The Holocaust in Literature
 
This web site provides students, parents, and educators interested in the Holocaust with information regarding literature, fiction and nonfiction, picture books, and resource materials, as well as, web sites where information about Holocaust related topics can be found. New additions are listed below with the date added and the entry's genre. New additions are marked with ** where listed.
  • 07/09/08: Mendelssohn is on the Roof. Jiri Weil. fiction
  • 07/16/08: This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz. Piera Sonnino. nonfiction
  • 09/17/08: I Am David. Anne Holm. fiction
  • 09/18/08: Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People. Angela Gluck Wood. resource
  • 11/12/08: War Without Friends. Evert Hartman. fiction
  • 01/08/09: Cezanne is Missing. Frank McMillan. fiction
  • 01/16/09: Memories of Babi. Aranka Siegal. nonfiction
  • 01/27/09: Memorial & Museum Auschwitz - Birkenau website revised. web sites
  • 02/10/09: One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II. Lita Judge. picture book
  • 02/13/09: The Holocaust by Bullets. Father Patrick Desbois. nonfiction
  • 02/18/09: Traces: Stories. Ida Fink. fiction
  • 02/24/09: The Journey. Ida Fink. fiction
  • 03/09/09: We Were in Auschwitz. Janusz Nel Siedlecki et al. non-fiction
  • 03/09/09: Pastor André Trocmé: Spirtual Leader of the French Village Le Chambon. Allison Stark Draper. non-fiction
  • 03/27/09: Hidden Letters. annotated by Deborah Slier & Ian Shine. non-fiction
  • 04/01/09: The Reader. Bernhard Schlink. fiction
  • 06/25/09: The Good Liar. Gregory Maquire. fiction

As a language arts teacher, who taught about the Holocaust, I discovered I needed to pull resources from many locations. This web page, a project of my Museum Fellowship with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is an attempt to provide students, educators, and parents with a starting point. I have read all materials listed and used many of them in my teaching, both in the classroom and in my current position as an educator for a Holocaust and human rights organization. Web sites listed are only a partial listing, but contain links to other sites. It should be noted that the comments regarding items are mine unless noted otherwise and are meant to help the user evaluate choices.

Jacqueline Littlefield

Please email me suggestions for further additions to this site, questions regarding content , etc. at jmlittlefield@maine.edu

last updated 06/25/09

created 06/00