Holocaust
Holocaust
Introduction
A Holocaust (Shoah in Hebrew) is a total destruction of something. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler, attempted to destroy the entire Jewish population in Europe. They humiliated and beat the Jews, fired them from their jobs, wrecked their homes and businesses, and robbed them of their property. The Nazis killed thousands of people each day, including old and sick, women and men, even children-about 1.5 million children. During World War II the Nazis murdered about 6 million Jews. This is the most brutal crime in history.
Books
Ayer, Eleanor. Parallel Journeys. New York: Aladdin, 1995.
Call number: 920 Aye
Summary: Explores the autobiographies of two people who had different experiences during the Holocaust and how they survived.
Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
Call number: 940.53 Bac
Summary: An informative book about the holocaust based on exhibits at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust. New York: Aladdin, 1997.
Call number: 921 Bit
Summary: An inspiring and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps of World War II with her mother and brother.
Boas, Jacob. We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
Call number: 940.53
Summary: Five teenagers during World War II living in different parts of Europe with very different lives. Being Jewish they were all under Hitler's twisted rule.
Brooks, Philip. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York: Children's Press, 1996.
Call number: 940.53 Bro
Summary: Describes the planning and building of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and examines its exhibits documenting the European Holocaust from 1933 to 1945.
Cooper, Jason. U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:Historic Landmarks. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Book Company, 2001.
Call number: 940.53 Coo
Summary: Explains the memorial museum to those millions of people who died during the Holocaust during World War II.
Friedman, Ina R. Escape or Die: True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982.
Call number: 940.53 Fri
Summary: Twelve true stories of young men and women, both Jews and non-Jews, who endured the horrors of the Holocaust.
Garner, Eleanor Ramrath. Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany. Atlanta: Peach Tree, 1999.
Call number: 921 Gar
Summary: Autobiography of an American growing up in Hitler's Germany.
Gold, Alison Leslie. Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
Call number 949.2 Gol
Summary: Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive.
Grant, R. G. The Holocaust. Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughn, 1998. New Perspectives series.
Call number: 940.53 Gra
Summary: Examines the early persecution of the Jews in Germany, the rise to power of the Nazis, the concentration camps, and other historical events surrounding the Holocaust.
Greenfeld, Howard. After the Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Call number: 940.53 Gre
Summary: Eight Jewish men and women who survived the Holocaust as children talk about their experiences immediately following the war.
The Holocaust Remembered Series. The Holocaust Camps, the Holocaust Ghettos, The Holocaust Heroes, The Holocaust Overview, The Holocaust Heroes, and The Holocaust Survivors.
Call number: 940.53
Jeffrey, Laura. Simon Wiesenthal: Tracking Down Nazi Criminals. Berkeley Height, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1997. People to Know series.
Call number: 921 Wie
Summary: Presents the life and exploits of a Nazi-hunter, including the stories of how he caught and brought to justice such infamous war criminals as Adolf Eichmann.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Call number: 940.53 Ken
Summary: A German businessman tries to save his Jewish employees from the Nazi Holocaust.
Lawton, Clive A. Auschwitz: The Story of a Nazi Death Camp. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002.
Call number: 940.53 Law
Summary: A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
Levine, Karen. Hana's Suitcase. New York: Scholastic, 2002.
Call number: 940.53
Summary: 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.
Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. New York: Avon Books, 1998.
Call number: 921 Lob
Summary: In this autobiography, Anita Lobel describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins, 1988.
Call number: 940.53 Mel
Summary: A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin. New York: Holiday House, 2006.
Call number: 921 Wei
Summary: Follows Ela Weissberger's family from Kristallnacht to the performances of Brundibar in the Terezin concentration camp.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin. New York: Holiday House, 2000.
Call Number: 940.53 Rub
Summary: Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. The Flag with Fifty-six Star: A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen. New York: Holiday House, 2005.
Call number: 940.53 Rub
Summary: Describes the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen, life in the camp for the internees, and the gift of an American flag made by the inmates and presented to the liberating army in 1945.
Sheehan, Sean. After the Holocaust. New York: Raintree, 2001. The Holocaust Series.
Call number: 940.53 She
Summary: Discusses the history, moral and ethical aspects, and influence of the Holocaust.
Shuter, Jane. Auschwitz. Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library, 2000.
Call number: 940.53 Shu
Summary: Summary: Discusses the purpose, processing of inmates, daily life, and other activities and aspects of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Seigal, Aranka. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944. New York: Puffin, 1981.
Call number: 921 Sie
Summary: Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Sender, Ruth Minsky. The Cage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Call number 921 Sen
Summary: A vivid memoir of a woman's teen years spent in Auschwitz.
Strahinich, Helen. The Holocaust: Understanding and Remembering. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.
Call number: 940.53 Str
Summary: Discusses the circumstances leading up to and the brutal realities of the murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis.
. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
Call number: 940.53 Zul
Summary: Nine true accounts of Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe.
Reference Books
Holocaust Reference Library. UXL, 1998.
Call number: Ref 940.53
Summary: Three titles of two volumes each. Voices of the Holocaust contains 35 excerpted or full-text materials. People of the Holocaust focuses on 60 men and wormen - from Nazi perpetrators to those who resisted Hitler's Final Solution, includes sidebars, photographs, "Words to Know", timelines, further reading and a subject index. Understanding the Holocaust describes events that help students comprehend the human tragedy that is now a part of our common history.
Arad, Yitzhak. The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
Call number: Ref 940.53 Ara
Summary: An extraordinary compilation of photos, maps, and explanitory text.
Reliable Internet Links
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - www.ushmm.org
Holocaust Timeline at The History Place
The Holocaust Wing of the Jewish Virtual Library contains articles, original documents, a holocaust glossary, a bibliography, and much more, all covering The Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivors presents history with a human face. It includes survivor stories, a photo gallery, an audio gallery, encyclopedia, texts, bibliography, links and discussions.
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.
Search for Holocaust at Grolier Online
Image Sources
Family photographs which come from the survivors themselves.
Encyclopedias
Holocaust Survivors Encyclopedia
Holocaust Encyclopedia from USHMM.