Thursday, January 27, 2022

On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

Featured Lists

• Tell Them We Remember: Literature about the Holocaust and World War II from the CCBC

• The Holocaust list from Penguin USA

• Holocaust Remembrance Day list from The Horn Book

• Selected Holocaust Literature for Youth from the Association of Jewish Libraries

Featured Resources

• Hear author Alan Gratz talk about how he brought Jack Gruener’s personal story to the page in this Meet-the-Author Recording for Prisoner B-3087.

• Listen to Doreen Rappaport introduce and share some of the backstory for creating Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust in this Meet-the-Author Recording.

• Watch Elie Wiesel explain that he wrote his memoir Night out of a duty to bear witness to his experiences in the Holocaust in this recorded speech.

• Listen to this audiobook excerpt from The Librarian of Auschwitz.

• Listen to this audiobook excerpt for We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance by Deborah Hopkinson.

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