May 8, 1945 is remembered as V-E day, the end of WWII in the European theatre. Along with the end of the war came the release of those detained at Concentration Camps. The Holocaust is memorialized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum located in Washington, D.C. The Museum in conjunction with First Book has curated a diverse collection of historically accurate and relevant books that libraries can use to increase the understanding of how and why the Holocaust happened. The Lake Andes Library was able to secure a donation of this curated collection of 9 titles to our library. Titles include “All But My Life” by Gerda Weissmann Klein, “Diary of Anne Frank”, by Anne Frank, “Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany” by Andrew Maraniss, “I Have Lived a Thousand Years “, by Livia Bitton-Jackson, “Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe” by Leo Bretholz, “Maus I A Survivor’s Tale : My Father Bleeds History”, by Art Speigelman, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry, and lastly “The Light in Hidden Places” by Sharon Cameron.

These books are available for check out at the library.