Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

Text and photographs briefly describe the fate of Jewish children after the Nazis began to control their lives.

Tells the stories of two Jewish children who were killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Discusses the events of the Holocaust and includes personal accounts from survivors of their experiences
of the persecution and the death camps.

Discusses children and teens on the run during the Holocaust in Europe.

Explores the lives of children and teens who went into hiding during the Holocaust.
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A biography of a Jewish heroine whose resistance work during World War II made her a martyr and an
inspiration to those with whom she worked.

The gripping account of a young boy who narrowly escaped the Nazis, and his life west to answer why he was saved- and what he owes to the world in return.

This is an extraordinary autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy's struggle for survival in Hitler's Germany.

A Promise to Remember is a concise and accessible history of the Holocaust presented in an interactive
format that includes graphics, detailed sidebars, an audio CD and removable facsimiles of documents from
the period.

After surviving the Holocaust, fourteen-year-old Slava immigrates from Poland to Canada in 1947, finding herself surrounded by strange customs and faced with too many things to learn in order to fit in to her new life.

Describes the popular children's authors' childhoods and early life together, their travels and marriage in
Brazil, and their dramatic escape from World War II-torn Europe on bicycles.
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Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food.

Régine Miller's childhood memories of the persecution of her family and other Jews living in Belgium during World War II, when the Germans invaded.

"Examines the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II..."--Publisher

Hidden Child's Success Story is a remarkable autobiography of one child's life amidst hatred of people because of their religious beliefs.

Poems relate reminiscences of a child in war-torn Germany, stories of Holocaust survivors, and the revelations of a young woman who learns of her country's atrocities thirteen years after the end of the war.

Much of Samuel Bak's art is influenced by his experiences of surviving the Holocaust as a child in Vilna, Poland.
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A biographical account that uses the author's abstract paintings to tell about his childhood in Budapest and his Holocaust death camp experiences.
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Tells the stories of ten young people who lived in Europe during World War II.

Moshe Flinker died in Auschwitz, but he left copy books describing his innermost thoughts during the fateful days prior to his deportation.

Tells the story of a child, uprooted from a loving and protected home, who was sent to strangers in a strange country to fend for herself.

Twelve true stories of young men and women, both Jews and non-Jews, who endured the horrors of the Holocaust.

Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

The author shares her experience of World War II.
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Tells the stories of four teenagers who survived the horrors that the Nazis perpetrated on Jews during World War II.

Description: Ten-year-old Esther Rudomin describes "the end of my lovely world" when her family is arrested in 1941, taken from their home, and exiled to Siberia.
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Regained memories of a Jewish woman who spent her childhood years in the Netherlands hiding from the Nazis.

This title is based on the bestselling autobiography by Joseph Joffo.

True story of Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany who were turned away by country after country, told from the perspective of two children.

Biography of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi invasion of
France.
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After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.

Recounts the story of Liesl Joseph, a 10-year-olf girl aboard the ill-fated MS St. Louis. On May 13, 1939, together with her parents and 937 nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees, they left Hamburg on the German luxury ocean liner, attempting to seek temporary asylum in Cuba.

Krinitz illustrates her experiences through fabric panels that capture her and her sister's childhood as they, disguised as Catholic farmhands, are separated from their family and escape Nazi rule.
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The diary of a World War II youth describes his recruitment into the Underground Army, his internment in Auschwitz, his escape and participation in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and his second escape to freedom aboard an American truck.

One fine day in 1941, Jankel Kuperblum, nine years old, returned home to find that his family had been captured by the Nazis- everyone was permanently "missing."

A collection of the memoirs of sixteen Jewish Holocaust survivors.

Provides first-hand accounts from people who were affected by the Holocaust.

Focusing on the suffering and experiences of eight children during the Nazi occupation of Europe, this book is filled with black-and white photos and many rarely-rarely covered aspects of the Holocaust experience.

The internationally bestselling memoir of survival and self-discovery by the woman whose childhood as the real-life girl in the red coat was so famously depicted in the film "Schindler's List."

The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.

Nessya's grandmother, Miri Eneman Malz, has friends, a loving family-and a secret: she is a Holocaust survivor. When twelve-year-old Nessya learns the truth, she wants to know what happened. After decades of silence, Grandma Miri decided it's time to tell her story.

