For+Further+Reading

This page is for you to add titles of books that have a similar theme to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and that you think other students would like to read. You can include both historical fiction and non-fiction titles. Be sure to add the title and the author and, if you have read the book, add a comment about that title. To get you started here are a just a few titles that refer to the Holocaust and genocide. Check with your school librarian for suggestions!

Miriam, a young Jewish child, is sent away by her parents to live with a Gentile family in the country. She must hide in the family's cupboard when the Nazis come looking for Jews. The simple story is accompanied by warm, colorful illustrations and a strong text.
 * //The Lily Cupboard//** by Shulamith Ley Oppenheim

In Denmark in 1943, the lives of all Jews are in jeopardy. Ten-year-old Annemarie's best friend, Ellen, is Jewish. Annemarie's family undertakes the dangerous mission of smuggling Ellen and her family to Sweden aboard the fishing boat that belongs to Annemarie's uncle. But when Anemarie's mother is injured, and the special package that was to be delivered to Annemarie's uncle on the fishing boat is found beside the porch, it is up to Annemarie to deliver the package safely. Along the way, she must contend with German soldiers as well as her own fear.
 * //Number the Stars//** by Lois Lowry

One night Monique discovers her mother has been hiding a Jewish family in the basement when she wakes and finds a strange girl sitting at the foot of her bed. Monique and Sevrine become friends. After the girls are seen playing together, Monique's mother decides to leave the village before the Nazis come looking for Sevrine's family.
 * //The Butterfly//** by Patricia Polacco

An empty suitcase in the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center prompts curious school children and the museum's director to investigate the fate of its owner Hana Brady. The only information they have is the girl's name and her birth date painted on the side of the suitcase. This moving detective story covers 70 years and events on three continents. The book features photos and documents.
 * Hana's Suitcase** by By Karen Levine

This book for readers 9-12 tells the story of 12 year-old Edi Fejzullahu who escaped to Macedonia with his family in 1999. Text and full-page photos describe the ups and downs of life in a refugee camp.
 * One Boy from Kosovo** by Trish Marx and Cindy Karp

//The Diary of Anne Frank,// discover the true story of a Jewish girl as she hides from Nazis during World War II. More than a war story or a tale of persecution, the diary is amusing, enlightening, and moving as Anne details her feelings about herself and the people she's with, the world at large, and life. Anne Frank was an ordinary girl in extraordinary times; although she did not survive after her group was discovered, her spirit lives on through her diary.
 * The Diary of Anne Frank** by Anne Frank

This book is Livia Bitton-Jacson's (born Elli Friedmann) memoir of growing up during the Holocaust. Her story begins as the Nazis invade Budapest. Shortly thereafter, Elli and her family are forced into a ghetto which then leads to their imprisonment and forced labor in a seemingly endless litany of concentration camps.
 * I have lived a Thousand Years** by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family - father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps that included Westerbork in Holland and the notorious Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Though they all survived the camps, Walter Blumenthal, the father, succumbed to typhus just after liberation. It took three years of struggle and waiting before Marion, Albert, and their mother at last obtained the necessary papers and boarded ship for the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.
 * Four Perfect Pebbles** by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan