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'''Holocaust Children's Memoirs'''
'''Holocaust Children's Memoirs'''


* [[Holocaust Children]] -- [[Holocaust Children's Biographies]] -- [[Holocaust Children's Diaries]] -- [[Holocaust Children's Movies]]


==1950s==
== 1990s ==


====1956====
==== 1990 ====


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* [[Solomon Perel]], ''Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon'' (Berlin : Nicolai, 1990). French ed. ''Europa, Europa'' (Paris : Ramsay, 1990). Hebre ed. ''My Name Is Shlomo Perel'' (Tel Aviv: Yedi'ot Ah aronot: Sifre Hemed, 1991). Polish ed. ''Hitlerowiec Szlomo'' (Warsaw: Graffiti, 1991). English ed. ''Europa, Europa'' (1997).


'''The Night''' (New York: Hill & Wang; and London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Elie Wiesel]] (1928-2016). Originally published in Yiddish, ''Un di Velt Hot Geshvign'' (1956), then in French, ''La Nuit'' (1958).
==== 1991 ====


"Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man ... Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be."--Publisher description.
* [[Annette Muller]] (F / France, 1933), '''La Petite Fille Du Vel d'Hiv''' (Paris: Denoël, 1991). German ed. ''Die Razzia Erzählung'' (Berlin: Nicolai, 1998).


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel] (1928-2016) was born in Sighet in Romania. He was 15 when in March 1944 his family, along with the rest of the town's Jewish population, was placed in one of the two confinement ghettos set up in Sighet. In May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, under German pressure, began to deport the Jewish community to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He lost his parents and his younger sister. Elie was eventually taken to Buchenwald, where he survived until liberation ... After World War II ended and Wiesel was freed, he joined a transport of 1,000 child survivors of Buchenwald to Ecouis, France, where the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) had set up a rehabilitation center. He was there reunited to his older sisters, who also had survived. Wiesel learned French and studied literature, philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne. He began working as a journalist. At the invitation of the French author and Nobel Price François Mauriac, who had became a close friend of his, he wrote a 900-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent) in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires in 1956. A shortened form (La nuit) appeared in French in 1958 ... In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York. The English version of his memoir was published in 1960 and became an international bestseller. From 1972 to 1976 Weisel was a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and since 1976 a professor of the Humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ... Died in 2016 in New York.
* [[Jerzy Feliks Urman]] (M / Poland, 1932-1943), '''I'm Not Even a Grown-Up: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman''' (London: Menard Press, 1991) / 2nd ed. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2016.


====1958====
==== 1992 ====


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* [[Ruth Klüger]] (F / Austria, 1931). '''Weiter Leben: eine Jugend''' <German> (1992). English trans. '''Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered''' (New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001)


'''Youth in Chains''' (Jerusalem : R. Mass, 1958) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Thomas Geve]] (b.1929). 
====1993====


"The vivid, true, intimate story of Europe's youth under the heel of Fascism, their joys and sufferings, their day-to-day life and dreams -- told for the first time by one of them ... The author was taken to Auschwitz in 1942 when he was 13 years old and spent a total of 22 months in Auschwitz and Buchenwald before he was freed by the Allies in April 1945."--Publisher description.
* [[Shlomo Breznitz]] (M / Slovakia, 1936). '''Sedot ha-zikaron''' (Tel Aviv : `Am `oved, 1993). English ed. '''Memory Fields: The Legacy of a Wartime Childhood in Czechoslovakia''' (New York: Knopf, 1993). Also translated into German.


[[Thomas Geve]] (b.1929) was born in Stettin and raised in Germany. During the war years, he worked for some months as a gravedigger at the Weißensee Cemetery. He was deported to Auschwitz in June 1943 with his mother who perished in the camp. He stayed in Auschwitz till its evacuation in January 1945, after which he still survived the death march, Gross-Rosen concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp until liberation in April 1945. Too weak to leave the camp, he proceeded to record camp life in 79 different drawings, before moving to a camp in Switzerland for orphaned shoah survivors. When his father was located, he was reunited with him in England. In 1950 he emigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa.
* [[Harry Goldman]] (M / Germany, 1931-1948). -- See [[Louis Goldman]] (1925-1996). '''Amici per la vita''' (Firenze : Ed. Sp44, 1993). English ed. '''Friends for Life: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor and His Rescuers''' (New York : Paulist Press, 2008)


====1959====
* [[Emanuele Pacifici]], '''«Non ti voltare». Autobiografia di un ebreo''' (Firenze: Giuntina, 1993)


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* [[Nelly S. Toll]] (F / Poland, 1935). '''Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during World War Two''' (New York: Dial Books, 1993).


'''Chi ti ama così''' <Italian> (Milan: Lerici, 1959) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Edith Bruck]] (b.1932). Translated into English: ''Who Loves You Like This'' (2001).
==== 1994 ====


"Passover, 1944. Edith Bruck's family sits in a darkened kitchen isolated from the other villagers by the black cloth on the window, their poverty, and their Judaism. Her mother explains that the Germans have reached their Hungarian village—that they will soon have to endure more than the cries of "Jewstink" and the deprivations that have been their lot for months. The next morning twelve-year-old Edith is roused by shouts of "Wake up! Outside! Quickly! I give you five minutes, you animals!" ... In this memoir, Bruck tells the story of her imprisonment in Auschwitz, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen. She and her older sister endure almost untellable horrors, and hunger so savage that the author tells of ripping bread from another's teeth. The end of the war brings freedom but little security. With no parents and no home, she moves from country to country, from household to household, and from relationship to relationship. In search of peace she and other family members immigrate to Israel, but even there peace eludes her. Bruck avoids both sentimentality and cynicism; she sees with clarity and passion, learns what she needs to survive, and catalogs other lessons for future use. At the end of Who Loves You Like This, she leaves Israel for Rome, where she lives today. In another country and in a foreign language, she finds the words to describe her life—without homeland, family, or native language."--Publisher description.
* [[Schoschana Rabinovici]] (F / Lithuania, 1932-2019). '''Dank meiner Mutter''' <German> (Frankfurt am Main: Alibaba, 1994). English trans. '''Thanks to My Mother''' (New York, NY: Puffin, 1998).


