Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

A Bag of Marbles

Joseph Joffo · 302 pages

To See You Again: A True Story of Love and War

Betty Schimmel · 278 pages

Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Millie Werber, Eve Keller · 234 pages

Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages

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I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Livia E. Bitton-Jackson · 224 pages

So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life; a life rich and full that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. But these ado

The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust

Lola Rein Kaufman, Lois Metzger · 97 pages

After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.

The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 241 pages

The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister a

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Ruth Kluger · 216 pages

Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-of-age story that delves into the unsentimental observations of childhood, "Still Alive" rejects easy assumptions about history as Kluger relates how she and her family survived the Holocaust.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Wladyslaw Szpilman · 224 pages

A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."

But You Did Not Come Back

Marceline Loridan-Ivens · 100 pages

An activist and documentary filmmaker, who was arrested in occupied France at the age of fifteen, presents this deeply personal account of her experiences during the Holocaust and the death of her father in a concentration camp that overshadowed her whole life.

Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my Fight for Freedom

Sam Pivnik · 320 pages

Sam Pivnik is a survivor of a world that no longer exists - on 14 occasions, he should have been killed. On his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived two ghettoes and 6 months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either sent to camp or gassed. After this, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp. As the Third Reich collapsed, he was only one o

Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi · 157 pages

In 1943, Primo Levi, a 25-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remain

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent · 224 pages

In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed and arrested in 1944. Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz - the same age as her friend Anne Frank. Together with her mother she endured the daily degradation that robbed so many of their lives

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin · 336 pages

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and

Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold · 252 pages

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refuge

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoir

Elie Wiesel · 432 pages

Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz

Isabella Leitner · 112 pages

The true story of a young Hungarian Jew's struggle to survive at Auschwitz and her escape during the death march to Bergen Belsen.

Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

Simone Arnold Liebster · 305 pages

This is the memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Germany and the trials she faces. First her mother is taken to a concentration, then her father is taken to a different camp. She is then taken to what is supposed to be a girls' school. She is faced with the choice of giving up her religion or facing the consequences. She faces many horrible results, but still clings to faith. However, she was not

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz

Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam · 240 pages

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Thomas Buergenthal · 288 pages

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague , tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

Etty Hillesum · 281 pages

Forest of the Gods

Balys Sruoga · 339 pages

Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat · 348 pages

Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir

David Faber, Anna Vaisman · 214 pages