Printable Resource List
- DHRC Resource List: Concentration Camps 4-8Printable 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.
Parallel Journeys by Call Number: PZ35 .A98 2000ISBN: 0689832362Publication Date: 2000-03-01A survivor of Auschwitz and a member of the Hitler Youth recount their war experiences and describe how they met forty years later.
I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Call Number: DS135.H93 J33 1998Publication Date: 1998The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Auschwitz by Call Number: D805.5.A96 D44 2012ISBN: 9780766033221Publication Date: 2012-01-01"Examines Auschwitz...and how more than 1 million people were murdered there."--Publisher
Return to Auschwitz by Call Number: D805.P7 H37 1983ISBN: 0689706375Publication Date: 1983-03-01Twelve at the outbreak of World War II, the author recounts her struggle to survive in Auschwitz
Auschwitz by Call Number: D805.5.A96 L38 2002ISBN: 0763615951Publication Date: 2002-07-22A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II
by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
Hana's Suitcase by Call Number: DS135.C97 B6655 2003ISBN: 0807531480Publication Date: 2003-01-01A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how
the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
Note: A CD recording of the radio program is available and adds to the impact and power of the book.
Note: This title is available in audiobook format; refer to Audiovisual Resources.
Daniel's Story by Call Number: PZ7.M423964 Dan 1993ISBN: 0590465880Publication Date: 1993-03-01Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in
Auschwitz, the loss of most of his family and his eventual liberation. Includes Teacher Resource.
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.
Four Perfect Pebbles: by Call Number: DS135.G5 L336 1996ISBN: 068814294XPublication Date: 1996-03-21Provides a factual reflection of the life of a young girl and her family during the Holocaust. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Grace in the Wilderness by Call Number: DS135.S89 S547 2003ISBN: 0374427941Publication Date: 2003-03-24Liberated from Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War II but haunted by the memory of her ordeal, fifteen-year-old Piri starts a strange new life as a Jew in Sweden.
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.
I Am a Star by Call Number: D804.3 .A93 1986ISBN: 9780134481920Publication Date: 1987-04-01The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Call Number: DS135.C97 G78 2015ISBN: 9781442484863Publication Date: 2015-08-25When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.
Clara's War by Call Number: PZ7.K1157 Cla 2001ISBN: 1896764428Publication Date: 2000-01-01Clara makes many friends despite the hardships of life inside the walled town of Terezin but when her friend Jacob decides to escape, Clara must make a difficult choice.
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.
Fate Did Not Let Me Go by Call Number: D805.5.T54 O45 2003ISBN: 1589801539Publication Date: 2003-04-30A mother wrote her son a farewell letter just days before she died in Thereseinstadt concentration camp in
1942 and it mysteriously reached him in 1985 when he was seventy-nine years old.
A DVD recording is also available, as well as a Teacher Resource.
Fireflies in the Dark by Call Number: N6834.5.D43 R83 2000ISBN: 0823414612Publication Date: 2000-03-01Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children
at the Terezin Concentration Camp.
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.
Terezin by Call Number: D805.5.T54 .T48 2011ISBN: 9780763649630Publication Date: 2011-02-22Explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps through the inmates' own voices
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.
Father of the Orphans by Call Number: DS135.P63 K573 1989ISBN: 0525672656Publication Date: 1989-03-05A biography of the Polish doctor, author, founder of orphanages, and promoter of children's rights whose
life, swept away in the Nazi Holocaust, was dedicated to his love for children.
Mister Doctor by Call Number: D804.48 .C64 2015ISBN: 9781554517152Publication Date: 2015-03-02Translated from French, this overview of the life and death of the Warsaw Ghetto doctor who felt that children have many of the same rights as adults.
The Holocaust Camps by Call Number: D804.34 .B93 1998ISBN: 0894909959Publication Date: 1998-01-01Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a
means of eliminating the Jews.
Youth Destroyed-The Nazi Camps by Call Number: D804.48 .B948 2010ISBN: 9780766032736Publication Date: 2010-01-01Discusses the experiences of children and teens in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Rose Blanche by Call Number: PZ7.I586 Ro 1985bISBN: 9780871919946Publication Date: 1995-09-01During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.
