What are the best books about the Holocaust? Thank you all
What are the best books about the Holocaust? Thank you all
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What are the best books about the Holocaust? Thank you all
Night by Elie Wiesel
This one is my favourite too so far. Thank you
It’s the only one I could think of off the top of my head besides the diary of Anne frank.
@Alexandra Thank you, read this one as well. Also a good read
I haven’t read either in a long long time. Maybe it’s time to revisit them
Yes, Night and also The Last Jew of Treblinka
I’ll look this one up. Thank you
I just recently asked the same question in the audiobook addicts group
Lilac Girls, The Nightingale (the latter not entirely about it, but some elements)
Probably should’ve asked – do you mean fiction or non-fiction?
Prefer the books written by survivors or with some close experience of the events, but both of the above are on my TBR list. Thank you
@Vasilena Lilac Girls is good because it’s based on truth
@Megan thank you ?
Born Survivors – about 3 women who were pregnant while in concentration camps. Author- Wendy Holden.
This sounds interesting, thank you, will look into it
Irena’s Children by Tilar Mazzeo
I really loved Number the Stars when I was younger.
I read a book called “once we were brothers’. Can’t remember the author! but it’s been a great reading! I loved it!
Boy in the striped pajamas
Yes!
Lilac Girls, The boy in the Striped Pajamas, Salt to the Sea all excellent books ?
The book thief
Storyteller is amazing
A Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
A hiding place was one of my favorite books in high school
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Welcome Katie!!!!
Welcome. ?
James Mitchell you solved it! ?
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitte-Jackson, which is a recounting of her own tale.
Fiction wise, I like Carol Matas.
Anne Frank’s Diary
Schindler’s List
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Night or My Heart in A Suitcase are good ones
Sarah’s Key
I was dr mengele’s assistant, five chimneys, the pianist
My Enemy’s Cradle.
The Pianist, The Nazi officer’s wife, The Hiding place, The Diary of Anne Frank, Night, The zookeepers wife, Schindler’s list
The nightingale
Another vote for The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom; also Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Man’s search for meaning
Read one in grade school called The Big Lie. Don’t know who wrote it or if it might have been an excerpt from a larger book, but I do remember that it stayed with me.
Book of Aron by Jim Sheppard was really good
Karolinas twins
The Boy in Stripe Pyjama
The Auschwitz Escape is brilliant and also based on a true story
Fiction or non-fiction?
Any Leon Uris
Night , Survival in Auschwitz
I hated The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Night
The BookThief
Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Book Thief
Maus it’s a graphic novel, but so meaningful and nonfiction
I just began reading Night by Elie Wiesel. I can’t wait to finish it, it’s really too painful a read. I wouldn’t say it’s the “best” book, but it is authentic, painfully authentic.
I read that and then The Last Jew of Treblinka. They were two intense reads
I tried to get back into it earlier today, but I simply cannot continue. After losing my husband last year, from which I am still reeling, this book is a bit much for me to deal with. Even without the burden of personal grief, the story is just awful.
Yes, that book is pure horror.
Amazing book. I read it and school and again a year ago and loved it
The butterfly and the violin; A sparrow in Terezin – both by Kristy Cambron
Night by Ele Wiesal or ‘If this is a man’ by Primo Levi
Born Survivors is a real account about women who were pregnant during the Holocaust. Very descriptive. It was the saddest one I’ve read but I’m so glad I read it. An amazing account but a tear jerker for sure!
My mom recently read The nightingale by Kristin Hannah and The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambon and she loved it
Lilac girls
Maus
Number the stars
Mendelsohn is On the Roof — I cant believe I forgot that one
Susan, I was just going to say this!!!! One of my all time favorite books. ?
We Were Brothers, it’s about a guy who came up with the idea and made the crematoriums at Auchwitz. He got rich off them, while his best friend ended up in the chimney.