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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Frank, Anne. Eds. Otto H Frank. and Mirjam Pressler. Anne Frank: Diary of a
Young Girl. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
The diary of a young girl through the darkest times in our history. In her diary
Anne documents her two years in hiding, her first love, and her secrets.
(Nonfiction)
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Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Folman, Ari. Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. Illus. David Polonsky
Pantheon Books NY, 2018.
Authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic
edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive
edition. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations
interpret an add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of
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The Avengers: A Jewish War Story
Cohen, Rich. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story. NY: Alfred Knopf, 2000.
Abba Kovner, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak-comrades, lovers, friends. In the
Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna, they were the heart of a breathtakingly courageous
underground movement, and when the ghetto was liquidated, they fled to the
forests and joined other partisans in continued sabotage and resistance.
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The Book Thief
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Picador, 2005.
The story of a young orphaned girl named Liesel who learns the trials of Nazi
Germany as her family shelters a Jewish boy. (Fiction)
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Courage to Care
Rittner, Carol and Sondra Myers, eds. Courage to Care. New York: New York
University Press, 1986.
Profiles of individuals who risked their lives and the lives of their families to save
Jewish people during the Holocaust. (Nonfiction)
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7th/8th Grade Holocaust Teaching Trunk
Investigating the Holocaust: What Happened and Why?
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Devil’s Arithmetic
Yolen, Jane. Devil’s Arithmetic. New York: Puffin Books, 1988.
Hannah, a 12 year old girl, is transported to a 1940’s Polish village
during a Passover seder. She experiences the very horrors that
had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their
Holocaust stories. (Fiction)
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Friedrich
Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. New York: Puffin Books, 1961.
Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the
early thirties. At first, Friedrich seemed to be more fortunate. His
father was well respected and prosperous, while his friend’s father
had no job. Then Hitler came to power and things began to
change. Friedrich’s world was turned upside down – all because
he was Jewish. (Fiction)
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Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens
Zullo, Allan and Bovsun, Mara. Heroes of the Holocaust: True
Stories of Rescues.
Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager whose family took in
Jewish men in Nazi occupied Poland. Her story is one of five
featured in this book of young people putting their lives on the
line for others.
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Milkweed
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed NY: Scholastic Inc, 2004.
He has no name, no home, no family and no background. He steals
food, sleeps in the street and survives by not getting caught. He
sleeps in a cellar with a band of boys who are just like him, who
steal to stay alive and do their best to go unnoticed by the
Jackboots. It is not safe to be a Jew, a Gypsy or a homeless
orphan. The best thing to be is invisible. (Fiction)
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Other Victims
Each booklet focuses on one of the non-Jewish groups targeted by
the Nazis – Handicapped, Homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Roma & Sinti. Created by the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum.
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Parallel Journeys
Ayer, Eleanor. With Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Parallel Journeys. NY:
Atheneum Books, 1995.
A true story of a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, and a young Jewish girl,
also living in Nazi Germany. Alfons rose in leadership in the Hitler Youth while
Helen’s family fled to Holland, only later to be captured and deported to
Auschwitz. The two met in the 1980’s. (Nonfiction)
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Zullo, Allan. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust. Scholastic
Paperbacks, 2005.
True stories of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives were impacted by the
Holocaust. (Nonfiction)
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Ten Thousand Children
Fox, Anne L., and Eva Abraham-Podietz. Ten Thousand Children. NJ: Behrman
House Inc., 1999.
True stories told by children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport.
First person accounts. (Non-fiction)
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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
Bunting, Eve. Stephen Gammell. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust.
PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1993.
“The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came,
capturing all creatures with feathers. .. In this unique introduction to the
Holocaust, Bunting encourages young children to stand up for what they think is
right, without waiting for others to join them.” (Fiction)
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The World Must Know
Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.,
1993.
This book tells the history of the Holocaust using photos and documents
obtained from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Nonfiction)
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Yellow Star
Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. NY: Scholastic, 2006.
The story, biographical and written in free verse, depicts life through the eyes of
a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during
World War II. Roy tells her aunt Syvia’s story, covering her life as she grows from
four and a half to ten years old in the ghetto.
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Artifact
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John Rock Photo Album - Unaccompanied Children 1
Passport 1
Piece of Blanket 1
Shoe 1
Star 1
Class Photo - Frieda Soury 1
Iron Cross 1
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Artifact
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Quantity
Cigarette Cards 4
[P[Poster]
[Poster]
Boy Scout Card
Poster - Badges of Hate
1
1
[Poster]
Poster - Map of Europe 1
[Poster]
Poster - Timeline 1
Photo Cards of Local Holocaust Survivors
Short biographies, including QR codes, of local Holocaust survivors
featured in the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s core exhibit, and
online Survivor Encyclopedia (https://
www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-survivors-
in-washington)
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(in envelope)
Activity - Identification Cards (small binder)
Created by the USHMM. A full set of these cards, and additional
identification cards are available here:
https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-materials/
identification-cards-and-personal-stories
1 binder
Curriculum Binder
3-ring binder containing resources, activities, and lesson plans
for the materials in the trunk.
1 binder
FILMS
The following films are available to watch online or on dvd by
request: “Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth, “ “I’m Still
Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived through the
Holocaust,” “Porcelain Unicorn,” “The Short Life of Anne Frank,”
and “With My Own Eyes: Holocaust, Genocide, Today.”