Category:Holocaust Children's Memoirs (subject)
Holocaust Children's Memoirs
- Holocaust Children -- Holocaust Children's Biographies -- Holocaust Children's Diaries -- Holocaust Children's Movies
1940s
1945
- Mary Berg / Miriam Wattenberg (F / Poland, 1924-2013). Warsaw Ghetto" A Diary (New York, NY: Fisher, 1945). Reprinted as The Diary of Mary Berg.
1947
- Anne Frank (F / Netherlands, 1929-1945). The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)
1948
- Éva Heyman (F / Hangary, 1931-1944). Uj Idok Irodalmi Intézet R.T.' <Hungarian>(Singer és Wolfner, 1948). English ed. The Diary of Éva Heyman (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1974).
1950s
1956
- Elie Wiesel (M / Romania, 1928-2016). און די וועלט האָט געשוויגן / Un di Velt Hot Geshvign ["And the World Remained Silent"] <Yiddish> (Buenos Aires: Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina, 1956). Revised French ed. La Nuit (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1960). English ed. The Night, trans. Stella Rodway (New York: Hill & Wang; and London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960). International bestseller. Translated in more than 20 languages.
1958
- Moshe Flinker (M / Belgium, 1926-1944). First published in Hebrew (Jerusalem [Israel]: Yad Vashem, 1958). Englis ed. Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe (Jerusalem [Israel]: Yad Vashem, 1965).
- Thomas Geve / Stefan Cohn (M / Germany, 1929). Youth in Chains (Jerusalem : R. Mass, 1958).
1959
- Edith Bruck / Edith Steinschreiber (F / Hungary, 1932). Chi ti ama così <Italian> (Milan: Lerici, 1959). English ed.: Who Loves You Like This, trans. Thomas Kelso (Philadelphia, Pa. : Paul Dry Books, 2001).
1960s
1960
- Dawid Rubinowicz (M / Poland, 1927-1942). First published in Polish (Warszawa : Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1960). English ed. The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1981).
1965
- Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
1967
- Halina Birenbaum (F / Poland, 1929), Nadzieja umiera ostatnia (1967). English ed. Hope Is the Last to Die (1994)
- Jack Kuper (M / Poland, 1932). Child of the Holocaust (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1967).
- Beni Virtzberg (M / Germany, Poland, 1928-1968). Milayl Habedolah Ve'ad Laylot Hakrav [From Kristallnacht to the Nights of Battle] (Jerusalem: Masada Press, 1967). English ed. From Death to Battle: Auschwitz Survivor and Palmach Fighter (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2017).
1968
- Yitskhok Rudashevski (M / Lithuania, 1927-1943). Originally published in Hebrew (Tel Aviv: ha-Kibuts ha-meuhad, 1968). English ed. The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto (Tel Aviv [Israel]: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1973). Also published in French (2016), and Lithuanian/Yiddish (2018).
1970s
1972
- Johanna Reiss (F / Netherlands, 1932). The Upstairs Room (1972). Juvenile audience.
1973
- Joseph Joffo (M / France, 1931-2018).Un Sac de billes <French> (1973). English trans. A Bag of Marbles (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974).
1975
- Imre Kertész (Hungary, 1929-2016). Sorstalanság <Hungarian> (1975). English trans. Fateless / Fatelessness (1992).
1977
- Sara Zyskind / Sara Rachela Plagier (F / Poland, 1927-1995). העטרה שאבדה : בגיטו לודז׳ ובמחנות / ha-ʻAṭarah she-avdah: be-geṭo Lodz' uva-maḥanot <Hebrew> (Tel Aviv: Bet loḥame ha-getaʼot ṿe-hotsaʼat ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad, 1977). English trans. Stolen Years (Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 1981)
1978
- Saul Friedländer (M / France, 1932). Quand vient le souvenir <French> (1978). English ed. When Memory Comes (New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979). Also translated into German, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.
