Oregon Holocaust Memorial Resources
Picture Books for Young Children
Craddock, Sonia. Sleeping Boy. New York: Atheneum, 1999.
A young German boy and his family fall under a spell that puts them to sleep until peace comes to the city of Berlin.
Innocenti, Roberto. Rose Blanche. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996.
During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.
McCann, Michelle and Luba Tryszynska-Frederick. Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen. Toronto: Bicycle Press, 2003.
One cold December night in 1944, Luba Tryszynka's questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Despite the mortal dangers, Luba and the women of her barracks cared for these orphans known to history as the Diamond Children through a winter of disease, starvation, and war.
Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey. The Lilly Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.