Nonfiction
July 2016
Focus on the Holocaust
50 children : one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
by Steven Pressman

Based on the HBO documentary of the same name, this remarkable true story of personal courage and heroism follows one Jewish-American couple as they, risking their own lives, travel to Nazi-controlled Vienna and Berlin to rescue 50 Jewish children.
Anne Frank : hope in the shadows of the Holocaust
by Spring Hermann

Documents the life of Anne Frank, including her childhood, time in hiding, and the time she spent in a Nazi concentration camp before her death, and the release of her diary which became world famous
Hitler's furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields
by Wendy Lower

A revelatory history of the role of German women in the Holocaust reveals their lesser-known roles as plunderers, witnesses and actual executioners on the Eastern front, describing how period nurses, teachers, secretaries and wives responded to what they believed to be Nazi opportunities only to perform brutal duties. 30,000 first printing.
Nazi gold : the full story of the fifty-year Swiss-Nazi conspiracy to steal billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust survivors
by Tom Bower

An expose reveals how Switzerland's most senior government officials and financial institutions systematically conspired to keep billions in gold and other valuables deposited by Jews in Swiss banks or stolen by the Nazis from their rightful heirs. $75,000 ad/promo.
The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust
by Edith Hahn-Beer

The author, a Jewish law student when the war broke out, recounts how she survived the Holocaust as the wife of a Nazi party member in Munich
In the camps : teens who survived the Nazi concentration camps
by Toby Axelrod

Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards
Focus on the Holocaust: Books for Children and Teens
 
 

The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
by Karen Gray Ruelle

During the Nazi occupation of Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation to a concentration camp. Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place, the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but also a community center, this hive of activity was an ideal temporary hiding place for escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages, including children
Elly : my true story of the Holocaust
by Elly Gross

Torn from her happy home and sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis like so many other Jewish families, Elly describes what life was like for her during her darkest days--losing her family, working long hours, and fighting for survival before her new life began in America after being set free at the end of the war.
The Holocaust heroes
by David K. Fremon

Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution
The death camps
by William W. Lace

Describes the establishment of concentration camps throughout Nazi-occupied territory whose sole purpose was to exterminate Jews and other people considered undesirable by Hitler and his followers
The Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi Germany
by Linda Jacobs Altman

Describes the history of the Nazi era in Germany, including Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the many atrocities committed during the Holocaust
The Holocaust camps
by Ann Byers

Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews
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