- Jona Oberski (M / Netherlands, 1938). Kinderjaren <Dutch> (1978). English trans. Childhood. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983 / repr. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014. Translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- John G. Stoessinger (M / Austria, 1927-2017). Night Journey: A Story of Survival and Deliverance (1978). New ed. "From Holocaust to Harvard"
1979
- Samuel Pisar (M / Poland, 1929-2015). Le sang de l'espoir <French> (Paris: Laffont, 1979). English trans. Of Blood and Hope (Boston : Little, Brown, 1980).
1980s
1980
- Ben Edelbaum (M / Poland, 1928-1990). Growing up in the Holocaust (Kansas City, MO : Edelbaum, 1980). Adapted by Margaret Baldwin for juvenile audience: The Boys Who Saved the Children (New York: J. Messner, 1981).
- Livia Bitton-Jackson / Elli L. Friedmann (F / Czechia). Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust (New York : Times Books, 1980). In 1997 the author wrote a version of her autobiography for juvenile audience. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997).
1981
- Uri Orlev (M / Poland, 1931). האי ברחוב הציפורי <Hebrew> (Jerusalem: 1981) is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Holocaust survivor Uri Orlev (b.1931). English trans. The Island on Bird Street (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
- Aranka Siegal (F / Hungary, 1930). Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981).
1983
- Frida Weinstein / Frida Scheps (F / France, 1936). J'habitais rue des Jardins Saint-Paul (Paris: Balland, 1983). English ed. A Hidden Childhood, 1942-1945 (New York : Hill and Wang, 1985).
1985
- Marek Herman (M / Poland, 1927). From the Alps to the Red sea (Israel:Ghetto Fighters' Museum, 1985). Repr. 2020.
1986
- Inge Auerbacher (F / Germany, 1934). 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).
- Janina Bauman (F / Poland, 1926). Winter in the Morning: a young girl's life in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond (1986).
- Ruth Minsky Sender / Riva Minska (F / Poland, 1926). The Cage (1986).
1988
- Alicia Appleman-Jurman (F / Poland, 1930-2017). Alicia (Toronto, and New York : Bantam Books, 1988).
- Dov Freiberg (Poland, 1927-2008). To Survive Sobibor (1988).
- Eva Schloss (F / Netherlands, 1929). Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988).
1989
- Yehuda Nir (M / Poland, 1930-2014).The Lost Childhood (San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Yehuda Nir (1930-2014).
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
- La Petite Fille Du Vel d'Hiv (1991) is a memoir written by Holocaust survivor Annette Muller.
KEYWORDS: <France>
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and daughter Bernice Steinhardt, Memories of survival (New York: Hyperion books for Children, 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).
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).
KEYWORDS: <France> <Drancy> <Bergen-Belsen> <Troebitz Train>
"Born in 1933, Jacques Saurel might well have known the fate of so many children of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland between the wars: Auschwitz and the gas chamber. He owed it to his father that he initially had no problems with the authorities. As a volunteer for military service and then a prisoner of war, his father protected Jacques and his family under the Geneva Convention. But the Nazis were looking for hostages to deport. Thus, in early February 1944, Jacques, his older sister (the younger one was in hiding) and his little brother were detained with their mother for three months in the Drancy internment camp, before being deported to the "Star Camp", Bergen-Belsen. It was in turn to their mother that the children owed their survival. If they enjoyed "privileged" conditions because the Nazis wanted to use her as a bargaining chip, these children would never have survived without the moral support and sacrifices of their mother. All the more so because living conditions, already harsh, worsened from the autumn of 1944 with the influx of survivors evacuated from the camps further east. With its organization falling apart, Bergen-Belsen became a veritable death camp riddled with famine and epidemic disease. Jacques and his family regained their freedom after experiencing in April 1945 the agonies of the refugee "Ghost Train" on which half the 2,000 Jews evacuated from the Star Camp lost their lives. Jacques and his sister were stricken with typhus. They were reunited with their father at Paris´s repatriation centre in the Hotel Lutetia on June 23, 1945. Although they survived, the same could not be said for other members of the family: no trace of those living in Poland; in France, Jacques lost his paternal grandparents, three uncles, two aunts and six cousins. From this confrontation with horror at such a young age, escaping he still does not know how, Jacques conceived one great passion: life itself."--Publisher description.
