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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

by Michael Patrick MacDonald

(Beacon Press)

The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed South Boston’s working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. MacDonald grew up in 'Southie’s' Old Colony housing project and describes the way this world within a world felt to this troubled yet keenly gifted observer. All Souls is testimony to lives lost too early to violence, drugs, and poverty, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”
Anton the Dove Fancier: and Other Tales of the Holocaust

by Bernard Gotfryd

(Washington Square Press)

This collection of autobiographical true stories illuminates the experiences of a teenage Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.

 

Watch a video of Bernard Gotfryd discussing Anton the Dove Fancier.
The Bear That Wasn't (book)

By Frank Tashlin

(Dover Publications)

This short illustrated book has been described as a modern fable. One day a bear awakens to find himself in the midst of civilization. Interpretations abound in this excellent catalyst for discussion of the individual in society.

 

Lesson and abridged text


Online video of The Bear That Wasn't
A Boy of Old Prague

by Sulamith Ish-Kishor

(Dover Publications)

Tomas, a young boy living in the 1500's, has been taught to be suspicious and even hateful of Jews. His beliefs are challenged when he must confront them in the ghetto. See pages 294-297 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book for a discussion of this novel.
Children of Willesden Lane The Children of Willesden Lane

by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
(Warner Books)
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

by Phyllis Goldstein

(Facing History and Ourselves)
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians

(Facing History and Ourselves)

This resource book combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with an interdisciplinary approach to history, enabling students and teachers to make the essential connections between history and their own lives.

By concentrating on the choices that individuals, groups, and nations made before, during, and after the genocide, readers have the opportunity to consider the dilemmas faced by the international community in the face of massive human rights violations.
Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors and Aliens in a New America

edited by Warren Lehrer & Judith Sloan
(Norton)
Enrique's Journey

by Sonia Nazario
(Random House)

When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. After eleven years, he set off alone, and without money, to find her. This book, based on a Pulitzer-prize winning series in the Los Angeles, chronicles his harrowing journey to be reunited with this mother, providing insight into the realities of immigration and the people who risk so much for a chance to live in the United States.
Escape from Slavery

by Francis Bok

(St. Martin's Griffin)

In this memoir, Francis Bok recounts his story of being kidnapped into slavery at the age of ten in the Sudan in 1986. For ten years, he lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee, each bringing severe beatings and death threats, Francis finally escaped at the age of seventeen. Now living in the United States and an antislavery activist, Bok has made it his mission to combat world slavery.