jewish children in the holocaust

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jewish children in the holocaust

The boy on the wooden box

2013
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.

Hidden like Anne Frank

fourteen true stories of survival
Collects a variety of true stories about Jewish children surviving the Holocaust, all of whom had to go into hiding after the manner of Anne Frank.

The boy on the wooden box

how the impossible became possible--- on Schindler's list
2013
Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler.

Hana's suitcase

a true story
2009
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

La historia de Erika

2005
A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace with her own family.

Mendel's daughter

2007
Presents in graphic novel format the life of a Jewish girl growing up in Poland during the 1940s, describing how the Nazi persecution led to the deaths of her parents, while she and her brothers survived the war by hiding in the neighboring forest.

Trains

a memoir of a hidden childhood during and after World War II
1997

Never to be forgotten

a young girl's Holocaust memoir
1997
The author reconstructs the story of her Holocaust childhood through letters, documents, and diary entries, telling of her family's flight from Germany to Belgium after Hitler came to power, and discussing the sacrifice her parents made to keep her safe.

The boys

the untold story of 732 young concentration camp survivors
1998

Two rings

a story of love and war
2012
Documents the co-author's survival story as a Jewish-Polish youth who faced death multiple times as an armament factory slave laborer and Auschwitz survivor, tracing her brief and beautiful marriage to a first husband who did not survive the war.

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