I have always enjoyed reading books about people during the Holocaust, or anything Holocaust related. The books I have read so far are The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Night (Elie Wiesel) and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. What other books do you suggest?
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The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Number the stars
The Paris architect
The Nightingale
Beneath a scarlet sky
The Alice network
Maus 1 and 2
Once we were brothers
Death Is My Trade by Robert Merle
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto by Emmanuel Ringelblum
Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie by Ten Boom
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
The Edelweiss Express by Mark A Cooper
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Book Thief was a good one. And of course, one that a lot of people read in school, The Diary of Anne Frank
The Sisters of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
maus by art spiegelman, it’s a graphic novel but it effectively reveals the horrors of holocaust (visually)
*I am David* by Anne Holm is my personal favorite Holocaust fictional story about a boy who escapes a concentration camp.
If you want historical books, I highly recommend:
*Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland* by Christopher Browning (follows a single battlion through the war and dives into how such atrocious acts were carried out by normal everyday men, not rabid anti-Semitic monsters. Men, not monsters; the most important lesson from WWII, in my opinion.)
*The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945* by Saul Friedländer (the second of a two-volume work, but deals with the years of the Final Solution being carried out)
*The Destruction of the European Jews* by Raul Hilberg (pretty much a must for historical works on the Holocaust)
*The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare* by Omer Bartov (more about the conduct of German troops in the East, but that conduct was integral to the Final Solution)
These are all phenomenal authors, so I would recommend looking at their other works as well.
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Making bombs for hitler was a book I read in elementary school, it is still gut wrenching to this day