Jacques Saurel (France, 1933), Holocaust survivor.
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
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
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
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).
KEYWORDS: <Poland> <Hidden Children>
"A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things. His story about a family that struggled and endured, the generosity of those who saved them against all odds, and a vow never to forget is a remarkable journey through the Holocaust into a rich and full life. At eight, Sidney loses a middle class home and goes from the slow death of the ghetto into the terror of hiding in forests, barns and finally, a hole in the ground provided by a Polish farm family. But when war ends, there is no going back. We follow the Zoltak family, amazingly intact, as they make their way to Italy where young Sidney encounters a generosity of spirit that helps to heal war's wounds and prepares him for life in Canada. Sidney Zoltak's chronicle is a lesson in the importance of honouring your story for the generations to come."--Publisher description.
Sydney Zoltak (Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor
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).
- Arianna Szörényi, Una bambina ad Auschwitz, a cura di Mario Bernardi (Milano: Mursia, 2014).
2015
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).
- Arie Tamir (M / Poland, 1932), I Only Wanted to Live (2015)
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
- Greenfeld, Howard. The Hidden Children (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993)
"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
- Rosenberg, Maxine B. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued From the Holocaust (New York: Clarion Books, 1994)
"Provides fourteen first-person accounts of Jewish survivors who were hidden as children from the Nazis. Illuminates each survivor’s life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes a brief glossary and a bibliography. Created for juvenile readers."--Publisher description.
1994
- 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
- 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.
2009
- Abrams, Judy, and Evi Blaikie, editors. Remember Us: A Collection of Memories from Hungarian Hidden Children of the Holocaust (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2009)
"Presents the accounts of thirty child survivors who escaped the fate of other Hungarian Jews by hiding during the Holocaust. Includes pictures and a glossary."-- 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-)
Pages in category "Holocaust Children's Memoirs (subject)"
The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total.
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- Ruth Minsky Sender / Riva Minska (F / Poland, 1926), Holocaust survivor
- Laura Varon (F / Rhodes, 1926), Holocaust survivor
- Matylda Weinfeld / Miriam Akavia (F / Poland, 1927-2015), Holocaust survivor
- Ursula Bacon (F / Germany, 1927)
- Bill Basch
- Tomasz Blatt (M / Poland, 1927-2015), Holocaust survivor
- Henri Borlant (M / France, 1927), Holocaust survivor
- Dov Freiberg (M / Poland, 1927-2008), Holocaust survivor
- Jack Gruener
- Marek Herman (M / Poland, Italy, 1927), Holocaust survivor
- Clara Kramer (F / Poland, 1927-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Henri Landwirth (M / Belgium, 1927-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Esther Nisenthal Krinitz
- Moyshe Rekhtman
- Zuzana Růžičková (Czechia, 1927-2017), Holocuast survivor
- John G. Stoessinger (M / Austria, 1927-2017), Holocaust survivor
- Chanania Teitel / Hannan Dekel (M / Poland, 1927-1993), Holocaust survivor
- Sara Zyskind / Sara Rachela Plagier (F / Poland, 1927-1995), Holocaust survivor
- Wolfgang Adler
- Eliezer Ayalon / Lejzor Herschenfin (M / Poland, 1927), Holocaust survivor
- George Brady / Jiří Brady (M / Czechia, 1928-2019), Holocaust survivor
- Ilse Charny (F / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Vera Diament / Vera Gissing (F / Czechia, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Gerhard Durlacher
- Ben Edelbaum (M / Poland, 1928-1990), Holocaust survivor
- David Faber (M / Poland, 1928-2015), Holocaust survivor
- Luigi Fleischmann (M / Italy, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Roman Frister
- Solly Ganor (M / Lithuania, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Petr Ginz (M / Czechia, 1928-1944), Holocaust victim
- Heinz Goldstein / Henry Gallant (M / Germany, 1928-2019), Holocaust survivor
- Arek Herszlikowicz / Arek Hersh (M / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Hanna Kugler Weiss (F / Italy, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Tom Lantos (M / Hungary, 1928-2008), Holocaust survivor
