Alicia was only 13 years old when she began saving Jewish lives in war-ravaged Poland. In this nonfiction account of the Holocaust, Alicia recalls how she stood on her brother's grave and vowed she would tell his story.
Livia Bitton-Jackson a.ka. Elli Friedmann, was only 13 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary.
Rachek always begs her Grandmother Oma to tell the story of Oma's two lives: the one before American and the one after. The first part recounts her marriage prior to World War I and then her family's move from Poland to Germany to seek safety.
As a youth, Kertesz spent one year in Auschwitz and so develops this novel about a 14-year-old Hungarian boy's ability to see beauty even in a horrific concentration camp.
Little did Gerda know that her father's insistence that she wear her hiking boots one hot, summer day would be her salvation from death.
This ALA Best Book for Young Adults is the true, heart-wrenching, and unforgettable story of the author's experiences at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Drawn from the author's own experiences, this is the moving story of a young Jewish girl, Rosemarie Brenner, and her experiences in a concentration camp during World War II.
In this graphic novel, Spiegelman writes of his father's struggle as a Jew in Poland during World War II. In comic book form, the Jews are depicted as mice, the Nazis as cats, and those who side with the Nazis are pigs.
This is a collection of drawings and poems that were done by children who grew up in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia between 1942 and 1944.
This short autobiographical novel is Wiesel's rendering of his terrifying experiences as a teenager at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Nazi death camps.