Holocaust Booklist
World History > Modern Age > World War II / Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.
Book recommendations pertaining to the Holocaust.
See Also: World War II
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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When the World Was Ours | Kessler, Liz | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1936-1945 | Europe | Austria | WWII Holocaust | F | N |
Hidden Hope | Boxer, Elisa | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | France | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | F | PB |
Four Perfect Pebbles | Blumenthal Lazan, Marion | 1996 | UMG | Modern Age | 1938-1948 | Europe | Germany Holland | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
My Name is Selma | van de Perre, Selma | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | NF | M |
Out of Hiding | Gruener, Ruth | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1938-2019 | Europe | Poland United States | Holocaust Immigration Jewish Refugees | NF | M |
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport | Stelson, Caren | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Czechoslovakia | Holocaust Kindertransport | F | PB |
The Blood Years | Arnold, Elana K. | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust | F | N |
Names in a Jar | Gold, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1987 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust WWII | F | N |
We'll Soon Be Home Again | Bab Bonde, Jessica | 2020 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Various | Holocaust | F Bio | GN |
Beyond Courage | Rappaport, Doreen | 2014 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Germany | Holocaust | F | B |
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Lobel, Anita | 2008 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
The Girl Who Sang | Nadel, Estelle Savos, Sammy Strout, Bethany | 2024 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1939-1951 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Nazi Occupation | NF | GN |
Upon the Head of the Goat | Siegal, Aranka | 2003 | UMG | Modern Age | 1939-1944 | Europe | Hungary | Holocaust Hungary | NF Bio | CB |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million | Mendelsohn, Daniel | 2013 | A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Eastern Europe | Ukraine | Holocaust | NF | N |
Esfir is Alive | Simon, Andrea | 2016 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F Bio | N |
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Shusterman, Neal | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | various | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | HF | GN |
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto | Safier, David | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | F | N |
Night | Wiesel, Elie | 1958 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust Auschwitz | NF Bio | N |
The Librarian of Auschwitz | Iturbe, Antonio | 2012 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | F Bio | N |
Briar Rose | Yolen, Jane | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
Once | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
The Devil's Arithmetic | Yolen, Jane | 1988 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F HF | CB |
Then | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F | N |
Mapping the Bones | Yolen, Jane | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust | F Bio | N |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Frank, Anne | 1947 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust | NF Bio | CB |
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust | Dauvillier, Loïc | 2014 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | France | Holocaust | F | GN |
Stone Angel | Yolen, Jane | 2015 | LE | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | France | Holocaust | F | PB |
I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz | Kor, Eva Mozes | 2022 | MG | Modern Age | 1943-2019 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust Nazi Occupation Auschwitz | NF | CB |
The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story | Birnbaum, Nechama | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944 | Europe | Romania Germany | Holocaust Auschwitz | F | N |
They Went Left | Hesse, Monica | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Poland Germany | Holocaust | F | N |
The Search | Heuvel, Eric | 2009 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust | F | GN |
Dawn | Wiesel, Elie | 1960 | YA A | Modern Age | 1946-1948 | Europe | Palestine | Holocaust Post WWII | NF Bio | N |
Day | Wiesel, Elie | 1961 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States | Holocaust Post WWII | NF Bio | N |
Margot | Cantor, Jillian | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1959 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Holocaust Holocaust Survivors | F | N |
Now | Gleitzman, Morris | 2013 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2013 | Australia | Australia | Holocaust Post WWII | F | N |
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |