Holocaust Days of Remembrance: April 23-30

Holocaust Days of Remembrance, includes the Star of David image, candles, and a red flower labeled Lest We Forget

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the United States Congress established the Holocaust Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual week-long commemoration of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum leads the country in observing the Days of Remembrance and encourages observances and events throughout the nation. There is also a database on the museum website to search for victims and survivors, and an online encyclopedia to research events that culminated in genocide.

Read one or more of the books listed below to learn more about Holocaust victims and survivors.  These books discuss events in Nazi Germany, across Europe, and around the world during the 1930s and 1940s that made such atrocities possible.    

 

                                                                                                                                                                     

Fiction

  • The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
  • Eli's Promise by Ronald Balson
  • Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
  • A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
  • The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayron
  • Day After Night by Anita Diamant
  • The Suicide Museum by Ariel Dorfman
  • The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
  • The Porcelain Maker by Sarah Freethy
  • Annelies by David R. Gillham
  • Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham
  • They Went Left by Monica Hesse
  • The Commandant of Lubizec : a Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard by Patrick Hicks
  • The World that we Know by Alice Hoffman
  • We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
  • The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon
  • Fervor by Toby Lloyd
  • Three Sisters by Heather Morris
  • City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
  • Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky
  • We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards
  • Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner
  • A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
  • 28 Days : a Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier
  • The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
  • Courage to Dream : Tales of Hope in the Holocaust : a Graphic Novel by Neal Shusterman
  • Armageddon by Leon Uris
  • The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction and Memoirs

  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz : the True story of the women who sewed to survive by L. D. Adlington
  • Cracking the Nazi code : the Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code by Jason Bell
  • Lovers in Auschwitz : a True Story by Keren Blankfeld
  • The Origins of the Final Solution : the Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning
  • Anne Frank's Diary : the Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman
  • Into the Forest : a Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
  • The Escape Artist : the Man who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
  • The Origins of Nazi Genocide : from Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander
  • Signs of Survival : a Memoir of the Holocaust by Renaee Hartman
  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
  • The Holocaust in Historical Context by Stephen T. Katz
  • The Pope at War : the Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
  • The Eichmann Trial by Elliot Levitt
  • The Survivor : How I Made it through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter by Josef Lewkowicz
  • Two Wheels to Freedom : the Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape by Arthur J. Magida
  • Anne Frank : the Biography by Melissa Müller
  • Life after Kafka by Magdaléna Platzová
  • My Friend Anne Frank : the Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar
  • Hitler and Stalin : the Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
  • Control : the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
  • Impossible Escape : a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin
  • The Diary Keepers : World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People who Lived through It by Nina Siegal
  • On Inhumanity : Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith.
  • Black Earth : the Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
  • The Holocaust : an Unfinished History by Dan Stone
  • The Betrayal of Anne Frank : a Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Defying Hitler : the Germans who Resisted Nazi Rule by Gordon Thomas
  • I Didn't Say Goodbye by Claudine Vegh
  • The Counterfeit Countess : the Jewish Woman who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White
  • It's My Whole Life : Charlotte Salomon : An Artist in Hiding During World War II by Susan Wider
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