Explore a carefully curated selection of books made available through The Last Ones Foundation’s partnership with the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. These works preserve Holocaust memory, amplify survivors’ voices, and provide educators and students with meaningful resources to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust and its legacy.
The Cap Maker's Son:
A young Jewish boy, the son of a cap maker, confronts the dangers of Nazi occupation during World War II. His journey reveals the devastating effects of war on family and identity while exploring survival, loss, and courage. The story ultimately affirms human resilience and the enduring power of memory in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Simple Deeds of Kindness:
This tribute honors the resilience and spirit of those who survived the Holocaust. Through themes of memory, loss, survival, and healing, it reflects on the strength of the human will after unimaginable tragedy. The narrative reminds readers why preserving these histories matters and why every life reclaimed from persecution remains worthy of remembrance and celebration.
A Tribute To Life:
A Tribute to Life by Bobbi Kaufman honors the resilience and spirit of those who survived the Holocaust. The narrative explores themes of memory, survival, and the strength of the human will, focusing on the profound impact of loss and the ongoing journey of healing. Kaufman’s tribute is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving history and cherishing life in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
Our Story Of Survival:
This memoir chronicles one family’s harrowing struggle for survival in Nazi-occupied Europe. Through personal stories, it reveals their sacrifices, resilience, and the unbreakable bonds that sustained them through unimaginable adversity. It also confronts the lasting effects of trauma and the courage required to rebuild a family, a future, and a meaningful life after profound loss.
A Twin At Auschwitz, A Soldier In Israel:
This memoir follows a Holocaust survivor from the horrors he endured as a twin at Auschwitz to the hope and purpose he later found as a soldier in Israel. His journey bears witness to persecution, survival, and renewal while showing how courage and resilience can carry a life forward after unimaginable suffering and devastating loss.
The Only One:
A young girl navigates life as the only Jewish student in her school, confronting isolation, prejudice, and questions about her identity. Her experiences become a journey of self-discovery and resilience shaped by the desire to belong. The story explores courage, friendship, and the strength required to remain true to oneself when standing apart from everyone else.
From Nazi Europe And Back:
This book recounts a Jewish family’s flight from Nazi Europe in search of safety and the chance to begin again. Through personal stories and historical context, it traces their struggle, resilience, and survival while examining how wartime trauma echoes across generations. Their journey affirms the enduring strength of family and the human spirit amid profound adversity.
Hiding In Plain Sight:
A Holocaust survivor conceals her Jewish identity to escape danger during World War II. Living in plain sight demands constant vigilance as she struggles to appear ordinary while carrying fear that discovery could mean death. Her story reveals the uncertainty, isolation, and courage of life in hiding, as well as the resilience required to survive relentless persecution.
The Yellow Star House:
Seen through young Ruth’s eyes, this story explores childhood innocence and resilience during the Holocaust. Under Nazi occupation, her Jewish family faces constant danger while holding fast to hope and community. The narrative captures the fear and uncertainty of persecution while honoring the small acts of courage that sustain the human spirit in history’s darkest moments.
A Child Alone In The Holocaust:
A young Jewish girl confronts the horrors of the Holocaust without the protection of her family. Forced to face fear, danger, and unimaginable hardship alone, she draws on courage and determination to survive. Her poignant journey reveals both the vulnerability of a child under persecution and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the darkest circumstances.
A Teenager In the Lodz Ghetto:
Ruth, a teenager imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, struggles to survive forced labor, deprivation, and the constant threat of deportation. Through her eyes, the story portrays daily life in Nazi-occupied Poland and the emotional toll of relentless persecution. Her experience bears witness to profound suffering while honoring the resilience of the human spirit during the Holocaust.
Challenges To Survival:
This book examines the struggles Holocaust survivors faced after the war had ended. Through personal stories, it explores the lasting burden of trauma and the difficult work of rebuilding homes, relationships, and identities after profound loss. These accounts reveal that liberation did not end every hardship and honor the resilience required to create meaningful lives after persecution.
The Cellar:
A family hides in a cellar during the Holocaust, living with the constant fear that discovery could bring capture or death. Confined together and surrounded by danger, they struggle to preserve hope while enduring uncertainty and isolation. Their story portrays the daily courage, endurance, and family bonds required to survive persecution one hidden moment at a time.
Yitzhak's Journey:
A young boy fights to survive the Holocaust while searching for safety, belonging, and a place where he can live without fear. Each stage of Yitzhak’s journey tests his courage and determination amid persecution and uncertainty. His story honors the resilience of a child forced to endure extraordinary challenges while holding on to hope for the future.
No Longer a Boy, Not Yet a Man:
This memoir traces a young survivor’s passage through Auschwitz, forced labor, and liberation from Bergen-Belsen before he rebuilds his life in America. His experiences reveal how persecution and loss forced a child toward adulthood under impossible circumstances. The story affirms resilience and hope while preserving hard-earned lessons that history must never allow the world to forget.
The Quest to Being:
A Holocaust survivor journeys from Europe to America, confronting the challenges of displacement, refugee life, and beginning again after war. The search for safety becomes a deeper quest to rebuild identity, purpose, and belonging after devastating loss. This story honors the courage and resilience required not only to survive persecution, but also to create a new life.
A Time When It Was Easier To Die Than To Live:
Born in Lwów, Poland, in 1938, Anita Karl remembers her family’s descent from a joyful Jewish life into the terror of Nazi-occupied Europe. As told to Bobbi Kaufman, her memoir follows ghettos, displacement, hiding, and eventual emigration to Peru. Anita’s story bears powerful witness to persecution, maternal love, resilience, and the will to survive.
I Was Lucky: A Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir:
Lucy Emmerich Lowell recounts her survival through Nazi Germany, forced labor, Auschwitz, and liberation. Born in Berlin in 1921, she endured persecution, family separation, and devastating loss before rebuilding her life in the United States. Written at age 103, Lucy’s memoir honors courage, remembrance, human kindness, and the enduring hope that can follow even profound tragedy.
