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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]]


== 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).


==1950s==
* [[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.


====1956====
==== 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)


'''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).
====1993====


"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.
* [[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.


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
* [[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)


====1958====
* [[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).


'''Youth in Chains''' (Jerusalem : R. Mass, 1958) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Thomas Geve]] (b.1929). 
==== 1994 ====


"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.
* [[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).


[[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.
* [[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.


====1959====
==== 1995 ====


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* [[Miriam Akavia]] (F / Poland, 1927-2015). '''An End to Childhood''' (1995).


'''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).
* [[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).


"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.
* [[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)


[[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.
==== 1996 ====


== 1960s ==
* [[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).


====1967====
* [[Marion Blumenthal Lazan]] (F / Netherlands, 1934). '''Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story''' (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996), with Lila Perl.
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'''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).
==== 1997 ====


"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.
* [[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.


[[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.
* [[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.


==== 1967 ====
* [[Miriam Winter]] (F / Poland, 1933-2014). '''Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2''' (Jackson, MI: Kelton Press, 1997).


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==== 1998 ====


'''Child of the Holocaust''' (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1967) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Jack Kuper]] (b.1932).
* [[Michal Glowinski]] (M / Poland, 1934). '''Czarne sezony''' (1998). English ed. '''The Black Seasons''' (Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2005).


"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.
* [[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.


[[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.  
* [[Anita Lobel]] (F / Poland, 1934). '''No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War''' (New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 1998).


== 1970s ==
==== 1999 ====


==== 1973 ====
* [[Aharon Appelfeld]] (M / Poland, 1932-2018). '''סיפור חיים''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Keter, 1999). English ed. '''The Story of a Life''' (New York: Schocken Books, 2004).


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* [[Shalom Eilati]] (M / Lithuania, 1933). '''‏לחצות את הנהר''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999). English ed. '''Crossing the River''' (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008).


'''Un Sac de billes''' <French> (1973) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Joseph Joffo]] (1931-2018).
== 2000s ==


English trans. '''A Bag of Marbles''' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974)
==== 2000 ====


"When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable story; readers will instinctively find themselves rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II.."--Publisher description.
* [[Naomi Samson]] (F / Poland, 1933). ''Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust'' (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).


[[Joseph Joffo]] (1931-2018).
* [[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)


====1975====
==== 2001 ====


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* [[Andrew S. Grove]] / Andris Grof (M / Hungary, 1936-2016). ''Swimming Across'' (New York, NY: Warner Books, 2001).


'''Sorstalanság''' <Hungarian> (1975) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Imre Kertész]] (1929-2016).  
* [[Jack Mandelbaum]] (M / Poland, 1927). '''Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps''' (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), by [[Andrea Warren]] <juvenile audience>.


English trans. '''Fateless / Fatelessness''' (1992)  
* [[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).


"At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider ... The genius of Imre Kertesz’s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg’s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses–or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski."--Publisher description.
==== 2002 ====


[[Imre Kertész]] (1929-2016)
* [[Hana Brady]] / Hanička Bradyová (F / Czechia, 1931-1944). See '''Hana's Suitcase''' (2002), by Karen Levine


====1978====
* [[Sophia Richman]] (F / Poland, 1941). '''A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust''' (New York: Haworth Press, 2002).


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==== 2003 ====


'''Kinderjaren''' <Dutch> (1978) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Jona Oberski]] (b.1938).
* [[Stephen Nasser]] (M / Hungary, 1931). '''My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust''' (Las Vegas, Nev. : Stephens Press, 2003).


English trans. '''Childhood'''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983 / repr. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.
==== 2004 ====


Translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
* [[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).


"Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement, Childhood stands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as The Diary of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel’s Night, and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz."--Publisher description.
==== 2005 ====


====1979====
* [[Albert Bigielman]] (M / France, 1932-2011), '''J’ai eu douze ans à Bergen Belsen''' (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2005).


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* [[Isaac Millman]] (M / France, 1933). '''Hidden Child''' (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).


'''Le sang de l'espoir''' <French> (Paris: Laffont, 1979) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Samuel Pisar]] (1929-2015).  
* [[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).


English trans. '''Of Blood and Hope''' (Boston : Little, Brown, 1980).
* [[Renzo Modiano]], '''Di razza ebraica''' (Milano: Libri Scheiwiller, 2005). English. ed. '''Of Jewish Race''' (Vagabond Voices, 2013).


