Hi, This list is from some presentations I gave a while ago, but I think they are still relevant:
*The Book Thief *by Markus Zusak - 10th grade and up *Rutka's Notebook* - 10th grade and up *T4 *by Anne Clare LeZotte - 9th and up *Yellow Star* by Jennifer Roy - 8th and up *Emil and Karl* by Yankev Glatshteyn and Jeffrey Shandler - 9th and up **Nicholas Winton's Lottery of Life* by Matej Minac and Peter A. Rafaeli - 9th and up ***Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust* by Alexandra Zapruder *Adult Book for Teen Readers (most likely 11th and 12 grade)* ****The Girl in the Green Sweater* by Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner *Tropical Zion* by Allen Wells and *Dominican Haven* by Marian A. Kaplan - about German Jews sent to farm in the Dominican Republic *****Defiance* by Nechama Tec ******Sarah's Key* by Tatiana de Rosnay *Video available - *Nicholas Winton and the Power of Good*. This clip is very powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkgO06bAZk. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 106. ** MTV made a the movie, * I'm Still Here*, based on the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cpvkIU6IY ***FIlm *In Darkness* is based on the book. It won an Academy Award in 2012 for Best Foreign Film. The green sweater is part of the collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/curators-corner/a-cherished-object-kristine-kerens-green-sweater ****Film available (starring Daniel Craig) ***** Film available (heard it was not so good) This bibliography is a little dated, but I like the way it was organized: http://yellowstarfoundation.org/bibliography/bibliography.htm Shabbat Shalom, Chava On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:09 AM Heidi Rabinowitz < bookoflifepodc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody. I'm sure you've heard about the principal of a public high > school in Boca Raton (down the street from my library) who told parents > that he couldn't say the Holocaust was factual history. Thank goodness they > are not renewing his contract. > > The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County put out a statement that > they will be working with the county to ensure proper Holocaust education. > I sent them a note, as a local librarian and a representative of AJL, > offering help with identifying quality Holocaust books. > > I'd appreciate your help in putting together a list of top notch Holocaust > books (both fiction and non) for high schoolers. I'd like to share this > list with the Federation, and actually I think this would be a useful thing > for AJL to publish on our blog and offer to school districts everywhere. > > If you have suggestions, please email me at bookoflifepodc...@gmail.com, > and give me: > 1. Title > 2. Author > 3. Grades for which book is appropriate > > Thanks, > Heidi Rabinowitz >
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