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Holocaust: Warsaw Ghetto Fiction A Play for the End of the World: A Novel Jai Chakrabarti Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather Fiction A Requiem for Hania Greg Dinner Fiction Ari's Spoon Doug Zipes Nonfiction From Darkness to Light: Testimonies of Six Holocaust Survivors Ronald J. Diller Nonfiction In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz Fiction Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary: Stories Johanna Kaplan Nonfiction Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Keren Blankfeld Nonfiction Survival Ita Dimant; Martin Dean, ed.; Teresa Pollin, trans. Fiction The Dream Stitcher Deborah Gaal Fiction The Teacher of Warsaw Mario Escobar; Gretchen Abernathy, trans. Nonfiction The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben's Mission to Dismantle Hate Jori Epstein Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga Fiction We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel Lauren Grodstein Fiction Wordwings (Essential Prose) Sydelle Pearl Children's A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust Albert Marrin Nonfiction Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child’s Survival in the Partisans Miriam M. Brysk; Michael Barenbaum, intro. Visual Arts Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art Irvin Ungar Nonfiction A World Erased Noah Lederman Nonfiction Chasing Portraits Elizabeth Rynecki Nonfiction Digging: Lifting the Memorable from Within the Unthinkable Susan M. Rostan Children's Defying the Nazis: The Life of German Officer Wilm Hosenfeld, Young Readers Edition Hermann Vinke Nonfiction Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Moshe Arens Nonfiction Flying Couch Amy Kurzweil Visual Arts Icon of Loss: The Haunting Child of Samuel Bak Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips Children's Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus. Nonfiction Irena's Children Tilar Mazzeo Nonfiction Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland Matthew Brzezinski Children's Jars of Hope Jennifer Roy, Meg Owenson, illus. Nonfiction Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project Jack Mayer Nonfiction Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents Janusz Korczak; Sandra Joseph, ed.; Ari Goldman, fwd. Children's Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto Irene Cohen-Janca Maurizio Quarello, illus. Nonfiction Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps Shirli Gilbert Fiction Resistance Jennifer A. Nielsen Children's Resisting the Nazis Claire Throp Children's Saving the Persecuted Brian and Brenda Williams Nonfiction Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland Michael Meng Fiction The Book of Aron Jim Shepard Nonfiction The Ghetto Swinger Coco Shumann; John Howard, trans. Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion Fiction The Morning Star André Schwarz-Bart; Julie Rose, trans. Children's The Safest Lie Angela Cerrito Fiction The Train to Warsaw Gwen Edelman Nonfiction The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 1 Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed. Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive Catalogue and Guide Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epstein, eds. Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak; Emma Harris, trans. Nonfiction The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust Guy Miren, ed. Nonfiction The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Diane Ackerman Nonfiction Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust Estelle Glaser Laughlin Nonfiction Vera Gran: The Accused Agata Tuszyńska; Charles Ruas, trans. Nonfiction Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Warsaw Uprising Alexandra Richie Nonfiction Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Katarzyna Person Nonfiction Who Shall Live: The Wilhelm Bachner Story Samuel Oliner and Kathleen Lee Nonfiction Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Samuel D. Kassow Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
Nonfiction A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp Jack Fairweather
Nonfiction In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz
Nonfiction The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben's Mission to Dismantle Hate Jori Epstein
Nonfiction The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Hope, and Survival During the Holocaust Scott Lenga
Nonfiction Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child’s Survival in the Partisans Miriam M. Brysk; Michael Barenbaum, intro.
Children's Defying the Nazis: The Life of German Officer Wilm Hosenfeld, Young Readers Edition Hermann Vinke
Children's Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
Nonfiction Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents Janusz Korczak; Sandra Joseph, ed.; Ari Goldman, fwd.
Children's Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto Irene Cohen-Janca Maurizio Quarello, illus.
Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion
Nonfiction The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 1 Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.
Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive Catalogue and Guide Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epstein, eds.
Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak; Emma Harris, trans.
Nonfiction Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Katarzyna Person
Nonfiction Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Samuel D. Kassow
Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
