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Living After the Holocaust: Reflections by the Post-war Generation in America

by Steinitz, Lucy and David Szonyi, eds. (1976); Published by New York: Bloch Publishing

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Love Despite Hate: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Adult Lives

by Moskovitz, Sarah (1983); Published by New York: Schocken Books

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin

by Gay, Peter (1998); Published by New Haven: Yale University Press

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America

by Rabinowitz, Dorothy (1976); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

by Bukiet, Melvin Jules (2003); Published by New York: W. W. Norton

Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941

by Wyman, David S. (1985); Published by New York: Pantheon Books

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Passages From Berlin: Recollections of Former Students and Staff of the Goldschmidt Schule

by Heims, Steve J., ed. (1987); Published by US distributor: Marianne Phiebig

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Project Jewish Life in Frankfurt

by Lieberz-Gross, Till and Rieber, Angelika (2012)

The focus of our work is to keep in memory the lives of former Jewish Frankfurt citizens and to learn and teach about present-day Jewish life.

Remembering Refugees: Then and Now

by Kushner, Tony (2006); Published by Manchester University Press

Chapter 4 deals specifically with the Kindertransports. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Runaway Waltz, A Memoir from Vienna to New York

by Morton, Frederic (2010); Published by Simon and Schuster

One of the most revered essayists and novelists of his generation, Frederic Morton has captured with matchless immediacy the glamour of Vienna before World War I in his bestselling and award-winning works. Now, in his first book in more than fifteen years, he delivers a luminous look at his own unique pursuit of the American dream. Like many Austrian boys in 1936, the author idolizes Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire. When his family is forced to flee Vienna, Fritz Mandelbaum becomes Fred Morton and immigrates to New York City. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Searching for Fritzi

by Bergman, Carol (1999); Published by New York: Mediacs

This memoir traces the journey of three American women – a Jewish Holocaust survivor, her daughter, and her granddaughter – in search of their family’s history. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Stella, One Woman’s True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler’s Germany

by Wyden, Peter (1992); Published by Simon and Schuster

The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, when both were students at the Goldschmidt School in Berlin, and who later became notorious as a “catcher” in wartime Berlin, hunting hidden Jews for the Nazis. A compelling, moving and harrowing chronicle of Stella’s agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her daughter in Israel.

Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

by Dekel, Mikhal (2019); Published by W. W. Norton & Company

Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose focus is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East.

The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945

by Wyman, David S. (1984); Published by New York: Pantheon Books

The Arrival of Jewish Refugee Children in England 1938-39

by Ford, Mary R (Volume 2, Number 2, 1983); Published by Immigrants & Minorities Journal, Routledge

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys, 1685 to the Present

by Kushner, Tony (2012); Published by Manchester University Press

The Children We Remember

by Abells, Chana Byers (1987); Published by London: Julia MacRae Books

For 4 – 8 year olds, about children during the Holocaust. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage

by Klempner, Mark (2006); Published by Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press

Too Young to Remember

by Heifetz, Julie (1989); Published by Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Julie Heifetz’s collection of interviews with child Holocaust survivors. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success: 1880s – 1980s

by Berkley, George E. (1988); Published by Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books