Quick WWII Question

My question is this... Besides The Diary of Anne Frank, are there any other primary sources (diaries and such) that you know of, that would be suitable for young teenagers.

I am writing a review of The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister and would like to be able to put the book into perspective. This second book seems suitable for teens--no bad language, sexual innuendo... and I'd like to be able to offer other reading suggestions and frankly, I'm not up on modern history at all.

The Pam!

I found these titles just browsing on Amazon:

I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl

Surviving Hitler:A Boy In The Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

Sorry I haven't read any of them & I know you said you were looking for some perspective, but I thought you wouldn't mind the suggestions.

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom is about two spinster sisters and their father who are hidding Jews in their house. They are caught and sent to a concentration camp. I read it many years ago. It was also made into a movie.

HW and Kathi... many thanks.

These are some wonderful suggestions. I'm thinking that I may just add a list of titles to the review, besides the one or two I offer in the main body.

Ben's Story: Holocaust Letters with Selections from the Dutch Underground Press - Contains letters written by a teenager from Holland. The letters follow his journey from arrest to concentration camp. I haven't read it, but my wife has, I can't say for sure if this is appropriate for what you're looking for but it sounds like it.

I found Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany to be an interesting book.

Night maybe useful. I remember reading it early in high school but don't remember any of the specifics.

I recall when I was pre-teenish I had a diary of a Russian girl during WWII. I'm sure I got it through Scholastic books at school so it would be appropriate. She joins or is drafted into the Russian army defending Moscow and the diary ends abruptly after she is killed. I will noodle around and see if I can find the name, but as I recall it was pretty good. Kids don't think much about being a teenager leading their life then ending up in the middle of a war.

I believe this may be it. I want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia. http://www.librarything.com/work/2776807

If anyone is still interested after such a long pause in postings on this topic, I suggest A Nazi Childhood by Winfried Weiss, although it does mention sexual comments from the author's older friends.

Always interested. Thanks Lincolnian and Varielle. (Well, and everyone else.)

And, though this entry is over a year late ... there is the life of Max Manus during the war .... part of which was recently made into a Norwegian film. Several of his autobiographical books have been published into English. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Manus

From Ashes to Life by Lucille Eichengreen is a favorite of my students.