Printable Resource List
- DHRC Resource List: Concentration Camps K-3Printable version of listed resources.
The Number on My Grandfather's Arm by Call Number: D810.J4 A35 1987ISBN: 0807403288Publication Date: 1987-04-01A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it at
Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Luba by Call Number: D804.34 .M34 2003ISBN: 1582460981Publication Date: 2003-10-01A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.
Let the Celebrations Begin! by Call Number: PZ7.W64574 Le 1991ISBN: 0531085376Publication Date: 1991-08-01A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Brundibar by Call Number: PZ7.K9647 Bru 2003ISBN: 0786809043Publication Date: 2003-11-01When Aninku and Pepicek discover that their mother is sick, they rush to town for milk to make her feel better, but their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bully, Brundibar.
The Cat with the Yellow Star by Call Number: DS135.C97 W45537 2006ISBN: 9780823418312Publication Date: 2006-02-07This is the story of Weissberger's memory of growing up in the concentration camp at Terezin, where she played the part of the Cat in multiple productions of the opera Brundibar. Includes a Teacher Resource.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Call Number: N352 .D42513 1993ISBN: 0805241159Publication Date: 1993-03-23A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezein Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.
A Hero and the Holocaust by Call Number: LB775.K6272 A43 2002ISBN: 0823415481Publication Date: 2002-09-01A brief biography of the Polish doctor, author founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights, who eventually lost his life in Treblinka trying to protect his orphans from the Nazis.
The Harmonica by Call Number: PZ7.J6478 Har 2004ISBN: 1570915474Publication Date: 2004-01-01Separated from his parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy enslaved in a concentration
camp keeps hope alive while playing Schubert on his harmonica whenever the camp's commandant orders
him to play.
Child of the Warsaw Ghetto by Call Number: DS135.P63 B3753 1995ISBN: 0823411605Publication Date: 1995-03-01Shows the historical events of the Holocaust through the eyes of young Froim Baum born in 1936 and sent
to the Dachau death camp before being liberated by American soldiers. Includes a Teacher Resource.
My Secret Camera by Call Number: DS135.P2 L64347 2008ISBN: 9781845078928Publication Date: 2008-06-01Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity
woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Call Number: D804.66.S46 R83 2011ISBN: 9780823422517Publication Date: 2011-01-01Irena Sendler was a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than four hundred children out
of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Irena's Jars of Secrets by Call Number: D804.66.S46 V38 2011ISBN: 9781600604393Publication Date: 2011-11-01"The story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II."--Publisher
- Let The Celebrations BeginA Teacher's Guide associated with 'Let the Celebrations Begin' by Margaret Wild.
- The Cat With The Yellow StarTeacher's Guide to be used with the book 'The Cat With the Yellow Star' by Susan Goldman Rubin.
- Child of the Warsaw GhettoActivity Plan to be used with 'Child of the Warsaw Ghetto' by David A. Adler.
- Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw GhettoEducator's Guide for the book 'Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto' by Susan Goldman Rubin.