The Story Teller, Jodi Picoult but it’s fiction, very good story though. Can be upsetting to read but that probably goes without saying.
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If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi.
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Tallulah27 on
I Bear Witness is a fantastic account of the atrocities as they were happening. They’re diary entries from before the start of the war when the Nazi’s first starting coming to power, through to the end of the war (there are 3 books). I would also highly recommend “If This Is A Man” by Primo Levi
Cordolium102 on
The pianist is a good book I say that in terms of what you’re after. It’s harrowing. Schindler’s list is also a book, so is the boy in the striped pajamas. The tattooist of Auschwitz is also good, albeit sugar coated to make it more a love story than detailing the horrors.
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The Good Old Days, edited by Klee, Dresden, and Riess. It is perpetrator accounts, mostly from the Eastern Front. It is horrifying.
There are also many diaries from the ghettos. The Diary of Dawid Sierokowiak is a good entry into the genre.
shineyink on
Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl
BearBleu on
Night by Elie Wiesel
mzingg3 on
Night by Wiesel gives the perspective of a 15 year old Jewish prisoner. It’s heavy but beautifully written.
ShowMeYourHappyTrail on
Maus is amazing.
Flashy-Commission736 on
The Lost- the search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn.
*Lovely Green Eyes* by Arnost Lustig is a novel about a Jewish girl who passes as a gentile and is able to escape a death camp by being sent to work in an army brothel on the Eastern Front. It is devastating.
*A Prayer for Kateřina Horovitzová* by the same author is also excellent, but hard to find in English.
Galadriel_1362 on
The Choice by Edith Egar.
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Schindler’s List.
VonGooberschnozzle on
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Happy_Chimp_123 on
You should try reading some historical non-fiction:
•The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
•The Holocaust by Laurence Rees
Dry_Huckleberry5545 on
The 2022 book *The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World*, author is Jonathan Freedland but it’s the biography of Rudolf Vrba, who was assigned to the dreadful Sonderkommando squad.
Chelseus on
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Reetgeist on
Ordinary Men
Binky-Answer896 on
If you only read one, read Night.
jotsirony on
I have a minor in Holocaust studies. Please read not only “Night” but also the two sequels “Dawn” and “The Accident”. It’s important to see not only what happened then, but also how it impacted the lives of people after.
Other suggestions- “My Brother’s Voice” by Stephen Nasser; anything by Primo Levi.
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The Story Teller, Jodi Picoult but it’s fiction, very good story though. Can be upsetting to read but that probably goes without saying.
If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi.
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I Bear Witness is a fantastic account of the atrocities as they were happening. They’re diary entries from before the start of the war when the Nazi’s first starting coming to power, through to the end of the war (there are 3 books). I would also highly recommend “If This Is A Man” by Primo Levi
The pianist is a good book I say that in terms of what you’re after. It’s harrowing. Schindler’s list is also a book, so is the boy in the striped pajamas. The tattooist of Auschwitz is also good, albeit sugar coated to make it more a love story than detailing the horrors.
The Good Old Days, edited by Klee, Dresden, and Riess. It is perpetrator accounts, mostly from the Eastern Front. It is horrifying.
There are also many diaries from the ghettos. The Diary of Dawid Sierokowiak is a good entry into the genre.
Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night by Wiesel gives the perspective of a 15 year old Jewish prisoner. It’s heavy but beautifully written.
Maus is amazing.
The Lost- the search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Anus Mundi: 1500 days in Auschwitz by [Wieslaw Kielar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wies%C5%82aw_Kielar)
– autobiography / memories of a survivor
*Lovely Green Eyes* by Arnost Lustig is a novel about a Jewish girl who passes as a gentile and is able to escape a death camp by being sent to work in an army brothel on the Eastern Front. It is devastating.
*A Prayer for Kateřina Horovitzová* by the same author is also excellent, but hard to find in English.
The Choice by Edith Egar.
Schindler’s List.
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
You should try reading some historical non-fiction:
•The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
•The Holocaust by Laurence Rees
The 2022 book *The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World*, author is Jonathan Freedland but it’s the biography of Rudolf Vrba, who was assigned to the dreadful Sonderkommando squad.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Ordinary Men
If you only read one, read Night.
I have a minor in Holocaust studies. Please read not only “Night” but also the two sequels “Dawn” and “The Accident”. It’s important to see not only what happened then, but also how it impacted the lives of people after.
Other suggestions- “My Brother’s Voice” by Stephen Nasser; anything by Primo Levi.