"A survivor of Auschwitz recounts his harrowing experiences, his adjustment to freedom, and his work on behalf of the Jewish cause."--Publisher description.
* [[Esther Nisenthal Krinitz]] and daughter Bernice Steinhardt, '''Memories of survival''' (New York: Hyperion books for Children, 2005).


[[Samuel Pisar]] (1929-2015)
* [[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).


==1980s ==
==== 2006 ====


====1981====
* [[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).


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* [[Syvia Rozines]], and niece Jennifer Roy. '''Yellow Star''' (Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, 2006).


'''האי ברחוב הציפורי''' <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: 1981) is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Holocaust survivor [[Uri Orlev]] (b.1931).  
* [[Zoltan Zinn-Collis]] (M / Slovakia, 1940-2012), ''Final Witness: My Journey from the Holocaust to Ireland'' (Dunshaughlin: Maverick House, 2006).


English trans. '''The Island on Bird Street''' (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
==== 2006 ====


"During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions."--Publisher description.
'''De Drancy à Bergen-Belsen, 1944-45''' <French> (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2006) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Jacques Saurel]] (b.1933).


[[Uri Orlev]] (b.1931)
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).


====1981====
==== 2006 ====


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


'''Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary''' (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Aranka Siegal]] (b.1930).
====2007 ====


"The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust, who witnesses the destruction of her family at the hands of the Nazis during World War II ... Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto ... Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book."--Publisher description.
* [[Thomas Buergenthal]] (M / Slovakia, Poland, 1934). '''A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy''' (2007).


[[Aranka Siegal]] (b.1930).
====2007 ====


====1986====
* [[Petr Ginz]], '''The Diary of Petr Ginz''' (New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007).


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* [[Elly Gross]], '''Elly: My True Story Of The Holocaust''' (New York: Scholastic, 2007) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Elly Gross]] (b.1929).


'''I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust''' (New York, NY: Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers, 1986) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Inge Auerbacher]] (b.1934).
====2007 ====


"The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems ... Inge Auerbacher’s childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child—until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge’s family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family’s harrowing story—and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive."--Publisher description.
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[[Inge Auerbacher]] (b.1934)
'''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]]. 


====1986====
KEYWORDS:  <Latvia> <[[Errand Boys]]>


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"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.


'''Winter in the Morning: a young girl's life in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond''' (1986) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Janina Bauman]] (b.19).
Alex Kurzem  (b.1936)


"The coming-of-age of a young girl during World War II. She was born to a wealthy doctor, then she and her family were rounded up and imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to live a disease-ridden, hand-to-mouth existence, always in the presence of death. The family then escaped to the "Aryan" side where they had to slip from one safe-house to another, in constant fear of discovery and under the constant threat of blackmail ... 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."--Publisher description.
==== 2008 ====


====1988====
* [[Amos Blas]] (M / Poland, 1935). '''חלום או מציאות''' <Hebrew> (Tel-Aviv: Ḥalonot, 2008). English ed. '''''Dream or Reality''''' (Tel-Aviv: Contento de Semrik, 2011).


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==== 2008 ====


'''Alicia''' (Toronto, and New York : Bantam Books, 1988) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Alicia Appleman-Jurman]] (1930-2017).  
* [[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.


"Her name is Alicia. She was five-years-old when her story begins. It is 1935 and she is living in the East Polish town of Buczacz. Although brought up in an atmosphere of anti-Semitism, nothing could prepare this young girl for the Russian invasion of Poland and the full horror of the Nazi Occupation.
* [[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).
When Alicia was thirteen, she fled the Nazis through the forests and fields of Poland. Despite her youth, she rescued other Jews from the grip of the Gestapo. At the end of the war, Alicia, whose parents and four brothers had all perished in the Holocaust, risked her life again – this time leading other survivors from Poland to Palestine through an underground route. Her capacity for heroism in the face of brutality and evil shines through, and her story cannot easily be forgotten. She swore on her brother's grave that if she survived, she would speak for her silenced family. This book is the eloquent fulfillment of that oath. ... Told simply and modestly, this is a remarkable tribute to courage and determination, and how one young woman survived the horrors of war-torn Europe."--Publisher description.


[[Alicia Appleman-Jurman]] (1930-2017).
==== 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).


* [[Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale (1988 Schloss), book]]
==== 2009 ====


== 1990s ==
* [[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).


==== 1992 ====
==== 2009 ====


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


'''Weiter Leben: eine Jugend''' <German> (1992) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Ruth Klüger]] (b.1931). 
====2009 ====


English trans. '''Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered''' (New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001)
* [[Leo Michel Abrami]] (M / France, 1931). '''Evading the Nazis: The Story of a Hidden Child in Normandy''' (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2009).


"Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-of-age story that delves into the unsentimental observations of childhood, "Still Alive" rejects easy assumptions about history as Kluger relates how she and her family survived the Holocaust."--Publisher description.
==2010s ==


[[Ruth Klüger]] (b.1931).
====2010====


==== 1994 ====
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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). 


'''Dank meiner Mutter''' <German> (Frankfurt am Main: Alibaba, 1994) is a memoir written in German by Holocaust survivor [[Schoschana Rabinovici]] (Suzanne Weksler; 1932-2019). Originally published in German in 1994.
English ed. '''Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau: A Teenage Struggle Toward Freedom from Hatred''' (Zürich: Lit, 2013).  


English trans. '''Thanks to My Mother''' (New York, NY: Puffin, 1998).
KEYWORDS: <Hungary> <Auschwitz> <Dachau>


"Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes you will never forget."--Publisher description.
"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.


Schoschana Rabinovici (1929-2019) was born in Paris on November 14, 1932 where her parents were completing their studies. After the Wekslers returned to Vilnius, Susie attended Jewish school until the German occupation of the city in June 1941. She survived Vilnius Ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof Nazi concentration camps as a young girl (ages 8 to 12). After the war Weksler attended school in Poland and in 1950 she immigrated to Israel. She married David Rabinovici in 1953. Suzanne Weksler, now Schoschana Rabinovici, lived in Tel Aviv and Vienna since 1964, until her death in 2019.
[[Leslie Schwartz (Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor]]


==== 2011 ====


* [[Henri Borlant]] (M / France, 1927), '''Merci d’avoir survécu''' (Paris, Le Seuil, 2011).


==== 1997 ====
* [[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).


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* [[Tomi Reichental]] (M / Slovakia, 1935). '''I Was a Boy in Belsen''' (Dublin [Ireland]: O'Brien, 2011).


'''I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust''' (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Livia Bitton-Jackson]] (b.1931).
==== 2012 ====


"What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. The worst is yet to come..."--Publisher description.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia_Bitton-Jackson Livia Bitton-Jackson] (b.1931) was born as Elli L. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia, on February 28, 1931. She was 13 years old when her family was taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz, and other camp, until liberation. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.S. on a refugee boat in 1951 to join her brother, who was studying in New York. She studied at New York University, from which she received a Ph.D. in Hebrew Culture and Jewish History. She was then a professor of history at City University of New York for 37 years.  
'''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).  


==== 1997 ====
KEYWORDS:  <Poland> <[[Hidden Children]]> <Street Children> -- <[[Lublin Orphanage]]>


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"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.


'''Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir''' (El Cajon, CA: Granite Hills Press, 1997) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[David Faber]] (1928-2015).
[[Rubin Katz (Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor]]


Also published in German.
==== 2012 ====


"Because of Romek is a nonfiction, autobiographical narrative from the point of view of a teenager during the Holocaust of World War II. This is the riveting, true story of a young boy's survival in the face of Nazi atrocities. David Faber survived nine concentration camps between the ages of 13-18, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. Because of Romek fulfills his promise to his dead mother to tell the world what happened."--Publisher description.
* [[Estelle Laughlin]] (F / Poland, 1929). '''Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust''' (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012).


[[David Faber]] (1928-2015).
* [[Pavel Weiner]] (M / Czechia, 1931-2010), '''A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 - April 1945''' (2012)


==== 1997 ====
==== 2013 ====


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* [[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).


'''Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2''' (Jackson, MI: Kelton Press, 1997) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Miriam Winter]] (1933-2014).  
* [[Felix Weinberg]] (M / Czechia, 1928-2012). '''Boy 30529: A Memoir''' (London & New York: Verso, 2013).


"Trains is the moving account of a hidden child, a lonely girl who survived the Holocaust and escaped the Nazis in World War II Poland by living among strangers and pretending to be a Catholic girl, and who continued to hide her identity, heritage, and history in Communist Poland for two decades after the war ended. Trains is also the inspiring story of a courageous woman finding, facing, and telling the truth about her extraordinary life ... Memoirs of a Jew born in Lodz in 1933. At the beginning of the war her family fled to Warsaw; in summer 1941 they left the ghetto and went to Ozarow. In November 1941 Winter's parents gave her to a Jewish woman who lived with false documents on the "Aryan side" of Warsaw; she passed the child on to Maria (Maryla) Oraczowa, a Polish woman whom they met on a train. Maryla took her to her home in Lvov, but Winter was soon recognized as a Jew and Maryla arranged other hiding places. Winter's life in hiding was a painful process of changing identity; she became a sincere Catholic in 1943 and an agnostic after the war. She remained with Maryla and her family, even though she was treated like a servant. Finally, she went away to school, married, and in 1969 emigrated to the USA. Her parents and brother perished in the Holocaust."--Publisher description.
* [[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).


