Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

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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In this brief, deceptively simple narrative, Arieti has told the story of Giuseppe Pardo, parnas of his native community of Pisa, and of his death at the hands of the Nazis.

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 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.

Diary entries written by five Holocaust victims document the ordeals suffered in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, Hungary, Belgium, and Holland.
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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.

Questioning over 1, 000 survivors, Brenner seeks to establish the impact of the Holocaust on the religious belief of those who survived. Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is a full biography of Milena, a substantial portion of which is devoted to her life with the author in Ravensbruck, by artfully interweaving images of Ravensbruck with episodes from Milena's life.

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.

This true story follows the Gold family and the oldest daughter, Shoshana. It begins with the Jewish family's prewar life in Poland, and their journey during the war years, when they were forced to hide in a cramped, secret enclosure for 26 months, facing appalling conditions, starvation, and fear of betrayal and capture.

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

Farewell to Prague is a memoir set against the turbulent events of the Nazi era in Germany and World War II England.

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.There is a teacher resource for this book. Look in the Teacher Resources tab.

In 1944, Cantor Leo Fettman and his family were forcibly removed from their Hungarian home by the Nazis and incarcerated in a ghetto. Later, they were transported by boxcar to Auschwitz where most of the members of his family were murdered.

A biographical account that uses the author's abstract paintings to tell about his childhood in Budapest and his Holocaust death camp experiences.There are teacher resources for this book. Look in the Teacher Resources tab.

Marianne journeys from Judaism in pre-war Hungary through holocaust and Nazi occupation along with her husband pursued by Soviet conquerors until her miraculous escape to a new life.

Tells the stories of four women who lived through the Holocaust. They write about their reminiscences, three of which are in the form of a letter.

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

In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.

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.

This is the gripping wartime saga of a young woman who endured the loss of her family, her community, and her very identity during World War Two.

The author shares her experience of World War II.
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A collection of twenty-seven eyewitness Holocaust accounts from Jews, non-Jews, GI's, and others who experienced the horrors of Nazism.

This is a dramatic and moving story of rescue, separation, and rediscovery of a lost identity and lost memory.

Brown Was the Danube deals with many aspects of Jewish life in Europe, especially day-by-day existence in Vienna during the Nazi occupation, that have never been explored before.

Julien Hirshaut details the atrocities he witnessed during his incarceration in Pawiak, the prison in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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.

The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust looks in depth at the traumatic effects of genocidal persecution on the child's psychic structure and on development through the life cycle. It offers valuable information to clinicians working with Holocaust survivors and their families and serves as an indispensable guide for therapists and interested readers who want to lean more about the short- and longterm effects of genocidal persecution.

An uncommonly reflective and illuminating memoir by a German officer who served on virtually all fronts in Europe, Soldat offers a unique inside look at the German side of World War II and a world in ruins.

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."

Documents the author's father's childhood as a Nazi SS unit's mascot, describing how the five-year-old Jewish escapee from a Nazi death squad witnessed massacres by his unit, his efforts to hide his Nazi ties in subsequent years, and his attempt to reclaim his identity.

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 Mazal Holocaust Collection author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II.

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.

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.

In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party’s chief ideologue and Reich minister for occupied Soviet territoriesAlfred Rosenberg. By combining Rosenberg's diary notes with additional key documents and in-depth analysis, this book shows Rosenberg's crucial role in the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish policy.

As teenagers during World War II, Lou Freedman and Jarek Pikalkiewicz defied daunting odds, lost nearly everything and everyone in the war, and yet summoned the courage to start new lives in the United States.

This book chronicles Leib's and Gittel's turbulent Holocaust saga in their own words. Historical documentation is juxtaposed alongside their memoirs, as well as corroboratory documents obtained from the International Tracing Services collection.

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

Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.

Traces the story of a World War II-era Catholic nanny who found herself the guardian of a three-year-old Jewish child and promising to get him safely out of Poland.
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Humor and laughter can help strengthen, heal and maintain mental and physical health, but can it assist in dealing with a trauma as severe as the Holocaust? It Kept Us Alive provides a positive answer to this question, demonstrating how humor helped in coping with the terrible reality. Interviews with survivors describe horrific events, intertwined with macabre humor.

