Holocaust Books for Grades 4 & 5
at the Elmhurst Public Library

FICTION

Daughter of Light   by Martha Attema
This story takes place in Holland during WWII in the harsh winter of 1944 -45 and the town’s electricity has been turned off by the Nazis. Nine-year-old Ria is determined to get the local mayor, a Nazi sympathizer, to turn the electricity back on in her house so her pregnant mother can give birth in a warm home filled with light.

Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story   by Malka Drucker
A man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis.  117 p.  (J Fic Drucker)

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit   by Judith Kerr
Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.  191 p.  (J Fic Kerr)

Number the Stars   by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.  137 p.  (J Fic Lowry)

Snow Treasure   by Marie McSwigan
Norwegian children elude the German occupation forces and manage to slip a gold shipment past the Nazis.  156 p.  (J Fic McSwigan and PB)

Waiting for Anya   by Michael Morpurgo
Benjamin needs the help of his entire French village to smuggle twelve Jewish children over the border to safety in Spain.  172 p.  (J Fic Morpurgo)

Escape to the Forest   by Ruth Y. Radin
A young Jewish girl living in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life, first under the Russians, then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.  90 p.  (J Fic Radin)

A Pocket Full of Seeds   by Marilyn Sachs
In occupied France, a young Jewish girl returns home from an overnight visit to a friend to find her family has disappeared.  137 p.  (J Fic Sachs)

Anna Is Still Here   by Ida Vos
Anna, who was a hidden child in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.  139 p.  (J Fic Vos)

Hide and Seek   by Ida Vos
A young Jewish girl living in Holland tells of her experiences during the Nazi occupation, her years in hiding and the after shock when the war finally ends.  132 p.  (J Fic Vos)

NON-FICTION

Tell Them We Remember   by Susan D. Bachrach
Story of the Holocaust with images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  109 p.  (J 940.5318 Bac)

Escape or Die:  True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust   by Ina R. Friedman
Twelve true stories of young Jews and non-Jews who endured the Holocaust.  146 p.  (J 940.5315 Fri)

The Big Lie:  A True Story   by Isabella Leitner
The Author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, during World War II.  79 p.  (J 940.5318 Lei)

Hana’s Suitcase   by Karen Levine
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about Hana’s life from examining her suitcase.  111 p.  (J 921 Brady)

Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen   by Michelle McCann
A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.  64 p.  (J 940.5318 McC)

Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved the Jews in the Holocaust   by Milton Meltzer
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by “Righteous Gentiles” who tried to thwart the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust.  168 p.  (J 940.5315 Mel)

Hidden Child   by Isaac Millman
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.  73 p.  (J 921 Millman)

The Upstairs Room   by Johanna Reiss
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the 2 ½ years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer’s house during World War II.  196 p.  (J 940.5315 Rei)

Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light   by Maxine Schur
A biography of a young woman who risked and eventually gave her life in an attempt to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.  106 p.  (J 921 Senesh)

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