Resources for Inge

Books

• Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany

  Koehn, Ilse, New York, 1977.

  Memoir of woman who, as a six year old girl, was defined as a Jew by the Nuremberg laws.
• *The Nuremberg Laws (Words that Changed History Series)

  Newman, Amy, San Diego, 1999

  Overview of the Nuremberg Laws and how they relate to the Holocaust.
• 48 Hours of Kristallnacht

  Bard, Mitchell G. , Guilford, CT, 2010.

  Retells survivors’ stories of Kristallnacht.
• The Crystal Nights

  Murray, Michelle, New York, 1975.

  Historical fiction about an American Jewish girl whose German relatives move into her home after Kristallnacht.
• The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt

  Brenner, Hannelore, New York, 2009

  Narratives of female survivors of Theresienstadt.
• Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

  Kluger, Ruth, New York, 2001

  Memoir of growing up under the Nazis and during the Holocaust.
• As if it Were Life: WWII Diary from Theresienstadt Ghetto

  Manes, Philipp, New York, 2009

  The diary of a 66 year old Berlin merchant in Terezin.
• I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

  Volavkova, Hana, ed.,
• Children’s art in Terezin

  , New York, 1994.
• *A Teenage Artist During the Holocaust: Life in the Terezin Ghetto. A workbook of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 2006

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  Workbook highlighting the life and art of Helga Weissova.
• The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945

  Feingold, Henry, New York: Shocken, 1980.

  A study of America’s government policy towards Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.
• Don’t Wave Goodbye: The Children’s Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom

  Jason, Philip K. and Posner, Iris (ed.)., Westport: Praeger, 2004.

  Collection of primary sources documenting the thousand Jewish children brought to the United States from Europe on the eve of World War II.
• Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

  Dwork, Deborah, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

  Pioneering study of the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Websites

• One Thousand Children, Inc.

  https://onethousandchildren.yivo.org/

  The stories of children sent to America for refuge during WWII
• Terezin Memorial

  http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/

  Click on the British flag for English version
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

  http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/

  Click on the British flag for English version

Films

• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

  117 minutes, 2000

  The amazing stories of children rescued from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels.
• Transport from Paradise

  94 minutes, 1963

  Captures the surreal atmosphere of Theresienstadt during a 24 hour period marked by preparation for an inspection tour by the Red Cross, the making of a Nazi propaganda film, and the deportation that followed. Czech and German dialogue, with English subtitles.
• Theresienstadt, Gateway to Auschwitz: Recollections from Childhood

  58 minutes, 1987

  Accounts from survivors of the infamous Czech ghetto used as a transit camp for Jewish deportees en route to Auschwitz and other death camps.