[[Edith Bruck]] (b.1932) was born in Hungary, the daughter of poor Jewish parents. In 1944, with her parents, and two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally Bergen-Belsen, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945. After returning to Hungary and then moving to Israel, she finally settled in Rome, Italy, since 1954. She embraced Italian as her new language. The wife of Italian writer and film director Nelo Risi, Bruck is the author of several novels, collections of short stories, and volumes of poetry. She writes for radio and television and has directed several films. Her works—for which she has won numerous literary prizes—have been translated from the original Italian into Dutch, German, Swedish, and Hungarian.
* [[Ruth Kapp Hartz]] (F / Frence, 1937). '''Your Name Is Renée: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France''' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), by Stacy Cretzmeyer.


== 1960s ==
==== 1995 ====


====1967====
* [[Miriam Akavia]] (F / Poland, 1927-2015). '''An End to Childhood''' (1995).
[[File:1967 Virtzberg.jpg|thumb|left|150px]]  


'''Milayl Habedolah Ve'ad Laylot Hakrav''' [From Kristallnacht to the Nights of Battle] (Jerusalem: Masada Press, 1967) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Beni Virtzberg]] (1928-1968). Translated into English: ''From Death to Battle: Auschwitz Survivor and Palmach Fighter'' (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2017).
* [[Solly Ganor]] (M / Lithuania, 1928). '''Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem''' (1995) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Solly Ganor]] (b.1928).


"When Beni Virtzberg was 9 years old, Kristallnacht destroyed his carefree childhood in his home town of Hamburg. Along with his parents, he was transported to Sosnowiec. Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the family shared the fate of many other Jews: internment in a ghetto, followed by deportation to Auschwitz. Beni's mother was murdered upon arrival. The young boy bravely fought to save his father's life, but he ultimately lost him as well. Beni's own fight for survival led him from Auschwitz, where he was forced to assist Joseph Mengele, to the death marches and to the notorious camps of Mauthausen and Melk. Upon liberation, Beni immigrated to Eretz Israel, joined the Palmach, and fought in some of the fiercest battles during Israel's War of Independence. During the Eichmann Trial, Beni decided to bear witness by writing his painful memoirs. The work on the book and the constant reminders of his agonizing past and losses took a great toll on him. On August 4, 1968, Beni Virtzberg took his own life."--Publisher description.
* [[Aldo Zargani]], '''Per violino solo: La mia infanzia nell'Aldiqua, 1938-1945''' (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995). English ed. '''For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy''' (2002)


[[Beni Virtzberg]] (1928-1968) was born in Germany. In 1939 the family moved to Poland, but only to find themselves under German occupation. After living in the Sosnowiec and Środula ghetto, they were deported to Auschwitz. Beni only survived serving as Mengele's personal servant and errand boy. Forced into a death march, he arrived to Mauthausen and Melk until liberation. He moved to Israel in November 1945. Served in the army during the Israel's War of Independence and then worked for the Jewish National Fund as a forester. In 1967 he published his memoir but plagued with depression, took his own life.
==== 1996 ====


==== 1967 ====
* [[Ruth David]] (F / Germany, 1929). '''Ein Kind unserer Zeit''' (Frankfurt am Main: dipa-Verl., 1996). English ed. '''Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust''' (London: Tauris, 2002).


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* [[Marion Blumenthal Lazan]] (F / Netherlands, 1934). '''Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story''' (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996), with Lila Perl.


'''Child of the Holocaust''' (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1967) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Jack Kuper]] (b.1932). 
==== 1997 ====


"Offers the true account of an eight-year-old boy who returned to his Polish town one day to find that all the Jews had been sent away and describes his young years traveling fearfully around the country in the hopes of finding his people and a place to call home."--Publisher description.
* [[Magda Denes]] (F / Hungary, 1934-1996). '''Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War''' (New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Magda Denes]] (1934-1996). Also published in German, Czech, Hungaria & Spanish.


[[Jack Kuper]] (Jankele Kuperblum; b.1932) survived the war alone as a street child, disguised for years as a Polish peasant and a Christian to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. After liberation he was placed in a Jewish orphanage in Lublin, Poland. He had to learn how to be a Jew again. During the years in hiding he had forgotten his language, culture and religion. In 1947, he was brought to Halifax by Canada’s Jewish community. He ended up settling in Toronto and working at the CBC.  
* [[David Faber]] (M / Poland, 1928-2015). '''Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir''' (El Cajon, CA: Granite Hills Press, 1997). Also published in German.


* [[Miriam Winter]] (F / Poland, 1933-2014). '''Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2''' (Jackson, MI: Kelton Press, 1997).


* [[Winter in the Morning: a young girl's life in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond (1986 Bauman), book]]
==== 1998 ====


Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War began but, unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a story of survival. When Hitler's decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, Janina, an intelligent, lively girl, suddenly found herself in a cramped flat, hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal. Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman's courage and survival.
* [[Michal Glowinski]] (M / Poland, 1934). '''Czarne sezony''' (1998). English ed. '''The Black Seasons''' (Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2005).


* [[Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale (1988 Schloss), book]]
* [[Arek Hersh]] (M / Poland, 1928). '''A Detail of History: The Harrowing True Story of a Boy Who Survived the Nazi Holocaust''' (Laxton : Beth Shalom, 1998). Repr. Malmesbury, UK: Apostrophe Books, 2015.
 
* [[Anita Lobel]] (F / Poland, 1934). '''No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War''' (New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 1998).
 
==== 1999 ====
 
* [[Aharon Appelfeld]] (M / Poland, 1932-2018). '''סיפור חיים''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Keter, 1999). English ed. '''The Story of a Life''' (New York: Schocken Books, 2004).
 
* [[Shalom Eilati]] (M / Lithuania, 1933). '''‏לחצות את הנהר''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. '''Crossing the River''' (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).


== 2000s ==
== 2000s ==
==== 2000 ====
* [[Naomi Samson]] (F / Poland, 1933). ''Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust'' (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).
* [[Roma Ligocka]] (b.1938). '''Das Mädchen im roten Mantel''' (München: Droemer, 2000). English edition: ''The Girl in the Red Coat'' (New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002). Also translated into Polish (2001)
==== 2001 ====
* [[Andrew S. Grove]] / Andris Grof (M / Hungary, 1936-2016). ''Swimming Across'' (New York, NY: Warner Books, 2001).
* [[Jack Mandelbaum]] (M / Poland, 1927). '''Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps''' (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), by [[Andrea Warren]] <juvenile audience>.
* [[Edith Velmans]] (F / Netherlands, 1925). '''Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II''' (New York : Bantam, 2001).
==== 2002 ====
* [[Hana Brady]] / Hanička Bradyová (F / Czechia, 1931-1944). See '''Hana's Suitcase''' (2002), by Karen Levine
* [[Sophia Richman]] (F / Poland, 1941). '''A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust''' (New York: Haworth Press, 2002).
==== 2003 ====
* [[Stephen Nasser]] (M / Hungary, 1931). '''My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust''' (Las Vegas, Nev. : Stephens Press, 2003).
==== 2004 ====
* [[Ursula Bacon]] (F / Germany, 1927). '''Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China''' (Milwaukie, Or. : M Press, 2004).
==== 2005 ====
* [[Albert Bigielman]] (M / France, 1932-2011), '''J’ai eu douze ans à Bergen Belsen''' (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2005).
* [[Isaac Millman]] (M / France, 1933). '''Hidden Child''' (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
* [[Edith Milton]] / Edith Cohn (F / Germany, 1932). '''The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English''' (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
* [[Renzo Modiano]], '''Di razza ebraica''' (Milano: Libri Scheiwiller, 2005). English. ed. '''Of Jewish Race''' (Vagabond Voices, 2013).
* [[Esther Nisenthal Krinitz]] and daughter Bernice Steinhardt, '''Memories of survival''' (New York: Hyperion books for Children, 2005).
* [[Jack Terry]] / Jakub Szabmacher (M / Poland, 1930), with writer Alicia Nitecki. '''Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust''' (Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005).


==== 2006 ====
==== 2006 ====


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* [[Sidney Finkel]] (M / Poland, 1931). '''Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die''' (Matteson, Ill. : Sidney Finkel, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Sidney Finkel]] (Sevek Finkel; b.1931).
 
* [[Syvia Rozines]], and niece Jennifer Roy. '''Yellow Star''' (Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, 2006).
 
* [[Zoltan Zinn-Collis]] (M / Slovakia, 1940-2012), ''Final Witness: My Journey from the Holocaust to Ireland'' (Dunshaughlin: Maverick House, 2006).
 
==== 2006 ====
 
'''De Drancy à Bergen-Belsen, 1944-45''' <French> (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Jacques Saurel]] (b.1933).
 
English ed. '''From Paris to Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945: Memories of a Deported Child''' (Paris : Le Manuscrit : Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, 2010).
 
==== 2006 ====
 
* [[Ela Weissberger]] (F / Czechia, 1930-2018). '''The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin''' (New York, NY: Holiday House, 2006).
 
====2007 ====
 
* [[Thomas Buergenthal]] (M / Slovakia, Poland, 1934). '''A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy''' (2007).
 
====2007 ====
 
* [[Petr Ginz]], '''The Diary of Petr Ginz''' (New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007).
 
* [[Elly Gross]], '''Elly: My True Story Of The Holocaust''' (New York: Scholastic, 2007) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Elly Gross]] (b.1929).
 
====2007 ====
 
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'''The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood''' (New York : Viking, 2007) is the story of Holocaust survivor [[Alex Kurzem]] (b.1936), narrated by his son [[Mark Kurzem]]. 
 
KEYWORDS:  <Latvia> <[[Errand Boys]]>
 
"When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian SS soldiers. Alex was able to hide his Jewish identity and win over the soldiers, becoming their mascot and an honorary "corporal" in the SS with his own uniform. But what began as a desperate bid for survival became a performance that delighted the highest ranks of the Nazi elite. And so a young Jewish boy ended up starring in a Nazi propaganda film ... After sixty-three years of silence, Alex revealed his terrible secret to his son Mark. With his son's help, Alex retraced his past in search of answers and vindication. His story is at once a terrifying account of survival and its psychological cost as well as a brutally honest examination of identity, complicity, and memory."--Publisher description.
 
Alex Kurzem  (b.1936)


'''Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die''' (Matteson, Ill. : Sidney Finkel, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Sidney Finkel]] (Sevek Finkel; b.1931). 
==== 2008 ====


"Sidney “Sevek” Finkel is the author of Sevek and the Holocaust, The Boy Who Refused to Die. This Holocaust memoir is told from the perspective of eight-year-old Sevek, capturing the emotions of a boy who loses his home, his family and ultimately his humanity by the time he reaches the age of fourteen. He lived in a cramped and disease-ridden ghetto, saw his family murdered, endured the horrors of the Treblinka death camp, ate grass for survival in the final days before reaching freedom, and, finally, resumed his education in a foreign country after a six-year lapse. This 2nd Edition includes a new chapter about Sevek's return to Buchenwald 66 years after liberation, as well as new-found information learned during this visit. This book has been used as part of the Holocaust curriculum in hundreds of middle schools across the country, and Finkel has shared his story with thousands of students, relaying a message of tolerance, hope and love. Sevek and the Holocaust, The Boy Who Refused to Die received positive reviews from the Kirkus Review and Writer’s Digest. Sidney Finkel received the Philip K Weiss Award for Storytelling for Peace and Human Rights in 2013."--Publisher description.
* [[Amos Blas]] (M / Poland, 1935). '''חלום או מציאות''' <Hebrew> (Tel-Aviv: Ḥalonot, 2008). English ed. '''''Dream or Reality''''' (Tel-Aviv: Contento de Semrik, 2011).


[[Sidney Finkel]] (b.1931)
==== 2008 ====
 
* [[Krystyna Chiger]] (F / Poland, 1935). '''The Girl in the Green Sweater''' (New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008). -- See also Robert Marshall, ''In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust'', New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
 
* [[Clara Kramer]] (F / Poland, 1927-2018). '''Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival''' (London: Ebury Press, and New York, NY: Ecco Press, 2008).
 
==== 2008 ====
 
* [[Moyshe Rekhtman]] (M / Ukraine, 1927). '''Here My Home Once Stood''' (San Rafael, CA : Fourth Generation Pub., 2008) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Moyshe Rekhtman]] (b.1927).
 
==== 2009 ====
 
* [[Eva Mozes Kor]] (F / 1934-2019). '''Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz''' (Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood Pub., 2009).
 
==== 2009 ====
 
* [[Alberto Sed]] (M / Italy, 1928-2019). '''Sono stato un numero''' <Italian> (Firenze: La Giuntina, 2009).
 
====2009 ====
 
* [[Leo Michel Abrami]] (M / France, 1931). '''Evading the Nazis: The Story of a Hidden Child in Normandy''' (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2009).
 
==2010s ==
 
====2010====
 
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'''Durch die Hölle von Auschwitz und Dachau: ein Junge erkämpft sein Uberleben''' (Zürich: Lit, 2010) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Leslie Schwartz]] (b.1930). 
 
English ed. '''Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau: A Teenage Struggle Toward Freedom from Hatred''' (Zürich: Lit, 2013).
 
KEYWORDS:  <Hungary> <Auschwitz> <Dachau>
 
"Born in Hungary in 1930, Leslie Schwartz was a teenage survivor of the horrors of Auschwitz and Dachau who lost his entire immediate family in the Holocaust. His lifelong search for wholeness has led him back to Germany where his dream now is to leave a legacy of healing and conflict resolution. This book documents Leslie's experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust. (In 2013, Schwartz was awarded Germany's highest civilian honor, the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.) (Series: Anpassung - Selbstbehauptung - Widerstand - Vol. 35)."--Publisher description.
 
[[Leslie Schwartz (Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor]]
 
==== 2011 ====
 
* [[Henri Borlant]] (M / France, 1927), '''Merci d’avoir survécu''' (Paris, Le Seuil, 2011).
 
* [[Yisrael Meir Lau]] (M / Poland, 1937). '''Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last''' (New York: Sterling Pub.: In conjunction with OU Press, 2011).
 
* [[Tomi Reichental]] (M / Slovakia, 1935). '''I Was a Boy in Belsen''' (Dublin [Ireland]: O'Brien, 2011).
 
==== 2012 ====
 
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'''Gone to Pitchipoï : A Boy's Desperate Fight for Survival in Wartime''' (Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Rubin Katz]] (b.1931).
 
KEYWORDS:  <Poland> <[[Hidden Children]]> <Street Children> -- <[[Lublin Orphanage]]>
 
"Gone to Pitchipoi is the true and remarkable story of one Jewish boy's constant struggle for survival during the Holocaust in wartime Poland. Rubin Katz had just turned eight years old when the Second World War began and the outbreak of hostilities shattered his secure and idyllic childhood ... Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, wherein more than a third of the population was Jewish, Katz experienced a constant juxtaposition of traditional ways of life with the tragedies of those years. Deemed unfit for labor camps, Katz was marked for certain death and forced to live on the run in a daily quest for food, shelter, and friendship. He eventually reunited with his sister, Fela, together encountering a series of narrow escapes and forging on to see the day of liberation. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in small Polish towns during the Second World War."--Publisher description.
 
[[Rubin Katz (Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor]]
 
==== 2012 ====
 
* [[Estelle Laughlin]] (F / Poland, 1929). '''Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust''' (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012).
 
* [[Pavel Weiner]] (M / Czechia, 1931-2010), '''A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 - April 1945''' (2012)
 
==== 2013 ====
 
* [[Leon Leyson]] (M / Poland, 1929-2013). '''The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible... on Schindler's List''' (New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Leon Leyson]] (1929-2013).
 
* [[Felix Weinberg]] (M / Czechia, 1928-2012). '''Boy 30529: A Memoir''' (London & New York: Verso, 2013).
 
* [[Helga Weiss]] / Helga Hošková-Weissová (F / Czechia, 1929), '''Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp''' (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013).
 
==== 2013 ====
 
'''My Silent Pledge: A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance''' (2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Sydney Zoltak]] (1931).
 
==== 2014 ====
 
* [[Rywka Lipszyc]] (F / Poland, 1929-1945), '''Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto''' (San Francisco: Jewish Family and Children's Services, 2014).
 
* [[Joseph Polak]] (M / Netherlands, 1942), '''After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring''' (Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2014).
 
* [[Arianna Szörényi]], '''Una bambina ad Auschwitz''', a cura di Mario Bernardi (Milano: Mursia, 2014).
 
==== 2015 ====
 
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'''Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto''' (Universo dos Livros, 2015) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Nanette Blitz Konig]] (b.1929).
 
English ed. '''Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank''' (Amsterdam Publishers, 2018).
 
