teacher's guide
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Resistance Bibliography

Educational Resource Guide on the Holocaust
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives
QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Bayside, New York
www.holocaust-trc.org/edures.htm#contents

1. Personal stories of teenagers who resisted

Schulman, Faye. A Partisan's Memoir. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1995.

Draenger, Gusta Davidson, and others. Justyna's Narrative. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Fittko, Lisa. Escape Through the Pyrenees. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991.

Fittko, Lisa. Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995.

Isaacson, Judith Magyar. Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

The account of a 19-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl who is sent to Auschwitz.

Kohner, Hanna and Walter Kohner. Hanna & Walter: A Love Story. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1997.

A story of love and determination amid a world that knew only bloodshed. Hanna and Walter fall in love in Czechoslovakia in 1935. Forced from their homeland and separated, they struggle to reunite.

Konopka, Gisela. Courage & Love. Edina, MN: Burgess Printing Company, 1988.

The personal story of Dr. Konopka's resistance work in Germany against the Nazis and her struggle to survive imprisonment and hunger.

Rose, Leesha. The Tulips Are Red. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1978.

The story of a Jewish girl in the Dutch Resistance during World War II.

Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt. Walls: Resisting the Third Reich ‹ One Woman's Story. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.

The moving story of how one German woman brought sustenance and hope to thousands of political prisoners of the Third Reich.

2. Essays and narratives

Gurewitsch, Brana. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

An important historical record of women's experiences during the Holocaust. Ofer, Dalia and Weitzman, Lenore J. (Eds.). Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

A series of essays and personal narratives that explore how gender affected the experiences of women during the Holocaust.

Rittner, Carol and Roth, John K. (Eds.). Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1993.

A commemoration of the sufferings and courage of Jewish women during the bleakest years of the twentieth century.

Stadtler, Bea, and others. The Holocaust: A History of Courage & Resistance. West Orange, NJ: Behrman House, 1974.

A book for younger students about acts of courage and resistance by men and women, both Jewish and Gentile, who fought against Hitler and the Nazis.

3. General background

Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

A history for younger readers.

Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: A History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resistance during the Holocaust. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

An excellent pamphlet focusing on resistance by both men and women.