I am looking for auto biographies from the Holocaust. Can yall give me some ideas I have already read The Diary Of Ann Frank and Clara’s War
I am looking for auto biographies from the Holocaust. Can yall give me some ideas I have already read The Diary Of Ann Frank and Clara’s War
By Chance Alone by Max Eisen was really good. I just recently read it and it was a really good one, as far as Holocaust autobiographies go.
The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a semi-autobiographical set if stories by an award winning humanitarian and authority of the Holocaust as well as a survivor….brilliant writer!
Night is autobiographical, the other two are fiction.
Yes, that’s why for the trilogy I described the way I did…you are being very through
@Karen and @Nancy thank you so much
Glad to help!
Glad to help out! 🙂
I have lived a thousand years. Can’t remember the author but as a child she was incarcerated in a concentration camp. Also when Hitler stole pink rabbit trilogy by Judith kerr. Her family were on the run from the nazi’s
She wrote a sequel to I Have Lived a Thousand Years. Both are excellent by Livia Bitton Jackson. The second book is called My Bridges of Hope.
I did not know this! Thank you!
The hiding place by Corrie Ten Boom
This book is a treasure.
^^this book!
If this is a man, by Primo Levi.
Love everything he wrote.
More biographical, but I just read Lilac Girls, and The Pianist.
Thank you so much for your great ideas will write them down
The Cage is the first of three by Ruth Minsky Sender. It tells about her girlhood and time in the death camps. The second To Life tells about what happened after liberation. The third, The Holocaust Lady tells about settling in the USA and raising a family while struggling with the mental demons caused by surviving the death camps.
Elie Wiesel wrote some
I read “Night” in high school. It depressed me to no end, but if you’re into that, you should read it!
I did in High school as well
I had nightmares after reading. Heavy stuff.
It’s not an autobiography but the boy in the striped pajamas was good it’s about the holocaust
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl – Truly special
Elie Wiesel…and for fiction Leon Uris.
The zookeeper’s wife is 1 I think there’s one called secret diaries the Diaries of kids that survived the Holocaust I think there’s one called Life in a jar about Irina sendler looking for ones by Eva Mozes Kor ( I think I misspelled her middle name. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Does one that’s more modern it’s called denial Holocaust history on trial by Deborah lippstadt it’s about how she got sued by alleged historian and she basically had to prove that the Holocaust happened this took place in British Court in 2000 it’s actually quite good another place to look up maybe for suggestions might be the world Jewish Congress or Yad vashem
The Storyteller- Picoult, Sarah’s Key, Those Who Save Us- Blum
Sarah’s key was awesome
Thank you all I have a bigger tbr list
Oh wow, Diary Of Ann Frank was fantastic. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is brilliant, definitely recommend it ?
@LeanneWood The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was awesome I loved it. I read the book and watched the movie
Schindler’s list is a novelized form of real incidents from survivors of the Holocaust, you can call it a combination of biographies.
Alicia’s Story. May have title slightly off. Fascinating story. Alicia was a survivor of the holocaust.
this? https://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Alicia-APPLEMAN-Jurman/9780553282184
Yes, this is the one. She came to our church in Charlotte, NC several years ago and talked with us. So fascinating and interesting.
that must have been a blessing.
Yes, it was.
“Night” or “Night Trilogy,” Elie Wiesel ( ז״ל )
“Survival in Auschwitz,” Primo Levi ( ז״ל )
“The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory 1942-1943,” Chil Meyer Rajchman ( ז״ל )
“Ghetto Diary,” Janusz Korczak ( ז״ל )
“Defying Hitler” by Sebastian Haffner is also worth a read.
There are some excellent autobiographies of Sho’ah survivors, but they can make for some gut-wrenching reading.
Not a biography and it’s a kids book, but check out Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 230 pages
In My Hands by Irene Opdyk – very inspiring, and not as “dark” as Night.
I Have Lived 1,000 Lives, Night by Elie Weisel, Every Day Lasts A Year and Train In Winter.
I’m gathering you are meaning specifically the Jewish holocaust. This true book is excellent but so heartbreakingly tearful. ‘Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust’ by Livia E. Bitton-Jackson She was a preteen child when she went in and came out looking like an old woman.
Parallel Journeys, not sure who it is by
this?https://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Parallel-Lines-Peter-Lantos/9781905147571
https://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Journeys-Eleanor-H-Ayer/dp/0689832362
This one, it was a very interesting read with both a Jew survivors story and that of a Hitler Youth
it looks it from the blurb…
Night by Elli Wiesel
Alicia
There’s The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich, Corrie ten Boom’s Prison Letters, Otto Frank has a memoir, so does the lady who hid the Frank family. I used to own a young adult memoir of various teenagers who survived the war.
Night by Ellie Wiesel
Corrie Ten Boom wrote a couple of books about the Holocaust and helping many escape. Sorry, I don’t remember the name of her books, but I’d you Google her name you can find them.
The Hiding Place was her first one, I think
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is fiction, but it is an amazing book. It is written about kids on both sides of the fence. The prisoners & wardens children.
I think just about everything by Viktor Frankl would qualify.
Night by Elie Wiesl (spelling?) is fiction but it’s amazing
It’s considered nonfiction … it’s an actual account of his time in a Nazi concentration camp.
Currently reading The Zookeeper’s Wife.. Takes place in Poland during the German invasion and occupation.
The five chimneys by Olga Lengyel
So want to read this book…
It will make you cry Mane, it did me
Can’t find it in South Africa, will have to order it on line….
The Hiding Place by Corrie den Boom
I loved the Hiding Place. It is so good. Corrie Ten Boom is a heroine! Number the Stars is a children’s book, but is an award winner.
Leon Uris, who wrote Exodus, wrote some books about the Holocaust. Mila 18, and others, I think.
Okay the full title of one of the books I recommended to you is actually called children in the Holocaust and World War II their secret diaries.
Also there is one oh gosh I wish I could completely remember the title but it’s about a family of seven little people who survived Auschwitz and dr. Mengele experiments actually think it’s called the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz I don’t quote me on that but I saw the documentary about them and it was fascinating I actually have quite a list of books I’ve read want to read about the Holocaust I just can’t get them to come up on my tablet to show you
I also have a list of Diaries of other survivors of the Holocaust if you’re interested but I won’t explode up your post unless you think you have enough just let me know
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Great autobiography about a woman and her family who hid Jewish people in their home during that time.
Corrie ten Boom
She had to wear a purple triangle..( Hitler made them do this..it wasn’t just the Jews that went through persecution.
The Sound of Music — as based on a true story…
Night by Elie Wiesel and Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.
I highly recommend these books. Real life accounts from survivors??
excellent. I collect survivor stories – not just of Auschwitz of course – so this will be good to add to my collection.
The actual book of shindlers list is very very good, quite different. And much better
Five chimneys ❤️
I was dr mengele assistant
I Will Bear Wittness. by Otto Klemperer.
Corrie Ten Boom
Facing the Lion.
This book is awesome. It is about a young girl in Eastern France during the Nazi occupation. It is a true story. These are her memoirs of how her faith and courage helped her.
https://www.amazon.ca/Facing-Lion-Memoirs-Young-Europe/dp/0967936659
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman
u should read innocent by shy karen ……….. and also “surely ur joking mrs fayman…. awsoooooommmmee bothhhh of theem
The Book Thief
Night by Elie Wiesel was so soooo rough, I was horrified through all of it, and I read it at 14. I’ll probably never read it again, but it’s definitely worth reading once.
I just want to say thank you all
This may help too http://www.jodipicoult.com/the-storyteller.html
Night by Elie Wiesel definitely.
I read a book a long time ago about a man who survived the holocaust because he had sewn a bullet proof patch in his coat. Don’t remember the title. It also had the women who were victims of experiments etc.
Sarah’s @Briana
I have that book! How did you like it?
I loved and hated Sarah’s Key. But I will read it again…soon.
I will read it soon!
“We are witnesses” it’s short stories of survivors around Anne Frank’s age when she was writing her diaries. Also there’s 3 copies of her actual diaries version A is most edited version B is a little less edited and version C is hardly at all. Version A is the one we read in school. This is one of the ones I have if it helps.
Sarah’s Keys and I have lived a 1000 lives.
If This Is A Man – Primo Levi
Some of the best ones I have read
That looks interesting, thanks for sharing 🙂
So I know it’s been awhile since you posted this and I don’t know if you found what you were looking for but there is a book called Children of the flame and it is about the twins that Josef Mengele experimented on also I think there’s one called Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz he experimented on this family as well
I recently saw the movie to this book – save the last twenty minutes cos the recording suddenly stopped! 🙁 – and it is excellent, It is not by the same author -Corrie Ten Boom – as the hiding place, but it is around the same time-frame and their paths did connect. The author was a young male student at the time that the war broke out and the movie was only made within the last five years or so… This link is to the book:- https://www.amazon.com/Return-Hiding-Place-Hans-Poley/dp/0781409322