KEYWORDS:  <[[Bergen-Belsen]]>
 
"A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit ... In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of other Jews, was imprisoned by the Nazis with a minimum chance of survival ... Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam. They met again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne died. During these emotional encounters, Anne Frank told her how the Frank family hid in the annex, talked about their deportation, and her experience in Auschwitz, and about her plans with her diary after the war ... This honest WW2 story describes the hourly battle for survival under the brutal conditions in the camp imposed by the Nazi regime. It continues with her struggle to recover from the effects of starvation and tuberculosis after the war, and how she was gradually able to restart her life, marry and build a family."--Publisher description.
 
[[Nanette Blitz Konig (Netherlands, 1929), Holocaust survivor]]
 
==== 2015 ====
 
* [[Nate Leipciger]] (M / Poland, 1928). '''The Weight of Freedom''' (Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2015).
 
* [[Marguerite Mishkin]] / Marguerite Lederman (F / Belgium, 1941). See '''A Nazi Loved Me: The Story of Marguerite Mishkin''', written by Maya Baker, illustrated by Erin McQuillen (2015)
 
* [[Arie Tamir]] (M / Poland, 1932), '''I Only Wanted to Live''' (2015)
 
==== 2016 ====
 
* [[Eva Lavi]] / Ewa Ratz (F / Poland, 1937). See '''A Miracle Child''' (2016), by S. Brindavani.
 
==== 2017 ====
 
* [[Michael Bornstein]] (M / Poland, 1940). '''Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz''' (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017).
 
==== 2019 ====
 
* [[Rena Finder]] (F / Poland, 1929). '''My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List''' (New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2019).
 
* [[Zuzana Růžičková]] (F / Chechia, 1927-2017)'''One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival''' (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).
 
==Collections of memoirs==
 
====1993====
 
*Marks, Jane. '''The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust''' (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993)
 
"Presents the stories of twenty-three men and women who survived the Holocaust as children in hiding. Describes the extreme measures they or their families took to survive and how they coped under circumstances of great danger and sacrifice. Also examines their post-war experiences, exploring how they dealt with their own survival and rebuilt their lives."--Publisher description.
 
====1993====
 
[[File:1993 Greenfeld]]
 
* Greenfeld, Howard. '''The Hidden Children''' (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993)
 
"Over a million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust. From ten thousand to 100 thousand Jewish children were hidden with strangers and survived. In this powerful and compelling work, 25 people share their experiences as hidden children. Black-and-white photos."
 
"Relates the experiences of thirteen Jewish hidden children who survived, and came forward to tell their stories. Includes pictures, quotations, and a bibliography. Intended for younger readers."--Publisher description.
 
====1994====
[[File:1994 Stein.jpg]]
 
*Stein, Andre. '''Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust''' (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1994)
 
"Compiles the first-person accounts of ten hidden children and relates their experiences during and after the war. Explores questions of identity, such as noticeable physical differences between adoptee and new parents and the postwar return to Jewish life."-- Publisher description.
 
====1999====
[[File:1999 Kustanowitz.jpg]]
* Kustanowitz, Esther. '''The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid From the Nazis''' (New York: Rosen Publishing, 1999)
 
"Details, in their own words, the war-time experiences of Jewish teenagers hiding from the Nazis. Includes a bibliography, glossary and an extensive timeline of events. Intended for young adult readers."-- Publisher description.
 
====2008====
 
* Tománková, Magdalena. '''Ptaly se: proč? ukrývané děti vzpomínají = They asked: Why? Recollections of the Hidden Children''' (Pardubice: Batoš, 2008).
 
"Presents individual stories of hidden children from the Czech Republic.  Includes endnotes.  In both English and Czech."-- Publisher description.




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* Renata Calverley (b.1937c) wrote Let Me Tell You a Story: One Girl's Escape from the Nazis.


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== Fictionalized Memoirs / Holocaust Novels ==


* Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), ''The Painted Bird'' (1965)


Eva Schloss (1929-)
Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication ... Kosinski really did spend his childhood in hiding from the Nazis in Poland, but he wrote a novel, not an autobiography. In 2019 the novel was adapted into a film.
 
* Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), ''Badenheim 1939'' (1978) <Hebrew>
 
The novel is an allegorical satire that tells the story of a fictional Jewish town in Austria shortly before its residents are relocated to Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland ... Appelfeld was a Holocaust child survivor from Romania who escaped from a labor camp in Transnistria and survived in hiding.
 
* Markus Zusak (b.1975), ''The Book Thief'' (2005)
 
Written by an Austrian novelist. Adapted into a film in 2013.
 
* Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), ''Blooms of Darkness'' (2006)
 
* John Boyen (b.1971), ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' (2006)
 
Written by an Irish novelist. Adapted into a film in 2008.
 
== Fake Memoirs ==
 
* Herman Rosenblat, ''Angel at the Fence''
 
Rosenblat was indeed a Holocaust child survivor but he did not survive Buchenwald thanks to a girl who threw apples and bread to him over the camp fence—and then, years later, became his wife.
 
* Benjamin Wilkomirski (Bruno Grosjean), ''Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood''
 
Wilkomirski, far from spending the war years in concentration camps in Poland, was actually a Swiss native named Bruno Grosjean, whose childhood was spent in a Swiss orphanage.
 
* ''Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years'' by Misha Defonseca (1997)
 
In her 1997 book, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, Belgian-born Misha Defonseca described how she set out alone, at age 7, to find her Jewish parents who had been deported by the Nazis. Walking 1,900 miles across Europe, over the course of five years, she spent time in the Warsaw Ghetto, lived with wolves and killed a German soldier in self-defense. The book had limited success in the United States but became a best-seller overseas and was translated into 18 languages and made into a French film.
 
In 2008, eleven years after the book’s publication, an American genealogist unearthed Defonseca’s baptismal certificate, indicating she was Catholic, as well as evidence that she had attended school in Brussels during the time she was supposedly on her trek. The Nazis had executed her parents who were members of the Belgian resistance. Defonseca confessed in a statement that “Ever since I can remember, I felt Jewish…. There are times when I find it difficult to differentiate between reality and my inner world.”