[[Miriam Winter]] (1933-2014).
==== 2013 ====


==== 1998 ====
'''My Silent Pledge: A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance''' (2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Sydney Zoltak]] (1931).
 
==== 2014 ====


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* [[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).


'''A Detail of History: The Harrowing True Story of a Boy Who Survived the Nazi Holocaust''' (Laxton : Beth Shalom, 1998) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Arek Hersh]] (b.1928). Repr. Malmesbury, UK: Apostrophe Books, 2015.
* [[Joseph Polak]] (M / Netherlands, 1942), '''After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring''' (Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2014).


"How do you survive when you’re 11 years old and all your family have been taken from you and killed? How do you continue to live, when everything around you is designed to ensure certain death? Arek Hersh tells his story simply and honestly, a moving account of a little boy who made his own luck and survived. He takes us into the tragic world imposed on him that robbed him of his childhood. The depth of the tragedy, strength of courage and power of survival will move you and inspire you. Contrary to assertions that the Holocaust years were a mere ‘detail of history’, Arek Hersh gives us a glimpse into the greatest catastrophe that man has ever inflicted on his fellow man."--Publisher description.
* [[Arianna Szörényi]], '''Una bambina ad Auschwitz''', a cura di Mario Bernardi (Milano: Mursia, 2014).


[[Arek Hersh]] (b.1928).
==== 2015 ====


==== 1998 ====
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'''Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto''' (Universo dos Livros, 2015) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Nanette Blitz Konig]] (b.1929).


'''No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War''' (New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 1998) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Anita Lobel]] (b.1934).  
English ed. '''Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank''' (Amsterdam Publishers, 2018).


"The author, known as an illustrator of children's books, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards ... Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Kraków, Poland. Her life changed forever. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to convent—where the Nazis finally caught up with them ... Since coming to the United States as a teenager, Anita has spent her life makingpictures. She has never gone back. She has never looked back. Until now."--Publisher description.
KEYWORDS:  <[[Bergen-Belsen]]>


[[Anita Lobel]] (b.1934).  
"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 ====


== 2000s ==
* [[Nate Leipciger]] (M / Poland, 1928). '''The Weight of Freedom''' (Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2015).


==== 2006 ====
* [[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)


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* [[Arie Tamir]] (M / Poland, 1932), '''I Only Wanted to Live''' (2015)


'''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). 
==== 2016 ====


"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.
* [[Eva Lavi]] / Ewa Ratz (F / Poland, 1937). See '''A Miracle Child''' (2016), by S. Brindavani.


[[Sidney Finkel]] (b.1931)
==== 2017 ====


==2010s ==
* [[Michael Bornstein]] (M / Poland, 1940). '''Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz''' (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017).


==== 2011 ====
==== 2019 ====


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* [[Rena Finder]] (F / Poland, 1929). '''My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List''' (New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2019).


'''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) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Israel Meir Lau]] (b.1937).
* [[Zuzana Růžičková]] (F / Chechia, 1927-2017)'''One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival''' (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).


"Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps, and how he managed to survive against all possible odds.
==Collections of memoirs==
Lau, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with the development of the State of Israel. The story continues up through today, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant, charismatic, and world-revered figure who has visited with Popes John Paul and Benedict; the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and countless global leaders including Ronald Reagan, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tony Blair."--Publisher description.


Israel Meir Lau (b.1937) was born on 1 June 1937, in the Polish town of Piotrków Trybunalski. His father, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau, the last Chief Rabbi of the town, was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. At the age of seven Meir was separated from his mother and sent with his brother to Buchenwald, where they survived until liberation in 1945. Meir immigrated to Mandate Palestine with his brother Naphtali in July 1945, and became a rabbi. From 1993 to 2003 he served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. In 2008 he was appointed Chairman of Yad Vashem.
====1993====


==== 2011 ====
*Marks, Jane. '''The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust''' (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993)


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"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.