Torn Thread by Call Number: PS3559.S12 T67 2000ISBN: 0590603639Publication Date: 2000-04-01In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.
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.
After the War by Call Number: PZ7.M423964 Af 1997ISBN: 0689807228Publication Date: 1997-09-01This historical novel tells the story of fifteen-year-old Ruth who, after being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp by Call Number: D805.A2 N27 2014ISBN: 9781601525109Publication Date: 2013-08-01Offers narratives and first-hand accounts that shed light on the conditions and daily lives of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.
Mara's Stories by Call Number: PZ7.S3527 Mar 2001ISBN: 0805067949Publication Date: 2001-10-01Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the
darkness, cold, and fear; bringing hope to the women and children who listen.
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.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Call Number: D765.2.W3 A76 2012ISBN: 9780766033207Publication Date: 2012-01-01"Examines the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...and how the small group of fighters became heroes during the
Holocaust."--Publisher
The Holocaust Ghettos by Call Number: D804.34 .A48 1998ISBN: 0894909940Publication Date: 1998-01-01Describes the establishment of ghettos throughout Europe and their use as a means of segregating Jews.
In the Ghettos by Call Number: D804.195 .A94 1999ISBN: 0823928454Publication Date: 1999-01-01Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of
three individuals who, as teenagers, survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death
camps.
Trapped-Youth in the Nazi Ghettos by Call Number: D804.48 .B947 2010ISBN: 9780766032729Publication Date: 2010-01-01Examines the lives of Jewish children and teens in the ghettos during the Holocaust.
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.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Call Number: DS135.P62 W285 1992ISBN: 0027513920Publication Date: 1992-10-01Describes life in the section of Warsaw where Polish Jews were confined by the Nazis in the early 1940s, focusing on the final days of fighting prior to the destruction of the ghetto in 1943. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition by Call Number: D804.66.S46 M29 2016ISBN: 1338135554Publication Date: 2016This is young readers edition of a gripping account of Irena Sendler, who took staggering risks to save
2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
The Island on Bird Street by Call Number: PZ7.O633 Isl 1984ISBN: 0395338875Publication Date: 1984-03-26In this novel, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he
must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Yellow Star by Call Number: PZ7.R812185 Yel 2006ISBN: 9780761452775Publication Date: 2006-04-01From 1939, when Sylvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation
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.
Upon the Head of the Goat by Call Number: DS135.R95 S547 1981ISBN: 0374380597Publication Date: 1981-12-01Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.
Milkweed: A Novel by Call Number: PZ7.S75663 Mi 2004xISBN: 9780439676977Publication Date: 2004A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. Includes a Teacher Resource.
Hear O Israel by Call Number: PZ7.T7317 He 1990ISBN: 9780689314568Publication Date: 1990-09-30A Jewish boy describes life in the Warsaw Ghetto and his family's ultimate transference to, and
decimation in, the camp of Treblinka.
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
Paper Hearts by Call Number: PZ7.W7903 Pap 2015ISBN: 9781481439831Publication Date: 2015-09-01Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story.
- I Have Lived A Thousand YearsReading Group Guide for the book 'I Have Lived A Thousand Years' by Livia Bitton-Jackson.
- Daniel's Story Teacher's Guide.A Teacher's Guide of the book 'Daniel's Story' by Carol Matas.
- Four Perfect PebblesA Teacher's Guide for use with 'Four Perfect Pebbles' by Lila Perl.
- Let The Celebrations BeginA Teacher's Guide associated with 'Let the Celebrations Begin' by Margaret Wild.
- Fate Did Not Let Me GoTeacher Resource for the book/film Fate Did Not Let Me Go.=, by Stephen A. Ollendorf.
- 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.
- The Warsaw Ghetto UprisingA Teacher Resource for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- 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.
- Milkweed: A NovelA Teacher's Guide for use with 'Milkweed: A Novel' by Jerry Spinelli.
Daniel's Story by
Call Number: D804.3 .D35 1993Publication Date: 1993Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in
Auschwitz, the loss of most of his family and his eventual liberation.
