Don’t find this weird but I’ve been in the mood for a holocaust survivor book. Any suggestions?
Don’t find this weird but I’ve been in the mood for a holocaust survivor book. Any suggestions?
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@Amber know of any?
All the ones I’ve read are already listed. I LOVED Night by Elie Wiesel! I couldn’t put it down! And i know it sounds bad to say i loved the book, but i hope everyone understands I didn’t love it for bad reasons…
Night by Elie Weisel is a must read!
Absolutely!
Oh yea I read that in high school that was a good one!!
The whole series is worth reading.
I was thinking of “Night” also.
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. It’s fiction but based on a ton of research and stories. Done fabulously well
I second this one. It was amazing
Have you read “the Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom? Victor Frankle wrote “Man’s Search for Meaning” about his Camp experience.
I’m loving this item on Indigo!
Weight of Freedom: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/weight-of-freedom/9781897470558-item.html
Fiction or non fiction? I am currently on a ww2 fiction kick and I’ve read some really good ones
Not exactly Holocaust, but All the Light We Cannot See is WWII and terrific!
Yeah, lots to choose from, sad, uplifting, fiction, non-fiction.. Don’t Ever Get Old, by Daniel Friedman, was a really interesting twist. It’s more holocaust survivor on a weird adventure than in the thick of it.
Night definitely. Also The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Not exactly an holocaust survivor book, but The Book Thief is a must read.
My name is Anne, she said. Was written by Anne Frank’s best friend. . “Shindlers list” “maus” “An Under Ground Life” ( about a Gay Jew in WWII) ” The Journal of Helena Berr” another great personal account. “Boy 30529” 🙁 “Number of the Stars , fiction but still very good.
The Lilac Girls
Night
Im on the same tangent at the moment its not weird… even tho my hubby keeps asking why im interested lol
And ive just finished Anne Frank diary the definitive edition.
The Storyteller – Picoult, Sarah’s Key, Those Who Save Us
Anything by Elie Weisel
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron.
Also.Farewell to Manzanar..about Japanese Americans..concentration camps.. another one is about the Code breaker..how the native Americans broke codes in ww2.
Hi Ann, were you aware that Native American code talkers were used in WW1
All of these are good.
Life as we knew it
Night by Elie Weisel, the Diary of Anne Frank are the two books that had come to my mind granted the first book I hadent read sense I was in high school
Try Auschwitz for serious reading
I don’t think that you can call Anne Frank’s diary “Holocaust survival” literature. Given that the only person from her family (and the group she writes about) who actually survived the war is her Father.
Give this one a go. 🙂
Ann Frank’s diary
I hate to say it but she didn’t actually survive so this may not fit what the OP was after, but i agree it’s a powerful read.
But You Did Not Come Back.
I read it last week, quick yet very strong read.
I shall live by Henry Ornstein
Night, Irena’s Children, The Hiding Place, Schindler’s List
There’s some books by a woman named Ava Kor Moses. Please forgive me if I got her name wrong, but I think it’s close enough too help you loom
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert is not a single survivor story as such but an incredible account of the holocaust generally. As with everything within this area, a demanding read but worthwhile.
Non-fiction: Man’s Search for Meaning. And there is also Night by Weisel
Nobody has suggested Imre Kertesz yet?
Elie Weisel
Thank you everyone! I appreciate it! My grandma was in Germany during the war and all she would ever tell me is that the soldiers would come to her house and tell them if they hid the Jews they would be killed. It’s a part of my history, and as sad as it is i just find it fascinating to learn about
I understand and am like you so interested in reading this part of history. I am as you say “stuck” in that era books. Some non-fiction and some fictional accounting
It’s good to learn about history, even the bad. If we don’t learn about it, and from it, we are doomed to repeat it. When my husband and I lived in Germany, I made sure to visit Dachau. Because I felt it was something I should do. Just like last summer, I visited the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Written by a Polish survivor. Her story is so moving. https://www.aworldadventurebybook.com/reading-list/all-but-my-life
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The secret holocaust diaries by Nonna Bannister
Because is Romek.
Night
I will plant you a lilac tree by Laura Hillman or I have lived a thousand years by Livia Bitton-Jackson.
The Night of the Long Knives. Kinda gross and scary but I got through it many years ago I read it.
Do you remember the author? I looked on Amazon and there are like 4 different books with that name about WW2.
From a name to a number, I don’t remember the author but he would speak around the country about his experiences.
Lilac Girls, The Book Thief (the main character survives, but was never in the camps).
The Diary of Ann Frank It’s amazing
Alicia
Teh Hiding Place.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Reader, Number the Stars, MAUS I and I I, Night, The Zookeeper’s Wife.
Leon Uris, who wrote Exodus also wrote Mila 18 which is about a Holocaust trial. Informative but awful.
Between shades of grey
Sarah’s Key, the Paris Architect, The One Man, The boy in Striped Pajamas, The Book Thief,
I’m not sure of a specific book but I met a survivor about 10 or 11 years ago. I just posted the full story of it today. It’s an emotional read with a tear-jerking twist. Feel free to give it a read if you like; https://powerofheartandsoul.com/i-met-a-survivor/