Adult Fiction
Title: Schindler's list
Author: Keneally, Thomas
Call number: FIC/KENEALLY
Notes: Booker Prize-winning novel that tells the true story of one remarkable man who outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews during WWII than any single person.
Title: The spies of Warsaw : a novel
Author: Furst, Alan
Call number: FIC/FURST
Notes: A historical spy thriller set in Warsaw in the run up to the Second World War.
Adult Non Fiction
Title: A concise history of Poland
Author: Lukowski, Jerzy
Call number: 943.8/LUKOWSKI
Notes: A brief illustrated introduction to Polish history, from medieval times to the present day.
Title: Conscience & courage : rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust
Author: Fogelman, Eva
Call number: 940.5318/FOGELMAN
Notes: A psychologist tells of those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and examines why they intervened while others stood by.
Title: A conspiracy of decency : the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II
Author: Werner, Emmy
Call number: 940.5318/WERNER
Notes: Tells how ordinary Danes secretly evacuated 7,000 Danish Jews to Sweden.
Title: The Courage to care : rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust
Author: Rittner, Carol Ann
Call number: 940.5315/COURAGE
Notes: Personal narratives and essays collected to preserve the memory of noble deeds, to bear witness to the world that it was possible to help Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe during WWII.
Title: Courier from Warsaw
Author: Nowak, Jan
Call number: B/NOWAK
Notes: The personal story of a diplomatic courier involved with the Polish underground.
Title: Destroy Warsaw! : Hitler's punishment, Stalin's revenge
Author: Borowiec, Andrew
Call number: 940.53438/BOBOWIEC
Notes: The history of the Warsaw Uprising and its consequences.
Title: Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44
Author: Klukowski, Zygmunt
Call number: 943.84053/KLUKOWSKI
Notes: A hospital superintendent of a county hospital in southeastern Poland records daily life during the German occupation of World War II.
Title: Every day lasts a year : a Jewish family's correspondence from Poland
Author: Hollander, Richard
Call number: 940.5318/EVERY
Notes: Letters written in Krakow, Poland between 1939 and 1942 depict day to day life and the efforts of average Poles to save Jews.
Title: Fighting Warsaw; the story of the Polish underground state, 1939-1945
Author: Korbonski, Stefan
Call number: 940.54/KORBONSKI
Notes: The history of the underground movement in occupied Poland.
Title: A hero of our own : how one American in Marseille saved Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Hannah Arendt, and more than 1000 others from the Nazis
Author: Isenberg, Sheila
Call number: 940.5318/ISENBERG
Notes: The story of Varian Fry, the only American to be honored at Israel's Holocaust Memorial. In August 1940, Fry traveled to Vichy France with $3,000 and a list of refugees that he helped to escape.
Title: Heroes of the Holocaust
Author: Glick, Susan
Call number: 940.5318/GLICK
Notes: The stories of six people who saved the lives of people they'd never met before.
Title: Hidden from the Holocaust : stories of resilient children who survived and thrived
Author: Bluglass, Kerry
Call number: 940.5318/BLUGLASS
Notes: The oral histories of 15 psychologically healthy individuals who survived the Holocaust as children hidden by Christians.
Title: A history of Poland
Author: Prazmowska, Anita
Call number: 943.8/PRAZMOWSKA
Notes: A history of Poland incorporating up-to-date research.
Title: In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer
Author: Opdyke, Irene Gut
Call number: 940.5318/OPDYKE
Notes: The author was a 17-year-old Catholic nursing student when Poland was invaded in 1939. Forced to work for the invaders, she used her position as housekeeper of a German major to conceal a dozen Jews at his villa.
Title: Kindness of strangers
Author: Herzberg, Lillian
Call number: 940.5318/HERZBERG
Notes: A refugee from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia describes how the compassion of ordinary people helped her and her daughter survive for nine years in Italy.
Title: Man in the middle : a story of the Polish resistance, 1940-45
Author: Sagajllo, Witold
Call number: B/SAGAJLLO
Notes: A personal narrative of the Polish underground movement during German occupation.
Title: A memoir of the Warsaw uprising
Author: Bialoszewski, Miron
Call number: 940.5318/LANCKORONSKA
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Title: Michelangelo in Ravensbrück : one woman's war against the Nazis
Author: Lanckoronska, Karolina
Call number:
Notes: The exploits of a Polish countess who took part in the Resistance.