'''I Was a Boy in Belsen''' (Dublin [Ireland]: O'Brien, 2011) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Tomi Reichental]] (b.1935). 
====1993====


"In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out'. Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. He was nine-years old in October 1944 when he was rounded up by the Gestapo in a shop in Bratislava, Slovakia. Along with 12 other members of his family he was taken to a detention camp where the elusive Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner had the power of life and death. His story is a story of the past. It is also a story for our times. The Holocaust reminds us of the dangers of racism and intolerance, providing lessons that are relevant today."--Publisher description.
[[File:1993 Greenfeld]]


[[Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental]] (b.1935) was born in the village of Merašice in Western Slovakia in 1935 to Jewish farmers and lived with his family on their farm until he was the age of eight. Under Nazi occupation, to avoid deportation they went into hiding but Tomi was captured in October 1944 with other members of his family. They were taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they stayed until the camp was liberated by the British in 1945. After the war he moved to Ireland.
* Greenfeld, Howard. '''The Hidden Children''' (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993)  


==== 2012 ====
"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."


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"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.


'''Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust''' (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Estelle Laughlin]] (b.1929).
====1994====
[[File:1994 Stein.jpg]]


""Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let's step forward and make them kill us now." But Estelle's mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mother's indomitable will was a major factor in the trio's survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto and camps as well, righteous individuals who stood out like beacons and kept their spirits alive. Their father was one, as were hungry teachers in dim, cold rooms who risked their lives to secretly teach imprisoned children. Estelle herself learned to draw on a joyful past, and to bring her own light into the void. Estelle's memoir, published sixty-four years after her liberation from the Nazis, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal."--Publisher description.
*Stein, Andre. '''Hidden Children: Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust''' (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1994)


==== 2013 ====
"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.


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====1999====
[[File:1999 Kustanowitz.jpg]]
* Kustanowitz, Esther. '''The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid From the Nazis''' (New York: Rosen Publishing, 1999)


'''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).
"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.


"The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory -- a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List."--Publisher description.
====2008====


[[Leon Leyson]] (1929-2013)
* Tománková, Magdalena. '''Ptaly se: proč? ukrývané děti vzpomínají = They asked: Why? Recollections of the Hidden Children''' (Pardubice: Batoš, 2008).


==== 2013 ====
"Presents individual stories of hidden children from the Czech Republic.  Includes endnotes.  In both English and Czech."-- Publisher description.


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'''Boy 30529: A Memoir''' (London & New York: Verso, 2013) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Felix Weinberg]] (1928-2012). 


"In 1939 twelve-year-old Felix Weinberg fell into the hands of the Nazis. Imprisoned for most of his teenage life, Felix survived five concentration camps, including Terezin, Auschwitz, and Birkenau, barely surviving the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. After losing his mother and brother in the camps, he was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at seventeen with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together. Boy 30529 is an extraordinary memoir of the Holocaust, as well as a moving meditation on the nature of memory.."--Publisher description.


[[Felix Weinberg]] (1928-2012) was born in Czechia to a Jewish family. Deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he was eventually riunited to his father in England. Became a renowned physicist, Professor of Combustion Physics and Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London.


KEYWORDS: <Czechoslovakia> <Theresienstadt> <Auschwitz> <Buchenwald>
* [[Helga Weiss (1929)


==== 2017 ====
* Ana Novac (b.1929)


[[File:2017 Bornstein.jpg|thumb|left|150px]]
* Renata Calverley (b.1937c) wrote Let Me Tell You a Story: One Girl's Escape from the Nazis.


'''Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz''' (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Michael Bornstein]] (b.1940). 
Eva Schloss (1929-)


"The incredible true story of Michael Bornstein--who at age 4 was one of the youngest children to be liberated from Auschwitz--and of his family ... In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother’s arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father’s courageous wit, a mother’s fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational Holocaust survival story with the help of his daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. Shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, this narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939."--Publisher description.
== Fictionalized Memoirs / Holocaust Novels ==


[[Michael Bornstein]] (b.1940).
* Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), ''The Painted Bird'' (1965)  


==== 2019 ====
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.


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


'''My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List''' (New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2019) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor [[Rena Finder]] (b.1929).
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.


"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame ... Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away ... Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who employed Jewish prisoners in his factory and kept them fed and healthy. But Rena's nightmares were not over. She and her mother were deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. With great cunning, it was Schindler who set out to help them escape ... Here in her own words is Rena's gripping story of survival, perseverance, tragedy, and hope. Including pictures from Rena's personal collection and from the time period, this unforgettable memoir introduces young readers to an astounding and necessary piece of history."--Publisher description.
* Markus Zusak (b.1975), ''The Book Thief'' (2005)


[[Rena Finder]] (b.1929).
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''


* [[Helga Weiss (1929)
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.


* Ana Novac (b.1929)
* Benjamin Wilkomirski (Bruno Grosjean), ''Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood''


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


Eva Schloss (1929-)
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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