I would highly recommend Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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I don’t know if this will be a good recommendation for you because it just became available to me after being on hold through my library and I haven’t read it but maybe Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A Jewish man becomes a tattooist because he can speak multiple languages. He is imprisoned for 2.5 years and witnesses horrific atrocities, bravery and compassion.
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Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora by Peter Berg (with Brian Brock)
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Maus the graphic novel.
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Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account-Dr. Miklos Nyiszli. He worked with Dr. Mengele
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I just read a book called Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. Not as intense as Night, but interesting and moving
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The Choice by Edith Eva Ever
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The Men With The Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Drowned And The Saved by Primo Levi
Maus by Art Speigelman
The White Rose by Inge Scholl (about a resistance group and the murder of the leading members when they were caught by the Nazis)
This is not what you’re looking for but it is adjacent and very well written and might be good supplementary reading: Why? Explaining The Holocaust by Peter Hayes. Hayes is a professor of Holocaust studies, and he compiled all the questions students most frequently asked him in his classes and boiled them down to 8 specific subjects/themes like “Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why didn’t anyone come to their rescue earlier?” etc. He then dedicates a chapter to each of those questions, explaining the answers through detailed looks into German and European history and politics. It’s written in a very accessible and engaging way and I found that I learned a lot of things from it about the general zeitgeist of the world and the political/global happenings that I didn’t get from the personal texts like I recc’ed above. It’s really good supplement literature to read while reading the words of survivors, because it positions their experiences in a wider context of what was going on in German or global politics and history.
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The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
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*Lilac Girls* is a fictionalization account of a particular group on holocaust victims, les lapins or the rabbits, who were cruelly experimented on at the Ravenbrück concentration camp, and is loosely based on true stories.
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson sounds exactly like what you are looking for. A lot of similarities to Night, but from a female perspective.
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Elie Wiesel “Night”
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From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival by Thomas Toivi Blatt.
If you can’t find a copy of that I also highly recommend Escape from Sobibor (multiple people were interviewed for the book and it’s extremely well told from their perspectives). The story of Sobibor is one I wish was more well known, they had a successful uprising, and their story is one of incredible bravery.
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly is a collection of writings and artwork from children imprisoned at Terezin/Theresienstadt. Each piece includes a byline that lists the fate of the author/artist. Extremely emotional read.
Also, if you’re open to fictionalized accounts, The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart is based on the true story of Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a polish catholic midwife who delivered thousands of babies while imprisoned at Auschwitz.
Also, Rutka’s Notebook – the diary of a Jewish girl living in the Będzin ghetto in Poland. Rutka and her family were murdered at Auschwitz when she was only 14.
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
I would highly recommend Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
I don’t know if this will be a good recommendation for you because it just became available to me after being on hold through my library and I haven’t read it but maybe Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A Jewish man becomes a tattooist because he can speak multiple languages. He is imprisoned for 2.5 years and witnesses horrific atrocities, bravery and compassion.
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora by Peter Berg (with Brian Brock)
Maus the graphic novel.
Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account-Dr. Miklos Nyiszli. He worked with Dr. Mengele
I just read a book called Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. Not as intense as Night, but interesting and moving
The Choice by Edith Eva Ever
The Men With The Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Drowned And The Saved by Primo Levi
Maus by Art Speigelman
The White Rose by Inge Scholl (about a resistance group and the murder of the leading members when they were caught by the Nazis)
This is not what you’re looking for but it is adjacent and very well written and might be good supplementary reading: Why? Explaining The Holocaust by Peter Hayes. Hayes is a professor of Holocaust studies, and he compiled all the questions students most frequently asked him in his classes and boiled them down to 8 specific subjects/themes like “Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why didn’t anyone come to their rescue earlier?” etc. He then dedicates a chapter to each of those questions, explaining the answers through detailed looks into German and European history and politics. It’s written in a very accessible and engaging way and I found that I learned a lot of things from it about the general zeitgeist of the world and the political/global happenings that I didn’t get from the personal texts like I recc’ed above. It’s really good supplement literature to read while reading the words of survivors, because it positions their experiences in a wider context of what was going on in German or global politics and history.
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
*Lilac Girls* is a fictionalization account of a particular group on holocaust victims, les lapins or the rabbits, who were cruelly experimented on at the Ravenbrück concentration camp, and is loosely based on true stories.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson sounds exactly like what you are looking for. A lot of similarities to Night, but from a female perspective.
Elie Wiesel “Night”
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival by Thomas Toivi Blatt.
If you can’t find a copy of that I also highly recommend Escape from Sobibor (multiple people were interviewed for the book and it’s extremely well told from their perspectives). The story of Sobibor is one I wish was more well known, they had a successful uprising, and their story is one of incredible bravery.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly is a collection of writings and artwork from children imprisoned at Terezin/Theresienstadt. Each piece includes a byline that lists the fate of the author/artist. Extremely emotional read.
Also, if you’re open to fictionalized accounts, The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart is based on the true story of Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a polish catholic midwife who delivered thousands of babies while imprisoned at Auschwitz.
Also, Rutka’s Notebook – the diary of a Jewish girl living in the Będzin ghetto in Poland. Rutka and her family were murdered at Auschwitz when she was only 14.