Bearing Witness – Stories of the Holocaust Selected by Hazel Rochman & Darlene Z. McCampbell (1995) Orchard Books, NY
How could the Holocaust happen? Who is guilty? Could it happen again? What would I have done? More that half a century after the end of World War II, these questions continue to haunt survivors, writers, and artists. The twenty-four selections in this stellar collection confront the Holocaust with moral intensity and unflinching realism, wrestling art and meaning from what seems unspeakable.

Forget Me Not – the Anne Frank Story-Video by Grace Products Corp.
Forget Me Not is more than a study of a painful period in world history. It is a wonderful reminder of the triumphant power of the human spirit over evil. In this dramatic voyage into the past, Mat Fritzlinger is a school boy enamored by the neo-nazi movement. One day, while on a field trip to a Holocaust museum, Mat finds himself in a mysterious, magical library. From there he is spun into the streets of Nazi occupied Amsterdam in the year 1944 – as a Jew. There he meets Anne Frank and discovers the true meaning of the word HERO. http://www.graceproducts.com

Forging Freedom – A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust by Hudson Talbott
(2000) G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY
Jaap Penraat always felt a little Jewish growing up in Amsterdam. Forging Freedom is a dramatic account of this man who knew he must act against these dark forces. “You do these things because in your mind there is no other way of doing it,” says Jaap

Four Perfect Pebbles – A Holocaust Story – by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan (1996) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C
Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s unforgettable memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped here childhood. Following Hitler’s rise to power, the Blumenthal family – father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert – were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit and prison camps that included Weserbork in Holland and the notorious Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Though they all survived the camps, Walter Blumenthal, the father, succumbed to typhus just after liberation. It took three more years of struggle for the family to finally make it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope and the will to survive.
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The Hidden Children – by Howard Greenfeld (1993) Ticknor & Fields, NY
During World War II, thousands of Jewish children were sent away from their homes and hidden from the Nazis. Most of them lived with strangers who risked their own lives to protect them. The children were hidden in convents and orphanages, in haylofts and underground passages, in attics and basements. Some children were well cared for, others suffered abuse, but all were robbed of their childhoods. Even the youngest children learned to lie, to conceal their true identities, and to deny their religion. They learned to remain silent, knowing that to laugh, cry, or speak loudly at the wrong time would endanger their lives.

Hiding from the Nazis – by David A. Adler, illustrated by Karen Ritz (1997) Holiday House, NY.
Lore Baer was born in Holland just before World War II. Her parents, who were Jews, had fled there for safety after Adolf Hilter came to power in their native Germany. But in 1940, the German Army invaded Holland. The Baers were no longer safe. At the age of four, Lore was separated from her parents and sent into hiding. First she was placed with a couple in Amsterdam, and later she was sent to live with the Schouten family in Dutch farm country. Whenever Nazis came close to the farm, the Schoutens would bring Lore to a neighboring village, or hide her in a secret room. Lore lived in hiding for several years and grew to love the family who cared for her. It was due to them and their efforts that Lore survived the war and was reunited with her parents.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1993) Schocken Books, NY
The drawings and poems by the children of Terezin are among the most poignant documents of the Holocaust. This expanded edition of the unforgettable collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly was occasioned by the loan of the children’s art by the State Jewish Museum in Prague to the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., for exhibition and for this book.

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Kindertransport by Olga Levy Drucker (1992) Henry Holt & Company, NY
Ollie Levy was born in Germany in 1927, when Jews were part of the fabric of European society. Her father, who had been honored as a German soldier in World War I, was a children’s book publisher in Stuttgart; her family was prosperous and influential.
But on November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, the family recognized what the Third Reich meant for Jews. They arranged for their children to be part of the Kindertransport operation: Ollie was sent away, by train, to far-off England, where she spoke not a word of the language, and knew no one.

No Pretty Pictures – a child of war – by Anita Lobel (1998) Greenwillow books, NY
Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Krakow, Poland, changing her life forever. She spent the days of her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny in the countryside, in the ghetto,then finally in a convent where the Nazis caught up with her and she was imprisoned in a succession of concentration camps until the end of the war. Sent by the Red Cross to recuperate in Sweden, Anita slowly blossomed as she discovered books and language and art.

Number the Stars – by Lois Lowry (1989) Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA
As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, the Johansens take in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is part of the family. Ellen and Annemarie must think quickly when three Nazi officers arrive late one night and question why Ellen is not blond, like her sisters. Through Annemarie’s eyes, we see the Danish Resistance as they manage to smuggle almost the entire Jewish population, nearly 7,000 people, across the sea to Sweden. In this tale of an entire nation’s heroism, Lois Lowry reminds us that there is pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.

Passage to Freedom – The Sugihara Story by Kan Morchizuki (1997) Lee & Low Books, NY
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki’s father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?

Sky – by Hanneke Ippisch (1996) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, NY
It is 1943 in war-torn Holland, and Hanneke Eikema’s ordinary life as a teenager has become a routine of clandestine activities: hoarding food, burying valuables, sneaking out after curfew, hearing rumors of classmates who have “disappeared.” And with German soldiers everywhere on patrol, she has learned not to ask too many questions. But as Nazi persecutions persist, Hanneke becomes moved by a passion – a need – to find someway to aid those who are suffering. She secretly joins the Dutch resistance movement and is suddenly immersed in a life-threatening world of assumed names, covert meetings, and perilous missions.

Survivors of the Shoah – Testimonies of the Holocaust (1998) Interactive CD Rom Produced by Steven Spielberg for Shoah Visual History Foundation and Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.
These accounts are not depositions but memoirs. Each contain not only a description of a series of events in the survivor’s life but also the thoughts and their hesitations, their changes in affect are a part of their story.

Tell Them We Remember – the Story of the Holocaust – by Susan D. Bachrach (1994) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Drawing from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s large collection of artifacts, photographs, maps and taped oral and video histories, this book tells the story of the Holocaust and how it affected the daily live of innocent people throughout Europe. Excerpts from “identity cards” that are part of the museum’s exhibit focus on specific young people whose worlds were turned upside down when they became trapped under Nazi rule.

Remember Not to Forget – A Memory of the Holocaust – by Norman H. Finkelstein (1985) Franklin Watts, NY
A small thirty-one page book that discusses the Holocaust and the need for remembrance. The book concludes with the creation of the special day of Yad Vashem, remembrance day, that was passed by the Israeli parliament in 1953.