- Nate Leipciger (M / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Marceline Loridan-Ivens / Marceline Rozenberg (F / France, 1928-2018), Holocaust survival
- Hanna Pankowsky / Hanna Davidson (F / Poland, 1928-2020), Holocaust survivor
- Gilberto Salmoni (M / Italy, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Davide Schiffer (M / Italy, 1928-2020), Holocaust survivor
- Alberto Sed (M / Italy, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Lore Segal / Lore Groszmann (F / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Martin Spett (M / Poland, 1928-2019), Holocaust survivor
- Beni Virtzberg (M / Germany, Poland, 1928-1968), Holocaust survivor
- Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012), Holocaust survivor
- Elie Wiesel (M / Romania, 1928-2016), Holocaust survivor
- Edith Balas
- Becky Behar (F / Turkey, Italy, 1929-2009), Holocaust survivor
- Andre Berkover
- Margit Buchhalter Feldman (F / Hungary, 1929-2020), Holocaust survivor
- Ruth David (F / Germany, 1929-2020), Holocaust survivor
- Cordelia Edvardson
- Rena Finder (Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Thomas Geve / Stefan Cohn (M / Germany, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Elly Gross
- Samuel Hoffman / Martin Hoffman (M / Czechia, 1929-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Simon Jeruchim (M / France, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Imre Kertész (M / Hungary, 1929-2016), Holocaust survivor
- Ilse Koehn
- Akiva Kohane (M / Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Estelle Laughlin / Estelle Wakszlak (F / Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Samuel Pisar (M / Poland, 1929-2015), Holocaust survivor
- Eva Schloss / Eva Geiringer (F / Netherlands, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Judita Stern / Judith Sherman (F / Slovakia, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Alicia Weinsberg / Alicja Fajnsztejn (F / Poland, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Helga Weiss / Helga Hošková-Weissová (F / Czechia, 1929), Holocaust survivor
- Irene Zisblatt
- Janina David
- Cesare Moise Finzi (M / Italy, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Michael Gruenbaum (M / Czechia, 1930)
- Bertrand Herz (France, 1930)
- Ingrid Kisliuk / Inge Scheer (F / Austria, 1930-2020), Holocaust survivor
- Michal Kraus (M / Czechia, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Hans Helmut Michel (M / Germany, France, 1930-1944), Holocaust victim
- Sami Modiano (M / Rhodes, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Yehuda Nir / Juliusz Gruenfeld (M / Poland, 1930-2014), Holocaust survivor
- Josef Perl (M / Slovakia, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Helga Pollak-Kinsky (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Aranka Siegal / Aranka Meizlik (F / Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Marianne Spier-Donati (F / Germany, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Regina Steinitz
- Ela Weissberger / Ela Stein (F / Czechia, 1930-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Esther Werkendam / Hetty Verolme (F / Netherlands, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- Leo Michel Abrami (M / France, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Livia Bitton-Jackson / Elli L. Friedmann (F / Czechia, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Hana Brady / Hanička Bradyová (F / Czechia, 1931-1944), Holocaust victim
- Sevek Finkelstein / Sidney Finkel (M / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Simon Gronowski (M / Belgium, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Suzanne Gross / Sarah Pertofsky (F / France, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Renée Kann Silver (F / Germany, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Ruth Klüger (Austria, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Lia Levi (F / Italy, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Stephen Nasser
- Emanuele Pacifici (M / Italy, 1931-2014), Holocaust survivor
- Mikulas Reichental (M / Slovakia, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Josef Rosenbaum (M / Germany, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Fatina Sed (F / Italy, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Eva Slonim / Eva Weiss (F / Slovakia, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Regina Teitel / Rivka Dekel (F / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Romek Wajsman / Robbie Waisman (M / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Samuel Max Werkendam (M / Netherlands, 1931-2005), Holocaust survivor
- Sidney Zoltak (M / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Aharon Appelfeld (M / Poland, 1932-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Albert Bigielman (M / France, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Edith Bruck / Edith Steinschreiber (F / Hungary, 1932)
