Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz –Birkenau concentration camp. We have gathered books, documentaries and movies that portray life within the concentration camps. These stories are told from survivors and historians with some fiction books as well. We encourage anyone who is interested in learning more about the Holocaust please check out the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Books

Oskar Schindler by David Crowe

And The World Closes Its Doors by David Clay Large

Night by Elie Wisel

Maus by Art Spiegelman

How could this Happen by Dan McMillan

What We Knew – Eric A. Johnson

Bloodlands by Tim Snyder

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

How to be a refugee – How to be a refugee

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

A Little Girl in Auschwitz by Lidia Maksymowicz

The Upstairs Room – Johanna Reiss

Let’s Make Things Better – Gidon Lev

Lily’s Promise – Lily Ebert

A Mother’s Courage – Malka Levine

A Garden of Eden in Hell – Melissa Muller

The Choice – Edith Eger

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

If This is a Man by Primo Levi

The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry by Lidia Maksymowicz

Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler

Children of Willesden Lane by Lee Cohen and Mona Golabek

I want you to know we’re still here  – Esther Safran Foer

Movies and Documentaries

Woman in Gold

The Book Thief

Sarah’s Key

Defiance

The Pianist

Conspiracy

The Last Days – doc

Life is Beautiful

Schindler’s List

Europa Europa

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Sophia’s Choice

Shoah

Anne Frank Remembered

The Long Way Home

Ida

The US and the Holocaust

The Account of Auschwitz

THE MAIN LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR RENOVATION, STARTING ON DECEMBER 21, 2024.