Education materials from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC; Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, volumes 1-4, editor in chief, Israel Gutman, (New York: Macmillan, 1990); Jack R. Fischel, The Holocaust (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998); Seymour Rossel, The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 (West Orange, NT: Behrman House, Inc., 1992).
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (New York: Pocket Books, 1953). Anne was thirteen when her family went into hiding in Amsterdam and she started her diary, which was found after Anne had already been shipped to a concentration camp, where she died.
The Hidden Children by Howard Greenfeld (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993). Thirteen Holocaust survivors tell their true childhood stories of surviving the Nazis by staying out of their reach.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 (New York: Schocken, 1993). A moving collection of poetry and drawings by children in the Terezin concentration camp outside Prague.
Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin (New York: Bantam, 1993). Fiction based on a true story of a Jewish boy in Warsaw who was hidden during the war by a non-Jewish family.
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel (New York: Greenwillow, 1998). A nonfiction account of the artist’s Jewish childhood in Poland as she tried to elude the Nazis.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989). The fictional story of how a Danish girl helped protect her Danish Jewish friend when the Nazis invaded Denmark.
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994). A photo history produced under the auspices of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book explains in clear language the Holocaust’s impact on children and young people.
All but My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957). True story of a Polish Jewish girl in the Holocaust.
—And God Cried: The Holocaust Remembered by Charles Lawliss (New York: JG Press, 1994). A clearly written history of the Jews and the Holocaust.
Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust selected by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell (New York: Orchard Books, 1995). This slender volume comprises some of the best writings about the Holocaust from such acclaimed writers as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Cynthia Ozick, and Frank O’Connor.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997). True story of a thirteen-year-old during 1944-1945, when the Nazis invaded Hungary.
Night by Elie Wiesel (New York: Bantam, 1982). A devastating journey with Nobel Prize recipient Wiesel and his father into the concentration camps.
A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust 1933–1945 by Miriam Chaikin (Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Clarion, 1987). An excellent overview of the Holocaust and why it happened.
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas (New York: Scholastic, 1996). The actual diaries of five diverse Jewish teenagers from different parts of Europe who perished during the Holocaust.
The Devil’s Arithmetic. Based on the novel by Jane Yolen. The story of a sixteen-year-old who is transported in time from present-day life in the United States to a concentration camp during the war.
The Diary of Anne Frank. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Millie Perkins as Anne.
The Last Days. A documentary that views the Holocaust through the eyes of five Hungarian concentration camp survivors. Includes rare archival footage.
One Survivor Remembers. Oscar-winning documentary about Gerda Weissman Klein, a Polish Jewish girl in the Holocaust.
Schindler’s List. Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning true story of a German businessman who saved the lives of many concentration camp prisoners.
Survivors: Testimonies of the Holocaust. An interactive CD-ROM in which four survivors tell their stories. Produced by the Shoah Foundation. Winona Ryder and Leonardo DiCaprio narrate.
Many websites are devoted to the Holocaust and to specialized topics related to the Holocaust. Three sites are highly recommended and can lead users to many other sites:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
www.ushmn.org/
To send e-mail questions or inquiries to their Education Department:
education@ushmm.org
The museum can be contacted at
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington, DC 20024–2126
Tel: 202 488–0400
Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA
www.wiesenthal.com
Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
www.yad-vashem.org.il/
Another useful site is that of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education:
www.mchekc.org
5801 West 115th Street, Suite 106
Overland Park, KS 66211–1800
Tel.: 913 327–8190
Fax: 913 327–8193