What are some good Holocaust books?

Answer 1

All titles alphabetized. Most of the following are all stories with plots and characters.

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* indicates it is a true story

Mostly for grades 4-8, but apply to anyone.

• After the War by Carol Matas
• Behind The Bedroom Wall by Laura Williams
• The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti*
• The Cat With The Yellow Star by Susan Goldman Rubin (Recommended for grades 2-5)
• Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
• Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank*
• Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier
• Escape to the Forest: Based on a True Story of the Holocaust by Ruth Yaffe Radin* (Recommended for grades 2-5)
• Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Newbery Honor)
• I Am David by Anne Holm (Set in post-WWII)
• In My Enemy's House by Carol Matas
• Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin* (picture book)
• Irena's Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan* (picture book)
• Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev
• Lisa's War by Carol matas
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (this Newbery is set in America 1944)
• The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Parallel Journey's by Eleanor H. Eyer
• Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev (some minor profanity and references to circumcision, but good book for grades 5+)
• The Resistance (Holocaust Library) by Deborah Bachrach*
• The Shadow Children by Steven Schnur
• Ursula's Prism by Anna Block*
• Waiting For Anya by Michael Morpurgo
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

The ones highlighted in bold are ones I highly recommend and/or are more popular.

(NOTE: Some of these have some intense violence and profanity, rarely sexual content)

FICTION

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
• The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
• From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation by Tricia Goyer
• Marika by Andrea Cheng
• Night Song: A Story of Sacrifice by Tricia Goyer
• The Swiss Courier by Tricia Goyer
• Saving Mona Lisa by Tricia Goyer
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana Rosnay
• Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• Zion Covenant Series by Bodie Thoene (9 books total) (Vienna Prelude, Prague Counterpoint, Munich Signature, Jerusalem Interlude, Danzig Passage, Warsaw Requiem, London Refrain, Paris Encore, Dunkirk Crescendo)

NON-FICTION

• After Daybreak: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen 1945 by Ben Shepherd
• Alicia by Alicia Appleman
• All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein
• Appel is Forever: A Child's Memoir by Suzanne Mehler Whiteley
• Because of Romek by David Faber
• Bondi's Brother by Irving Roth
• The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sendler
• Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
• Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and Rescueof the Jews by Ellen Levine
• The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Benjamin Jacobs
• Escape From Sobibor by Richard L. Rashke
• Eva's Story by Eva Schloss
• Faithful Friends: Holocaust Survivors' Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited For Their Return by Susan Bulanda
• Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
• Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl
• Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• Hiding To Survive: by Maxine B Rosenberg
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up In the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
• I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
• Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schutz
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II by Denis Avey
• Miracles Do Happen! by Andree Peel
• The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Noah's Ark by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
• The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
• Remembering Belsen: Eyewitnesses Record the Liberation by Ben Flanagan (All told by survivors or liberators)
• Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
• The Rescuer by Dara Horn
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
• The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
• The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo
• Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman
• Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel by Ruth Elias
• We Never Lost Hope by Naomi Litvin
• We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz by Gideon Greif
• The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
• Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn Atwood

Unsure if it is a true story

• If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
• Wildflowers of Terezin by Robert Elmer