RECOMMENDED READING

This list represents only a few of the many books written for children to adults about the Holocaust.

Ages 5 - 9:

Brundibar -Tony Kushner
The Lily Cupboard -Shulamith Levy Oppenheim
I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding during World War II -Marisabina Russo
Hold on to Your Music -Mona Golabek
One Yellow Daffodil -David Adler
Grandpa’s Angel -Jutta Bauer
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust -Eve Bunting
The Greatest Skating Race -Louise Borden
Rebekkah’s Journey -Ann Burg
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark -Carmen Agra Deedy
The Feather-Bed Journey -Paula Kurzband Feder
Feathers and Fools - Mem Fox
Hiding from the Nazis -David Adler (non-fiction)
A Picture Book of Anne Frank -David Adler (non-fiction) Red and Green and Blue and White -Lee Wind and Paul O. Zelinsky
White Bird -R.J. Polaccio

Ages 9 - 12:

Number the Stars -Lois Lowry
The Whispering Town -Jennifer Elvgren
Yellow Star -Jennifer Roy
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit -Judith Kerr
Music for the End of Time -Jen Bryant
The Cats in Krasinski Square -Karen Hesse
Rose Blanche -Roberto Innocenti and Christophe Gallaz
Erika’s Story -Ruth Vander Zee
The Children We Remember -Chana Byers Abells (non-fiction)
A Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children -David Adler (non-fiction)
The Tattooed Torah -Marvell Ginsburg [animated video and accompanying educational resources: USC Shoah Foundation iWitness]

Ages 12-17:

Milkweed -Jerry Spinelli
The Book Thief -Marcus Zuzak
Tutti's Promise -K. Heidi Fishman
Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust -Alexandra Zapruder (non-fiction) (Facing History teachers guide: https://www.facinghistory.org/teaching-salvaged-pages#primary-sources) Night -Elie Wiesel
Girl in the Blue Coat -Monica Hesse
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl -Anne Frank Maus -Art Spiegelman
Once series -Morrris Gleitzman
The Children of Willesden Lane -Mona Golabek
Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust -Renia Spiegel
The Assignment -Liza Wiemer 94 Maidens -Rhonda Fink-Whitman (teachers guide: https://www.94maidens.com/teachers-guide/)
Memories of Survival -Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Bernice Steinhardt (non-fiction)
Four Perfect Pebbles - Marion Blumenthal Lazan and Lila Perl (biography)

Adult:

All the Light We Cannot See -Anthony Doerr
The Nightingale -Kristin Hannah
The Paris Architect -Charles Belfoure
The Volunteer -Jack Fairweather
QB VII -Leon Uris
Mila 18 -Leon Uris
Why? Explaining the Holocaust -Peter Hayes (non-fiction)
God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes -Menachem Rosensaft (non-fiction) I Want You to Know We’re Still Here -Esther Safran Foer (non-fiction) Franci’s War -Franci Rabinek Epstein (non-fiction) The Yellow Bird Sings -Jennifer Rosner
Don’t Ask My Name: A Hidden Child’s Tale of Survival - Erika Hecht