ultimately tells a riveting story not only about the Nazi terror and Hungarian anti-Semitism but also about families and their secrets.” ALA Booklist

  46. 940.53 SPI 46. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds Historyby Art Spiegelman A story about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. “Told with chilling realism in an unusual comic-book format, this is more than a tale of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following generation.” School Library Journal

  47. 940.53 SPI 47. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale, And Here My Troubles Beganby Art Spiegelman In the sequel to Maus I, the author tells the story, in cartoon form, of his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II. “The power of Spiegelman's story lies in the fine detail of the story and the fact that it is related in comic-strip form.” San Francisco Examiner

  48. FIC SPI and classroom copies 48. Milkweedby Jerry Spinelli He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody. “This historical novel can be appreciated both by readers with previous knowledge of the Holocaust and by those who share Misha's innocence and will discover the horrors of this period in history along with him.” Ginny Gustin

  49. 92 JAC 49. My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love after Auschwitzby Livia Bitton Jackson Sequel to "I have lived a thousand years." In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives. “This book is an excellent sourcebook for learning about the realities of life after World War II.” Alan Review

  50. 92 WIE 50. Nazi Hunter: Simon Wiesenthal by Iris Noble Presents an account of the activities of Simon Wiesenthal who helped in locate and prosecute members of the Nazi SS, many of whom disappeared at the end of World War II. “Simon was an amazing person who dedicated his life to finding S.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of innocent people during World War II.” Amazon.com Review

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