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Library Catalog Subjects Headings
Keywords
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Dewey Decimal Numbers
364.15 Genocide
909 World History 920 Biography 940 General History of Europe 940.53 Holocaust Need Help Getting Started?
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Unique Formats
Non-Fiction
Graphic Novel Spieglman, Art. MAUS I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon, 1986. MAUS tells the tale of Vladek Spieglman, a young, married polish man at the onset of WWII. Storytelling through Quilting and Embroidery Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal. Memories of Survival. Singapore: Art and Remembrance, 2005. Krinitz uses needle and thread to tell her story of survival through patchwork quilts and embroidery. Original works can be view in American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore, MD. Fiction Story in Verse LeZotte, Ann Clare. T4: a Novel in Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. When the Nazis put a new law nicknamed “T4” into effect, a 13 year-old deaf girl must leave her home and family and go into hiding to avoid captivation and death. T4: a Novel in Verse gives a different perspective of Nazi Germany and other groups besides Jews that were victimized. Graphic Novel Jablonski, Carla. Resistance. New York: First Second, 2010. When their friend Henri's parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, siblings Paul and Marie must convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against the Germans. |
Non-Fiction Books
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, 2005. Print.
Hitler Youth focuses on the lives of 12 young people growing up in Germany during World War II. These youth became machine gun operators, nurses, prison guards, concentration camp inmates and resistance fighters. Friedman, Mark. Genocide. New York: Heinemann-Raintree, 2012. What is genocide? -- Armenia - the first modern genocide -- The Holocaust -- Cambodia, 1975-1978 -- "Ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia -- Africa -- Memory and healing -- Timeline of major genocides -- Characteristics of genocide 346.15 FRI Rappaport, Doreen. Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.Sommerville, Massachusetts:Candlewick, 2012. Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts this book illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. 940.53 RAP The Holocaust Through Primary Sources Series The series highlights important events in Holocuast history through primary sources. Titles include:
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Transl. by Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Wang, 1958. Print. The bestselling author Elie Wiesel, is also a civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize winner. He wrote a memoir of his time in Auschwitz. As a 15 year old Jewish boy he was taken to Auschwitz. Separated from his mother and imprisoned with his father, he tells the truth about his life in a German concentration camp. Fiction Books
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. New York: David Fickling, 2006. Print.
This fictionalized tale of a naïve nine year old faced with Auschwitz, is deceptive in its simplicity. Bruno is the son of the camp commandant and makes friend with Schmuel, a nine year old living on the other side of the fence. Voorhoeve, Anne. My Family For The War. translated by Tammi Reichel. Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland. (amazon.com) Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York: T. Doherty Associates, 1992. A young woman's promise to her dying grandmother leads her on a quest to discover the truth of her own family's mysterious beginnings in this grim retelling of the classic fairy tale ``Briar Rose,'' or ``The Sleeping Beauty.'' In Yolen's modern-day version, the wall of thorns becomes a barbed-wire prison, while the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine. (School Library Journal) Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2006. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. (School Library Journal) |
Multimedia Resources
Holocaust : the events and their impact on real people / written by Angela Gluck Wood ; [forward by Steven Spielberg].
Contains first-hand testimony from survivors and enables readers to appreciate the impact of the Holocaust on real people and the lives they and their families have rebuilt today. |
I'm still here [DVD] : real diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust / An MTV Networks Production.
Tells the stories of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust through readings of excerpts from their diaries.
Surviors of the Holocaust [VTC] / [a production of] Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Video interviews with survivors of the Holocaust
Tells the stories of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust through readings of excerpts from their diaries.
Surviors of the Holocaust [VTC] / [a production of] Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Video interviews with survivors of the Holocaust
Magazines
DuBord, Steven J. "Irena Sendler: humble Holocaust heroine: during World War II, Polish Catholic social worker Irena Sendler risked her life to save thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto." The New American 4 Mar. 2013: 34+. Student Resources In Context. Web. 19 Apr. 2013.
Winick, Myron. "Getting a call from the Gestapo." USA Today [Magazine] Mar. 2013: 62+. Student Resources In Context. Web. 19 Apr. 2013.
Winick, Myron. "Getting a call from the Gestapo." USA Today [Magazine] Mar. 2013: 62+. Student Resources In Context. Web. 19 Apr. 2013.
Online
Database Resources
World Book (general online encyclopedia)
General knowledge and description of the Holocaust GALE Student Resources in Context Articles, images, videos, biographies |
Organizations and Museums
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center, Concise Encyclopedia of the Holocaust |
Web Resources
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Pathfinder compiled by Jennifer Hamilton, McDaniel College SLM 505, Spring 2013.
Images Attribution
Suitcase Image from http://www.history.com/photos/remembering-the-holocaust/photo5 taken by Michael St. Maur Sheil/CORBIS
Auschwitz Gate Image from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287071/Full-shocking-scale-Holocaust-revealed-researchers-Nazis-created-42-500-camps-ghettos-persecute-Jews-Europe.html
Auschwitz Gate Image from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287071/Full-shocking-scale-Holocaust-revealed-researchers-Nazis-created-42-500-camps-ghettos-persecute-Jews-Europe.html