@Barbara I read that about 30 years ago in college. Can’t remember why but there was something about it I didn’t like. I saved all those books from my Holocaust lit class might have to re-read it to remember why.
It’s a true story. Didn’t find it stale at all. People triumphing over the most evil of people. I have also been to Auschwitz and the description of the camp and surrounding area was spot on.
I have read Night, Book thief, Man’s search for Meaning…. All based on holocaust. The scenario always intimidates me. But, with this book, I just feel like reading ‘just another book’. :/
@Meagan not weird to wonder how humans have treated each other and why? I think this is one of the most misunderstood, yet documented period of our times. I don’t think it is studied enough. Everyone just blames Hitler. Yet, everyone was complicit.
The Librarian of Auschwitz. I couldn’t put it down. My first book was The Nightengale. Majorly impacted my thoughts of history. Motivated me to read more. I even googled the map to see where it is and now I hear there is a museum of where the concentration camp is. Not sure if i could deal with that.
@Cheryl Yes……the museum is very compelling! If you’ve done that much reading about Auschwitz, you need to see it. My biggest surprise was that it’s actually in the middle of the town………just saying.
@Cheryl When you see how Auschwitz is located…..it’s even more of a nightmare because it’s right by the train tracks in the middle of town, so everyone had to know what was going on.
I have just come back from there and yes it is near a town. We parked in a car park and walked across to where you get in.. it seemed unreal that, that is where it is situated
If This Is A Man and The Drowned and the Saved, both by Primo Levi. One about his year in Auschwitz, the other about the year following its liberation.
Thank you everyone for all your reccomendations. I have just come back from krakow and visited Auschwitz on Saturday, my birthday! What a total mind f**k it was. Harrowing and upsetting.. the following two pictures got me the most I was in tears
Mila 18, the story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising was my first Holocaust book. I was 14 the first time I read it, and read it again before my visit to Krakow. Not specifically Auschwitz, but so well worth reading.
The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Ànglada, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
So many. Historical Fiction or Non Fiction?
Tattooist of Auschwitz
awesome book!!
Of course – the boy with the striped pajama’s…
@Claire Lordy that one pulls at the heartstrings everytime
i cried so much when reading it with my kids… they could barely understand what I said at some parts
but this has a lot of historical inaccuracies….
“The Librarian of Auschwitz” – published earlier than the Tattooist but never mentioned. Wonderful book.
Lilac Girls
Excellent read set at Ravensbruck.
Auschwitz a doctor’s eyewitness account.
Night .
My enemies cradle
Man’s Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl
@Barbara I read that about 30 years ago in college. Can’t remember why but there was something about it I didn’t like. I saved all those books from my Holocaust lit class might have to re-read it to remember why.
Rena’s promise
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz. A true story and very moving.
I m reading it at present…. And regretting every second the decision of buying the book… ? Not good at all. Very stale.
It’s a true story. Didn’t find it stale at all. People triumphing over the most evil of people. I have also been to Auschwitz and the description of the camp and surrounding area was spot on.
I just finished it yesterday. I thought it was really good and gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.
I liked it
I have read Night, Book thief, Man’s search for Meaning…. All based on holocaust. The scenario always intimidates me. But, with this book, I just feel like reading ‘just another book’. :/
If this is a man, by Primo Levi.
Night by Ellie Wiesel will leave with me forever. Probably because it was my first Holocaust book
Be roping is
Angies story
I will have to look into these. I love this part of history
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Not in a weird way lol just fascinating to read
@Meagan not weird to wonder how humans have treated each other and why? I think this is one of the most misunderstood, yet documented period of our times. I don’t think it is studied enough. Everyone just blames Hitler. Yet, everyone was complicit.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Night by Elie Wiesel
One Man by Andrew Gross, Fiction was riveting.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Camp
The Day the Fiddles Stopped playing
1. Man’s search for Meaning
2. Book thief
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History – graphic novel by Art Spiegelman
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Librarian of Auschwitz.
I couldn’t put it down. My first book was The Nightengale. Majorly impacted my thoughts of history. Motivated me to read more. I even googled the map to see where it is and now I hear there is a museum of where the concentration camp is. Not sure if i could deal with that.
@Cheryl Yes……the museum is very compelling! If you’ve done that much reading about Auschwitz, you need to see it. My biggest surprise was that it’s actually in the middle of the town………just saying.
@Carole Oh my goodness. In town. That’s horrible. The whole ordeal is sickening horrible.
@Cheryl When you see how Auschwitz is located…..it’s even more of a nightmare because it’s right by the train tracks in the middle of town, so everyone had to know what was going on.
I have just come back from there and yes it is near a town. We parked in a car park and walked across to where you get in.. it seemed unreal that, that is where it is situated
Just finished Man’s Search for Meaning today
Tattooist
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Storyteller
We were the Lucky Ones
Night by Elie Wiesel
The plum tree by Ellen Marie wiseman
If This Is A Man and The Drowned and the Saved, both by Primo Levi. One about his year in Auschwitz, the other about the year following its liberation.
Thank you everyone for all your reccomendations. I have just come back from krakow and visited Auschwitz on Saturday, my birthday! What a total mind f**k it was. Harrowing and upsetting.. the following two pictures got me the most I was in tears
@Gina the shoes affected me the most at the Holocaust Museum. A bitter picture if reality.
Shinlers List?
Mischling
A fiction book involving Mengele’s terrible experiments on children in Auschwitz.
By Affinity Konor
Mila 18, the story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising was my first Holocaust book. I was 14 the first time I read it, and read it again before my visit to Krakow. Not specifically Auschwitz, but so well worth reading.
Jane Bluestein I just got a new copy of it to reread.
The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith.
@Heather I thought that was very good.
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The tattooist of Auschwitz
The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Ànglada, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
The Tatooist of Auschwitz.
The One Man
Lilac Girls
The Librarian of Auschwitz.
Survival in Auschwitz
I Will Bear Witness vol1 & vol2,
The Diaries of Victor Klemperer
Thank you everyone
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is very good!
Maus
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The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada and Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel
I highly recommend the memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Man’s Search for Meaning
Librarian of Auschwitz