Teen Reads on the Holocaust: OBOC Spring 2002 Further ReadingLike this list

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• After the Holocaust

  Greenfeld, Howard

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  These eight personal stories clearly show that the tragedies and sorrows of the Holocaust didn’t end just because the Allied soldiers opened the gates of the camps.

• Bearing Witness

  Stories of the Holocaust

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  Twenty-four well-known authors share their vision of the horrors of the Holocaust in short stories, a comic strip, a script, poetry and a variety of other formats.

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  Set in a small town in Germany during World War II, the novel is narrated by a sympathetic Death, and tells the story of Liesel, a young foster girl who in the midst of one of the darkest times in history learns to read, to survive and to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elie Wiesel

  Voice From the Holocaust

  Schuman, Michael

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  As a small child in Hungary, this future Nobel Laureate had no idea he would be fighting for his life in one of the most feared and hated Nazi concentration camps.

• I Have Lived a Thousand Years

  Growing Up in the Holocaust

  Jackson, Livia Bitton

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  Sent to a death camp at age 13, Livia describes her experience as a teenager.

• In My Hands

  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

  Opdyke, Irene Gut, 1921-

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  Even though she wasn’t a Jew, Irene suffered at the hands of the Nazis but schemed to find ways to save herself and help others escape as well.

• Mara's Stories

  Glimmers in the Darkness

  Schmidt, Gary D.

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  At night, in cold and damp barracks, Mara tells folktales to illuminate the darkness.

• Maus I

  a Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History

  Spiegelman, Art

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  Told as graphic novels, with animals wearing the uniforms and doing the unimaginable deeds, this is a powerful story of a Holocaust survivor.

• Maus II

  and Here My Troubles Began : a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  The story continued.

• Never to Forget

  the Jews of the Holocaust

  Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009

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  These voices, only a few of them since 6 million people were killed, describe survival and resistance movements in the face of genocide.

• Night

  Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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  Elie Wiesel’s powerful story of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

• Number the Stars

  Lowry, Lois

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  In a fictionalized account of a true story, 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen and her family help her best friend Ellen by first hiding her and then helping her escape over the Danish border to safety.

• A Special Fate

  Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust

  Gold, Alison Leslie

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  An account of a Japanese diplomat serving in Lithuania, who continued to issue exit visas to Jewish refugees long after his government told him to stop.

• Surviving Hitler

  a Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

  Warren, Andrea

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  Ten-year-old Jack Mandelbaum sees his family torn from their home and separated by strangers, and is forced into a horrifying experience that he survives by treating it as a very dangerous game.