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Holocaust: Fiction and Nonfiction The fiction and nonfiction titles below explore the Holocaust from various angles and perspectives Nonfiction After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring Joseph Polak; Elie Wiesel, fwd. Nonfiction A History of the Grandparents I Never Had Ivan Jablonka; Jane Kuntz, trans. Nonfiction American Wolf: From Nazi Refugee to American Spy Audrey Birnbaum Nonfiction A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.) Nonfiction Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz Omer Bartov Fiction Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit Nonfiction Before All Memory is Lost: Women's Voices From the Holocaust Myrna Goldenberg Nonfiction Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust Robin Judd Nonfiction Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule Beverley Chalmers Nonfiction Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History Benjamin Balint Nonfiction But You Did Not Come Back Marceline Loridan-Ivens; Sandra Smith, trans. Fiction Carry Me Peter Behrens Fiction Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust Neal Shusterman; Andrés Vera Martínez, illus. Nonfiction Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood Susan Rubin Suleiman Nonfiction East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide" and “Crimes Against Humanity” Philippe Sands Nonfiction Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Joseph Berger Visual Arts Everyone Is Present Terry Kurgan Fiction Hannah’s War Jan Eliasberg Nonfiction Her Story, My Story? Writing About Women and the Holocaust Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.) Nonfiction Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld; Sam Taylor, trans. Nonfiction In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism Michael Brenner; Jeremiah Riemer, trans. Nonfiction In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light Anne Sinclair, Sandra Smith (Translator) Nonfiction It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II Susan Wider Nonfiction I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir Esther Safran Foer Nonfiction Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds. Nonfiction KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Nikolaus Wachsmann Nonfiction Lessons of the Holocaust Michael R. Marrus Nonfiction Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations Lily Ebert, Dov Forman Fiction Once We Were Home Jennifer Rosner Nonfiction One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World Michael Frank Nonfiction Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust Ari Joskowicz Nonfiction Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Rebecca Erbelding Nonfiction Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany Wolf Gruner Nonfiction Saving One's Own Mordecai Paldiel Nonfiction Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway Children's Someday We Will Fly Rachel DeWoskin Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy Nonfiction Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory Elizabeth Rosner Nonfiction Suzanne's Children Anne Nelson Nonfiction The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir George Salton with Anna Salton Eisen Nonfiction Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey Mikhal Dekel Fiction The Blood Years Elana K. Arnold Fiction The Book of Dirt Bram Presser Fiction The Book of Lost Names Kristin Harmel Nonfiction The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis David E. Fishman Nonfiction The Choice: Embrace the Possible Dr. Edith Eva Eger Fiction The Complete Works of Primo Levi Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein, ed. Nonfiction The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans. Nonfiction The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Jonathan Freedland Nonfiction The Ghost Tattoo Tony Bernard Fiction The Girl from Berlin Ronald H. Balson Nonfiction The Holocaust and North Africa Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Aomar Boum Nonfiction The Holocaust in Croatia Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein Nonfiction The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France James McAuley Fiction The Last Train to London: A Novel Meg Waite Clayton Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion Nonfiction The Literature of the Holocaust Alan Rosen Fiction The Lost Shtetl Max Gross Fiction The Postcard Anne Berest; Tina Kover, trans. Nonfiction The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Wendy Lower Nonfiction Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community H.G. Adler; Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, ed; Belinda Cooper, trans. Children's The Safest Lie Angela Cerrito Nonfiction The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler Deborah Cadbury Nonfiction The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help Faris Cassell Nonfiction The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between Michael Dobbs Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga Nonfiction The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust Janine P. Holc Fiction The World That We Knew: A Novel Alice Hoffman Fiction The Yellow Bird Sings Jennifer Rosner Nonfiction Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance Jeremy Eichler Fiction To Die Beautiful Buzzy Jackson Nonfiction Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family Daniel Finkelstein Nonfiction Unstoppable: The Incredible Journey of Siggi B. Wilzig, the Auschwitz Survivor who Overcame All Odds and Became a Wall Street Legend Joshua Greene Fiction We Were the Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter Fiction When the World Was Ours Liz Kessler Nonfiction When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains Ariana Neumann Nonfiction Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom Ariel Burger Nonfiction Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader Eric J. Sundquist Nonfiction 10 British Prisoners of War Saved My Life Hannah Rigler Nonfiction 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning Slavko Goldstein; Michael Gable, trans. Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans. Nonfiction A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction Ruth Franklin Nonfiction Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose Nonfiction Auschwitz Report Primo Levi Nonfiction Auschwitz: A New History Laurence Rees Fiction Block 11: A Novel Piero degli Antoni; Erin Waggener, trans. Nonfiction Chelmno and the Holocaust: A History of Hitler's First Death Camp Patrick Montague Nonfiction Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes—and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS Bo Lidegaard Fiction Days in the History of Silence Merethe Lindstrom; Anne Bruce, trans. Fiction Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Nonfiction FDR and the Jews Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman Nonfiction God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Menachem Z. Rosensaft, ed. Nonfiction Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, 2nd Edition Jack Fischel Nonfiction Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower Nonfiction Hitler’s First Victims: The Quest for Justice Timothy W. Ryback Fiction In Paradise: A Novel Peter Matthiessen Fiction Love & Treasure Ayelet Waldman Nonfiction MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus Art Spiegelman Fiction Not Me Michael Lavigne Fiction Our Holocaust Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction Quiet Americans Erika Dreifus Fiction Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay Fiction Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet Nonfiction Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors R. D. Rosen Fiction The Book Thief Markus Zusak Nonfiction The Eichmann Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt Fiction The Empire of the Senses: A Novel Alexis Landau Nonfiction The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir Howard Reich Nonfiction The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Randolph L. Braham, ed. Fiction The Hollow Tree Jacob G. Rosenberg Fiction The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer Nonfiction The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Daniel Mendelsohn Fiction The Messenger Yannick Haenel; Ian Monk, trans. Fiction The Time of the Uprooted Elie Wiesel Nonfiction The Winter's Journey of My Youth: A Memoir Helen Studley Nonfiction The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer Nonfiction The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Diane Ackerman Fiction This Must Be The Place: A Novel Anna Winger Nonfiction We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Ellen Cassedy Nonfiction You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish Susan Resnick
Nonfiction A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.)
Fiction Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust Neal Shusterman; Andrés Vera Martínez, illus.
Nonfiction East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide" and “Crimes Against Humanity” Philippe Sands
Nonfiction Her Story, My Story? Writing About Women and the Holocaust Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
Nonfiction Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld; Sam Taylor, trans.
Nonfiction In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism Michael Brenner; Jeremiah Riemer, trans.
Nonfiction In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light Anne Sinclair, Sandra Smith (Translator)
Nonfiction It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II Susan Wider
Nonfiction Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds.
Nonfiction Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
Nonfiction Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Rebecca Erbelding
Nonfiction Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway
Children's Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy
Nonfiction The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis David E. Fishman
Nonfiction The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans.
Nonfiction The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Jonathan Freedland
Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion
Nonfiction Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community H.G. Adler; Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, ed; Belinda Cooper, trans.
Nonfiction The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler Deborah Cadbury
Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga
Nonfiction Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance Jeremy Eichler
Nonfiction Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family Daniel Finkelstein
Nonfiction Unstoppable: The Incredible Journey of Siggi B. Wilzig, the Auschwitz Survivor who Overcame All Odds and Became a Wall Street Legend Joshua Greene
Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Nonfiction Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes—and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS Bo Lidegaard
Nonfiction God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Menachem Z. Rosensaft, ed.
Nonfiction You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish Susan Resnick