Title: Nothing but honour : the story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944
Author: Zawodny, Janusz
Call number: 940.54/ZAWODNY
Notes: Another account of the Polish uprising against the Germans.
Title: Oskar Schindler : the untold account of his life, wartime activities, and the true story behind the list
Author: Crowe, David
Call number: B/SCHINDLER
Notes: The definitive account of Oskar Schindler's life in which the author examines every phase of Schindler's life and presents a savior, an opportunist and a spy who helped Nazi Germany conquer Poland.
Title: The pianist : the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
Author: Szpilman, W?adys?aw
Call number: B/SZPILMAN
Notes: The book that inspired the award-winning movie, The Pianist.
Title: The Polish underground state : a guide to the underground, 1939-1945
Author: Korbonski, Stefan
Call number: 943.805/KORBONSKI
Notes: A history of the underground movement in occupied Poland.
Title: A quiet courage : Per Anger, Wallenberg's co-liberator of Hungarian Jews
Author: Skoglund, Elizabeth
Call number: 943.9/SKOGLUND
Notes: Anger was Raoul Wallenberg's colleague. His determination and heroism were to be repeated in 1956 when he came to the aid of Hungarians fleeing another oppressor - Soviet communism.
Title: Raoul Wallenberg, angel of rescue : heroism and torment in the gulag
Author: Rosenfeld, Harvey
Call number: B/WALLENBERG
Notes: A thorough, careful, and gripping recapitulation of Wallenberg's life as it recounts his efforts to save Budapest Jews and his imprisonment in the Soviet Union.
Title: Rescued from the Reich : how one of Hitler's soldiers saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Author: Rigg, Bryan.
Call number: 940.5318/RIGG
Notes: An account of how high-ranking Germans helped Rabbi Joseph Schneersohn, the head of the Hasidic Lubavitcher movement, escape from Warsaw to America in 1940.
Title: Rescuers : portraits of moral courage in the Holocaust
Author: Block, Gay
Call number: 940.5318/BLOCK
Notes: True stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue victims of the Holocaust.
Title: The righteous among the nations
Author: Paldiel, Mordecai
Call number: 940.53183/PALDIEL
Notes: Profiles ordinary people who risked everything to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Title: The righteous : the unsung heroes of the Holocaust
Author: Gilbert, Martin
Call number: 940.53183/GILBERT
Notes: Explores the stories of those whose efforts to save Jews have received formal recognition by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
Title: Rising '44 : the battle for Warsaw
Author: Davies, Norman
Call number: 940.5318/DAVIES
Notes: An account of the Polish Resistance uprising of 1944 (as opposed to the famous Ghetto uprising of 1943), which was crushed while the Soviet Army stood by.
Title: Saving the Jews : amazing stories of men and women who defied the "final solution"
Author: Paldiel, Mordecai
Call number: 940.5318/PALDIEL
Notes: The author and his family were rescued by a French Catholic priest, who helped them escape from France into Switzerland.
Title: Secret city : the hidden Jews of Warsaw
Author: Paulsson, Gunnar
Call number: 940.5318/PAULSSON
Notes: An estimated 98% of Warsaw's Jewish population was killed during WWII. This is the story of 28,000 Jews hidden outside the Ghetto, the people who hid them, and those who hunted them.
Title: Shards of memory : narratives of Holocaust survival
Author: Lindeman, Yehudi
Call number: 940.5318/SHARDS
Notes: Stories of 25 holocaust survivors. Included is the perspective of a Danish man who helped smuggle some 7,000 Jews to safety. Foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Title: That the nightingale return : memoir of the Polish resistance, the Warsaw uprising, and German P.O.W. camps
Author: Rowinska, Leokadia
Call number: B/ROWINSKA
Notes: The story of a young Polish woman coming of age during the war.
Title: Wallenberg : missing hero
Author: Marton, Kati
Call number: 940.54/MARTON
Notes: Here is an authoritative account of Raoul Wallenberg's days in Budapest, his mysterious disappearance into Soviet prisons, and the most detailed account available of how he saved over 100,000 Jews from Nazi death camps.
Title: The Warsaw Rising of 1944
Author: Ciechanowski, Jan
Call number: 940.54/CIECHANOWSKI
Notes: Discusses the background to the Warsaw Uprising.
Title: When courage was stronger than fear : remarkable stories of Christians and Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust
Author: Hellman, Peter
Call number: 940.5318/HELLMAN
Notes: Expanded third edition, first published in 1980 as Avenue of the Righteous (940.5815/HELLMAN). Gripping portraits of five heroic Christians and one Muslim who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis. New to this edition is a Reader's Guide.
