This is a resource list of books and movies

							 This is a resource list of books and movies that people have suggested in relationship to the exhibition of
                                    Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album.

BOOKS

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A novel that takes place during and after WWII about a woman who is the author of a newspaper column.

A Sudden Change of Heart by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A novel about two women, best friends since childhood, whose lives intersect when one is stricken with sudden tragedy
and the other is investigating artwork stolen by Nazis.

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A novel about two young girls during the Holocaust. The Jews of Denmark are being “relocated”, so Ellen Rosen moves
in with her best friend’s family and pretends to be a part of it to avoid being taken to a concentration camp.

 Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
A first person narrative of a little girl caught up in the July 16, 1942 round up of Parisian Jews by the French police to be
taken to Auschwitz. It is also intertwined with the story of a journalist writing an article of the incident some sixty years
later.

Night by Elie Wiesel
A memoir of the final year of the Holocaust the author spent at Auschwitz.

Clara’s War by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz
Based on the diary of Clara Kramer during her years of survival in an underground bunker with seventeen other people.

MOVIES

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Set during WWII, it is a story of the forbidden friendship between the son of a commandant of a concentration camp and a
young Jewish boy.

The Sound of Music
A movie about a woman who leaves a convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower
during Hitler’s rise to power.

Freedom Writers
A story about an inner-city teacher who shows her students that their stories are important through the teaching of The
Diary of Anne Frank.

Out of the Ashes
The life-story of Doctor Gisella Perl, a Hungarian Jew, who was captured along with her entire family and taken to
Auschwitz.