Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, 2005.
The story of young Germans trained to be Hitler Youth.
Fittko, Lisa. Escape Through the Pyrenees. Trans. David Koblick. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
The story of Lisa and Hans Fittko, including how they led refugees over the Pyrenees mountains who were sent to them by Varian Fry.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Trans. Susan Massotty. Ed. Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
This diary of a Jewish teenager chronicles the time she spent in hiding with her family.
Fry, Varian. Assignment: Rescue, An Autobiography. New York: Scholastic in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1968.
An abbreviated account of Varian Fry’s work in Marseilles, written with a young reader in mind.
———. Surrender on Demand. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.
A memoir written by Varian Fry detailing his work in Marseilles.
Giblin, James Cross. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. New York: Clarion Books, 2002.
Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998.
A memoir by a child Holocaust survivor.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Trans. Marion Wiesel. New ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
Nobel Prize–winning author Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp.
The Web site for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, D.C., contains a wealth of information about the Holocaust, including photographs, testimonies, videos, maps, teaching resources, and much more.
Yad Vashem, located in Jerusalem, Israel, documents the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust and preserves the memory of each one of the six million Jews who were murdered.
The History Place has a chronological timeline of World War II, including photographs.
www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.xhtml
The Varian Fry Institute has information about Varian Fry and his co-workers in Marseilles and links to related material.
Learn more about Le Chambon, the French mountain village where five thousand Jews were sheltered and protected by five thousand Christians.
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, is a great Web site for anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust. It has virtual-reality movies that allow you to view 360 degrees inside concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Dachau; a timeline with pop-up definitions and verbal pronunciations of both English and German words; photographs, video clips, music files, historical documents, and Web links. It also has teacher resources such as lesson plans and student activities.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust
The International Rescue Committee, successor to the organization that sent Varian Fry to Marseilles, continues to help refugees from all over the world.
Find out why students in Whitwell, Tennessee, decided to collect one paper clip for each Jew killed during the Holocaust and build a memorial in an authentic German railroad car. Learn more about The Children’s Holocaust Memorial and Paper Clip Project at Whitwell Middle School. http://69.8.250.59/homepage_pc.cfm?id=78