Night by Elie Wiesel: The Lessons of the Holocaust
Through Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, the reader gets a sense of what it was like to be a young person caught in the maelstrom of the Nazi Holocaust and the growing darkness that resulted in a never-ending night of prejudice, devastation, and death.
Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance
Yad Vashem
Resistance and Rescue
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Hannah Senesh : her life and diary by Call Number: B SENISBN: 1580232124Publication Date: 2004Journal excerpts help chronicle the experiences Hannah Senesh had while risking her life to save hundreds of fellow Jews from the Nazis. -
Sophie Scholl : the real story of the woman who defied Hitler by Call Number: B SCHISBN: 0752455117Publication Date: 2010Examines the life of Sophie Scholl, a Munich University student who was executed in 1943 as a member of the White Rose, a small underground resistance movement that printed and distributed leaflets protesting Hitler and the Nazi regime and calling for a free and democratic society. -
Kindertransport by Call Number: 940.53 DRUISBN: 0805017119Publication Date: 1995The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II. -
Salvaged pages : young writers' diaries of the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 ZAPISBN: 0300092431Publication Date: 2002Presents excerpts from the Holocaust diaries of fifteen young people, ranging in age from twelve to twenty-two, each with an introductory essay that looks at the writer, and the historical context of the diary, with a study of the text and its relevance in the context of Holocaust history or literature. Includes a list of over fifty additional known diaries written by young people during the period. -
The Hiding Place by Call Number: B TENISBN: 0553256696Publication Date: 1971The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground. -
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank family by Call Number: B GIEISBN: 0671662341Publication Date: 1988An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II. -
Escapes from Nazi Persecution by Call Number: 940.53 CURISBN: 1590182790Publication Date: 2004Provides background on the Holocaust and tells the stories of individuals who escaped from Auschwitz, Sobibor, Colditz, and occupied territories to survive the war. Includes an annotated bibliography and further reading list. -
Treblinka by Call Number: 940.54 STEISBN: 0452011248Publication Date: 1994An account of the death camp built by the Nazis in Poland in 1942 and of the revolt by six hundred Jews who destroyed the camp. -
Flight and Rescue by Call Number: OS 362.87 UNIISBN: 0896047040Publication Date: 2001A companion volume to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, chronicling the experiences of more than two thousand Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe. -
Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism during the Holocaust by Call Number: B PENISBN: 0399234349Publication Date: 2000Chronicles the brave exploits of Jaap Penraat, a young Dutch man, who risked his life during World War II to save the lives of over 400 Jews. -
In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry by Call Number: 940.53 MCCISBN: 0374382042Publication Date: 2008Chronicles the efforts of American journalist Varian Fry, who flew to Mareseilles, France, in 1940 to help artistic and intellectual refugees, such as novelist Heinrich Mann, flee the Nazi regime, but ended up staying for over a year to assist as many people as he could until he was evicted. -
Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53ISBN: 0064461173Publication Date: 1991A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust. -
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims saved Jews during the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 RUEISBN: 0823421597Publication Date: 2009An illustrated picture book that tells of how Muslims helped to hide escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages in the complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris during World War II. -
The Zookeeper's Wife by Call Number: 940.53 ACKISBN: 0393061728Publication Date: 2007Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan. -
The Red Cross and the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 FAVISBN: 052141587XPublication Date: 1999An English translation of a 1988 French text which examines the International Committee of the Red Cross and its work during World War II on behalf of deportees and concentration camp detainees. -
Escape from Sobibor by Call Number: DVD F ESCPublication Date: 1987Presents a fictionalized account of the escape of men, women, and children from a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1943. -
Heroes of the Holocaust by Call Number: 920 GLIISBN: 1590180631Publication Date: 2003Profiles six individuals, some Jewish and some Gentile, who acted heroically in opposing the Nazi persecution of Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.
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Resistance during the Holocaust by Call Number: RR 940.53 RESPublication Date: 2000Explores examples of armed and unarmed resistance by Jews and other Holocaust victims.
Psychological and Moral Implications
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Conscience & Courage : Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 FOGISBN: 0385420285Publication Date: 1995Tells the stories of the people who helped Jews escape the Nazis and why they did it. -
After such knowledge : memory, history, and the legacy of the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 HOFISBN: 1586480464Publication Date: 2004Explores the historical, psychological, and moral implications of the second-generation Holocaust experience, discussing how Holocaust survivors are passing their memories and pain on to the next generation. -
The sunflower : on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness by Call Number: 179.7 WIEISBN: 0805210601Publication Date: 1998Fifty-three men and women discuss the issue of forgivenessand try to help the author determine if he made the right choice when a Nazi officer confessed his sins to Wiesenthal and asked for his forgiveness. -
Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Call Number: B FRAISBN: 0807014265Publication Date: 1992Dr. Frankl recounts details of his experiences in a Nazi death camp and tells how they led to his development of the theory of logotherapy which contends that man has the freedom to transcend suffering and find meaning in his life regardless of his circumstances. -
Eichmann and the Holocaust by Call Number: 940.53 AREISBN: 0143037609Publication Date: 2006Presents selections from Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," as well as excerpts from Arent's reporting on high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for "The New Yorker" magazine, in which she considers the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders and conform to mass opinion without thought to the consequences of their actions. -
Hello, America by Call Number: B JACISBN: 0689867557Publication Date: 2005The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world."
The Courage to Care
"In those times there was darkness everywhere. In heaven and on earth, all the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed. The killer killed and the Jews died and the outside world adopted an attitude either of complicity or of indifference. Only a few had the courage to care. These few men and women were vulnerable, afraid, helpless - what made them different from their fellow citizens?… Why were there so few?… Let us remember: What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander…. Let us not forget, after all, there is always a moment when a moral choice is made…. And so we must know these good people who helped Jews during the Holocaust. We must learn from them, and in gratitude and hope, we must remember them."
Elie Wiesel