![]() ![]() (I have only listed a few YA books, but if you have a teenager, encourage them to read Maus by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed graphic novel. Here are important children’s books about the Holocaust and World War II that will teach children more about this dark period in history. In 1942, ten-year-old Manami and her family are forced to leave their home on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for Manzanar, an internment camp in the California desert. We need to keep these stories alive so we always remember and never, ever repeat this kind of horrible genocide again. The New York Times Lois Sepahban presents a somber but emotionally true story of WWII Japanese American internment in Paper Wishes. How did this happen? And how can we make sure this never happens again. It’s estimated that over 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Written in the first person voice of Manami Tanaka, a girl who is around ten years old, Paper Wishes takes place from March to December 1942 (with each month serving as the title of a chapter) as the Tanakas are forcibly removed from their Bainbridge Island home and sent to Manzanar. ![]() Not to mention, we need to remember that the horrors were perpetuated by regular people who become villains and monsters, turning on neighbors to follow a dangerous, hateful leader named Adolf Hilter. If we don’t understand the Holocaust and the genocide, we are doomed to repeat it. In order not to repeat the past, we must understand it. ![]() ![]() Children’s books about the Holocaust and World War II help kids understand the past through historical fiction and nonfiction stories because they immerse readers in the experiences of people who lived through it, whether fiction books or nonfiction books. ![]()
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