Holocaust category: 1392 books
After Auschwitz
A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.
When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning
Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man’s Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
It Will Yet Be Heard
A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated...
by Anne Frank, Ari Folman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and...
Flying Couch
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“Themes of guilt, Jewish identity, and the complex relationships among daughters, mothers, and grandmothers . . . expanded upon with humor and honesty.” —School Library Journal
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In this...
I Am a Star
Child of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
The Nazis tried to destroy Inge's life--but they could not break her spirit.
Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents were sent to a concentration...
The Last Train
A Holocaust Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The Last Train is the harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation during the final years of World War II.
by Ken Setterington
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals...
by Karen Levine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Hana's Suitcase, the acclaimed children's book read by thousands of children around the world - In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner...
The Boy on the Wooden Box
How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).
This, the only...
Anne Frank
Young Diarist
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1940, when the Germans invaded the Netherlands, the Frank family once again feared for their lives. Like tens of thousands of Dutch Jews, the Franks went into...
Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition
Young Adult Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A young readers’ edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl’s life, and supplementary letters and speeches
The Library of Congress called it “one of the ten most influential...
Survivors Club
The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A New York Times bestseller
“Both moving and memorable, combining the emotional resolve of a memoir with the rhythm of a novel.” —New York Times Book Review
In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers...