Remembering the Holocaust Means We’ll Never Repeat It!

To honor and remember the Jewish people who suffered and died in the Holocaust — and those who survived — we want to help share their stories. Because when we remember the horrors of this evil blight in human history, we help ensure we never repeat it.

That’s why we want to recommend the books below — extraordinary stories of pain, survival, and hope!

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

Drawing on diverse sources, this book follows the fates of twenty-five young women in the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women.

Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust

A collaboration between painter Lori Schreiner and poet Theresa Senato Edwards —inspired by photographs taken at Auschwitz by Holocaust survivor Wilhelm Brasse — this book brings the children of the Holocaust to life and lends vitality to their memory.

Lily’s Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations

In these pages, Lily Ebert writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz, and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe.