Books about the Netherlands During the Holocaust

The list below provides optional additional resources for teachers who would like more information about the Netherlands and the Holocaust. Please note that the New York State Education Department does not endorse or promote any specific books or curriculum on this topic, as these are local district decisions.

Benda-Beckmann, Bas Von . (2022). After the Annex. Unicorn.

Bert-Jan Flim, & Jozien J Driessen-Van Het Reve. (2005). Saving the children : history of the organized effort to rescue Jewish children in the Netherlands, 1942-1945. Cdl Press.

Boom, Corrie Ten, Sherrill, E., & Sherrill, J. L. (1974). The hiding place : by Corrie ten Boom, with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. Bantam. https://www.christianbook.com/the-hiding-place-corrie-ten-boom/9780553256697/pd/56696

Briejer, N. J. (2015). The Sweet Dell.

Brounstein, M. (2011). Two Among the Righteous Few. Tate Publishing.

de Vries, Tjitte. (2023). The Landau Brothers: A Jewish Family of Chocolate Makers in Amsterdam before and after the Holocaust. Amsterdam: TjitteDeVries Books.

Enzer, Hyman Aaron and Soltatf-Enzer, Sandra. (2000). Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Folman, Ari, Frank, A., & Polonsky, D. (2018). Anne Frank’s diary : the graphic adaptation. Pantheon Books.

Frank, A., Barnouw, D., Der, V., Hardy, H. J. J., Rijksinstituut Voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands, & Netherlands. Gerechtelijk Laboratorium. (2003). The Diary Of Anne Frank : The Revised Critical Edition. Doubleday.

Frank, A. (2010). Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annexe. Halban Publishers.

Franklin, R. (2025). The Many Lives of Anne Frank. Yale University Press.

Geismar, D., & Pelt, V. (2020). Invisible years : a family’s collected account of separation and survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands ; foreword by Robert Jan van Pelt. David R. Godine.

Gies, M. (2012). Anne Frank Remembered. Simon and Schuster.

Etty Hillesum, & Gaarlandt, J. G. (1996). An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork. Henry Holt.

René Kok, Somers, E., Nanny Maat, Langham, T., Plym Peters, Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands, & Nationaal Holocaust Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands. (2019). The persecution of the Jews in photographs : The Netherlands 1940-1945. Wbooks.

Kugler, V. (2008). Victor Kugler. Gefen Books.

Lee, Carol Ann. (2008). Anne Frank and the children of the Holocaust. Puffin Books.

Lindwer, W. (2008). The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. Paw Prints.1.

Moore, B. (1998). Victims and survivors : the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945. London Arnold.

MüllerM. (2014). Anne Frank : the biography. Picador/A Metropolitan Book/Henry Holt And Company.

Pick-Goslar, H. (2023). My Friend Anne Frank. Little, Brown Spark.

Presser, J. (1988). Ashes in the Wind. Wayne State University Press.

Prose, F. (2009). Anne Frank. Harper Collins.

Rol, Ruud Van Der. (1993). Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: a Photographic Remembrance. New York, Viking Press.

Schipper, A. (2022). Sabine’s Odyssey.

Schloss, E. (2013). After Auschwitz. Hodder & Stoughton.

Schloss, E. (2019). Eva’s Story. Eerdmans Young Readers.

Schloss, E., Powers, B., & Yaron, S. (2006). The promise : the true story of a family in the Holocaust. Puffin.

Siegal, N. (2023). The Diary Keepers. HarperCollins.

Sullivan, R. (2023). The Betrayal of Anne Frank. HarperCollins.

Tabatsky, D. (2022). The Boy Behind The Door.

Ullman, L. S. (2015). 796 Days : hiding as a child in occupied Amsterdam during WWII and then coming to America (covering the period 1939-1957). Comteq Publishing.

Van Galen, D. & Wolfswinkel, R. (1996). Anne Frank and After. Amsterdam University Press.

Van Iperen, Roxane. (2021). The Sisters of Auschwitz. HarperCollins.

Wijk-Voskuijl, Joop van & Jeroen De Bruyn. (2023). The Last Secret of the Secret Annex. Simon & Schuster.

Wind, Eddy de. (2020). Last Stop Auschwitz. Grand Central Publishing.