It was the bloodiest, deadliest war the world had ever seen. More than 38 million people died, among them 6 million Jews, most of whom were killed in concentration camps.

It also was the most destructive war in history. Fighting raged in many parts of the world. More than 50 nations took part in the war, which changed the world forever.

In September 1939, WWII began with the invastion of Poland.
Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945, ending the war in Europe. The war in the Pacific did not end until after the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs
on Japan — the only time such bombs were ever used in war.
Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945.

FICTION

Bat-Ami, Miriam
Two Suns in the Sky

Benchley, Nathaniel
Bright Candles: A Novel of the Danish Resistance

Boulle, Pierre
Bridge of the River Kwai

Dear America
Journal of Ben Uchida
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping

Dokey, Cameron
Hindenburg, 1937

Ferry, Charles
Raspberry One

Frank, Anne
Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annex

Greene, Bette
Summer of My German Soldier

Heneghan, James
Wish Me Luck

Hurwitz, Johanna
Anne Frank: Life in Hiding

Isaacs, Anne
Torn Thread

Laird, Christa
Shadow of the Wall

Lingard, Joan
Tug of War

Lisle, Janet Taylor
Art of Keeping Cool

Lowry, Lois
Number the Stars

Matas, Carol
After the War
Daniel’s Story
In my Enemy’s House
Lisa’s War

Mazer, Norma Fox
Good Night, Maman

Napoli, Donna Jo
Stones in Water

Orlev, Uri
Man from the Other Side

Pausewang, Gudrun
Final Journey

Ramati, Alexander
And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of Gypsy H

Rees, David
Exeter Blitz

Richter, Hans Peter
I was There

Sach, Marilyn
Pocket full of Seeds

Salisbury, Graham
Under the Blood-Red Sun

Serrailier, Ian
Escape from Warsaw

Siegal, Aranka
Grace in the Wilderness

Taylor, Theodore
Bomb
Cay

Vos, Ida
Anna is Still Here
Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon
Hide and Seek

Watts, Irene
Good-bye Marianne

Westall, Robert
Blitzcat
Machine Gunners

Williams, Laura
Behind the Bedroom Wall

Winter, Kathyrn
Katarina

Yolen, Jane
Devil’s Arithmetic

NON-FICTION

Frank, Anne
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

Garner, Eleanor
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany

Gies, Miep
Anne Frank Remembered: Story of Woman who

Gold, Alison Leslie
Memories Anne Frank: Reflections Childhood Friend

Grossman, Mendel
My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto

Hautzig, Esther
Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia

Houston, James
Farewell to Manzanar

Isaacman, Clara
Clara’s Story

Isaacson, Judith M.
Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor

Jackson, Livia
I have Lived a Thousand Years; Growing up in Holocaust

Koehn, Ilse
Mischling, Second Degree: my childhood in Nazi G

Lindwer, Willy
Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

Lobel, Anita
Anita Lobel: No Pretty Pictures: A child of war

Novac, Ana
Beautiful Days of My Youth: Six Months in Auschwitz

Opdyke, Irene Gut
In my Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Pressler, Mirjam
Anne Frank: A Hidden Life

Sender, Ruth M.
Cage
To Life

Siegal, Aranka
Upon the Head of the Goat: Childhood in Hungary

Tames, Richard
Anne Frank

Velmans, Edith
Edith’s Story

Vinke, Hermann
Short life of Sophie Scholl