Alicia
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
   
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality.
Bantam Books
paperback: 433 pages (item #058)*

Price: $7.50

Genya
Genya Finkelstein
    
Genya Finkelstein was born on December 15, 1930 in Berezna, a small village in Ukraine. In 1941, when she was 11 years old, Nazis invaded her village. In this remarkable memoir Genya describes her life and the life of her family before and during the war.
GT Publishing
hardcover: 142 pages (item #057)

Price: $18.95

Nightfather
Carl Friedman
    
Dutch poet and journalist Friedman's first novel is a harrowing and deeply moving account of three siblings' struggle to understand their father, a Holocaust survivor plagued by nightmares and horrific memories. "I've had camp," Ephraim explains, referring to his ordeal as if it were the flu or measles, hoping to make it more comprehensible to his sullen preteen son, Max, to the younger and more innocent Simon and to his unnamed eight-year-old daughter, who narrates the story in a terse, precocious, lyrical voice. Eventually, Ephraim relives his camp experience with adult candor, telling his offspring of gassings, slave labor, torture and sadistic beatings, of how he murdered a camp boss and of his miraculous liberation and reunion with Bette, his wife and the children's mother.
Persea Books
paperback: 136 pages (item #056)

Price: $7.95

Forging Freedom
Hudson Talbott
    
Jaap Penrat can't understand the Germans' hatred of his Jewish neighbors in his hometown of Amsterdam. He begins by using his father's printing press to forge identification cards and papers for Jewish neighbors and refugees, but as the Nazi grasp tightens, he is forced to take a more drastic path -- leading twenty Jews on the dangerous first leg of a journey to Paris, the start of the underground pipeline to safety. This initial group of twenty men is only the beginning; the number eventually grows to over four hundred Jews saved from certain death by Jaap Penraat's heroic efforts, brought to life in this vivid retelling. Recommended for ages 8 - 12.
Putnam
hardcover: 64 pages (item #055)

Price: $15.99

Salvaged Pages - Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
Alexandra Zapruder
    
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences-some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos. The book includes excerpts from fifteen diaries, ten of which have never before been translated and published in English. The diarists ranged in age from twelve to twenty-two; some survived the Holocaust, but most perished. Taken together, their accounts of daily events and their often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.
Yale University Press
paperback: 481 pages (item #054)

Price: $20.00