 | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (Complete and Unabridged) by Anne Frank
Buy used from: $27.98 This diary of a young Jewish girl in hiding is timeless in the issues it deals with: teen angst, isolation, loneliness, and above all, intolerance & prejudice.
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 | A Jump for Life: A Survivor's Journal from Nazi-occupied Poland by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys
Buy used from: $7.44 A gripping account by a Jewish woman who saved herself and her young daughter from the death camp, and her accounts of assuming an Aryan identity to survive are harrowing,as her efforts to ensure her child's survival.
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 | The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Sir Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.70 One of the must read books on the Holocaust. A thoroughly researched history, with detailed facts, and interesting layout.
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 | The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Sir Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $2.56 A bit jarring to read, as some of the accounts of heroism are truly short, but nevertheless well-researched and insightful.
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 | The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History) by Leni Yahil
Buy new: $22.55 / Used from: $1.03 A compendium of well-researched facts, with extensive details pertaining to the origins, progress and aftermath of the Holocaust.
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 | Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.90 A very disturbing read, but one of the best first person accounts of what it was like to be an inmate of Auschwitz. Horrific and gut-wrenching.
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 | Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.47 The Danes are to be forever commended for their heroic efforts in saving their Jewish citizens during WWII. Contains extensive interviews, and photographs.Useful for school projects.
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 | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.68 A wonderful book about the Holocaust, especially for younger readers.
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 | Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.01 Another powerful memoir about surviving in the death factory, Auschwitz. Compelling narrative.
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 | Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $6.81 Written by a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jewish squad that was entrusted with the horrific task of 'shepherding' Jews to their death, and cleaning up after them.
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 | Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Buy used from: $18.73 Written by a Jewish doctor that was compelled by the desire to survive to work alongside Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi monster.
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 | Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.19 Truly compelling...not many of Mengele's subjects actually survived to tell their tale, so this is an essential read to understanding the nature of evil.
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 | Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $10.00 Interesting if only to understand how a Nazi actually felt about the horrific crimes he committed...sadly, no remorse here.
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 | I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.42 Elli Freidmann's story is compelling and tragic, a gripping memoir of the Holocaust.
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 | Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.50 A short read, but harrowing in its descriptions of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $3.85 This relatively new book is unique in its plot and adds another dimension to the Holocaust theme.
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 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.14 A must-read!
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 | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $0.64 Focusses on the writer's mission to unearth what actually happened to six members of his family during the Holocaust.
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 | Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $19.73 / Used from: $12.85 A true masterpiece of a graphic novel, based on true life accounts of the Holocaust, and told in a very unique way.
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 | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud Van der Rol
Buy new: $8.79 / Used from: $0.01 For those who loved Anne Frank's diary, this adds another personal touch to understanding Anne, with photos.
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 | The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.05 A heroic story of three brothers that truly made a difference and saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust.
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 | Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $2.42 A gripping read about a group of Jewish resistance fighters that fought till the last against their Nazi Oppressors from the Warsaw ghetto in Poland.
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 | Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $0.01 Another essential holocaust memoir...there are many, but each one's story is different, and adds to our understanding of a terrible period in hisotry.
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 | All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.99 Reading this memoir will make you weep, truly sad.
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 | Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.19 A story about survival in Auschwitz.
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 | The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945 by Otto Friedrich
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $1.49 Horrific to read about the depths of German depravity -the amount of resources spent on annihilating the Jews.
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 | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A riveting memoir about the Holocaust.
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 | The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Buy used from: $0.01 If you've watched the movie, then you may be interested in reading this true account of a Jewish man's survival in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
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 | Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 Sadly the writer died in the Holocaust. Here the book focuses on the Nazi occupation of France.
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 | This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz by Piera Sonnino
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $2.49 Most Holocaust memoirs are by Polish, German or Hungarian Jews. This is about the Italian Jewish experience.
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 | Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941-1945 by Dov Levin
Buy used from: $16.55 I love to read about stories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. This is one such account.
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 | Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death by Sharon Linnea
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.98 A true hero of the Holocaust. Sadly, his fate remains unknown.
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 | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $4.48 A rare story of a Japanese diplomat who risked all to save 10,000 jews.
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 | The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Michael Berenbaum
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $8.52 Well put together, with lots of photographs.
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 | To See You Again: A True Story of Love in A Time of War by Betty Schimmel
Buy used from: $4.95 A Holocaust love story.
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 | The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Susan Dworkin
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $1.05 A riveting read about the extreme measures taken by one Jewish woman to survive the Holocaust.
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 | Smoke over Birkenau by Liana Millu
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $2.46 Contains six stories of women who suffered alongside Liana Millu, an Italian Jew in Auschwitz. The stories are compelling, and horrifying, esp the one abt the pregnant Jew who tries to conceal her condition.
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 | The Vanished City: Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto by Michel Mazor
Buy used from: $6.05 An important work that focusses on the Warsaw ghetto, from its origins to its last days.
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 | Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 The story of a mother's love for her child, and how that love kept the child alive through concentration camps, and death marches, to freedom.
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