Looking for a good read. Just finished The Nightingale and Marriage of Opposites. Looking for Holocaust or Jewish themed
Looking for a good read. Just finished The Nightingale and Marriage of Opposites. Looking for Holocaust or Jewish themed
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The glass room by Simon Mayer
Have you read ‘ the story teller’ Jodi picoult and another I really liked was ‘ the man who broke into Auschwitz by Avey Denis x
‘The english girl’ it is set in vienna …brilliant book by margaret leroy
Seconding The Glass Room which is little known but truly impressive.
The dovekeepers is amazing about massada
The Paris architect
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman. A fabulous book .. One of my favourites
This book brought me to tears. It was an amazing story
I just read this a few weeks ago. Agree, moving read.
The sweetness of forgetting ???
Loved this. Read it before nightingale.
I loved the marrying of chani kaufmann.
The Storyteller or The Brothers
All the Light We Cannot See, The English German Girl.
The Lost Wife
The English German Girl
Once We Were Brothers
Finding Rebecca
The Invisible Bridge
Two Brothers
Schindler’s List
Sophie’s Choice
A Murder in Auschwitz
Brothers by Bernice Rubens
The dentist of Auschwitz , code name verity and rose under fire .
The Lavender keeper
Followed by French promise
Forgot ….. Charlotte Grey
Sarah’s Key
Once we were brothers. Gertruda’s oath.
The Auschwitz Violin – Maria Angels Anglada. Not very long but very moving. Also, This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski. That’s a collection of short stories but based on his own experience of the concentration camp.
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss and Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer.
Sarah ‘ s key and two brothers.
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
The sweetness of forgetting
Dont read sarahs key awful stayed up all nyt crying n felt sick:(
Have you read The Reader
All my love Detrick by Roberta Kagan. First of a series of 3 with another on the way. All excellent.
The Story Teller, The Book Thief, Secrets She Kept, The Things we Cherished, Between Shades of Gray, Winter Garden, A Secret Kept, The Tulip Eaters, Skeletons at the Feast……… Those are just a few off the top of my head that I’ve read. Didn’t put the authors, but you can find them by searching the title.
the story teller by Jodi Picoult x
The sweetness of forgetting or the lavender keeper
Man is not an island by Primo Levi
Sarah’s Key, Once We Were Brothers
The runaway family is fab.
Just read The Long Night it’s really remarkable
The Lost Wife!
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your feedback
Sarah’s key for sure
Ohh. This has given me some great read ideas. My next book is The Boy Who Broke Into Auschwitz.
The girl in the green sweater – Krystyna Chiger
The storyteller by jodi picoult
My Enemies Cradle, The Lost Wife, All my love Detrick, you are my sunshine, the promised land and to be an Israeli all 4 by Roberta @Roberta. A Beautiful Family by @Marilyn The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel.
what new one?
If you want a true story try Eva’s story by eva schloss or I light a candle by gena turgle. Both unbelievable women
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street. I thought it was a cracking good read.
The Nazi Officers Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
The Hidden Children by Jane Marks
Konin a quest by Theo Richmond
Above are also true stories . The first about a Jewish woman who survived by marrying a Nazi officer. The second covers several amazing stories of children hidden from theNazis in various countries and how they survived. In the third, a British man researches the Polish town his parents came from and the vibrant Jewish life that was there before the war.
Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Old ones but primo Levi books about his time in a concentration camp just brilliant
Rena’s Promise and The Lost Wife, both incredible.
Gertrudas Oath
Born surviours
Storyteller and the lost wife.
Two brothers also.
I’ve got the perfect read for you – @Nadine Two Prayers Before Bedtime
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prayers-Before-Bedtime-Nadine-Wojakovski/dp/0993000703
All the Light You Cannot See!
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
Gertrudas oath once we were brothers
Faryn, have you ever read Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl?
The Book Thief
Awesome book and movie!
Just finished saving Sophie brilliant all about Israel and a terrorist plot
Got it next to my Bed. Busy reading The Thread. Very good
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1785071270/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1453625696&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=breathe+deeply+my+son&dpPl=1&dpID=51bp04Uf-8L – true story. I’ve heard him speak and he’s amazing.
Once we were brothers, probably my favourite book, just incredible
Stones in Water by Napoli is one of my favorites.
Wow bet u wern’t expecting this response! Too many books t choose from now!
Where to start
Rena’s Promise
http://www.express.co.uk/news/history/637270/Ernst-Bornstein-survived-seven-nazi-death-camps-book-The-Long-Night-memoirs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1592644406/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1453633395&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX118_SY170&keywords=bornstein+long+night
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1444730207/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1453635610&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=the+lost+wife&dpPl=1&dpID=51riyqMmYML#mediaMatrix_secondary_view_div_1453635677675
The two brothers Ben Elton , saving Sophie, all the light we cannot see ( everyone else loved it , I liked it) ?
Oh and really enjoyed ‘once we were brothers ‘
“The Beautiful Possible” by Amy Gottlieb is a MUST read!!!! soooo good. ( and I LOVED “The Marriage of Opposites)
This is a 2016 ‘soon’ to be release book. I read it last year. It’s about a young woman who’s dad is a Rabbi and she is about is engaged to marry a Rabbi ( still in school) … Soooo much drama .. Sooo GOOD!!!!!
if you are really interested in book about the holocaust, read memoirs and biographies. much better than anything you could make up. a lot of the books listed above are good, but i have a problem when authors use the holocaust as a “theme” or a way to write something “serious”. read the real stuff…
memoir published last week and highly acclaimed https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1592644406/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1453755697&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX118_SY170
The Lost Wife is excellent but I can’t remember the author.
Alyson Richman
Thanks Lindi.
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
EXCELLENT!!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26150561-family-history-of-fear
Night by Eli Wiesel is beautiful but harrowing as is Silence on the Monte Sole by Jack Olsen
Gertrude’s Oath
I can recommend quite a few of those… one of the more unusual ones would be The Death’s Head Chess Club by John Donoghue. Of course, you must read The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (actually almost all of her books have something Jewish about them). You also might want to look at Mary Glickman’s books – she has a very interesting Jewish take on US history. There’s also The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick.