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1	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps more books like this by Andrea Warren add to wishlist Living in Poland, 12-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he's Jewish. But when Hitler comes to power, Jack is torn from his family as they are herded to a concentration camp, and he is forced to work for the Nazis. Each day is a struggle to survive, and life in the camps is brutal as Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a prisoner's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy more books like this by Thomas Buergenthal, Elie Wiesel (Foreword by) add to wishlist Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. see all copies from $10.99! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust more books like this by Ms. Alexandra Zapruder (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of diaries, written by young people during the Holocaust, reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences - some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, and some were imprisoned in ghettos. The volume contains extensive excerpts from 15 diaries, ten of which have never before been translated and ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Hitler Youth more books like this by Susan Campbell Bartoletti add to wishlist Personalizing the children who belonged to Hitler Youth (1933 to 1945) with fascinating, chilling individual stories, this concise history begins with Hitler's rise to power and moves on to the development of the movement, how and what its participants were taught, and the ways their roles changed with the onset of World War II. Seen through the ... see all copies from $5.52! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin more books like this by Susan Goldman Rubin, Ela Weissberger add to wishlist Full of sorrow yet persistent in its belief that humans can triumph over evil, this memoir of a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to the brave and devoted adults who helped the children of Terezin. Illustrations. see all copies from $3.14! new only from $3.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor more books like this by Laura Hillman, M.D add to wishlist "Tell me what you remember most about home," Dick asked me one evening. "A lilac tree," I said. "It bloomed every May, around the time of Mama's birthday. The memory is so vivid in mind, I can almost smell the lilacs now." In 1942 Hannelore Wolff's life changed forever. Her father had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Six weeks ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $3.47! \| signed copies \| SVS
7	Witnesses to War: 8 True Life Stories of Nazi Persecution more books like this by Michael Leapman add to wishlist A book of biographies giving accounts of the experiences of eight children from different parts of occupied Europe during World War II, who were either forced to hide, to flee, to assume a new identity or were taken prisoner in a concentration camp. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
8	Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries more books like this by Laurel Holliday add to wishlist Holliday has collected the Holocaust-era diaries of almost two dozen teenagers from England to Russia. Holliday includes details of the children's lives and the publishing history of their diaries as introductions to each diary. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.15! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust more books like this by Rutka Laskier add to wishlist Rutka Laskier, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in the town of Bedzin in Poland, died in Auschwitz in 1943. But she left behind a notebook in which she recorded her thoughts, fears and dreams. Some are the musings of any adolescent girl; others are the despairing cries of an individual caught in history's vortex. Now, after 60 years in the keeping of a ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Hana's Suitcase more books like this by Karen Levine add to wishlist "Really, it's a very ordinary looking suitcase. You could fit quite a lot in it. Books, games, treasures, toys. But nothing is inside it now. Across the front, there is a girl's name, Hana Brady. A date of birth: May 16 1931. And Waisenkind. That's the German word for orphan." - Hana's Suitcase When Hana's suitcase arrives from Germany at the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.23! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Time of the Uprooted more books like this by Elie Wiesel, David Hapgood (Translator) add to wishlist In his profoundly moving and thought-provoking new novel, celebrated author Elie Wiesel tells the story of a man--a refugee from both Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and the communist takeover of Hungary in 1956--who comes to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he reconciles with his past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web more books like this by Lynn H Nicholas add to wishlist To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free “good ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon more books like this by Deborah Durland DeSaix, Karen Gray Ruelle add to wishlist see all copies from $3.38! new only from $3.38! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France more books like this by Stacy Cretzmeyer add to wishlist A compelling alternative to Anne Frank's world-famous diary, this moving, first-person account of the impact of war describes the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl in a war-torn country, and the courage of simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect her. 12 photos. 1 map. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942 more books like this by Chava Pressburger (Editor), Elena Lappin (Translator) add to wishlist Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. As a fourteen-year old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully records the increasingly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.72! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt more books like this by Hannelore Brenner, John E Woods (Translator), Shelley Frisch (Translator) add to wishlist From 1942 to 1944, 15,000 children passed through the internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only 100 of them survived the war. In this book, 12 of these children--mothers and grandmothers today in their 70s--tell how they did it. Black-and-white photos throughout. see all copies from $10.45! new only from $15.52! \| SVS
17 view cover	Roman's Journey: A Memoir of Survival more books like this by Roman Halter, Sir Martin Gilbert (Preface by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust more books like this by Alicia Nitecki, Jack Terry add to wishlist When German troops come to the small village of Belzyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Anne Frank more books like this by Josephine Poole, Angela Barrett (Illustrator) add to wishlist The life of Anne Frank, from birth until being taken from the hidden attic by the Nazis, is presented in this haunting, meticulously researched picture book. It is a compelling yet easy-to-understand "first" introduction to the Holocaust as witnessed by Anne and her family. The stunningly evocative illustrations by Angela Barrett are worth a ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $7.36! \| SVS
20	Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens more books like this by Allan Zullo add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
21 view cover	Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 more books like this by Gotz Aly, Ann Millin (Translator) add to wishlist A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the ... see all copies from $4.33! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: A Holocaust Childhood more books like this by Gerda Bikales add to wishlist "This is a beautifully written, insightful chronicle of a young girl's Holocaust survival. Though very private and personal, it nevertheless captures the common torments of children living through this disastrous civilizational breakdown. What makes this book unique is that the author pulls the reader into the story. We get to know her parents ... see all copies from $3.42! new only from $12.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Girl in the Red Coat more books like this by Roma Ligocka, Iris Von Finckenstein, Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator) add to wishlist In the movie SCHINDLER'S LIST, there is an image of a little girl in a red coat--and that child is Roma Ligocka, who tells her story in this poignant Holocaust memoir of the Krakow ghetto. Ligocka also brings her story up to date as she describes her subsequent life as an artist and mother in Munich. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Hide and Seek: A Wartime Childhood more books like this by Theresa Cahn-Tober add to wishlist In 1939, Irenka Licht had just turned three when Germany invaded Poland. Her father, a respected local physician, tapped into a large network of friends who were willing to hide and protect his Jewish family. Irenka was sent to live separate from her family and spent six years hiding in cellars, attics, and a convent. She continually assumed false ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99!
25 view cover	The Hidden Children: Coming to Terms with the Traumatic Legacy of World War II more books like this by Jane Marks add to wishlist In remarkable first-person accounts, 23 adult survivors share the memories many had long suppressed: how they lived in constant danger of discovery, fabricated new identities, battled the guilt of surviving, and found the spirit to love and to heal. An unparalleled document of the miracle of human courage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions

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