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Holocaust Children's Memoirs

1990s

1990

  • Solomon Perel, Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (Berlin : Nicolai, 1990). French ed. Europa, Europa (Paris : Ramsay, 1990). Hebre ed. My Name Is Shlomo Perel (Tel Aviv: Yedi'ot Ah aronot: Sifre Hemed, 1991). Polish ed. Hitlerowiec Szlomo (Warsaw: Graffiti, 1991). English ed. Europa, Europa (1997).

1991

  • Annette Muller (F / France, 1933), La Petite Fille Du Vel d'Hiv (Paris: Denoël, 1991). German ed. Die Razzia Erzählung (Berlin: Nicolai, 1998).
  • Jerzy Feliks Urman (M / Poland, 1932-1943), I'm Not Even a Grown-Up: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman (London: Menard Press, 1991) / 2nd ed. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2016.

1992

  • Ruth Klüger (F / Austria, 1931). Weiter Leben: eine Jugend <German> (1992). English trans. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001)

1993

  • Shlomo Breznitz (M / Slovakia, 1936). Sedot ha-zikaron (Tel Aviv : `Am `oved, 1993). English ed. Memory Fields: The Legacy of a Wartime Childhood in Czechoslovakia (New York: Knopf, 1993). Also translated into German.
  • Harry Goldman (M / Germany, 1931-1948). -- See Louis Goldman (1925-1996). Amici per la vita (Firenze : Ed. Sp44, 1993). English ed. Friends for Life: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor and His Rescuers (New York : Paulist Press, 2008)
  • Emanuele Pacifici, «Non ti voltare». Autobiografia di un ebreo (Firenze: Giuntina, 1993)
  • Nelly S. Toll (F / Poland, 1935). Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during World War Two (New York: Dial Books, 1993).

1994

  • Schoschana Rabinovici (F / Lithuania, 1932-2019). Dank meiner Mutter <German> (Frankfurt am Main: Alibaba, 1994). English trans. Thanks to My Mother (New York, NY: Puffin, 1998).
  • Ruth Kapp Hartz (F / Frence, 1937). Your Name Is Renée: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), by Stacy Cretzmeyer.

1995

  • Miriam Akavia (F / Poland, 1927-2015). An End to Childhood (1995).
  • Solly Ganor (M / Lithuania, 1928). Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem (1995) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor Solly Ganor (b.1928).
  • Aldo Zargani, Per violino solo: La mia infanzia nell'Aldiqua, 1938-1945 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995). English ed. For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy (2002)

1996

  • Ruth David (F / Germany, 1929). Ein Kind unserer Zeit (Frankfurt am Main: dipa-Verl., 1996). English ed. Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust (London: Tauris, 2002).
  • Marion Blumenthal Lazan (F / Netherlands, 1934). Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996), with Lila Perl.

1997

  • Magda Denes (F / Hungary, 1934-1996). Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War (New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Magda Denes (1934-1996). Also published in German, Czech, Hungaria & Spanish.
  • David Faber (M / Poland, 1928-2015). Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir (El Cajon, CA: Granite Hills Press, 1997). Also published in German.
  • Miriam Winter (F / Poland, 1933-2014). Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2 (Jackson, MI: Kelton Press, 1997).

1998

  • Michal Glowinski (M / Poland, 1934). Czarne sezony (1998). English ed. The Black Seasons (Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2005).
  • Arek Hersh (M / Poland, 1928). A Detail of History: The Harrowing True Story of a Boy Who Survived the Nazi Holocaust (Laxton : Beth Shalom, 1998). Repr. Malmesbury, UK: Apostrophe Books, 2015.
  • Anita Lobel (F / Poland, 1934). No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 1998).

1999

  • Aharon Appelfeld (M / Poland, 1932-2018). סיפור חיים <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Keter, 1999). English ed. The Story of a Life (New York: Schocken Books, 2004).
  • Shalom Eilati (M / Lithuania, 1933). ‏לחצות את הנהר <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. Crossing the River (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).

2000s

2000

  • Naomi Samson (F / Poland, 1933). Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).
  • Roma Ligocka (b.1938). Das Mädchen im roten Mantel (München: Droemer, 2000). English edition: The Girl in the Red Coat (New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002). Also translated into Polish (2001)

2001

  • Andrew S. Grove / Andris Grof (M / Hungary, 1936-2016). Swimming Across (New York, NY: Warner Books, 2001).
  • Jack Mandelbaum (M / Poland, 1927). Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), by Andrea Warren <juvenile audience>.
  • Edith Velmans (F / Netherlands, 1925). Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II (New York : Bantam, 2001).

2002

  • Hana Brady / Hanička Bradyová (F / Czechia, 1931-1944). See Hana's Suitcase (2002), by Karen Levine
  • Sophia Richman (F / Poland, 1941). A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust (New York: Haworth Press, 2002).

2003

  • Stephen Nasser (M / Hungary, 1931). My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust (Las Vegas, Nev. : Stephens Press, 2003).

2004

  • Ursula Bacon (F / Germany, 1927). Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China (Milwaukie, Or. : M Press, 2004).

2005

  • Albert Bigielman (M / France, 1932-2011), J’ai eu douze ans à Bergen Belsen (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2005).
  • Isaac Millman (M / France, 1933). Hidden Child (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
  • Edith Milton / Edith Cohn (F / Germany, 1932). The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
  • Renzo Modiano, Di razza ebraica (Milano: Libri Scheiwiller, 2005). English. ed. Of Jewish Race (Vagabond Voices, 2013).
  • Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and daughter Bernice Steinhardt, Memories of survival (New York: Hyperion books for Children, 2005).
  • Jack Terry / Jakub Szabmacher (M / Poland, 1930), with writer Alicia Nitecki. Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust (Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005).