Title: Where light and shadow meet : a memoir
Author: Schindler, Emilie
Call number: 940.5318/SCHINDLER
Notes: The woman who married Oskar Schindler tells the true story of their life together, what they did to save the Jews in their factories, and what led to "Schindler's list".
Title: With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: memories of the war years in Hungary
Author: Anger, Per
Call number: B/ANGER
Notes: First-hand testimony by a friend and colleague of Wallenberg at the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Further explores the situation in Hungary at the end of World War II and describes post-war efforts to find Wallenberg. Includes many photographs and documents related to Wallenberg's work.
Juvenile Fiction
Title: The man from the other side
Author: Orlev, Uri
Call number: J FIC/ORLEV
Notes: A novel about a 14-year-old boy living in Warsaw who helps his grandparents to hide a Jewish man in their home.
Juvenile Non Fiction
Title: Faithful elephants : a true story of animals, people, and war
Author: Tsuchiya, Yukio
Call number: J 940.5316/TSUCHIYA
Notes: A zookeeper at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo tries to save animals threatened by the war.
Title: Father of the orphans : the story of Janusz Korczak
Author: Bernheim, Mark
Call number: J B/KORCZAK
Notes: A biography of the Polish doctor and children's rights advocate who gave his life to save children in the ghetto.
Title: A hero and the Holocaust : the story of Janusz Korczak and his children
Author: Adler, David
Call number: J 943.84/ADLER
Notes: The story of the Polish doctor who tried to protect orphans from the Nazis.
Title: Holocaust rescuers : ten stories of courage
Author: Lyman, Darryl
Call number: J 362.8781/LYMAN
Notes: Discusses the efforts of ten individuals who did what they could to save Jews from the Nazis, including Anna Borkowska, Varian Fry, Irene Gut Opdyke, Mustafa Hardaga, Jorgen Kieler, Oskar Schindler, Andrew Sheptitsky, Sempo Sugihara, Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard, and Raoul Wallenberg.
Title: Raoul Wallenberg : the Swedish diplomat who saved 100,000 Jews from the Nazi Holocaust before mysteriously disappearing
Author: Nicholson, Michael
Call number: J B/WALLENBERG
Notes: Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.
Young Adult Fiction
Title: Run, boy, run
Author: Orlev, Uri
Call number: FIC/ORLEV
Notes: All alone in the Warsaw ghetto, an 8-year-old boy escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area.
Young Adult Non Fiction
Title: Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
Author: Levine, Ellen
Call number: 940.5318/LEVINE
Notes: How Danes risked their lives to save their Jewish neighbors during World War II.
Title: Heroes of the Holocaust
Author: Gottfried, Ted
Call number: 940.5318/GOTTFRIED
Notes: Government leaders and regular citizens throughout Europe resisted Nazi tyranny to help Jews and other victims. This book outlines the individuals and groups that took action when it would have been much easier and safer to do nothing.
Title: Oskar Schindler
Author: Wukovits, John F.
Call number: B/SCHINDLER
Notes: Examines Schindler's motives, his extraordinary efforts in behalf of his Jewish workers, and the legacy that resulted.
Title: Rescued images : memories of childhood in hiding
Author: Jacobsen, Ruth
Call number: 940.5318/JACOBSEN
Notes: Separated from her parents, the author spent her childhood hiding from the Nazis in the homes of kindly strangers.
Title: Resisters and rescuers : standing up against the Holocaust
Author: Altman, Linda
Call number: 940.53183/ALTMAN
Notes: Discusses resistance in Germany where opposition to Nazi plans was ruthlessly crushed.
Audio-visual
Title: Schindler's list
Call number: DVD 791.4372/SCHINDLER'S
Notes: Based on the fictional work by the same title, the story of one man who outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews during WWII than any single person.
Title: Secret lives hidden children and their rescuers during WWII
Call number: DVD 940.53183/SECRET
Notes: This emotionally stirring documentary tells the stories of Jewish children hidden from the Nazis in extraordinary acts of kindness by non-Jews.
Title: To know where they are
Author: Randall, Terri
Call number: VC 940.5318/TO
Notes: Documents the journey of a father and his daughter as they travel to Poland to find traces of their European family, with whom they lost contact before WWII. Once there, they meet two women who had helped their relatives during the Holocaust.
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