Books about the Holocaust for Grades K - 3
at the Elmhurst Public Library

FICTION

The Night Crossing   by Karen Ackerman
Young Clara, her older sister Marta and their parents encounter many dangers as they escape Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland.  56 p.  (J Fic Ackerman)

One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story   by David Adler
During Hanukkah two children help a Holocaust survivor to once again embrace his religious traditions.  28 p.  (J E Adl)

Twenty and Ten   by Claire Hutchet Bishop
Based on the true story of twenty French orphans who helped hide and protect ten Jewish refugee children during the German occupation.  76 p.  (J Fic Bishop)

Terrible Things   by Eve Bunting
Little Rabbit learns the value of sticking together as the Terrible Things carry away the creatures of the forest clearing. This story is a gentle telling of “The Final Solution” through the allegory of animals and it teaches the dangers of hatred and bigotry.  26 p.  (J E Bun)

The Cats in Krasinski Square   by Karen Hesse
A young girl who has escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and now lives on the other side of the wall with her sister, works with others including many cats to get a shipment of smuggled food to the people trapped in the ghetto.  unpaged.  (J E Hes)

Star of Fear, Star of Hope   by Jo Hoestlandt
Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.  unpaged.  (J E Hoe)

Rose Blanche   by Roberto Innocenti
A young girl discovers a concentration camp in the woods near her town and begins to carry food to its inhabitants.  32p.  (J Fic Innocenti)

The Harmonica   by Tony Johnston
Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.  30 p.  (J E Joh)

Flowers on the Wall   by Miriam Nerlove
Rachel, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, struggles to survive with her family and maintains hope by painting colorful flowers on her dingy apartment walls.  unpaged.  (J E Ner)

The Lily Cupboard   by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.  unpaged.  (J E Opp)

The Butterfly   by Patricia Polacco
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.  unpaged.  (J E Pol)

Nine Spoons: A Chanukah Story   by Marci Stillerman
A survivor of the Holocaust tells her grandchildren how they gathered spoons to make a menorah for Hanukkah. Based on actual events.  unpaged.  (J E Sti)

Let the Celebrations Begin   by Margaret Wild
A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp.  28 p.  (J Fic Wild)

NON-FICTION

The Children We Remember   by Chana Byers Abells
Text and photographs briefly describe the fate of Jewish children after the Nazis began to control their lives.  48p.  (J 940.53161 Abe)

Child of the Warsaw Ghetto   by David Adler
A story of the Warsaw ghetto as seen through the eyes of Froim Baum, one of Janusz Korczak’s orphans who survived the Holocaust.  unpaged.  (J 940.5318 Adl)

Hilde and Eli, Children of the Holocaust   by David Adler
The story of two of the 1.5 million Jewish children who were victims of the Holocaust.  30 p.  (J 940.5318 Adl)

The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm   by David Adler
A grandfather explains to his five-year-old granddaughter what happened in the Holocaust.  28 p.  (J 940.5318 Adl)

A Picture Book of Anne Frank   by David Adler
Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.  27 p.  (J 921 Frank)

Remember Not to Forget   by Norman H. Finkelstein
A brief introduction to the Holocaust in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.  31 p.  (J 940.5315 Fin)

Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II   by M. Russo
After many years during which her grandmother skirted the issue, a young girl finally hears the story of how several of her female relatives survived the Holocaust.  unpaged.  (J 940.5318 Rus)

Erika’s Story   by Ruth Vander Zee
A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.  unpaged.  (J 940.5318 Van)

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