Holocaust Literature: Additional Titles of Interest

"A mesmerizing novel based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industralist who saved and succored more than 1000 Jews from the Nazis at enormous financial and emotional expense." --Publisher's Weekly*

*Cahners Business Information, Inc. (1992). Schindler's list. Retrieved from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Schindlers-List-Thomas-Keneally/dp/product-description/0671516884/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

"Holocaust survivor Chiger and co-author Paisner detail Chiger's early years, largely spent hiding from Nazi and Ukrainian persecution. Chiger chronicles long, dark hours spent in silence with her younger brother, Pawel, in makeshift bunkers and behind false walls while their parents worked menial jobs for meager rations. After the Chigers are forced into the underground sewer system, with a collection of strangers, by the Lvov ghetto liquidation in May 1943, the family spends fourteen months in the most unsanitary conditions imaginable, sharing quarters with rats and human waste. Amid the sick and starving, young Chiger clings to hope through make believe games, trust in her parents, and the Catholic sewer worker who provides their only access to the outside world." -- Publisher's Weekly*

* Reed Business Information. (n.d). The girl in the green sweater. Retrieved from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Green-Sweater-Holocausts-Shadow/dp/1250018986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355589800&sr=1-1&keywords=the+girl+with+the+green+sweater

"The unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey." --amazon.com*

* All but my life. (n.d.). Retrieved from ttp://www.amazon.com/All-But-My-Life-Memoir/dp/0809015803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355590452&sr=1-1&keywords=all but my life

"Imagining that, by volunteering for a work camp, she would somehow be protecting her family from the Nazis, Rena, at age 17, put on her best clothes, left her fiance and the Polish village of Tylicz in the Carpathian Mountains and was sent off to Auschwitz. Presently, her sister Danka arrived, as did cousins, schoolmates and neighbors. As a child, she had promised her mother to look after her baby sister, and that promise obsessed her throughout her incarceration in the camp. It gave her reason to survive, so that one day she could bring Danka safely home. How they escaped starvation, beatings, the crematorium, the medical experiments of the notorious Josef Mengele and survived the end of the war is all recounted here in this spirited survivor's testament, written with freelancer Macadam. After the war, Rena married a Red Cross worker and emigrated to the U.S., following her sister." --Publisher's Weekly*

Reed Business Information. (1995). Rena's promise.Retrieved from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Renas-Promise-Story-Sisters-Auschwitz/dp/0807070718/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355589923&sr=1-1&keywords=rena%27s+promise

"Polish-born Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, was a teenager when her family and others hid from the Nazis in a secret bunker, rescued by a former housekeeper and her husband, a reputed drunken anti-Semite who turned out to be an avenging angel. Kramer's extensive recollections range from a liaison that threatened the household and daily squabbles in the tomblike underground quarters where food was scarce to their fear of discovery by the Nazis and the shock and desperation of learning about relatives and friends who had been killed. Her sister was sold out by a neighbor boy for a few liters of vodka. This vividly detailed and taut narrative is a fitting tribute to the bravery of victims and righteous gentiles alike. 8 pages of b&w photos."* --Publisher's Weekly

Reed Business Information. (n.d.). Rena's Promise. Retrieved from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Claras-War-Girls-Story-Survival/dp/0061728616/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355590053&sr=1-1&keywords=clara%27s+war

"This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal refugee bereft of family, wandering from village to village in a country grown deeply divided by the indiscriminate atrocities of unruly, sociopathic rebel and army forces. Beah then finds himself in the army—in a drug-filled life of casual mass slaughter that lasts until he is 15, when he's brought to a rehabilitation center sponsored by UNICEF and partnering NGOs. The process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center's work after his "repatriation" to civilian life in the capital, where he lives with his family and a distant uncle. When the war finally engulfs the capital, it sends 17-year-old Beah fleeing again, this time to the U.S., where he now lives. Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongoing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide."-- Publisher's Weekly*

Reed Business Information. (n.d.). Long way gone. Retrieved from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Claras-War-Girls-Story-Survival/dp/0061728616/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355590053&sr=1-1&keywords=clara%27s+war

"From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit."--Dust jacket*(WorldCat)

* Ung, L. (2000). First they killed my father: A daughter of Cambodia remembers. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers

"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute." --amazon.com

* Dolan, M. (n.d.). We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Wish-Inform-Tomorrow-Killed-Families/dp/0312243359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355590570&sr=1-1&keywords=we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families