In the summer of 1943, there seemed little reason for Sala to survive. At the moment when hope seemed gone, help miraculously came to Sala.

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.

The Second World War broke out unexpectedly on a Friday, Sept. 1, 1939. This date marked the beginning of running from town to town, village to village, hiding in woods, not tasting food. For weeks, Nazi bombs accompanied him day and night. But his faith in the Almighty kept him existing, always with prayers on his lips, and hope.

A two-part book in which French investigative journalist Maurice Rajsfus, who survived the 1972 "Black Thursday" roundup at Vel d'Hiv of 13,000 Jews, recollects events that day and uses meticulous research of police archives to make a damning inquiry of Vichy/police collaboration, examining the implementation of the Yellow Star, France's culpability in the Holocaust, and the influence of right-wing media.

A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents' suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, he was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. What would he learn if he actually traveled to the place where his mother had found freedom and met his father?

Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria.

Leib Reiser's memoir relates his experiences in Grodno and his successful escape to the forests with his wife and five-year-old daughter, where they survived with the partisans and in family camps.

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.

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.

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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Presents the stories of twenty students who attended the First Montessori School in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.

Annette Wieviorka analyzes the conditions under which survivor testimonies have been produced, how they have been received over time, and how the testimonies shaped the construction of history and collective memory. Wieviorka discerns three successive phases in the evolution of the roles and images of the Holocaust witness.

This biography tells of Abraham Zuckerman's life after he was saved from a Nazi concentration camp by being sent to work for Oskar Schindler in his factory.

The extraordinary memoir of a daughter's final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz.
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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

This book is a tribute to my father, Melvin Goldman, and his family. On the audiocassettes he recorded in the late 1970s, while in his mid-fifties, he clearly said he wanted the story he was telling to be preserved in a book ... With this book, I honor his request

Dublin 1950. Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is so torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family, would it be too harrowing, or would it feel like home? In Berlin, a chance encounter with an old family friend sparks emotions for Liesl that she'd suppressed since she was a child. She finds herself desperately wanting to go back to those carefree days before Hitler, when life made sense, but why was her family so set against her return? Was it because they were worried about her as they claimed, or was there a darker, more sinister reason?

Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955. Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three, it feels like all of his friends are drawn to The Promised Land, and he can understand why, but Israel is not for him. One by one, they leave, and Erich is bereft. He wonders if he should just go too, but a chance encounter with an Irish Catholic girl gives him hope for a brighter future. All he and Róisín want is to be allowed to love each other but the traditions and rules of their backgrounds forbid it. By the time he learns that Róisín wasn't honest with him about her family and what kind of people they really are, it is too late and he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a dangerous world from which there seems to be no escape. When Róisín is spirited away, Erich wonders if their relationship was doomed from the start, and he finds himself in deep trouble. Reluctant to involve his family, he tries to solve his problems alone, but realizes the forces at work are far more powerful than he is

Irene's first person memoir is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene's hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.

"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success in the diamond business, invested in real estate in New York, and shown his son, Max, that America is truly the land of opportunity. Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious families in the world. And while his parents were thrown together by chance, Max chooses a perfect bride to start the perfect American family

This moving memoir by the grandson of Holocaust survivors transports readers from Noah's grandmother's home in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. Together, they explore the memories-of Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the displaced persons camps-that his family had long buried. Their shared journey illuminates the power of never forgetting

The stories of righteous gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust are becoming better known with every passing year. Millions have seen the movie Schindler's List, about Oskar Schindler, the righteous German who saved hundreds of Jewish workers in his forced-labor factory under the noses of the Nazis. Many have heard of Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest at the end of World War Two. Here we find other rescuers from all parts of Europe, from a humble farmer in Lithuania, to a nun in Paris, to a Turkish consul on the island of Rhodes. What they all have in common is that they have been honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as Righteous Gentiles.

This book gives background information on the life of Elie Wiesel, examines genocide inside Night, and explores contemporary genocides.

Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine. NOTE: An audiobook version is also available.

Allegory about a nameless stranger who sacrifices himself to save a Jewish boy hiding in a Hungarian forest during WW2.

Autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz.
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Description: Three novels deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.
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Based on Wiesel's own life in which a young Holocaust survivor returns to his hometown, seeking to understand the mystery of those who stood by and watched.

Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin