Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

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

Etty Hillesum · 281 pages

The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Nonna Bannister · 299 pages

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Miklos Nyiszli · 160 pages

See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15671648W

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

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

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Marie Jalowicz Simon · 358 pages

"Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin was put together by the author Irene Stratenwerth and Hermann Simon from those tapes"--Jacket of first US edition.

Escape from Auschwitz

Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic · 359 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.

Rutka's Notebook

Rutka Laskier · 90 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

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.

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir

Benjamin Jacobs · 239 pages

This book is unique among Holocaust memoirs. It is the story of Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student who in 1941 was deported from his Polish Village to a Nazi labor camp and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the last days of the war. Shunted between labor camps and concentration camps by cattle car and forced marches, Jakubowicz was interned in Buchenwald and Dora

Clara's War

Clara Kramer · 339 pages

*Clara's War* is a memoir by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz which tells Kramer's story of her life in Nazi occupied Poland, where she and several other Polish Jews spent 20 months hiding in a bunker beneath a house in the town of Zhovkva. The book was first published by Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) in 2008, in the United Kingdon. The first USA edition was published by Harper/Ecco on 2009.

After Auschwitz

Eva Schloss · 336 pages

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated. The new

I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust

Inge Auerbacher · 87 pages

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair · 240 pages

In this powerful story of discovery, a black woman learns by chance the truth about her family's secret Nazi past. Jennifer Teege is 38, married, a mother of two, and ten years into a career in advertising when by chance she pulls a book from the library shelf. The book is about her own family, and its contents will profoundly change her life and lead her down a painful path of self-discovery. Jen

Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir

David Faber, Anna Vaisman · 214 pages

I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years

Victor Klemperer · 544 pages

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."

Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages

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

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

Livia E. Bitton-Jackson · 270 pages

Forest of the Gods

Balys Sruoga · 339 pages