Holocaust Non Fiction

A Thousand Darknesses : Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction
By:  Ruth Franklin
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Reading Level: 8
Young Adult



Operation Exodus : from the Nazi death camps to the promised land : a perilous journey that shaped Israel's fate
By:  Gordon Thomas
New York : Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Young Adult

A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals--both Jews and Nazis--associated with it. The book presents the stories of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. One of the Nazis managed to stay at large for twenty-two years. One of the survivors lived long enough to lose a son in the Yom Kippur War. Nearly sixty photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives. And, in keeping with the emotional immediacy of those photographs, Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events.

The boy : a Holocaust story
By:  Dan Porat
New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

Relates the stories of courageous non-Jewish teenagers who rescued Jews from the Nazis.

Rescuers Defying the Nazis : Non-Jewish teens who rescued Jews
By:  Toby Axelrod
New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1999.
Lexile 870