The following selected resources on the Holocaust and Genocide are all available in Glasgow Libraries. Please note that some material may be for reference only. More information about individual titles can be found by checking the catalogue at your local library.
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RESOURCES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Young People’s Fiction relating to the Holocaust
Author: Walter Buchignani
Title: Tell No One Who You Are
Ages 9+
A novel based on a true story about a ten-year-old Jewish girl whose father
changes her name and identity after her brother is captured by the Germans.
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Author: Ellis Dillon
Title: The Children of Back
Ages 10-14
Pali, Suzi and Peter return from school to find their parents and other
Jewish adults have been rounded up and sent away. They embark on a daring
plan to flee from Hungary and travel to Italy with their aunt, an irritable
neighbour and their beloved violins.
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Author: Esther Hautzig
Title: The Endless Steppe
Ages 10+
Esther Rudomin was ten years old when, in 1941, she and her family were
arrested by the Russians and transported to Siberia. This is the true story
of the next five years spent in exile.
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Author: Anne Holm
Title: I am David
Ages 9-12
This story is about a boy who escapes from a concentration camp and travels
across Europe to Denmark.
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Author: Judith Kerr
Title: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Ages 9+
Based on the author’s own life, this book describes a Jewish girl’s
experience of being forced to flee form Germany.
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Author: Christa Laird
Title: Shadow of the Wall
Ages 10+
Set in the Spring of 1942 where life in the Warsaw ghetto is harsh and
brutal. 14 year-old Misha lives in an orphanage but escapes through the
sewers to join a group
of fugitives who are determined to survive.
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Author: Joan Lingard
Title: Tug of War
Ages 10+
An account of a refugee journey set in World War II when the Petersons
are forced to leave Latvia, in order to escape from the Russian occupation.
Hugh, the eldest son, is separated from the rest of the family but eventually
is reunited with them. A moving story told with sincerity and sympathy.
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Author: Lois Lowry
Title: Number the Stars
Ages 11+
A novel set in Denmark during the Nazi persecutions of the War. Ten year-old
Annemarie becomes involved in the Danish people’s courageous struggle
as they succeed in smuggling almost the entire Jewish population to safety
in Sweden.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Title: Waiting for Anya
Ages 10+
Set in a village in the German-occupied French Pyrenees during World War
II, this story tells of the efforts of one boy and eventually the whole
village to save 12 Jewish children and their attempts to help them over
the Spanish border to safety.
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Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Title: Stones in Water
Ages 13+
This is the story of a young Italian boy and his friends who are taken
away by the Germans and put into labour camps. The story of how they endured
beatings, starvation and freezing temperatures and how some of them survived.
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Author: Gudrun Pausewang
Title: The Final Journey
Ages 13+
(translated by Patricia Crampton)
The final journey is in a cattle truck to Auschwitz. Alice, a young Jewish
girl, and her grandparents are discovered in hiding and taken to a concentration
camp. This book is a chilling, graphic description of the cruelty, privation
and degradation suffered during transportation to the camps and of a type
of horror film from which there is no escape. It is deeply moving and disturbing.
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Author: Hans Peter Richter
Title: Friedrich
Ages 10+
Two young boys are growing up in Germany in the early 30’s. At first
Friedrich seems the better off, but he is soon expelled from school at nine
years old, made an orphan when his mother dies and his father taken into
a camp, and is finally thrown out of an air-raid shelter – just because
he’s a Jew. A tragic, moving account, told in the first person.
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Author: Hans Peter Richter
Title: I Was There
Ages 10+
Life in Nazi Germany – told through the eyes of a young member of
the Hitler Youth Movement. A first hand account of what life was like under
the Third Reich and the effect it had on young Germans of the period.
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Author: Ian Serraillier
Title: The Silver Sword
Ages 9+
Based on a true story about four deserted and starving children for whom
a paperknife – the silver sword – became a symbol of hope and
courage as they travelled from Poland to Switzerland in search of their
parents.
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Author: Irene N. Watts
Title: Goodbye Marianne
Ages 10+
A young girl and her family face persecution in Nazi Germany. Based on
an actual kinder transport rescue mission, which saved the lives of countless
Jewish children.
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Young People’s Non-Fiction relating to the Holocaust
Author: David Adler
Title: A Picture Book of Anne Frank
Ages 7+
A picture book containing photographs of Anne and of the house where the
family hid before they were captured.