2006

  • Sidney Finkel (M / Poland, 1931). Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die (Matteson, Ill. : Sidney Finkel, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Sidney Finkel (Sevek Finkel; b.1931).
  • Syvia Rozines, and niece Jennifer Roy. Yellow Star (Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, 2006).
  • Zoltan Zinn-Collis (M / Slovakia, 1940-2012), Final Witness: My Journey from the Holocaust to Ireland (Dunshaughlin: Maverick House, 2006).

2006

De Drancy à Bergen-Belsen, 1944-45 <French> (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Jacques Saurel (b.1933).

English ed. From Paris to Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945: Memories of a Deported Child (Paris : Le Manuscrit : Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, 2010).

2006

  • Ela Weissberger (F / Czechia, 1930-2018). The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin (New York, NY: Holiday House, 2006).

2007

  • Thomas Buergenthal (M / Slovakia, Poland, 1934). A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (2007).

2007

  • Petr Ginz, The Diary of Petr Ginz (New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007).
  • Elly Gross, Elly: My True Story Of The Holocaust (New York: Scholastic, 2007) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Elly Gross (b.1929).

2007

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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood (New York : Viking, 2007) is the story of Holocaust survivor Alex Kurzem (b.1936), narrated by his son Mark Kurzem.

KEYWORDS: <Latvia> <Errand Boys>

"When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian SS soldiers. Alex was able to hide his Jewish identity and win over the soldiers, becoming their mascot and an honorary "corporal" in the SS with his own uniform. But what began as a desperate bid for survival became a performance that delighted the highest ranks of the Nazi elite. And so a young Jewish boy ended up starring in a Nazi propaganda film ... After sixty-three years of silence, Alex revealed his terrible secret to his son Mark. With his son's help, Alex retraced his past in search of answers and vindication. His story is at once a terrifying account of survival and its psychological cost as well as a brutally honest examination of identity, complicity, and memory."--Publisher description.

Alex Kurzem (b.1936)

2008

  • Amos Blas (M / Poland, 1935). חלום או מציאות <Hebrew> (Tel-Aviv: Ḥalonot, 2008). English ed. Dream or Reality (Tel-Aviv: Contento de Semrik, 2011).

2008

  • Krystyna Chiger (F / Poland, 1935). The Girl in the Green Sweater (New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008). -- See also Robert Marshall, In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • Clara Kramer (F / Poland, 1927-2018). Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival (London: Ebury Press, and New York, NY: Ecco Press, 2008).

2008

  • Moyshe Rekhtman (M / Ukraine, 1927). Here My Home Once Stood (San Rafael, CA : Fourth Generation Pub., 2008) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Moyshe Rekhtman (b.1927).

2009

  • Eva Mozes Kor (F / 1934-2019). Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood Pub., 2009).

2009

  • Alberto Sed (M / Italy, 1928-2019). Sono stato un numero <Italian> (Firenze: La Giuntina, 2009).

2009

  • Leo Michel Abrami (M / France, 1931). Evading the Nazis: The Story of a Hidden Child in Normandy (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2009).

2010s

2010

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Durch die Hölle von Auschwitz und Dachau: ein Junge erkämpft sein Uberleben (Zürich: Lit, 2010) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Leslie Schwartz (b.1930).

English ed. Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau: A Teenage Struggle Toward Freedom from Hatred (Zürich: Lit, 2013).

KEYWORDS: <Hungary> <Auschwitz> <Dachau>

"Born in Hungary in 1930, Leslie Schwartz was a teenage survivor of the horrors of Auschwitz and Dachau who lost his entire immediate family in the Holocaust. His lifelong search for wholeness has led him back to Germany where his dream now is to leave a legacy of healing and conflict resolution. This book documents Leslie's experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust. (In 2013, Schwartz was awarded Germany's highest civilian honor, the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.) (Series: Anpassung - Selbstbehauptung - Widerstand - Vol. 35)."--Publisher description.

Leslie Schwartz (Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor

2011

  • Henri Borlant (M / France, 1927), Merci d’avoir survécu (Paris, Le Seuil, 2011).
  • Yisrael Meir Lau (M / Poland, 1937). Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last (New York: Sterling Pub.: In conjunction with OU Press, 2011).
  • Tomi Reichental (M / Slovakia, 1935). I Was a Boy in Belsen (Dublin [Ireland]: O'Brien, 2011).

2012

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Gone to Pitchipoï : A Boy's Desperate Fight for Survival in Wartime (Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor Rubin Katz (b.1931).

KEYWORDS: <Poland> <Hidden Children> <Street Children> -- <Lublin Orphanage>

"Gone to Pitchipoi is the true and remarkable story of one Jewish boy's constant struggle for survival during the Holocaust in wartime Poland. Rubin Katz had just turned eight years old when the Second World War began and the outbreak of hostilities shattered his secure and idyllic childhood ... Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, wherein more than a third of the population was Jewish, Katz experienced a constant juxtaposition of traditional ways of life with the tragedies of those years. Deemed unfit for labor camps, Katz was marked for certain death and forced to live on the run in a daily quest for food, shelter, and friendship. He eventually reunited with his sister, Fela, together encountering a series of narrow escapes and forging on to see the day of liberation. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in small Polish towns during the Second World War."--Publisher description.

Rubin Katz (Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor

2012

  • Estelle Laughlin (F / Poland, 1929). Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012).
  • Pavel Weiner (M / Czechia, 1931-2010), A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 - April 1945 (2012)

2013

  • Leon Leyson (M / Poland, 1929-2013). The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible... on Schindler's List (New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson (1929-2013).
  • Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012). Boy 30529: A Memoir (London & New York: Verso, 2013).
  • Helga Weiss / Helga Hošková-Weissová (F / Czechia, 1929), Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013).

2013

My Silent Pledge: A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance (2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Sydney Zoltak (1931).

