Saturday, February 18, 2012

Holocaust Novels

Book Cover"Working as a street cleaner at a large city hospital, paroled felon Lamont forges an unlikely friendship with a dying man; while struggling professor Adam discovers wrenching historical recordings of victims of the Holocaust."--From Novelist
The Street Sweeper by: Elliot Perman
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012, c2011.


Book CoverAn amazing and inspirational World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many.
His name was Raoul Wallenberg / by Louise Borden.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2012.

Book CoverFrom 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family strupple to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Yellow Star By: Jennifer Roy
Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, c2006.


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Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.

Hope : a tragedy  By:  Shalom Auslander
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.

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What was it like hiding in the Annex with Anne Frank? This novel tells the story from the point of view of Peter Van Pels, from the day he went into hiding with the Franks, through his imprisonment at Auschwitz.

Annexed  By:  Sharon Dogar
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010.














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