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CLASSROOM LESSONS

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RECOMMENDED READING

YOUTH TITLES

"Boy From Buchenwald: True Story of a Holocaust Survivor" by Robbie Waisman
"Catherine’s War" by Julia Billet
“Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport” by Emma Carlson Berne
“Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank” by Eva Schloss (w/Evelyn Julia Kent)
​“Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust” by Marion Blumenthal Lazan and Lila Perl
“Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose” by Toby Axelrod
"Hidden" by Loic Dauvillier
“His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue and Mystery During World War II” by Louise Borden
"Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued" by Peter Sis
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"Once" by Morris Gleitzman
"Somewhere There is Still a Sun" by Michael Gruenbaum
"The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak
"The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
"The Hiding Game" by Gwen Strauss
"The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi" by Neal Bascomb
ADULT TITLES

"48 Hours of Kristallnacht" by Mitchell G. Bard
“A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets” by Noah Lederman
"Alicia: My Story" by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
"Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land" by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust" by Rutka Laskier and Yad Vashem
“Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa” by Susan Goldman Rubin
​“Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz” by Michael Borenstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
“The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of l.5 Million Jews” by Father Patrick Desbois
"The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" by Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin
"The World Must Know" by Michael Berenbaum
"Two Rings: A Story of Love and War" by Millie Werber and Eve Keller
​"Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust" by Michael Korenbilt and Kathleen Janger
“We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter
"Words to Outlive Us" by Michał Grynberg

SUGGESTED VIEWING

"1945" (2017)
"A German Life" (2016)
"Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII" (2020)
"I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (2018)
"Kapo in Jerusalem" (2015)
"Naked Among Wolves" (2015)
"The Flat" (2011)
"The Last of the Unjust" (2013)
"Who Will Write Our History" (2018)
"Witness Trilogy: Shoes" (2012), "Brutus" (2016), "Violin" (2017)

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