By Heather Dune Macadam
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The acclaimed internationally best-selling author of Rena's Promise reveals the poignant stories of the 999 women on the first official transport to Auschwitz, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses and relatives of those first deportees.

By Sid Jacobson

Drawing on the archives and expertise of the Anne Frank House, the best-selling authors of 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation cover the short-but-inspiring life of the famed Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp.

By Anne Frank
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, March 10, 2020. 7:30 PM.

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Anne Frank's death

Teens Welcome

The autobiographical reminiscences of a young Jewish girl coming of age during World War II describes her life in hiding from the Nazis and offers a poignant study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

By Eric Lamet
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When the author was seven, his family’s middle-class Viennese existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages.

By Mona Golabek

A renowned concert pianist presents an account of her mother's escape from pre– World War II Vienna to an orphanage in London, where she formed friendships, found love, and won a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Academy of London.

By Edith Eva Eger

A dual memoir and guide to healing by a psychologist and Holocaust survivor counsels patients on how to escape the prisons of their own minds, describing her harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and how it gave her particular insights into the challenges of PTSD.

By Clara Kramer
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people (From the Publisher).”

By Krystyna Chiger
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Chiger's exceptional story of a small Jewish girl stands out among the many Holocaust survival narratives as one that will touch the hearts of teens and adults alike and bring home the horrors of this very dark period in history (School Library Journal Review).”

By Erik Larson
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  7:30 PM. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

By Albert Speer

The author presents a detailed account of his fifteen-year association with the German Fuhrer. A painstaking and plainspeaking record by a man whose memories of the Hitler years still reflect "the enthusiasms and the glory of my youth as well as belated horror and guilt."

By Chil Rajchman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the authors tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka’s workers’ revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.

By Selma van de Perre
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This memoir from a 98–year–old Jewish Resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor tells the story of how she took on an assumed identity fighting Nazi occupation in the Netherlands before being sent to a women’s prison.

By Edith Hahn Beer
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Autobiography of a woman who took on the identity of a non–Jewish woman and married a Nazi offiver in order to survive the Holocaust.

By Elie Wiesel
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, November 15, 2016. 7:30 PM.

The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.

By Martin Davidson

Traces the author's research into his family's history after learning at his mother's deathbed that his formidable grandfather had been a Nazi SS officer, describing his discoveries of how his grandfather embodied the persona of an ideal soldier whose fortunes reflected the rise and fall of the Nazi party.

By Erik Larson

The best–selling author of Dead Wake draws on personal diaries, archival documents – and declassified intelligence in a portrait of Winston Churchill that explores his day–to– day experiences during the Blitz and his role in uniting England.

By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

Recounts how the author and her family was marginalized and tormented for their Jewish heritage after the Nazi invasion of Austria, describing how they were forced to flee to a Shanghai ghetto where the living conditions tested their ability to survive.

By Diane Ackerman
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, October 10. 7:30 PM.

When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her.