F.A. Day Library: The Holocaust

Lisette Beaucaire is sent to live with her aunt in the French countryside, where she learns the farm is a hiding place for several Jewish and Gypsy children, as well as a ghost.

Based on the life of Jack Gruener, who survived the Nazi occupation of Krakow, Poland at the age of eleven, when he was sent to a succession of concentration camps.

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Ten-year-old Franziska escapes Nazi Germany on the kindertransport; when she arrives in London she takes on the name Frances and struggles to piece together a new life without her family.

A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime.

In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.

Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

Anneke and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, where Anneke's father is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depict the camp as an idyllic place for Jews.

(North Bound) Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews in World War II Germany.

The story of the 1,000 World War II refugees that FDR suspended the quotos to rescue out of the thirteen million Holocaust victims.

This biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust is told in alternating chapters with the story of how a museum curator learned of Hana's life after receiving her suitcase.

Jaap Penraat, a young Dutch man, bravely risked his life during World War II to save the lives of over 400 Jews.

By the end of World War II, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was able to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi concentration camps.

Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler.

Elli Friedmann tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was imprisoned at the age of thirteen after the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps before being liberated by the Russian army.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman tells the story of his father Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe.

A graphic novel account of the life of Anne Frank, covering her family, the rise of Nazism, her years in the Secret Annex, her arrest, her deportation, her death, and her father's recovery of her diary.

A former Nazi concentration camp guard returns to Dachau to relive his memories of the war and finds himself haunted and tortured by the prisoners who died at his hands.

The story of the Holocaust and how it affected the lives of innocent people throughout Europe, using artifacts, photographs, maps, and taped oral and video histories from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through the eyes of Froim Baum, who was sent from one death camp to another before finally being liberated at Dachau by American soldiers.

A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager.

Offers a multifaceted view of the Holocaust through fiction and nonfiction stories, memoirs, poems, and an excerpt from the comic book Maus II.

Text and black and white photographs describe the experiences of those Jewish children who were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust and survived to tell about it.

Offers an account of the events leading up to the Holocaust and the early days of that period of persecution.

A minister and his wife from Wellesley, Mass., left their children behind to travel to Europe where they helped to save hundreds of political dissidents and Jewish refugees from the Nazis.