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There are very many books written about the horrors of the Second World War and the Jewish children who lived and died during it. Some are stories like Anne Frank’s. Some tell of survivors and refugees, some are about the brave people who tried to help. Most are based on true stories. The Nazis persecuted the Jews and they also persecuted others: black people, homosexuals, Roma and people with disabilities. Writers, journalists, socialists, trade unionists and political opponents to the Nazi regime were also targeted.

There are several listings of books about the Holocaust suitable for children. The following are useful points of contact for lists and guides: • Public libraries www.askaboutireland.ie/libraries • Children’s books Ireland www.childrensbooksireland.com • International Board on Books for Young People www.ibbyireland.ie

Every country participating in The Crocus Project will have its own recommended reading list.

The books on this reading list refer specifically to the Holocaust. Teachers are strongly advised to read all books before reading them in the classroom and to add their own selections to the list. 31116c_Crocus_IRE_ENG_Booklist_1 30/08/2018 17:08 Page 4

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Anne Frank’s Diary

In 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public. As an example, he specifically mentioned letters and diaries. The broadcast was heard by a young Jewish girl called Anne Frank, who was hiding with her family and friends in a secret annexe in Amsterdam. She had been keeping a diary of her experiences since they first went into hiding in 1942.

Anne thinks this is a brilliant idea and writes “Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annexe!” In May 1944, the idea of this novel takes on serious form: “At long last after a great deal of reflection I have started my Achterhuis (Secret Annexe), in my head it is as good as finished, although it won’t go as quickly as that, if it ever comes off at all”.

The diary of Anne Frank was found in the Secret Annexe after the family was arrested and was kept carefully by Miep Gies, one of the people who helped the family. Miep handed the diary back to Otto Frank, together with Anne’s notebooks and loose sheets of paper, when he returned to Amsterdam.

The diary continues to be read by millions of people all over the world.

The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition by Anne Frank Translated by Susan Massotty, Puffin Books, 2002 (Age 11+)

Other Books about Anne Frank Other editions of the diary are also available.

A Friend Called Anne by Jacqueline Van Maarsen Hannah Goslar Remembers Edited by Carol Ann Lee, Puffin Books, 2004 Bloomsbury (Age 11) (Age 11+) Hannah and her best friend, Anne Frank, lived a This is the true story of two best friends, one of relatively normal girlhood – going to school, playing whom was Anne Frank. Jacqueline van Maarsen in the park and growing up. Until one day, Anne gives a fascinating and moving account of her disappeared and Hannah and her family began to friendship with Anne and describes how she and realise that everything was changing around them. In her own family lived through the Nazi occupation. this profoundly moving book, we are told of the hardships of living through the Second World War, of Eva’s Story: Survivor’s Tale by the stepsister of the struggle for daily survival and finally of the Anne Frank by Evelyn Julia Kent and Eva nightmare of deportation to a concentration camp – Schloss, Castle-Kent, 1999 (Age 12+) where Hannah was once more to meet up with Anne. A refugee in 1938, betrayed and arrested in 1944, Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Auschwitz – the same age as Anne Frank – only Lindwer, Macmillan, 2000 (Age 14+) now, over 40 years later, has Eva felt able to tell An account of what happened to Anne between her story. her arrest in August 1944 until her death seven months later. This book contains the eyewitness testimony of six Jewish female survivors who describe Anne’s ordeals as she was transported to Westerbork, Auschwitz, and finally, Bergen-Belsen. 31116c_Crocus_IRE_ENG_Booklist_1 30/08/2018 17:08 Page 5

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Other Holocaust Stories

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by No Stars at the Circus by Mary Finn, Walker Judith Kerr, Collins, 2005 (Age 10+) Books 2014 (Age 10+) Anna’s father is wanted by the Nazis – Ten-year old Jonas Albers lives in Paris with his dead or alive – and one day he parents and younger sister Nadia, who is deaf. disappears. Then she and her brother While he is staying with friends (the Carrado Max are rushed by their mother, in family working in the circus), his family are alarming secrecy, away from everything eventually deported to the East. It is no longer they knew – home and schoolmates safe for Jonas to stay with his circus friends and he and well-loved toys – right out of is smuggled into the Professor’s house. While in Germany. hiding Jonas keeps a diary about his experiences.

Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine, Evans The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Brothers, 2003 (Age 10+) became Possible by Leon Leyson, Atheneum In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children’s Books for Young Readers, 2012 (Age 11+) Holocaust Education Centre in Tokyo. It belonged An account of one child’s survival during the to an orphan girl called Hana Brady. Everyone was Holocaust as No. 289 on Schindler’s list. Born Leib desperate to discover the story of Hana – who Lejzon, in Krakow, Leon was only 10 years old when was she? What had happened to her? This is her the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced true story. to relocate to the ghetto. At thirteen he and his other family members found refuge at Oskar Schindler’s Hitler’s Canary by Sandi Toksvig, Doubleday, Enamel factory. He was so small Schindler called him 2005 (Age 10+) ‘Little Leyson’ and he had to stand on a wooden box This is the story of one of history’s most dramatic to operate the factory’s machinery. rescues – smuggling Denmark’s Jewish population across the water to Sweden, and Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor, The O’Brien safety. Many of the characters are based on the Press, 1999 (reprinted) (Age 11+) Teaching author’s own family, including her father, Bamse, guide available free on www.obrien.ie/schools and the book was inspired by the stories he told Karl and his sister Rosa, young Jews who escape to her. the Nazi terror on a Kindertransport, are forced to leave their family behind. After frightening The Good Liar by Gregory Maguire, The experiences and a harrowing journey, they find a O’Brien Press, 2002 (Age 10+) haven at a refugee farm at Millisle, County Down, Set in wartime France, this touching novel tells in Northern Ireland. The devastating Belfast Blitz the story of Marcel and his brothers Rene and of 1941 provides the climax to this story, which is Pierre, who befriend a German soldier during the based on true events. life-changing summer of 1940. Then Uncle Anton brings a woman and her young daughter to stay Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan, Illustrated by and suddenly everything changes, as the threat of Roberto Innocenti, Red Fox, 2004 (Age 10+) the German army looms closer. Rose Blanche, (Weiße Rose or White Rose), was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at Odette's Secrets by Maryann Macdonald, their peril, protested against the war. Rose is also the Bloomsbury USA, 2013 (Age 10+) little girl in this picture book, who watches as the streets A fictional story inspired by the life of Odette of her small German town fill with soldiers. When she Meyer, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi occupied discovers a place where children are imprisoned, Paris, and the many secrets she learns to keep. staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire Odette knows that her Jewish identity must be fence, she starts bringing them food. An incredibly hidden and that she must never tell anyone about powerful visual image of the horrors of the Holocaust. her mother’s resistance activities. She is smuggled into the French countryside where she Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren, Hodder (Age 12+) learns quickly how to hide her Jewish identity. It is 1942. Fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum has When the war ends, can Odette return to her old just arrived at a Nazi concentration Camp. Torn from life? his family, he now faces disease, starvation and the insane brutality of the Holocaust. The harrowing true story…as told by Jack himself. 31116c_Crocus_IRE_ENG_Booklist_1 30/08/2018 17:08 Page 6

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One Small Suitcase by Barry Turner, Puffin occupied Europe and infused it with hope, Books (Age 12+) humour and great humanity. For younger The true story of the Kindertransport children who readers dreadful events are revealed gradually, were rescued from Nazi Germany and brought to and with great compassion; for those of us England to start a new life. It has been specially already familiar with the almost unimaginable adapted for children by Barry Turner from his horror that was the Holocaust, it is a timely highly acclaimed book, And the Policeman Smiled. reminder of what happens when bigotry and prejudice go unchecked. The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow, Harper Collins Press, 2011 (Age 12+) The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, Set in 1930’s Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern Penguin, 2003 (Graphic Novel) (Age 14+) never thought of himself as a Jew, his family are The story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, not religious and he has never been to a living and surviving in Hitler’s Europe. By synagogue. Nonetheless, he is relentlessly bullied, addressing the horror of the Holocaust beaten and humiliated at school by his classmates through cartoons, the author captures the because of his ‘religion’. When Max Schmeling, everyday reality of fear and is able to explore champion boxer and German national hero, the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of makes a deal with Karl’s father to give Karl boxing survival – and how the children of survivors are lessons, he can now learn to protect himself from in their own way affected by the trials of their his tormentors. Inspired by the true story of parents. A contemporary classic of German heavy weight champion Max immeasurable significance. Schmeling’s experiences following Kristallnacht. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, Scholastic, The Extra by Kathryn Lasky, Candlewick 2013 (Age 14+) Press, 2013 (Age 12+) Yanek Gruener is a ten-year-old Jewish boy Fifteen-year-old Lilo is from a Sinti family living in living in Krakow in 1939. Under German Vienna during World War II. One day her family is occupation life becomes more and more picked up by the police as part of a policy to ‘clean difficult for the city’s Jews, schools close to up the Gypsy plague’. However, (real life) famous Jewish children, food rationing is introduced German film director, Leni Riefenstahl chooses and slowly walls are erected around the city to Lilo to work as a film extra on a new movie she is create a ghetto. One-day Yanek’s family is making in Spain. She treats Lilo and the other deported and he is left to survive on his own. Roma extras appallingly. Lilo takes her life into her In 1942 he is finally captured and is tattooed own hands and attempts to escape the fate of the with the number B-3087 at Auschwitz- Roma and Sinti people during the War. Birkenau. He experiences horror and humiliation in his daily fight for survival there. August ’44 by Carlo Gébler , Egmont Books, Based on the true story of Auschwitz camp 2003 (Age 13+) survivor Jack Gruener. Sheltering from the Nazis in a hidden cave during the last days of the Second World War, The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse, Saul listens with his family as Claude passes on Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016 the stories of the Golem of Prague, a man made (Age 14+) of mud who protected Prague’s Jews in the Set in Amsterdam 1943, Hanneke is a young sixteenth century. But in the last days of the war, woman who spends her time finding and there’s no protection for the Jews hiding from delivering black market goods to her many their enemies. His parents are killed by retreating clients. This is very dangerous work but feels soldiers and Saul is utterly alone in the world. But like a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. one person from the cave remains. She is also grieving the death of her boyfriend killed on the Dutch front lines during the Once by Morris Gleitzman, Puffin Books, German invasion. One day a client asks 2005 (Age 12+) Hanneke if she can help locate a missing Jewish Once a gifted, honest and unsentimental teenager who has disappeared without a trace author wrote a moving account that did not from a secret hiding place? Hanneke is soon flinch from the truth of what life really was like drawn into the mystery of what happened to for Jewish children and their families in Nazi- the young Jewish girl who vanished. 31116c_Crocus_IRE_ENG_Booklist_1 30/08/2018 17:08 Page 7 31116c_Crocus_IRE_ENG_Booklist_1 30/08/2018 17:08 Page 8

Clifton House, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353 1 6690593 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hetireland.org

This material has been produced with support from the Teacher Education Section of the Department of Education and Skills, Ireland

Co-funded by the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Union

Kunsill Lokali Qrendi Eko Centru Qrendi Qrendi Local Council Qrendi Eco Center

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