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Include books by the same authorAuschwitz: 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
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
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust
Livia E. Bitton-Jackson · 270 pages
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."
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
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
Pierre Berg, Brian Brock · 304 pages
"From Pierre Berg's opening words, to his decidedly un-lucky detention by Gestapo officers, all the way through his internment in Drancy, Auschwitz, Dora, and Ravensbrueck, Scheisshaus Luck is a harrowing, clear-eyed testament of one young man's experience of the Holocaust. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, this autobiographical account of a Gentile French tee
Surviving the Angel of Death
Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages
iv, 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm830L Lexile
Escape from Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic · 359 pages
The Last Jew of Treblinka
Chil Rajchman · 138 pages
Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir
David Faber, Anna Vaisman · 214 pages
Forest of the Gods
Balys Sruoga · 339 pages
Commandant Of Auschwitz
Rudolf Hoss, Primo Levi · 281 pages
Rudolf Hoess was the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a long memoir, a self-serving account of his life and approaches to management. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklos Nyiszli · 160 pages
See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15671648W
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.
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.
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam · 240 pages
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
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
Remember Us: From My Shtetl Through the Holocaust
Vic Shayne · 324 pages
Follows the life story of Martin Small from the work camp to the concentration camp of Mauthausen, to being a partisan of the Nowogrodek forests, and to life as a displaced person in Italy, and from fighting the Egyptian army in a tiny Israeli kibbutz in 1948 to starting a new life in a new world in New York. This account is based on talks Martin Small gave to audiences across the country and to c
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.
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
Witold Pilecki · 401 pages
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
Shlomo Venezia, Beatrice Prasquier · 202 pages
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first w
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.