I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by L. Bitton-Jackson (940.53 BIT)
The memoir of one of the few teenage residents of Auschwitz.

Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic (921 FIL)
A Bosnian girl keeps a diary of her life in the war-torn region. Readers who like Anne Frank’s diary will like this one, too.

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Kenneally. (PB KEN)
The true story of the risks taken by Oskar Schindler to help Jews escape persecution.

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel (921 LOB)
The author describes her experiences as a Jew in Poland during World War II and afterward, as a survivor in Switzerland.

The Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Novac. (940.53 NOV)
Ana Novac wrote her diary on scraps of paper and newspaper during her six months in concentration camps, and survived to publish them as a reminder of all she—and we—have to be thankful for.

Childhood by Jona Oberski. (940.53 OBE)
Recreates the Holocaust through the eyes of a young child who experienced discrimination that sent his parents to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke (940.53 OPD)
The author recounts her experiences rescuing Jews and hiding during the Holocaust.

Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France by Reness Roth-Hans
Renee and her family fled their home and hid in Paris during the Nazi reign, forever fearing for their lives.

The Cage by Ruth Sender (940.53 SEN)
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazi reign in a Polish ghetto and later in a concentration camp.

To Life by Ruth Sender Minsky (PB SEN)
The author recounts her liberation from concentration camp, the search for family members, and the ordeal of trying to immigrate to the United States with her husband and children.

Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary by Aranka Siegal (947.718 SIE)
Nine year old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jew in Hungary during the war and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in a ghetto.

Night by Elie Wiesel.
A young Jewish boy witnesses the death of his family in a concentration camp; as an adult he recalls the events and reports on how they have affected his life.

Baer, Edith. A Frost in the Night.
A young girl grows up in the south of Germany during Hitler’s reign.

Cormier, Robert. Tunes for Bears to Dance To.
Henry escapes his family’s problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, a Holocaust survivor, but when he is manipulated into betraying his friend, he comes to know true evil.

Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River.
Trudie, a dwarf, lives through both World Wars, and helps others during the Holocaust, knowing how to empathize with them because of her own experience as someone different.

Hersey, John. The Wall.
The horrors of the Holocaust as experienced by forty individuals who escaped through sewers.

Iles, Greg. Black Cross.
In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that would only be asked of them in wartime.

Kerr, M.E. Gentlehands.
A teenage boy falls in love with a girl during a summer he spends getting to know his estranged grandfather—a summer that ends in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie learns to be brave when she helps shelter her friend from the Nazis.

Matas, Carol. Greater than Angels.
Anna, a German refuge, relates how she and some other children cared for residents of a small French town during the German occupation.

Matas, Carol. In My Enemy’s House.
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.

Matas, Carol. Lisa’s War.
During the Nazi occupation in Denmark, Lisa and other teen Jews become involved in a resistance movement and must eventually flee for their lives.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water
After being taken from a movie theater by Nazis, Roberto is forced to work in Germany with other Italian boys, including his Jewish friend.

Schlink, Bernard. The Reader.
A teenager falls in love with a much older woman, who leaves him mysteriously. Years later, they are reunited when she is accused of crimes during the Holocaust, and he learns that she guards a secret about herself that she considers more shameful than being a Nazi.

Voigt, Cynthia. David and Jonathan.
The relationship between two close friends, Jonathan and Henry, changes when Jonathan’s cousin Henry, a Holocaust survivor, comes to live with his family.

Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose.
The fairy tale and the horror of the Holocaust are wound together in this mysterious, intriguing story about a woman who survived the concentration camps.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank