Holocaust
No pretty
pictures : a child of war
by Anita Lobel.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
The cage by Ruth Minsky Sender.
A teenage girl
recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a
Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
We are
witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust edited by Jacob Boas
Presents excerpts
from the diaries of five Jewish teenagers who were part of the millions of men,
women, and children who died under Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.1
Night by Elie Wiesel
A true account of
the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi
concentration camp.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
The diary of a
young girl : the definitive edition by
Anne Frank
A
thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years
she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered
and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.5
Four perfect
pebbles : a Holocaust story
by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan.
The author tells
the story of her family's experiences as Jews in Hitler's Germany, tracing
their horrifying journey from their home country to Holland and back again,
living in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Bergen-Belson.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3
Surviving
Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren.
A biography of
Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
I have lived a
thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust by Livia E. Bitton-Jackson.
A memoir of Elli
Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration
camp where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944 when the Nazis invaded
her native Hungary.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.8
Upon the head
of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal.
Nine-year-old
Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944
German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and
relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
The lost
childhood : a World War II memoir by Yehuda
Nir.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.5
Elie Wiesel :
spokesman for remembrance
by Linda
Bayer.
Examines the role
that Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, played and provides information on his
youth in Romania, anti-Semitism, his survival from the concentration camps, and
his work after the war as an educator and speaker on behalf of human rights
around the world.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.6
Maus : a
survivor's tale by Art
Spiegelman.
A memoir about
Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a
cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with
history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.2
Maus II : a
survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman.
A continuation of
the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the
author relates, in cartoon form, his father's experiences as an inmate at
Auschwitz during World War II.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.1
The forgotten
victims of the Holocaust
by Linda Jacobs Altman.
Discusses Nazi
Germany's efforts to create a so-called master race by attempting to eliminate
not only the Jewish race, but also killing or sterilizing Poles, Russians,
gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped, and others considered inferior.
Rescue : the
story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer.
A recounting
drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism
performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the
Jews during the Holocaust.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 7.7
Tell them we
remember : the story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach
An informative
book on the Holocaust based on exibits from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 8.7
Deniers of the
Holocaust : who they are, what they do, why they do it by Ted Gottfried
Examines the
phenomenon of Holocaust denial, describing moral relativism, proponents of
revisionist history, the logic employed by Holocaust deniers, and the role of
the Internet in the propagation of hatred.
Other Atrocities
and Stories of Repression
First they
killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers by Loung Ung.
Loung Ung, one of
seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of
her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge
army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans,
and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Journey from
the land of no : a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian.
The author shares
the story of her experiences coming of age in Iran during the revolution of
1979, discussing her situation as a member of the small Jewish population in
the country at a time when Islamic fundamentalists gained control.