The Holocaust was a defining event of the twentieth century and is part of both our history and our contemporary life. Millions of lives were lost, or changed beyond redemption. The consequences of this loss and persecution are felt today by Holocaust and genocide survivors, their children and grand-children, in the UK and around the world.
The Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is commemorated on 27th January each year. This marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. To show your support, light a virtual candle at www.hmd.org.uk
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, we’ve selected 4 tremendous novels, each concerning the horrors and atrocities of war, but each written from very different view points and conclusions - but will all hopefully help us to remember the past, reflect on the present, and react to create a better future.
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| The Reader By: Bernhard Schlink    | This novel has become famous as one of the most piercingly intelligent examinations of the dark cloud which still hangs over Germany - the cloud of guilt for the Holocaust, felt sometimes unconsciously by a generation whose parents or grandparents were, however indirectly, involved. | Schindler's List By: Thomas Keneally  | During World War II, Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler took over a formerly Jewish-owned Polish factory. In order to save the lives of his workers he persuaded the Nazis to let him build a new factory and allow him to draw up a list of a thousand Jews to work at the camp. Winner of the Booker Prize 1982. |
| Atonement By: Ian McEwan   | Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence. The narrative, as always with McEwan, smoulders with slow-burning menace. You know that, even as you savour the beautiful sentences, something terrible will happen and sure enough it does. | Birdsong By: Sebastian Faulks  | After beginning in Amiens, France, in 1910, the action of this much-praised novel shifts between the French battlefields of the First World War and suburban England in the late 1970s. It is both a passionate love story and a tale of camaraderie and isolation in war. |