2014

  • Rywka Lipszyc (F / Poland, 1929-1945), Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto (San Francisco: Jewish Family and Children's Services, 2014).
  • Joseph Polak (M / Netherlands, 1942), After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring (Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2014).
  • Arianna Szörényi, Una bambina ad Auschwitz, a cura di Mario Bernardi (Milano: Mursia, 2014).

2015

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Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto (Universo dos Livros, 2015) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Nanette Blitz Konig (b.1929).

English ed. Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank (Amsterdam Publishers, 2018).

KEYWORDS: <Bergen-Belsen>

"A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit ... In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of other Jews, was imprisoned by the Nazis with a minimum chance of survival ... Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam. They met again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne died. During these emotional encounters, Anne Frank told her how the Frank family hid in the annex, talked about their deportation, and her experience in Auschwitz, and about her plans with her diary after the war ... This honest WW2 story describes the hourly battle for survival under the brutal conditions in the camp imposed by the Nazi regime. It continues with her struggle to recover from the effects of starvation and tuberculosis after the war, and how she was gradually able to restart her life, marry and build a family."--Publisher description.

Nanette Blitz Konig (Netherlands, 1929), Holocaust survivor

2015

  • Nate Leipciger (M / Poland, 1928). The Weight of Freedom (Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2015).
  • Marguerite Mishkin / Marguerite Lederman (F / Belgium, 1941). See A Nazi Loved Me: The Story of Marguerite Mishkin, written by Maya Baker, illustrated by Erin McQuillen (2015)
  • Arie Tamir (M / Poland, 1932), I Only Wanted to Live (2015)

2016

  • Eva Lavi / Ewa Ratz (F / Poland, 1937). See A Miracle Child (2016), by S. Brindavani.

2017

  • Michael Bornstein (M / Poland, 1940). Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017).

2019

  • Rena Finder (F / Poland, 1929). My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List (New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2019).
  • Zuzana Růžičková (F / Chechia, 1927-2017)One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).

Collections of memoirs

1993

  • Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993)

"Presents the stories of twenty-three men and women who survived the Holocaust as children in hiding. Describes the extreme measures they or their families took to survive and how they coped under circumstances of great danger and sacrifice. Also examines their post-war experiences, exploring how they dealt with their own survival and rebuilt their lives."--Publisher description.

1993

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  • Greenfeld, Howard. The Hidden Children (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993)

"Over a million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust. From ten thousand to 100 thousand Jewish children were hidden with strangers and survived. In this powerful and compelling work, 25 people share their experiences as hidden children. Black-and-white photos."

"Relates the experiences of thirteen Jewish hidden children who survived, and came forward to tell their stories. Includes pictures, quotations, and a bibliography. Intended for younger readers."--Publisher description.

1994

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  • Stein, Andre. Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1994)

"Compiles the first-person accounts of ten hidden children and relates their experiences during and after the war. Explores questions of identity, such as noticeable physical differences between adoptee and new parents and the postwar return to Jewish life."-- Publisher description.

1999

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  • Kustanowitz, Esther. The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid From the Nazis (New York: Rosen Publishing, 1999)

"Details, in their own words, the war-time experiences of Jewish teenagers hiding from the Nazis. Includes a bibliography, glossary and an extensive timeline of events. Intended for young adult readers."-- Publisher description.

2008

  • Tománková, Magdalena. Ptaly se: proč? ukrývané děti vzpomínají = They asked: Why? Recollections of the Hidden Children (Pardubice: Batoš, 2008).

"Presents individual stories of hidden children from the Czech Republic. Includes endnotes. In both English and Czech."-- Publisher description.



  • [[Helga Weiss (1929)
  • Ana Novac (b.1929)
  • Renata Calverley (b.1937c) wrote Let Me Tell You a Story: One Girl's Escape from the Nazis.

Eva Schloss (1929-)

Fictionalized Memoirs / Holocaust Novels

  • Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), The Painted Bird (1965)

Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication ... Kosinski really did spend his childhood in hiding from the Nazis in Poland, but he wrote a novel, not an autobiography. In 2019 the novel was adapted into a film.

  • Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), Badenheim 1939 (1978) <Hebrew>

The novel is an allegorical satire that tells the story of a fictional Jewish town in Austria shortly before its residents are relocated to Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland ... Appelfeld was a Holocaust child survivor from Romania who escaped from a labor camp in Transnistria and survived in hiding.

  • Markus Zusak (b.1975), The Book Thief (2005)

Written by an Austrian novelist. Adapted into a film in 2013.

  • Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), Blooms of Darkness (2006)
  • John Boyen (b.1971), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006)

Written by an Irish novelist. Adapted into a film in 2008.

Fake Memoirs

  • Herman Rosenblat, Angel at the Fence

Rosenblat was indeed a Holocaust child survivor but he did not survive Buchenwald thanks to a girl who threw apples and bread to him over the camp fence—and then, years later, became his wife.

  • Benjamin Wilkomirski (Bruno Grosjean), Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

Wilkomirski, far from spending the war years in concentration camps in Poland, was actually a Swiss native named Bruno Grosjean, whose childhood was spent in a Swiss orphanage.

  • Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca (1997)

In her 1997 book, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, Belgian-born Misha Defonseca described how she set out alone, at age 7, to find her Jewish parents who had been deported by the Nazis. Walking 1,900 miles across Europe, over the course of five years, she spent time in the Warsaw Ghetto, lived with wolves and killed a German soldier in self-defense. The book had limited success in the United States but became a best-seller overseas and was translated into 18 languages and made into a French film.

In 2008, eleven years after the book’s publication, an American genealogist unearthed Defonseca’s baptismal certificate, indicating she was Catholic, as well as evidence that she had attended school in Brussels during the time she was supposedly on her trek. The Nazis had executed her parents who were members of the Belgian resistance. Defonseca confessed in a statement that “Ever since I can remember, I felt Jewish…. There are times when I find it difficult to differentiate between reality and my inner world.”

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