- Krystyna Carmi (F / Poland, 1932)
- Henry Foner / Heinz Lichtwitz (M / Germany, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Saul Friedländer (France, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Pinchas Gutter (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Jack Kuper / Jankele Kuperblum (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Regine Miller (F / Belgium, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Edith Milton / Edith Cohn (F / Germany, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Schoschana Rabinovici / Suzanne Weksler (F / Lithuania, 1932-2019), Holocaust survivor
- Johanna Reiss (Netherlands, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Cesare Rimini (M / Italy, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Rolf Spier-Donati (M / Germany, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Arie Tamir (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Louis Begley / Ludwik Begleiter (M / Poland, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- Roman Ferber
- Annette Muller (F / France, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- Naomi Samson / Naomi Rosenberg (F / Poland, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- Arianna Szörényi (F / Italy, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- Zadok Jack Werkendam (M / Netherlands, 1933-2003), Holocaust survivor
- Aldo Zargani (M / Italy, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- Inge Auerbacher (F / Germany, 1934), Holocaust survivor
- Thomas Buergenthal (Poland, 1934), Holocaust survivor
- Magda Denes (F / Hungary, 1934-1996), Holocaust survivor
- Michal Glowinski
- Anita Kempler / Anita Lobel (F / Poland, 1934), Holocaust survivor
- Eva & Miriam Mozes (Romania, 1934)
- Ruth Barnett / Ruth Michaelis (F / Germany, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Amos Blas
- Marcel Braitstein (M / Belgium, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Krystyna Chiger / Kristine Keren (F / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Erna Gorman (F / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Peter Nachemstein / Peter Nash (M / Germany, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Rena Quint
- Tomi Reichental (M / Slovakia, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- Sylvia Rozines
- Nelly S. Toll
- Jytte Bornstein (F / Denmark, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- Shlomo Breznitz
- Felicia Bryn (F / Poland, 1936-2014), Holocaust survivor
- Cesare Frustaci
- Andrew S. Grove (M / Hungary, 1936-2016), Holocaust survivor
- Renzo Modiano (M / Italy, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- Jurek Becker (M / Poland, 1937-1997), Holocaust survivor
- Ruth Kapp Hartz (F / France, 1937), Holocaust survivor
- Rachel Hyams / Rutka Greenspan (F / Poland, 1937), Holocaust survivor
- Eva Lavi / Ewa Ratz (F / Poland, 1937), Holocaust survivor
- Marian Marzynski / Marian Kuszner (M / Poland, 1937), Holocaust survivor
- Tova Friedman (F / Poland, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Marione Ingram (F / Germany, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Francine Lazarus (F / Belgium, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Roma Ligocka / Roma Liebling (F / Poland, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Trudie Strobel (F / Ukraine, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Pawel Chiger (M / Poland, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Rosemarie Koczy (F / Germany, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Donatella Levi (F / Italy, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Relli Robinson (F / Poland, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Liliana Treves (F / Italy, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Michael Bornstein (M / Poland, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Sonja DuBois (F / Netherlands, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Robert Finaly (M / France, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Ib Katznelson (M / Denmark, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Marguerite Lederman / Marguerite Mishkin (F / Belgium, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Sophia Richman (F / Poland, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Jasia Starkopf / Johanna Brainin (F / Poland, 1941-2017), Holocaust survivor
- Stefan Jerzy Zweig (M / Poland, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Anita Epstein / Anita Kuenstler (F / Poland, 1942-2019), Holocaust survivor
- Julius Maslovat / Yidele Henechowicz (M / Poland, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Joseph Polak (M / Netherlands, 1942), Holocaust survivor
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