Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) for Adults

Also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah is observed by Jewish communities around the world on April 23-24, 2025.

Updated April 5, 2025
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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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.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...
Heavyweight : a family story of the Holocaust, empire, and memory
Brager, Solomon J.
Paper Book
A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great...
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 last secret of the secret annex the untold story of Anne Frank, her silent protector, and a family betrayal
Wijk, Joop van, 1949- author. 
Paper Book
A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne Frank with the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, her protector and closest confidante in the Annex, bringing us closer to understanding one of the great secrets of World War II. Anne...
One hundred Saturdays Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
Frank, Michael, 1959 June 2- author. 
Paper Book
One of 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...
The piano player of Budapest : a true story of hope, survival, and music
De Bastion, Roxanne
Paper Book
A story about a piano and its most prodigious player--and how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history.   When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it...
The prosecutor : one man's battle to bring Nazis to justice
Fairweather, Jack
Paper Book
From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At the end of the...
Unearthed a lost actress, a forbidden book, and a search for life in the shadow of the Holocaust
Frank, Meryl 
Paper Book
A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Frank's journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next generation should honor the memory...
A village in the Third Reich how ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of fascism
Boyd, Julia, 1948- author. 
Paper Book
An intimate portrait of German life during World War II, shining a light on ordinary people living in a picturesque Bavarian village under Nazi rule, from a past winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the...

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