Someone was looking for sources for the Holocaust for children's 
curriculum.  Well, here it is:


Books with Annotations for Study: Links to Websites:
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
Night
Wartime Lies
Hide and Seek
On the Other Site of the Gate
The Cage
Katerina
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor
Maus
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
<http://www.ushmm.org/>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
<http://www.annefrank.nl/>Anne Frank Stichting
<http://www.annefrank.nl/>Anne Frank House
<http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/>To Save A Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue
<http://remember.org/cylinks.html>Holocaust Learning Links
<http://www.fourperfectpebbles.com/>Four Perfect Pebbles - A Holocaust Story
<http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/maus/index.htm>MAUS Online Exhibit 
[National Museum of American Jewish History]
<http://www.hudsontalbott.com/freedom.html>Forging Freedom
<http://users.rcn.com/duba/writing.htm>Tales From A Child of the Enemy

Further ReadingsBearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust.
Selected by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell. 1995. 135p. Orchard 
Books. (Grades 8-12)
Bernstein, Sara Tuvel. The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival.
1997. 353p. G.P.Putnam Sons. (Grades 8-12)
Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the 
Holocaust.
1997. 224p. Simon & Schuster. (Grades 7-12)
Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss. Editors' Choice 2002*
Edited by Mindy Weisel. Virginia: Capital Books, Inc., 2000.
*Chosen by Booklist's Books for Youth Editors as one of the year's best 
personal reading for teenagers among the adult books published in 2001.
Duba, Ursula. Tales From A Child of the Enemy.
New York: Penguin Books, 1997. (Grades 9-12)
see also Author's Website at: 
<http://users.rcn.com/duba/index.html>http://users.rcn.com/duba/index.html
Isaacs, Anne. Torn Thread.
New York: Scholastic Press. 2000.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List: A Novel.
1982. 397p. Simon & Schuster. (Grades 9-12)
Klein, Gerda Weissman. All But My Life
New York: Hill & Wang Publishers 1995.
Watch and listen (text and photos also available for printing) the author 
and her husband record parts of their personal histories from the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Requires RealPlayer) at: 
<http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/phi_individuals_kurt_gerda_klein_uu.htm>http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/phi_individuals_kurt_gerda_klein_uu.htm
 

Land-Weber, Ellen. To Save A Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000
An interview with the author! 
<http://www.northcoastjournal.com/100500/cover1005.html>http://www.northcoastjournal.com/100500/cover1005.html
 

More about the book: 
<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/landweber.html>http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/landweber.html
 

Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War.
1998. 193p. Greenwillow Books. (Grades 6-12)
Opdyke, Irene Gut with Jennifer Armstrong. In My Hands: Memories of a 
Holocaust Rescuer.
1999. 280p. Alfred A. Knopf. (Grades 6-12)
See ACHUKA's interview with Irene Gut Opdyke at 
http://www.achuka.co.uk/special/opdyke.htm
See Publisher's Reader's Guide at: 
<http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385720327&view=rg>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385720327&view=rg
 

Orlev, Uri. The Man From The Other Side. Translated From the Hebrew by 
Hillel Halkin.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. (Grades 7-12)
Pausewang, Gudrun. The Final Journey.
Translated by Patricia Crampton. 1996. 160p. Viking. (Grades 7-12)
Perl, Lilia and Marion Bluementhal Lazan. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust 
Story.
1996. 130p. Greenwillow. (Grades 5-9)
Rabinovici, Schoschana. Thanks to My Mother.
Translated by James Skofield. 1998. 246p. Dial. (Grades 9-12)
Russ, Irene W. The Rest You Know: A Mother's Story of Survival
Texas: Idea University Press, 2001. (Grades 9-12)
Schieber, Ava Kadishson. Soundless Roar: Stories, Poems and Drawings.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002. (Grades 9-12)
Talbott, Hudson Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust
2000. New York: The Putnam Publishing Group, Ltd., October 2000
For Author's Notes go to: 
<http://www.hudsontalbott.com/insidebook.htm>http://www.hudsontalbott.com/insidebook.htm
 

Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood 
During WWII.
1993. 161p. Dial Books (Grades 6-10)
Verhoeven, Rian. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance.
1993. 113p. Viking. (Grades 6-10)
Vos, Ida. The Key is Lost. Translated by Terese Edelstein.
New York: HarperCollins, 2000. (Grades 5-9)

<http://www.euronet.nl/users/jubo/teachers.html>Teaching and Reading Guides 
Online

<http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/resource/gallery/maps.htm>GALLERY OF 
MAPS (from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust)
[More than three dozen maps, from cities to concentration camps to 
continents and more; many formatted for printing.]


Further Readings for Educators
Rochman, Hazel. "Beyond Boundaries" Book Links* Magazine:
  "Bearing Witness to the Holocaust" January 1998, p.8-14.
  "Should You Teach Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl?" May 1998, p.45-49.
  "Holocaust Survivors, Rescuers, and Bystanders." January 1999, p.54-57.

*Book Links is an ALA publication; for further information go to: I found 
this on the website for the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace 
Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno.  Just go to 
<http://www.unr.edu>www.unr.edu then go to the academics then click on the 
center.

Rivka Strom
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