Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Suggested Reading

YOUNG ADULT
PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST



Many of these titles can be found in the Biography section on the first floor and the
Adult nonfiction section on the the lower level.

Adelsberger, Lucie.  Auschwitz : A Doctor's Story.  940.5318 A

Bauman, Janina. Winter in the Morning : A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and
Beyond, 1939-1945. 940.5315 B

Bearing Witness : Stories of the Holocaust.  Y 940.5315 B

Beer, Edith Hahn. The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust. B Beer

Breznitz, Shlomo. Memory Fields.  B Breznitz

Chadwick, Kamilla. The War According To Anna. 940.5315 Chad

Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo. Y PB F

Frank, Anne. The Diary of A Young Girl.  Y B Frank/B Frank

Friedman, Ina R.  Escape or Die :True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust.  y 940.5315 F

Games, Sonia.  Escape into Darkness : The True Story of a Young Woman's Extraordinary Survival
During World War II.  YB Games

Grun, Max Von Der. Howl Like the Wolves: Growing Up in Nazi Germany. YB Grun

Gurdus, Luba Krugman. The Death Train: A Personal Account of a Holocaust Survivor.  940.5315 G

Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story of a Girl Who Survived the Holocaust.   940.5315 H

Hillman, Laura.  I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor. YB Hillman

Ippisch, Hanneke. Sky : A True Story of Resistance During World War II. YB Ippisch

Isaacman, Clara. Clara's Story.    y 940.5315 I  //  J 940.5315 I

Isaacson, Judith Magyar.  Seed of Sarah : Memoirs of a Survivor.  940.5318 I

Jackson, Livia Bitton. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust.  YB Jackson

Klüger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. B Kluger

Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany. B Koehn

Kuehn, Heinz R.  Mixed Blessings : An Almost Ordinary Life in Hitler's Germany.  B Kuehn

Lazan, Marion Blumenthal. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story.  JB Lazan P

Lewis, Helen. A Time to Speak.   B Lewis

Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures.  JB Lobel

Marks, Jane.  The Hidden Children : The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust.  940.5318 M

Micheels, Louis J. Doctor #117641:  A Holocaust Memoir.  B Micheels

Morhange-Bégué, Claude.  Chamberet : Recollections From An Ordinary Childhood.  B Morhange-Begue

Novac, Ana.  The Beautiful Days of My Youth : My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow.  YB Novac

Perl, Lila.  Four Perfect Pebbles : a Holocaust story.  JB Lazan

Rabinovici, Schoschana.  Thanks to My Mother.  Y 940.5318 R

Reiss, Johanna.  A Hidden Life: A Memior of August 1969. B Reiss

Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room.  YB Reiss //  Y PB R

Rosenberg, Maxine B.  Hiding to Survive : Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust .  Y 940.5318 R

Roth, Irving. Bondi's Brother. Y B Roth

Schloss, Eva.  Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-sister of Anne Frank.  Y 940.5318 S

Siegal, Aranka.  Upon the Head of the Goat : A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944.  YB Siegal // Y PB S

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up In Warsaw. YB Singer

Stalcup, Ann. On the Home Front: growing up in wartime England.  Y B Stalcup

Steinberg, Paul.  Speak You Also : A Survivor's Reckoning.  940.5318 S

Takashima, Shizuye. A Child in Prison Camp. Q J 940.5472 T

Toll, Nelly S.  Behind the Secret Window : a memoir of a hidden childhood during Word War II.  J 940.5318 T

Ungerer, Tomi.  Tomi : a childhood under the Nazis. YB Ungerer

We are Witnesses : Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust.  Y 940.5318 W

Wiesel, Elie.  Night. Y PB W

Young People Speak : Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary.  Y 940.5318 Y

Zyskind, Sara.  Struggle.  Y 940.5318 Z
 

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