Reading and Listening Resources for Middle School and High School Students

Books and Novels

 

• A Night Divided – Jennifer A. Nielsen
• All the Light we Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• By Chance Alone – Max Eisen
• Flygirl – Sherri L. Smith
• From Warsaw to Winnipeg: A Tale of Two Cities – by local survivor Stefan Carter
• Going Over – Beth Kephart
• Lucky to Survive– by local Holocaut survivor Isaac Gotfried
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• Maybe You Will Survive – A Holocaust Memoir – Aron Goldfarb
• My Mother’s Ring – A Holocaust Historical Novel – Dana Fitzwater Cornell
• Night trilogy – Elie Wiesel
• No One Awaiting Me – by local Holocaust survivor Joil Alpern
• Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
• Prisoner B – 3087 – Alan Gratz
• Sarah’s Key –Tatiana De Rosnay
• Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally
• Tell No One Who You Are – Walter Buchignani
• Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust – Ruth Thomson
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• The Diary of a Young Girl– Anne Frank
• The Good Fight – Ted Staunton (Graphic Novel about the Christie Pitts Riot)
• The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom – Corrie ten Boom
• The Other Side of the Wall – Simon Schwartz
• The Violin of Auschwitz – Maria Angels Anglada
• The Winged Watchman – Hilda van Stockum
• Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden
• Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors – Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada (ed. Belle Jarniewski)
• When Spirits Dance – Larry Loyie
• Yellow Star – Jennifer Roy

 

Podcasts

• The History of World War II
  • https://worldwariipodcast.net/

 

• Survivors’ Stories
  • https://museeholocauste.ca/en/survivors-stories/

 

• Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust
  • http://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/podcasts/

 

• Stories Survive
  • https://mjhnyc.org/stories-survive-podcast-series/

 

• The Last Boy
  • https://fishermanpodcasts.com/the-last-boy

 

• Yad Vashem Survivor Videos
  • https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos.html