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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Sank, Jordy
DVD
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who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.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
Salt, Renee.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen--and the extraordinary bond with her mother that ultimately saved her life--in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope.
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 forbidden daughter : the true story of a Holocaust survivor
Klein Jakob, Zipora
Paper Book
The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving...
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);...
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution
Jennings, Christian
Paper Book
The first dedicated study of the cat-and-mouse struggle between a British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, and an Austrian SS officer responsible for the mass killings of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews. The account of how Nigel de Grey cracked the Enigma-coded signals of SS Major Hermann...
How to share an egg : a true story of hunger, love, and plenty
Reichert, Bonny
Paper Book
A GLOBE & MAIL AND TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER "I started crying on page one; a few pages later I burst into laughter. This beautifully written book takes readers on an emotional journey that is both heartbreaking and hopeful." --Ruth Reichl,...
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...
Kiss the red stairs : the Holocaust, once removed
Lederman, Marsha (Western arts correspondent)
Paper Book
WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize--Western Canada Jewish Book Awards NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by...
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...
A Little Girl in Auschwitz: A Heart-Wrenching True Story of Survival, Hope and Love
Maksymowicz, Lidia
Paper Book
The heartbreaking, inspiring and ultimately hopeful true story of a young girl sent to Auschwitz, who survived the Mengele's pseudo-medical experiments. With a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis. Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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<...
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance
Richter, Ari
Paper Book
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is an act of self-discovery and the resuscitation of historical memory. At its heart is the intersection of a genocidal political moment in 20th century history and the author's own family history. Told from the perspectives of four generations of the author's...
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...
One in Six Million : The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor's Lost Identity
Fish, Amy.
Paper Book
Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the side of a road near Krosno, Poland. A note pinned to the blanket stated only her first name and her date of birth. The couple picked up Maria and raised her, but she grew up longing for identity and...
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...
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...
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...
Replay : memoir of an uprooted family
Mechner, Jordan
Paper Book
"[A] vibrant, poignant book." --NPR Book Reviews 1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey...
Three minutes a lengthening
Stigter, Bianca
DVD
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...
Two wheels to freedom : the story of a young Jew, wartime resistance, and a daring escape
Magida, Arthur J.
Paper Book
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundred of lives--all while retaining his infectious zeal for life. Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and...
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...
We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell
Chaiton, Sam
Paper Book
"Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation." -- JEANNE BEKER, author, fashion editor, and television personality A child of Holocaust survivors...

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