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Holocaust: Fiction and Nonfiction The fiction and nonfiction titles below explore the Holocaust from various angles and perspectives Nonfiction 10 British Prisoners of War Saved My Life Hannah Rigler Nonfiction 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning Slavko Goldstein; Michael Gable, trans. Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans. Nonfiction A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction Ruth Franklin Nonfiction Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose Nonfiction Auschwitz Report Primo Levi Nonfiction Auschwitz: A New History Laurence Rees Fiction Block 11: A Novel Piero degli Antoni; Erin Waggener, trans. Nonfiction Chelmno and the Holocaust: A History of Hitler's First Death Camp Patrick Montague Nonfiction Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes—and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS Bo Lidegaard Fiction Days in the History of Silence Merethe Lindstrom; Anne Bruce, trans. Fiction Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Nonfiction FDR and the Jews Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman Nonfiction God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Menachem Z. Rosensaft, ed. Nonfiction Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, 2nd Edition Jack Fischel Nonfiction Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower Nonfiction Hitler’s First Victims: The Quest for Justice Timothy W. Ryback Fiction In Paradise: A Novel Peter Matthiessen Fiction Love & Treasure Ayelet Waldman Nonfiction MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus Art Spiegelman Fiction Not Me Michael Lavigne Fiction Our Holocaust Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction Quiet Americans Erika Dreifus Fiction Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay Fiction Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet Nonfiction Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors R. D. Rosen Fiction The Book Thief Markus Zusak Nonfiction The Eichmann Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt Fiction The Empire of the Senses: A Novel Alexis Landau Nonfiction The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir Howard Reich Nonfiction The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Randolph L. Braham, ed. Fiction The Hollow Tree Jacob G. Rosenberg Fiction The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer Nonfiction The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Daniel Mendelsohn Fiction The Messenger Yannick Haenel; Ian Monk, trans. Fiction The Time of the Uprooted Elie Wiesel Nonfiction The Winter's Journey of My Youth: A Memoir Helen Studley Nonfiction The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer Nonfiction The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Diane Ackerman Fiction This Must Be The Place: A Novel Anna Winger Nonfiction We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Ellen Cassedy Nonfiction You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish Susan Resnick
Children's A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Nonfiction Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes—and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS Bo Lidegaard
Nonfiction God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Menachem Z. Rosensaft, ed.
Nonfiction You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish Susan Resnick