Run Time: 14 minutes
Hana's Suitcase by Call Number: DS135.C97 B6655 2009dISBN: 9781608126521Publication Date: 2009-04-20Audiobook of 'Hana's Suitcase' by Karen Levine.
Run Time: 132 minutes
My Mother's Courage by Call Number: PN1995.9 .H53 M9 2006ISBN: 9780779257775Publication Date: 1995Based on the true survival story of a Hungarian Jew, Elsa Tabori, who was arrested in Budapest in 1944,
put on a train to Auschwitz, and returned home that night.
Run Time: 89 minutes
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Call Number: PN1997.2 .B69 2009ISBN: 9780788884023Publication Date: PN1997.2 .B69 2009The son of a German officer befriends a young concentration camp prisoner.
Run Time: 94 minutesThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Classroom Edition) by
Call Number: PN1995.9.H53 B692 2009Publication Date: 2009The son of a German officer befriends a young concentration camp prisoner.
New to this edition are correlations to the national curriculum standards, public performance rights for classroom/educational use, a downloadable Educator's Guide, and additional exclusive content.
Run Time: 94 minutesThe Angel of Bergen Belsen by
Call Number: D804.196.T74 A53 2008Publication Date: 2008"Luba," a nurse and inmate in the German concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, helped protect and care for 54 Dutch Jewish children who lost their parents to the camps.
Run Time: 50 minutes
Freedom is not a Gift from Heaven: The Century of Simon Wiesenthal by Call Number: D804.196 .F7443 2008ISBN: 0769787673Publication Date: 2008Simon Wiesenthal, a dedicated Nazi hunter and former concentration camp prisoner, tells the story of his
life.
Run Time: 60 minutes
Fate Did Not Let Me Go by Call Number: D805.5.T54 F38 2003ISBN: 1932321152Publication Date: 2003A documentary/short film based on the book Fate Did Not Let Me Go by Stephen A. Ollendorf.Everything is a Present: The Wonder and Grace of Alice Sommer Herz by
Call Number: ML417.H38 E97 2009Publication Date: 2009Christopher Nupen's film portrays Alice Sommer Herz, a Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp and likens the experience, both for the performers and for the listeners, to being close to the divine. Alice feels music saved her sanity as well as her life and the lives of hundreds of others.
Run Time: 54 minutes
The Journey of Butterfly by Call Number: D810.C4 J6 2007ISBN: 978188743524Publication Date: 2007Weaves together the music, art, poetry, and history of the children imprisoned by the Nazis in the ghetto at Terezin in Czechoslovakia from 1941 to 1945. This DVD also includes a second one hour documentary
The Journey of Butterfly: The Legacy, which tells the story of a reunion between survivors and members of
the American Boychoir and was filmed in 2001.
Run time: 62 minutesHolocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps by
Call Number: M1533.M37 H6 1999Publication Date: 1999Contains texts and music written in concentration camps.
Run time: 68 minutes
Look to the Sky by Call Number: PN1997.J663 J663 2007Publication Date: 2007Based on the book "Childhood" by Jona Oberski, this film details life at a Nazi concentration camp as seen through the eyes of a young Dutch boy.
Run Time: 100 minutes
The Island on Bird Street by Call Number: PN1992.8.J48 I84 2008ISBN: 1592417957Publication Date: 2008A Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn
all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Run Time: 102 minutes
Jakob the Liar (1999) by Call Number: PN1995.9.W3 J336 2009ISBN: 9780767821476Publication Date: 1999This re-make film stars Robin Williams as Jakob Heym. While in a polish ghetto, Jakob creates fictitious
news bulletins in order to uplift the spirits of those with him in the ghetto.
Run time: 120 minutes
- A Virtual Tour of AuschwitzThis website provides reliable resources of Auschwitz.
- The Nizkor ProjectDetailed website with information regarding the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- Mauthausen Memorial WebsiteWebsite for the camp itself, the Mauthausen Memorial.
- Mauthausen MapWebsite containing an interactive map of the Mauthausen camp.
- TreblinkaAn in-depth article on the Treblinka concentration camp.
- Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial SiteDachau Concentration Camp Website.
- SobiborLink to a website with details on the Sobibor concentration camp.