Moments of Reprieve

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

Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat · 348 pages

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.

Journal

Helene Berr · 303 pages

From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is an intensely moving, intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recorded words are 'Horror, horror, horror' - she and the rest of her Jewish family were sent to Auschwitz.

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner

Memories Of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Girlhood Friend

Alison Leslie Gold · 135 pages

The Boy on the Wooden Box

Leon Leyson · 240 pages

Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler. The text contains descriptions of violence.

Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages

iv, 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm830L Lexile

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 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

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."

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

A Bag of Marbles

Joseph Joffo · 302 pages

Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Millie Werber, Eve Keller · 234 pages

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan · 130 pages

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoir

Elie Wiesel · 432 pages

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

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

Betty Schimmel · 278 pages

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

Israel Meir Lau · 380 pages

Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentr

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

Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Hidden Child Survivors of the Holocaust

R.D. Rosen · 351 pages

From the Introduction... I drafted the text of a children's story called Refugee: The True Story of a Girl, a Bear, and the Holocaust, and kept meeting periodically with Sophie to clarify events and chronology. When we got together, sometimes at a café near her apartment, I tried not to overstay my welcome, since I continued to feel that I had subtly pressured her into sharing the details of a

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.

All But My Life: A Memoir

Gerda Weissmann Klein · 246 pages

All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene

Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land

Sara Nomberg-Przytyk · 191 pages

"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past wh

Lusia's Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust

Lucy Lipiner · 203 pages

"The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents roused her and her older sister from their beds and, with other relatives in tow, fled their town of Sucha and the invasion by Nazi Germany."--P. [4] of cover.