This is a selection of Holocaust books for young readers that can be used to introduce the topic of the Holocaust. Students can read these books to prepare for their visit to the Museum.
Author | Title | Publisher | From Age |
Rachel Hausfater | The Little Boy Star : An Allegory of the Holocaust | Milk and Cookies Press, 2017 | 5 |
Josephine Pool | Anne Frank | Random House Children’s Publishers, 2007 | 6 |
Tony Kushner, ill. Maurice Sendak | Brundibar | Hyperion Book, 2003 | 6 |
Wilhelm Grimm | Dear Mili | Stated First Edition, 1988 | 6 |
Ruth Vander Zee | Erika’s Story | Creative Paperbacks, 2013 | 6 |
Jo Hoestlandt | Star of Fear, Star of Hope | Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 1996 | 6 |
Tomi Ungerer | Otto, The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear | Phaidon Press Ltd, 2010 | 6 |
Ruud Van Der Rol et Rian Verhoeven | Anne Frank | Kampen, The Netherlands, 1992 | 9 |
Karen Levine | Hana’s Suitcase | Cherrytree Books, 2017 | 10 |
Zane Whittingham | Survivors of the Holocaust | Sourcebooks Explore, 2019 | 10 |
Clive A. Lawton | Auschwitz : The story of a Nazi Death Camp | Candlewick, 2002 | 11 |
Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Harper Collins Children’s Book, 2012 | 11 |
Uri Orlev | Run, Boy, Run | HMH Books for Young Readers, 2007 | 11 |
Anne Holm | I am David | HMH Books for Young Readers, 2004 | 11 |
Clive A. Lawton | The story of the Holocaust | Gallimard Jeunesse, 2000 | 11 |
Larissa Cain | A childhood in the Warsaw ghetto | Paris, 1998 | 11 |
Sigrid Heuck | The Hideout | Faber & Faber, 1991 | 11 |
Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | Bantam, 1993 | 11 |
Kathy Kacer | Hidding Edith : A True Story | Second Story Press, 2006 | 11 |
Jean-Jacques Greif | The Fighter | Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2012 | 11 |
Hans Peter Richter | Friedrich | Puffin Books, 1987 | 11 |
Judith Kerr | When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit | Puffin Books, 2009 | 11 |
Joseph Joffo | A Bag of Marbles | Graphic Universe TM, 2013 | 11 |
Carol Matas | Greater than Angels | Simon Pulse, 1999 | 11 |
Isaac Millman | Hidden Child | Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005 | 12 |
Julia Billet | Catherine’s War | HarperAlley, 2020 | 12 |
Alison Leslie Gold | Memories of Anne Frank – Reflections of a Childhood Friend | Scholastic, 1997 | 12 |
Morris Gleitzman | Once & Then | Penguin, 2009 | 12 |
Jona Oberski | Childhood | Penguin Classics, 2014 | 13 |
Sharon Dogar | Annexed | HMH Books for Young Readers, 2010 | 13 |
Paule du Bouchet | Sing, Luna, Sing | Urachhaus, 2010 | 13 |
Judith Kerr | The Other Way Round | Dell Pub Co, 1979 | 13 |
Hans Peter Richter | I was there | Puffin Books, 1987 | 13 |
Fred Uhlman | Reunion | Vintage Classics, 1997 | 13 |
Uri Orlev | The man from the other side | Puffin Books, 1995 | 13 |
Aranka Siegal | Grace in the Wilderness | Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985 | 13 |
Claude Gutman | The Empty House | Turton & Chambers Ltd, 1991 | 13 |
Michel Pierre, Annette Wieviorka | The Second World War | Silver Burdett Pr, 1987 | 13 |
Esther Hautzig | The Endless Steppe : Growing up in Siberia | HarperCollins, 2018 | 13 |
Monique Polak | What World is Left | Orca Publishing, 2008 | 13 |
Jerry Spinelli | Milkweed | Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003 | 13 |
Ilse Koehn | Mischling Second Degree : My Childhood in Nazi Germany | Bantam Books, 1978 | 13 |
Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda | When Grownups Play at War | Sumach Pr, 2005 | 13 |
Toby Knobel Fluek | Memories of my life in a Polish Village | Hamish Hamilton, 1990 | 13 |
Aranka Siegal | Upon the Head of the Goat : A Childhood in Hungary | Square Fish, 2003 | 13 |
Annika Thor | A Faraway Island | Yearling, 2011 | 13 |
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor | Adress Unknown | 15 |