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AGE-APPROPRIATE LITERATURE FOR STUDYING THE HOLOCAUST
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR GRADES K – 12

Compiled by Josey G. Fisher.
Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education
Holocaust Education Consultant

Grades K-2 -- Building Blocks for Teaching the Holocaust in Later Grades

Alexander, Liza. No Red Monsters Allowed! (Sesame Street/Golden PressBook). Western Publishing Co., 1991.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan. The Berenstain Bears and the In-Crowd.NY: Random House, l989.

Seuss, Dr. Sneetches and Other Stories. NY: Random House, 1989.

Grades 3-4

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

Ginsburg, Marvell. The Tattooed Torah. NY: UAHC Press, 1994.

Klein, Gerda Weissmann. Promise of a New Spring. NY: Rossell Books, 1981.

Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. The Lily Cupboard. NY:HarperCollins,1992.

Grades 5-6

Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and Ten. NY: Puffin Books, 1991.

Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz. Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. Behrman, 1999.

Hoffman, Judy. Joseph and Me in the Days of the Holocaust. KTAV, 1979.

Kerr, Judith. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. NY: Dell Yearling, 1987.

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room. NY: Bantam, 1972.

Grades 7-8

Cretzmeyer, Stacy. Your Name is Renee: Ruth’s Story as a Hidden Child. Brunswick MA: Biddle Publishing Co., 1994.

Drucker, Malka and Michael Halperin. Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story. NY: Bantam, 1993.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, ed. by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. NY: Doubleday, 1996.

Friedman, Ina R. Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman Who

Defied the Nazis. Brookline, MA: Lodgepole Press, 1995.

Orlev, Uri. Island on Bird Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. NY: Puffin Books, 1987.

Toll, Nelly. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood. NY:Dell, 1993.

Volakova, Hana, ed. ....I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944. NY: Schocken, 1993.

Vos, Ida. Hide and Seek. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1991 edition.

Grades 9-12

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia: My Story. NY: Bantam, 1990.

Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years. NY: Aladdin. 1999.

Klein, Gerda Weissmann. All But My Life. NY: Hill & Wang, 1995.

Nir, Yehuda. The Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir. NY: Scholastic, 2002.

Siegal, Aranka. Upon the Head of a Goat.: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944. NY: Farrar, 2003.

Szpilman, Wladyslaw. The Pianist. NY: Picador, 1999.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. NY: Bantam, 1982.