In this true and moving story, Alter Wiener, a teen survivor of five Nazi prison camps during World War II, a transports young readers back in time when an unexpected person demonstrated moral courage in repeated acts of kindness towards him.

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Draws on interviews with three women who recount their experiences as child survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau, the Nazi death camp.

A collection of true accounts of the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.

Describes, with keen insight into Jewish life, the increasing horror of Ginz's situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life.

Inspired by the author's mother's experiences as a Holocaust survivor in hiding, a collection of true accounts traces the survival efforts of Jewish-European children who went into hiding during World War II to escape Nazi persecution.

When Aleena Rieger was growing up, there were certain things she wasn't allowed to talk about. Where she was born. Her family's experiences during World War II. Her mother's illness/ Against great odds, the Riegers secured a future in which they and their descendants could lead ordinary lives. But to do so they had to jettison the past - and their past selves.

First person accounts of fourteen Holocaust survivors who, as children, were hidden from the Nazis by Non-Jews.

Poems and diary of a young Jewish girl who escaped from Nazi Germany.

First person narrative of a survivor of several concentration camps.
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After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust.

Eva Schloss's personal history represents in microcosm the ever-intensifying process of degradation and destruction of European Jewish life that began even before the Second World War.

“An account of his [the author's] survival while hiding in the forests of Poland with his wife and other family members."--Kathryn Berman for Yad Vashem

Two explorers survey caves in the Western Ukraine and relate the story of how an extended Jewish family lived for two years in a large cave and survived the war.

Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families.
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Describes the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland from the perspective of a small child.

A woman recalls how she was thrown from death camp train, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, finally finding some peace through her own family. There is a teacher resource for this book. Look in the Teacher Resources tab.

Tells of Blima Weisstuch and her husband's life experiences in Poland during the Holocaust from 1936 to
1947.

This biography tells of one child's life of struggle and survival in the Nazi concentration camps after he was removed from his family in Poland and sent away to work in harsh and brutal conditions.

Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and efforts of the survivors to begin new lives.

Presents seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust.

Tells the stories of nine Jewish children who survived the Holocaust

The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who employed Jewish prisoners in his factory and kept them fed and healthy. But Rena's nightmares were not over. She and her mother were deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. With great cunning, it was Schindler who set out to help them escape. Here in her own words is Rena's gripping story of survival, perseverance, tragedy, and hope. Including pictures from Rena's personal collection and from the time period, this unforgettable memoir introduces young readers to an astounding and necessary piece of history

A Hidden Child's Success Story is a remarkable autobiography of one child's life admits hatred of people because of their religious beliefs. It is full of heartbreaks and emotions the author has endured. It describes how humiliation, but with love and friendship one can overcome the adversity of antisemitism by the Nazis and others.

In May of 1939, as a ten-year-old boy, Ivan Backer boarded one of Sir Nicholas Winston's famous Kindertransports and fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom. Detailed in this true story is Backer's escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America and his mantra today as an award-winning humanitarian and an activist for peace and justice

As a young girl, Tuky lived a carefree life in Budapest, and she and her brothers, sisters, and cousins spent their days learning, playing, and helping others. But life changed drastically when Hungary entered World War II on the German side. With the Nazis in charge, Tuky's family had to separate and go into hiding, and she had to go live with a non-Jewish farm family in the country, along with her younger brother and cousin. Will Tuky be able to remember that she is Jewish, and take care of the little boys? And when will her parents come to take them home?

Nessya's grandmother, Miri Eneman Malz, has friends, a loving family--and a secret: she is a Holocaust survivor. When twelve-year-old Nessya learns the truth, she wants to know what happened. After decades of silence, Grandma Miri decides it's time to tell her story.

Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But he would live. This is just one of the incredible stories told in HIDDEN LIKE ANNE FRANK, a collection of eye-opening first-person accounts that share what it was like to go into hiding during World War II. Some children were only three or four years old when they were hidden; some were teenagers. Some hid with neighbors or family, while many were with complete strangers. But they all know the pain of losing their homes, their families, even their own names. They describe the secret network of brave people who kept them safe. And they share the coincidences and close escapes that made all the difference.

This book covers the life of Elie Wiesel, from childhood to the recent years.

A biography of author, speaker, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, focusing on his childhood in a Nazi concentration camp and his efforts to ensure that there will never be another Holocaust.