International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27

Lest We Forget with an image of a Star of David, candles and barbed wire

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. We remember Holocaust victims by reading their names, by lighting candles, and by learning about the Holocaust.”

You can learn more about the Holocaust and its victims and survivors, as well as the background of events that occurred in Nazi Germany and around Europe and the world at large during the 1930s and 1940s that enabled the horrors of the Holocaust, with the books listed below.

"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." — Primo Levi                                                                                                                                                             

Fiction

  • The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
  • Eli's Promise by Ronald Balson
  • Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
  • A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
  • The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayron
  • Day After Night by Anita Diamant
  • The Suicide Museum by Ariel Dorfman
  • The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
  • The Porcelain Maker by Sarah Freethy
  • Annelies by David R. Gillham
  • Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham
  • They Went Left by Monica Hesse
  • The Commandant of Lubizec : a Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard by Patrick Hicks
  • The World that we Know by Alice Hoffman
  • We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
  • The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon
  • Fervor by Toby Lloyd
  • Three Sisters by Heather Morris
  • City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
  • Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky
  • We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards
  • Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner
  • A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
  • 28 Days : a Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier
  • The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
  • Courage to Dream : Tales of Hope in the Holocaust : a Graphic Novel by Neal Shusterman
  • Armageddon by Leon Uris
  • The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction and Memoirs

  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz : the True story of the women who sewed to survive by L. D. Adlington
  • Cracking the Nazi code : the untold story of Agent A12 and the solving of the Holocaust code by Jason Bell
  • Lovers in Auschwitz : a True Story by Keren Blankfeld
  • The Origins of the Final Solution : the Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning
  • Anne Frank's Diary : the Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman
  • Into the Forest : a Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
  • The Escape Artist : the Man who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
  • The Origins of Nazi Genocide : from Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander
  • Signs of Survival : a Memoir of the Holocaust by Renaee Hartman
  • I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
  • The Holocaust in Historical Context by Stephen T. Katz
  • The Pope at War : the Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
  • The Eichmann Trial by Elliot Levitt
  • Two Wheels to Freedom : the Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape by Arthur J. Magida
  • Anne Frank : the Biography by Melissa Müller
  • Life after Kafka by Magdaléna Platzová
  • My Friend Anne Frank : the Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar
  • Hitler and Stalin : the Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
  • Control : the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
  • Impossible Escape : a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin
  • The Diary Keepers : World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People who Lived through It by Nina Siegal
  • On Inhumanity : Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith.
  • Black Earth : the Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
  • The Holocaust : an Unfinished History by Dan Stone
  • The Betrayal of Anne Frank : a Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Defying Hitler : the Germans who Resisted Nazi Rule by Gordon Thomas
  • I Didn't Say Goodbye by Claudine Vegh
  • The Counterfeit Countess : the Jewish Woman who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White
  • It's My Whole Life : Charlotte Salomon : An Artist in Hiding During World War II by Susan Wider
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