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

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
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven...

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

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

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 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


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