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Two YA novels on the subject that moved me as a kid were Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene and Gentlehands by M. E. Kerr. I've since reread Summer of My German Soldier and can confirm that it's a powerful read for an adult, too. Not really a Holocaust novel, but rather a portrait of a devastatingly lonely Jewish girl in rural Arkansas who befriends an escaped German POW. I stayed up all night to finish it, crying and crying and crying.

Gentlehands, if I remember correctly, is about a boy growing up in the 1970s whose beloved, erudite grandfather is accused by the community of Nazi war crimes. Again, not a Holocaust novel per se, but more about how the collective psychological wounds of that era are passed down through generations. I just read a more recent WWII YA novel on a similar subject: Tamar by Mal Peet, which moves between a romantic drama played out by Dutch resistance fighters during the War, and a modern teenage girl's attempt to piece together that narrative in order to understand her late grandfather, one of the members of the resistance. A really beautiful book.]]>