Rosenblatt Holocaust Collection: Survivor Memoirs

Anne Frank, 1929-1945

The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank, 1989

Call Number:  D810.J4 F715 1989 

Texts about Anne Frank and her Diary

• A scholarly look at The diary of Anne Frank; Bloom, Harold, 1999
• Call Number:  D810.J4 F716 1999

• Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, Gies, Miep, 2009
• Call Number:  DS135.N5 A536 2009 

The use of memoirs in the classroom is one of the most powerful ways to have history and literature come alive for students.  By humanizing history, the abstract nature of the event becomes more concrete and thus accessible.  Below are some specific titles from the Rosenblatt Collection which teachers could scaffold and use to make the Holocaust come alive for their students.

Below is a link to help teach students about the power of Holocaust memoirs.  Click on their Resources for Educators page to help you get started.

Here are some additional resources for teaching the Holocaust in your classroom: