NEVER FORGET: Remembering the Holocaust through Literature

Celebrated on April 19 (the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is simple yet immeasurably important in intent: For one single day we are to reflect on the approximately 6 million men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis so that we, as members of a supposedly civilized society, will never again descend into the depths of such abject evil.

One can only assume that for Holocaust survivors, Jews and non-Jews alike, Yom Hashoah is something of a daily ritual. Can anyone of us even conceive of a single day passing without the terrifying recollection of your mother being dragged off by a Nazi soldier while you stood there, a confused and frightened 6-year-old facing an all-but-certain death?

And so, in honor of all Holocaust victims --- both living and deceased --- Teenreads.com brings you a selection of notable memoirs and works of fiction.

FLARES OF MEMORY edited by Anita Brostoff

WALK THE DARK STREETS by Edith Baer

A FROST IN THE NIGHT by Edith Baer

KATARINA: A Novel by Kathryn Winter

DISPLACED PERSONS by Joseph Berger

AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP by Bernat Rosner and Frederic C. Tubach

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