Escape from Sobibor. This book was amazing. It doesn’t focus on just one person, but a group. I read it recently, but have watched the movie many times. The movie only covers the first half of the book as sadly the second movie was never released.
My teacher in 7th grade thought I was Jewish when we were watching movies in class about the concentration camps. I walked out. I told him you don’t have to be Jewish to be horrified that a person could take orders to do something like this to another human being. It’s pure evil. I’ll never get out of my head what I saw. Too heartbreaking to me.
@Christy, my last name is Mosher with the o being pronounced “oh”. But it can be seen as Jewish if the o is pronounced “ah”. I enjoy getting the mail from Jewish companies, etc. It gives me insight in to the Jewish religion, how they think, etc. It breaks my heart how they were treated also.
@Susan ironically my last name is Poland Jewish. And more so, my mother’s maiden name is the same as yours! I never knew it was Jewish too. But maybe that’s why I’m drawn to all the WW2 and the stories that are told.
Lynn Kotch it’s not an easy read, but, with world the way it is and the way it’s headed, I think we need as many reminders as possible of what horiible things humans are capable of doing to one another in the name of power, autocracy, and hatred. Haven’t read _Hitler’s Furies_. What’s it about?
I was super excited to read Ravensbruck and surprised to find it on our library shelves shortly after it came out, but really couldn’t get into it. It read like a textbook. I had to return it before I got very far into it, but really wasn’t encouraged to keep reading. 🙁
Kim Miller that’s too bad. I found it totally engrossing and went on to _A Life in Secrets_–Sarah Helm’s earlier book about the life of Vera Atkins and the SOE.
If it hadn’t been borrowed, I would have kept reading, but it was slow-growing and just too hard to get into. It was too impersonal, and I was expecting stories of the various women imprisoned there. I’ve read more than 100 Holocaust memoirs and really wanted to love that one. I do remember it was printed on really nice paper, so that was a plus. Did it eventually focus more on the individual women?
@Kim yes, it did. It got into members of the SOE (Secret Operations Executive) who had been captured doing resistance work in Europe, incuded photos, told about the Soviet women soldiers, the “Polish rabbits,” who were used for medical experiments, etc, and explained the eventual evacuation of the camp by the Nazis and rescue of some prisoners by the Red Cross. You might be able to get an inexpensive copy through http://abebooks.com/, http://thriftbooks.com/, or http://powells.com/
I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called other than it has to.do with singing and its illustrated. It has a butterfly on the cover and its oversized. It was the best book.i ever read I will look for the cover
I still have a whole list to get. But so far, every single one I have read has been amazing (not in the happy way). I’ve currently read The True Story of Hansel & Gretel, Sarah’s Key, Born Survivors, Survivors: The Story of Holocaust children, and Anne Frank (of course). Starting the new year I’ll be reading The Tattoist of Auschwitz. Idk why, as heartbreaking the stories and how cruel the Nazis where and how much it would suck to live through all that, I’m drawn to it. I think it helps me to remember to stay kind.
@Atrisha for 2 years, all I read were Holocaust memoirs, one right after the other. I’d never been taught anything about it in high school (private school), so I was anxious to learn what I could, and felt an obligation to read the memoirs of those who survived that horror. Since then, I’ve had to move on to somewhat lighter fare with Victorian England, the Plantagenets, and now medieval UK.
@Kim my high school brushed over the horrors of WW2 and the Holocaust. Besides for Anne Frank and a couple of videos we never went into much detail. But I’m sure a lot of it has to do with it being a sensitive subject. But it happen and I really feel it’s important to teach people of the horror and you really can’t sugarcoat it.But I used to watch Nazi Collaborations on History channel and I still read whatever I pick up. I don’t know how humans can be so cruel, but they could be.
Night
Night so far. Starting Librarian of Aushwitz now. Loved Nightingale too.
Night was great, children of the flames was also great. As for fictional books there is a long list of ones I have loved!
Night – it stays with you long after you read it.
Primo Levi – If This is a Man
Night
Man’s Search for Meaning
I need to read that!
@Maus
The Hiding Place
Lilac Girls.
That was so good.
This book is Historical Fiction not a memoir. Such an awesome book though! ❤️?
Night by Elie Wiesel–once you’ve read it, you don’t forget what you read or what he experienced.
Shindler s List
That one i didnt get far in.
@Cathy. It made me cry
Very good book about a horrendous event in history.
I can’t read them. Far too disturbing.
@Cerys I cant either. I did like The Monument Men.
@Cerys both his books really good. ???
Night or The Hiding Place
Night
Escape from Sobibor. This book was amazing. It doesn’t focus on just one person, but a group.
I read it recently, but have watched the movie many times. The movie only covers the first half of the book as sadly the second movie was never released.
My teacher in 7th grade thought I was Jewish when we were watching movies in class about the concentration camps. I walked out. I told him you don’t have to be Jewish to be horrified that a person could take orders to do something like this to another human being. It’s pure evil. I’ll never get out of my head what I saw. Too heartbreaking to me.