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Author: Roy Apps
Title: Anne Frank: The Last Days of Freedom
Ages 8+
A biography of Anne Frank in story format.
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Author: M Chaikin
Title: A Nightmare in History – The Holocaust 1933-1945
Ages 12+
This book traces the history of anti-Semitism from biblical times through
the 12 years of the Nazi Era 1933-1945 and describes Hitler’s plans
to annihilate European Jews by focusing on the Warsaw ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp. Also discussed is the continuing effort to remember
the horrors.
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Author: Terry Deary
Title: The Woeful Second World War
Ages 10+
One of the popular ‘Horrible Histories’ series but with a serious
treatment of the subject of World War II. It has a section dealing with
Holocaust.
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Author: Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Ages 10+
The story of the young girl’s diary, kept while she was in hiding
with her family in a garret in Amsterdam. It has become one of the most
famous and well-read testaments of the Second World War.
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Author: Alison Leslie Gold
Title: Hannah Gosler Remembers: A Childhood Friend of Anne Frank
Ages 12+
Hannah Gosler, who was friends with Anne Frank before she went into hiding
and who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi Occupation. A Jew herself, she
was to meet Anne again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Author: R G Grant
Title: Genocide
Ages 11+
This book is one in a series looking at controversial issues. It deals
with race and society and includes information about the Holocaust.
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Author: R G Grant
Title: The Holocaust
Ages 11+
This book traces the causes of the Holocaust and tries to give an explanation
to many questions. The book is packed with photographs some of them with
a strong and chilling content.
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Author: Wayne Jackman
Title: Anne Frank
Ages 6-9
The story of Anne Frank told simply and illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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Author: Ilse Koehn
Title: Mischling, Second Degree
Ages 11+
At six years old, Ilse, unknown to her, was labelled a ‘mischling’
a child of mixed race because her grandmother was Jewish. She became a member
of the Hitler Youth Movement, went to camp and attended military courses.
Yet somehow, she always knew that there was some danger, some secret in
her past. At 15 she discovered what it was.
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Author: Jane Marks
Title: The Hidden Children
Ages 12+
A collection of the memoirs of a group of 23 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
who spent their childhood in hiding.
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Author: Irene Gut Opdyke
Title: In my Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Ages 11+
The autobiography of a young Catholic Polish girl who single-handedly saved
the lives of many families during the Second World War.
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Author: Jayne Pettit
Title: A Place to Hide: True Stories of the Holocaust
Ages 10+
Six, simply told, powerful stories about men, women and children who risked
their lives to rescue Jewish people during the Second World War. The stories
are set in France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Amsterdam, Denmark and mid-Europe.
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Author: Jayne Pettit
Title: A Time to Fight Back
Ages 9+
Six true stories about children from different countries and their involvement
in World War II. The stories from Scotland, Belgium, Poland, Romania and
Germany concentrate on spies, resistance movements and POW camps –
stressing the action-packed aspects of war without ignoring its horrors.
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Author: Richard Tames
Title: Anne Frank
Ages 8+
Told in the context of the progress of war, a biography of Anne Frank using
authentic photographs of Anne, her family and relevant locations. The ‘Find
Out More’ section includes a glossary, bibliography and important addresses
for further information.
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Author: R Van Der Rol and R Verhoeven
Title: Anne Frank – Beyond the Diary
Ages 10+
A collection of Frank family photographs interspersed with Anne’s
life story and extracts from her diary.
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Young People’s
Internet Resources
Holocaust
Memorial Day Education Pack Official Government Page. Education pack
is downloadable PDF.
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Learning
about the Holocaust
for school pupils
Part of the Holocaust History site
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A
Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
Created as a student project at the University of Florida
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A History
of the Holocaust
Created by the students in the Genocide Studies course at the Father Ryan
High School
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Teach
With Movies: Schindler’s List
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Germany
1900-45
Has links to topics including Nazi Germany, Second World War, and scientists
in Nazi Germany. From Spartacus Educational
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www.annefrank.com
American site, which aims to introduce people to Anne Frank, the Franks
family’s personal story and to explore the issues of discrimination and
intolerance.
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www.wiesenthal.com
/mot/children/list1.cfm
Is the section of the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance
site where children caught up in the holocaust tell their own stories.
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