Holocaust Non Fiction? asked 429 days ago by Terri E - 25 answersI'm looking for Holocaust Non Fiction books. I've read "Night" by Elie Wiesel and "Eyewitness Auschwitz" by Filip Muller. Does anyone know of any others? Thank you! I have not read it, but I heard Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel is good. Also you might want to check out: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but Defiance which was made into the movie with Daniel Craig is an interesting perspective rarely told. The book is quite different than the movie. "I Didn't Get to Say Goodbye" by Bruno Beltelheim. First-person accounts of children of the Holocaust who survived and are left with deep guilt for living when loved ones did not. The very best book I have read recently that sheds new light on the tragedy of the Holocaust is Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands". Highly recommended to anyone interested in the 20th century European history. primo levi's survival in auschwitz- truly phenomenal book- i would go as far as to say better than night
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank Defiance by Tec; Zookeeper's Wife by Ackerman; Night by Wiesel; I will Plan You a Lilac Tree by Hillman; Bondi's Brother by Roth; I have Lived a Thousand Years by Jackson (or Bitton-Jackson); Four Perfect Pebbles by Perl; Hitler's Willing Executioners by Goldhagen; Abe's Story / Korn; hope this helps! I highly recommend All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein. The Book Thief - It's a young adult book, but a worth while read. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren. Its a young adult book put together from an interview with a survivor and features photos to help illustrate the story. I read a book for a college class that I highly recommend. It's an important work, I think, but not in the same vein as others mentioned here. Rather, it is an academic approach to Holocaust denial called "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory" by Deborah E. Lipstadt. If you are genuinely interested in the idea of "never again" this book is an important read. If you are interesting in something historical in addition to the narratives you've read, consider "Nazi Holocaust" by Ronnie S. Landau, which is quite comprehensive but still rather concise. More along the lines of what has already been recommended, I would suggest the excellent "Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor" by Judith Magyar Isaacson. Isaacson survived Auschwitz, married an American, emigrated and eventually became a Dean at Bates College. Also very good are the other books by Wiesel, Day and Dawn. Finally, I would recommend "Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Eva Fogelman. This too is narrative, but it offers another set of perspectives.
Run, Boy, Run The Book Thief is a great book. For a different aspect try Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. Miriam Katin's graphic format memoir We Are On Our Own If your interested in immigration policies regarding Jews during WWII/Holocaust, here are a few you might try: Feingold, Henry L. The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970. London, Louise. Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees, and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Wasserstein, Bernard. Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. 2nd ed. London: Leicester University Press, 1999. Zucker, Bat-Ami. In Search of Refuge: Jews and US Consuls in Nazi Germany 1933-1941. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2001. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a psychiatrist when he was sent to the death camps. The first part of the book describes his personal experience there. The second part of the book is a description of his physchotheraputic method and philosophy that came out of his experience. I would say "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" is a good addition because it is an anthology of poems by children in one of the ghettos they lived in before they were sent to Auschwitz. It's not strictly a historical account or memoir like other recommendations of Holocaust non-fiction, but it offers a unique perspective of the Holocaust. Also, The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bertoletti is not strictly a book on the Holocaust, but it tells the true story of a Hitler youth who ran a secret counter-organization against the Nazis during WWII. It provides a rare and insightful glimpse into the life of one German who fell victim to Hitler's tyranny because he dared to stand up to the oppressive Nazi regime. "Shattered Crystals" a first person account of a family surviving the holocaust by Eve Rosenzweig Kugle. The Righteous by Martin Gilbert is an excellent book about the Holocaust. The Righteous of the Nations are those Gentiles who risked their lives (and often sacrificed their lives) to hide Jews from the Nazis (sometimes for years) or who helped them escape from the Nazis. There are incredibly poignant and appalling episodes in this book, showing the best and the worst of mankind, and it really makes you think 'what would I have done?' Highly highly recommend this book. Hello
These books are also very interesting.
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS - This volume contains reminiscences and a diary by three members of the SS: Rudolf Höss, the first camp commandant, Pery Broad, an SS non-commissioned officer in the camp Gestapo, and the SS physician Johann Paul Kremer.
Halina Birenbaum. Hope is the Last to Die - Born in Warsaw, Halina Birenbaum has lived in Israel since 1947. She is a writer, poet, and translator. She was ten years old when the war began. She lived through the Warsaw ghetto and the camps at Majdanek, Birkenau, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe, where she was liberated in 1945. Her memoirs, which she was prompted to write by the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, are shocking, authentic, and candid.
Kazimierz Albin. Warrant of Arrest - The book is the account of the wartime experiences of one of the first prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp, who later escaped and went on to play active rolw in the Cracow resistance movement. We offer books connected with the subject of Auschwitz - Birkenau concentration camp and books about the Holocaust. If you are interested please take a look at our offer.
Our website: Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. It's an amazing book "Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Dr. Miklos Myiszli - a doctor who worked directly under Mengele. what happens to elies family when they reach the camp what happens to elies family when they reach the camp Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels. Can't recommend highly enough!
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