Bibliography Contents

(This bibliography is courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.)

• Basic Bibliography Introducing the Holocaust to Adults and High School Students
• Suggested Readings: Grades 1-3
• Suggested Readings: Grades 4-6
• Suggested Readings: Young Adults/Jr. High
• Suggested Readings: High School/Adult

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Basic Bibliography to Introduce the Holocaust to Adults and High School Students

(This bibliography is courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.)

Bauer, Yehuda. They Chose Life: Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust. New York: American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1973.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. Tenth anniversary edition. Toronto and New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985.

Grobman, Alex, and Daniel Landes, eds. Genocide, Critical Issues of the Holocaust: A Companion to the Film, "Genocide." Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1983; Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, 1983.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Student edition. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985. (Note: "Based on the three-volume revised and definitive edition": Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. 2nd ed. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985.)

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. New York: Collier Books, 1961.

Levin, Nora. The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945. New York: Schocken Books, 1973.

Wiesel, Eli. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Murderers among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs. Edited and with an introductory profile by Joseph Wechsberg. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

---. Justice Not Vengeance. New York: Grove-Weidenfeld, 1989.

Wistrich, Robert S. Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.

Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Suggested Readings: Grades 1-3

(This bibliography is courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.)

Abells, Chana. The Children We Remember. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1986.

Adler, David A. The Number on My Grandfather's Arm. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1987.

*Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and Ten. New York: Puffin Books, 1988.

*Bunting, Eve. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Finklestein, Norman. Remember Not to Forget. New York: Franklin Watts, 1985.

*Ginsburg, Marvell. The Tattooed Torah. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1983.

*Herman, Erwin and Agnes. The Yanov Torah. Rockville, Md.: Kar-Ben Copies, 1985.

*Hest, Amy. The Ring and the Window Seat. New York: Scholastic, 1990.

Klein, Gerda Weissmann. Promise of a New Spring: The Holocaust and Renewal. Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, 1981.

*Lakin, Patricia. Don't Forget. New York: Tambourine Books, 1994.

*Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. The Lily Cupboard. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

* Indicates a work of fiction.

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Suggested Readings: Grades 4-6

(This bibliography is courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.)

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Anne Frank. New York: Holiday House, 1993.

---. Child of the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Holiday House, 1995.

---. We Remember the Holocaust. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Auerbacher, Inge. I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust. New York: Prentice Hall, 1986.

Baldwin, Margaret. The Boys Who Save the Children. New York: J. Messner, 1981.

Chaikin, Miriam. A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust, 1933-1945. New York: Clarion Books, 1987.

Drucker, Malka. Jacob's Rescue. New York: Bantam, 1993.

Flinker, Moshe. Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1971.

Friedman, Ina. Escape or Die. New York: JB Lippincott, 1985.

---. The Other Victims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Greenfield, Howard. The Hidden Children. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.

*Hoestlandt, Jo. Star of Fear, Star of Hope. New York: Walker and Co., 1995.

I New Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1942-1944. 2nd ed. New York: Schocken, 1993.

*Innocenti, Roberto. Rose Blanche. Mankato, Minn.: Creative Education, 1985.

Leitner, Isabella. The Big Lie: A True Story. New York: Scholastic, 1992.

*Levitin, Sonia. Journey to America. 2nd ed. New York: Atheneum, 1993.

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Marrin, Albert. Hitler. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1987.

Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved the Jews in the Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

*Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna. New York: Dial Press, 1978.

Reiss, Johanna. The Journey Back. New York: Crowell, 1976.

---. The Upstairs Room. New York: Crowell, 1972.

Reuter, Elisabeth. Best Friends. New York: Yellow Brick Road Press, 1993.

*Vos, Ida. Hide and Seek. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

*Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988.

* Indicates a work of fiction.

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Suggested Readings: Young Adults/Jr. High School

(This bibliography is courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.)

Altshuler, David. Hitler's War against the Jews. New York: Behrman House, 1978.

Arnold, Caroline, and Hermine Silverstein. Anti-Semitism: A Modern Perspective. New York: Julian Messner, 1985.

Benisch, Pearl. To Vanquish the Dragon. New York: Feldheim, 1991.

Bernbaum, Israel. My Brother's Keeper: The Holocaust through the Eyes of an Artist. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Rev. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

Gies, Miep. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Landau, Elaine. We Survived the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts, 1991.

Larsen, Anita. Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Diplomat. New York: Crestwood House, 1992.

*Matas, Carol. Daniel's Story. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1993.

Meltzer, Milton. Never to Forget. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Noble, Iris. Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. New York: Julius Messner, 1979.

Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust. New York: Holiday House, 1988.

Rosenberg, Maxine B. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust. New York: Clarion, 1994.

Verhoeven, Rian, and Ruud Van Der Rol. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary. New York: Studio Books, 1993.

Ziemian, Joseph. The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1975.

* Indicates a work of fiction.

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Suggested Readings: High School/Adult

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Arad, Yitzhak, Yisrael Gutman, and Abraham Margaliot, eds. Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland and the Soviet Union. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League and Ktav Publishing House, 1981.

The Auschwitz Album. New York: Random House, 1981.

Berenbaum, Michael, ed. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. New York: New York University Press, 1990.

Blady Szwajger, Adina. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Block, Gay and Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1992.

Bower, Tom. The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists. Boston: Little Brown, 1987.

Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Dafni, Reuven and Yehudit Kleiman. Final Letters: From the Victims of the Holocaust. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S., ed. A Holocaust Reader. New York: Behrman House, 1976.

Dobroszycki, Lucjan and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939. New York: Schocken Books, 1977.

Dwork, Deborah. Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Eisen, George. Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Glatstein, Jacob, Israel Knox and Samuel Margoshes, eds. Anthology of Holocaust Literature. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969.

Hass, Aaron. In the Shadow of the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Kalib, Goldie Szachter. The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the Holocaust. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

Kaplan, Chaim. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Rev. ed. New York: Collier Books, 1973. (Note: Published earlier under the title Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. New York: Macmillan, 1965.)

Lagnado, Lucette Matalon, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1991.

Langer, Lawrence L. Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

---. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz. New York: Howard Fertig, 1983; reprint of Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1947.

Lester, Elenore. Wallenberg, the Man in the Iron Web. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.

Lewin, Rhoda G. Witness to the Holocaust: An Oral History. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Millu, Liana. Smoke over Birkenau. Philadephia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. New York: F. Fell, 1960.

Rubinowicz, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. Edmonds, Washington: Creative Options, 1982.

Ryan, Allan A. Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.

Simpson, Christopher. Blowback: The First Full Account of America's Recruitment of Nazis, and Its Disastrous Effect on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy. New York: Weidenfled & Nicholson, 1988.

Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

---. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon, 1991.

Vegh, Claudine. I Didn't Say Goodbye: Interviews with Children of the Holocaust. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.

Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.

Vrba, Rudolph. I Cannot Forgive. New York: Grove Press, 1964.

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. New York: Schocken Books, 1977.

Wood, E. Thomas and Stanislaw M. Jankowski. Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Young, James E. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Zuckerman, Abraham. A Voice in the Chorus: Life as a Teenager in the Holocaust. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1991.

Zuroff, Efraim. Occupation: Nazi Hunter; The Continuing Search for Perpetrators of the Holocaust. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1994; Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1994

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