Resource Guide for Night
Suggested Reading:
- NonFiction
- Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
- Hidden Children : The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust by Jane Marks
- Surviving Hitler : A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
- Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Ester And Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War And Stalin's Peace by Masha Gessen
- Was God on Vacation? By Jack VanderGeest
- Exiled to Siberia: A Polish Child's WWII Journey by Klaus Hergt
- The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
- An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
- Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics And Beyond by Jean Messinger
- Fiction
- Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky, Irene
- Book Thief by Zusak, Markus
- Stones from the River by Hegi, Ursula
- Schindler's List by Keneally, Thomas
- Fugitive Pieces by Michaels, Anne
- My Name Is Asher Lev by Potok, Chaim
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Education
- Resources for Jewish Authors and Holocaust Literature
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin
- Hidden Child by Isaac Millman
- The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
- Memories of Survival by Esther Nisenthal Krintz
- Anne Frank by Josephine Poole
- Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II by Marisabina Russo
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (fiction)
- Danniel Half Human: and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (fiction)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (fiction for middle and highschool age)
- Brundibar retold by Tony Kushner (This is a book of the folktale Brundibar. During World War II Brudibar was a popular musical that was performed by the children interned in Terizan. We read about these children and their performance in "The Cat With the Yellow Star".)
- Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- "Ten Thousand Children" by Anne L. Fox and Eva Aabraham-Podietz
- "Rescue" the story of how Gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust. by Milton Meltzer
- "My Heart In A Suitcase" by Anne L. Fox
Young Adults and Children:
- Non-Fiction
- Auschwitz: Story of a Nazi Death Camp - Clive A. Lawton
- Children We Remember - Chana Byers Abells
- Elsie's War: A Story of Courage in Nazi Germany - Frank Smith
- Flag With Fifty-six Stars: A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen - Susan Goldman Rubin
- Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story - Lila Perl
- Hana's Suitcase - Karen Levine
- Hidden Children - Howard Greenfeld
- I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust - Inge Auerbacher
- Never To Forget - Milton Meltzer
- Star of Fear, Star of Hope - Jo Hoestlandt
- Yellow Star: Legend of King Christian X of Denmark - Deedy
- Chapter Books
- Behind the Secret Window - Nelly S. Toll
- Daniel's Story - Carol Matas
- Clara's War - Kathy Kacer
- Emil And Karl - Yankev Glatshteyn
- Finding Sophie - Irene N. Watts
- Good Night, Maman - Norma Fox Mazer
- Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story - Malka Drucker
- Night's Crossing - Karen Ackerman
- Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
- Secret Room - Cynthia Mercati
- Surviving Hitle: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps - Andrea Warren
- Twenty and Ten - Claire Bishop
- Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss
- Picture Books
- Cats in Krasinki Square - Karen Hesse
- Greatest Skating Race - Louise Borden
- Harmonica - Tony Johnston
- Hiding from the Nazis - David A. Adler
- Lily Cupboard: a Story of the Holocaust - Shulamith Oppenheim
- Luna: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen - McCann
- Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust - Eve Bunting
- Biography
- Child of the Warsaw Ghetto - David A. Adler
- Erika's Story - Ruth Vander Zee
- I Have Lived a Thousand Years - Livia Bitton-Jackson
- No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War - Anita Lobel
- Picture Book of Anne Frank - David Adler
- Place to Hide - Jayne Pettit
- Yellow Star - Jennifer Roy
For Clergy (courtesy of Steven Herro at SNC):
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Allen, R. J. and Williamson, C. M. "Preaching the Letters Without Dissenting the Law" and "Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews: A Lectionary Commentary."
- Knight, H. "Celebrating Holy Week in a Post Holocaust World."
- Cox, H. "Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey through New Year."
- Cohn-Sherbok, D. Holocaust Theology: A Reader.
- Tenebrae: Holy Week After the Holocaust by Theresa Sanders.
- Removing Anti-Judaism from the Pulpit, ed by Howard Clark Kee and Irvin J. Borowsky
Jewish Authors (by no means complete!):
- Classic
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Cynthia Ozick
- Chaim Potok
- Anzia Yezierska
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Primo Levi
- Saul Bellow
- E. L. Doctorow
- Sholem Asch
- Bernard Malamud
- Cheslaw Milosz
- Contemporary
- Phillip Roth
- Dara Horn
- Jonathon Safran Foer
- Nicole Krauss
- Myla Goldberg
- Paul Auster
- A.D. Yehoshua
Please visit the publisher website at www.nightthebook.com for reading guides, teacher guides, and links.
We will post additional discussion suggestions and supplementary materials here at a later date.