@Christy, my last name is Mosher with the o being pronounced “oh”. But it can be seen as Jewish if the o is pronounced “ah”. I enjoy getting the mail from Jewish companies, etc. It gives me insight in to the Jewish religion, how they think, etc. It breaks my heart how they were treated also.
@Susan ironically my last name is Poland Jewish. And more so, my mother’s maiden name is the same as yours! I never knew it was Jewish too. But maybe that’s why I’m drawn to all the WW2 and the stories that are told.
Prison Letters of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Avengers?..a memoir of Jewish Resistance. And Mila 18
_Ravensbruck_by Sarah Helm (about the women-only concentration camp in Germany) and Elie Wiesel’s _Night_. _The Diary of Anne Frank_ is up there, too.
@Constance I have Ravensbruck to read. Hitler’s Furies was pretty disturbing for me, but Ravensbruck looks much, much worse.
Lynn Kotch it’s not an easy read, but, with world the way it is and the way it’s headed, I think we need as many reminders as possible of what horiible things humans are capable of doing to one another in the name of power, autocracy, and hatred. Haven’t read _Hitler’s Furies_. What’s it about?
I was super excited to read Ravensbruck and surprised to find it on our library shelves shortly after it came out, but really couldn’t get into it. It read like a textbook. I had to return it before I got very far into it, but really wasn’t encouraged to keep reading. 🙁
Kim Miller that’s too bad. I found it totally engrossing and went on to _A Life in Secrets_–Sarah Helm’s earlier book about the life of Vera Atkins and the SOE.
If it hadn’t been borrowed, I would have kept reading, but it was slow-growing and just too hard to get into. It was too impersonal, and I was expecting stories of the various women imprisoned there. I’ve read more than 100 Holocaust memoirs and really wanted to love that one. I do remember it was printed on really nice paper, so that was a plus. Did it eventually focus more on the individual women?
@Kim yes, it did. It got into members of the SOE (Secret Operations Executive) who had been captured doing resistance work in Europe, incuded photos, told about the Soviet women soldiers, the “Polish rabbits,” who were used for medical experiments, etc, and explained the eventual evacuation of the camp by the Nazis and rescue of some prisoners by the Red Cross. You might be able to get an inexpensive copy through http://abebooks.com/, http://thriftbooks.com/, or http://powells.com/
Night
“Treblinka ‘ by Jean-François Steiner https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/treblinka_jean-franois-steiner/370842/#isbn=0452011248&idiq=18652138
The Tattooist of Auschwitz; Sarah’s Key
I’m getting ready to read The Tattooist of Auschwitz. But Sarah’s Key was a great novel! Loved it!
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
@Patricia I believe this is fiction but I thought it was a great book
I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called other than it has to.do with singing and its illustrated. It has a butterfly on the cover and its oversized. It was the best book.i ever read I will look for the cover
@Hailey was it The Butterfly and the Violin? If so, It’s fiction but so good. I loved that book
No its called what the Night Sings and it is amazing
@Lori me, too! Did you read the author’s other Holocaust book, A Sparrow in Terezin? Also excellent!
@Kim yes loved both
Fatelessness
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Doctors by Erich Segal
We Were The Lucky Ones
The Pianist. Or Piano Player.
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Schindlers List
Never Fall Down
Lilac girls
Lilac girls
Lilac girls
Lilac girls
The Last Jew of Treblinka
I’m reading Lilac Girls right now…
I thought it was an amazing book. I had to have tissues ready, though.
@Marlene thank you for the heads up!
@Jayne it’s fiction not memoir but still a great book suggestion
Night
I’m not sure “favorite” is an appropriate word choice in this context…! ?
I still have a whole list to get. But so far, every single one I have read has been amazing (not in the happy way). I’ve currently read The True Story of Hansel & Gretel, Sarah’s Key, Born Survivors, Survivors: The Story of Holocaust children, and Anne Frank (of course). Starting the new year I’ll be reading The Tattoist of Auschwitz. Idk why, as heartbreaking the stories and how cruel the Nazis where and how much it would suck to live through all that, I’m drawn to it. I think it helps me to remember to stay kind.
@Atrisha for 2 years, all I read were Holocaust memoirs, one right after the other. I’d never been taught anything about it in high school (private school), so I was anxious to learn what I could, and felt an obligation to read the memoirs of those who survived that horror. Since then, I’ve had to move on to somewhat lighter fare with Victorian England, the Plantagenets, and now medieval UK.
@Kim my high school brushed over the horrors of WW2 and the Holocaust. Besides for Anne Frank and a couple of videos we never went into much detail. But I’m sure a lot of it has to do with it being a sensitive subject. But it happen and I really feel it’s important to teach people of the horror and you really can’t sugarcoat it.But I used to watch Nazi Collaborations on History channel and I still read whatever I pick up. I don’t know how humans can be so cruel, but they could be.
The LUCKY CHILD. really good. ❄️❄️❄️❄️
Also In the shadow of the banyan by Vadday Ratner set in Cambodia. ❄️❄️❄️❄️
Night by Eli Weasle
Boy in the stripped pjs. I want to check out the tattooist of aushitz