Powerful Books for Teaching the Holocaust

King Christian X of Denmark was loved by his people, and he loved them. When the Nazis invaded his country during World War II, the wise king had to think of a way to save the Danish Jews. Would his bravery and loyalty be enough?

A young Jewish girl and her sister face the challenges of growing up in Poland during World War II. 

Marcel dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, but ever since Germany's occupation of France began two years ago, in 1940, the race has been canceled. Now there are soldiers everywhere, interrupting Marcel's rides with checkpoints and questioning. Then Marcel learns two big secrets, and he realizes there are worse things about the war than a canceled race.

With art by Álvaro Sarraseca and text adapted by Georgia Ball, Lauren Tarshis's New York Times best-selling I Survived series takes on vivid new life in this explosive graphic novel edition. Includes nonfiction back matter with historical photos and facts about World War II and the Holocaust.

In this gripping new addition to the best-selling I SURVIVED series, a young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis — and fight back?

In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy struggles to survive...

As German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her by pretending she's part of the family.

When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding.

Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival.

Hannah is tired of hearing about the Nazis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. 

Anne Frank lived only 5,748 days, and ten of those days in particular changed her world and ours.

A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz, this timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge.

Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.

Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager whose family took in two Jewish men in Nazi-occupied Poland and hid them under their barn floor. Maria's stirring story is one of five featured in this important book of young people putting their lives on the line for others.

Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family was trapped in Nazi Germany and, for over six years, was forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps. Their true story is one of horror and hardship, but also one of courage, hope, and the will to survive.

The Holocaust Reader provides everything you need to teach one of the toughest topics in your curriculum, including high-quality texts on the history of the Holocaust, interviews with survivors, historical photographs, maps and infographics, online teaching guides for different grade levels, and a glossary of key terms and vocabulary. 

Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking novel. 

A meticulously researched account of the largest youth group in history, much of it told by participants.

A terrifying account of the Nazi death-camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his god. 

Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable—Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II—and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.

Celebrating the way that books and stories unite people in the face of tragedy, this haunting, weighty, and transformative book is impossible to forget.

In the grip of World War II, Maria has realized that her Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town is no longer safe. Though she and her family might survive, her friend Nathan, who is Jewish, is in grave danger. So Maria and Nathan flee — into the heart of Hitler's Reich in Austria.