International Holocaust Remembrance

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international Memorial Day that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its "final solution to the Jewish question". January 27 was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

Updated December 9, 2024
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I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir
Foer, Esther Safran
Paper Book
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST * "Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written."--The Washington Post   "Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America's leading literary...

940.5318 Foer Foer 2020

My friend Anne Frank : the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds
Pick-Goslar, Hannah
Paper Book
"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank.​ In...

940.5318 Frank, Anne Pick-Goslar 2023

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...

940.5318 Frank, Meryl 2023

House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Freeman, Hadley
Paper Book
A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it....

940.5318 Freeman Freeman 2020

No road leading back : an improbable escape from the Nazis and the tangled way we tell the story of the Holocaust
Heath, Chris
Paper Book
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

940.5318 Heath 2024

In the garden of the righteous : the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
Hurowitz, Richard
Paper Book
"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity. This book is more timely...

940.5318 Hurowitz 2023

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...

940.5318 Jaku Jaku 2021

Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure
Kaiser, Menachem
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...

940.5318 Kaiser 2021

Come to this court & cry : how the Holocaust ends
Kinstler, Linda
Paper Book
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called "butcher of Riga," Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing...

940.5318 Kinstler 2022

Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps
Eyre, Makana
Paper Book
On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards' reprisal were deported to Auschwitz...

940.5318 Kulisiewicz Eyre 2023

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...

940.5318 Mehlberg White 2024

The forgers : the forgotten story of the Holocaust's most audacious rescue operation
Moorhouse, Roger
Paper Book
The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue operations of World War II   Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable--and until now, completely unknown--humanitarian operation. In...

940.5318 Moorhouse 2023

When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains
Neumann, Ariana
Paper Book
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first...

940.5318 Neumann Neumann 2020

The stable boy of Auschwitz
Oster, Henry H.
Paper Book
This heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor reveals the terrible realities of life in Auschwitz--and how a courageous young stable boy survived against all odds to tell his story.​ "I couldn't last much longer. But just as I was beginning to...

940.5318 Oster Oster 2023

Jews in the garden : a Holocaust survivor, the fate of his family, and the secret history of Poland in World War II
Rakowsky, Judy
Paper Book
Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II 1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run...

940.5318 Ron Rakowsky 2023

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);...

940.5318 Stone 2024

The watchmaker's daughter : the true story of World War II heroine Corrie Ten Boom
Loftis, Larry
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at...

940.5318 Ten Boom Loftis 2023

The last secret of the secret annex : the untold story of Anne Frank, her silent protector, and a family betrayal
Wijk, Joop van
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...

940.5318 Wijk 2023

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...

940.5337 Bilger 2023

One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
Frank, Michael
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...

949.587 Levi Frank 2022


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