Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable.New York: Ember, 2011.
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno decides there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Iturbe, Antonio. The Librarian of Auschwitz. New York, NY: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. St. Petersburg, FL: Cornerstone Books, 1995.
As German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen’s family takes Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her by pretending she’s part of the family. Then, through Annemarie’s eyes, readers watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire population of Denmark --- nearly 7,000 people --- across the sea to Sweden.

Nolan, Han. If I Should Die Before I Wake. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
A neo-Nazi teen is transported back in time to World War II Poland, where she is now a Jewish girl in a Nazi ghetto.

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.