Holocaust, 1933-1945 | Batavia High School Media Center

Hitler Youth

Follows the lives of several children who followed the National (Nazi) Socialist Party from 1933 to 1945 recounting stories of their service and rebellion.

Germany, History, Hitler Youth, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

943.086
BAR

Smoke and Ashes

Barbara Rogasky

Tells the history of the Holocaust, discussing Nazi anti-Semitism and the development of plans for the extermination of the Jews, as well as the deportations, ghettos and camps.

Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Juvenile literature

940.53
Rog

Nazi Germany

Ted Gottfried

Describes the Nazis' rise to power in Germany and their efforts to conquer Europe, as well as their full-scale war against Jews and others.

1889-1945, Antisemitism, Europe, Hitler, Adolf, Holocaust, 1933-1945

940.53
Got

Maus Ii

Art Spiegelman

In part two of Maus, Spiegelman continues his Holocaust memoir in a cartoon format.

Children of Holocaust survivors, Comic books, strips, etc, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

940.53
Spi

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a coma, she is transported back to Poland at the onset of World War II into the life of a Jewish teenager.

fiction, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Juvenile fiction

FIC
Nol

Heroes of the Holocaust

Ted Gottfried

Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish resistance, Juvenile literature, Rescue

940.53
Got

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

A young Polish orphan, called names for being Jewish, dreams of the day when he too could become a Nazi in shining boots, until the day he witnesses something that changes his mind forever.

Boys, fiction, Historical fiction, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

FIC
Spi