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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.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...
Do not cry when I die : a Holocaust memoir of a mother and daughter's survival in Jewish ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
Salt, Renee
Paper Book
One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched." --Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling...
The happiest man on Earth : the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor
Jaku, Eddie
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting Holocaust survivor memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.<...
The Holocaust : an unfinished history
Stone, Dan
Paper Book
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust-and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which modern society has not yet recovered One of the most acclaimed books of the year: "Outstanding" (Times Literary Supplement); "Remarkable" (Guardian);...
How to share an egg : a true story of hunger, love, and plenty
Reichert, Bonny
Paper Book
An "absolutely transformative" (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family-sustenance and survival-from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor. "Beautifully written, heartbreaking and hopeful."-Ruth Reichl, New...
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...
One hundred Saturdays Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
Frank, Michael, 1959 June 2- author. 
Paper Book
One of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council's Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody...
Survivor café : the legacy of trauma and the labyrinth of memory
Rosner, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An "impressive, highly readable" exploration of "atrocity, trauma, and memory" that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events--"a powerful book" (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize...
Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France
Whitehouse, Rosie
Paper Book
This riveting book is an astonishing testimony of what befell two sisters, Whitehouse's own mother-in-law and aunt, who managed to escape the killing fields in Vichy France against all odds. Marion and Huguette Müller's family was torn apart when the Nazis invaded...

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