International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Adult)

On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – where more than one million people were sent to gas chambers and to their agonizing deaths during the Holocaust – was liberated. In 2005, that day was designated as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Each year, Canadians and individuals all over the world take this opportunity to remember the victims of the atrocities of the Holocaust and reflect on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

Updated January 15, 2026
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The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
White, Elizabeth B.
Paper Book
The "remarkable...inspiring" (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War...
Courage to dream : tales of hope in the Holocaust
Shusterman, Neal.
Paper Book
Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner National Jewish Book Award finalist Neal Shusterman, Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andrés Vera Martínez present a graphic novel exploring the...
Fatherland a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets
Bilger, Burkhard 
Paper Book
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in "a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history" (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) "Fatherland maintains the momentum of the...
The happiest man on Earth the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor
Jaku, Eddie 
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a...
The many lives of Anne Frank
Franklin, Ruth
Paper Book
A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary   "With sensitivity and assiduous research, [Franklin] constructs a vivid cultural history that advocates for a reevaluation of Frank."--New Yorker...
Plunder a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure
Kaiser, Menachem, 1985- author. 
Paper Book
A New York Times Critics' Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure...

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