Books About the Holocaust

Last updated: February 19, 2025

During World War II, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis attempted to exterminate European Jews by forcing them into concentration camps, where both children and adults were sent to their deaths in gas chambers along with non-Jewish Polish, Romani people, and people with disabilities. Many books have chronicled the courage and suffering of Holocaust victims from fictional stories to first-person accounts by survivors to diaries written at the time. The books on our list are some of the best for kids and teens about this period. For more reading about the past, check out our lists of World War II Books for Kids and Historical Fiction.