Research & Inspiration For The Yellow Bird Sings

Books (research):

  • Block, Gay and Drucker, Malka. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, Ergo, 1992.

  • Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979.

  • Fogelman, Eva. Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, Anchor, 2011.

  • Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1993.

  • Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, Henry Holt & Co., 2010.

  • Gross, Jan. Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, Random House, 2007.

  • Kurek, Ewa. Your Life is Worth Mine (Ewa Kurek), Hippocrene Books, 1996.

  • Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children: Secret Survivors of the Holocaust, Fawcett, 1993.

  • Prins, Marcel and Henk Steenhuis, Peter. Hidden Like Anne Frank: Fourteen True Stories of Survival, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2014.

  • Tec, Nehama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland, Oxford University Press, 1987.

  • Tomaszewski, Irene and Werbowski, Tecia. Żegota: The Rescue of Jews in Wartime Poland, Price-Patterson, 1994.

  • Vroman, Suzanne. Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Books (inspiration):

  • Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

  • Ausubel, Ramona. No One Is Here Except All of Us, Riverhead Books, 2013.

  • Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See, Scribner, 2017.

  • McCann, Colum. Zoli, Random House, 2007.
    Ross, Alex. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Picador, 2008.

Resources:

Photos

  • Remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall (photographed by Jennifer Rosner)

  • First Communion Day (exhibited at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, re-photographed by Jennifer Rosner)

  • Primeval Forest in Eastern Poland (photographed by Jennifer Rosner)