14 Best war books like My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre

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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By: Selma van de Perre

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance figh…

If you liked the war plot in My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Toen ik je zag

By: Isa Hoes

3.69

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

'In je hoofd kijken heb ik nooit gekund, of was dat voor mij dan net zo verschrikkelijk geweest al… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Cost of Courage

By: Charles Kaiser

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked tog… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

3. Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau

By: Jack Sacco

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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4. Het Dossier

By: Anya Niewierra

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

De 46-jarige weduwe Josta Bresse wordt op een ochtend wakker en blijkt slachtoffer van een orgaanro… read more

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5. Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story

By: None , None

4.54

Format: 608 pages,

At sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when … read more

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6. Things We Couldn't Say

By: Diet Eman , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

The true story of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman who, with her fiance, Hein Siestma, risked everyth… read more

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7. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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8. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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9. Wat mama niet vertellen kon

By: Marcel Maassen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Stel je voor: je had een halve eeuw een innige band met je moeder, maar na haar dood weet je nog st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

By: Roxane van Iperen

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"But, above all, the people I met there had an urgent message for me: tell this story, because it is different from the many stories the world knows. The Jews did not go to their deaths willingly -- i…"

-Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

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11. Misschien moet je iets lager mikken: een verhaal over armoede en kansenongelijkheid

By: Milio van de Kamp

4.26

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Een persoonlijk en rauw verhaal over de impact van kansenongelijkheid. In het huis waarin Milio … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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12. We Had to Save Them

By: Elle van Rijn

4.39

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

Amsterdam, 1941. My name is Betty. Until a few months ago, I was just like every other nursery teac… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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13. My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By: Selma van de Perre

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance figh… read more

Similar categories in Selma van de Perre's My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor book and Selma van de Perre's My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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14. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room

By: Paul Seward

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz by Andra Bucci

15. Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz

By: Andra Bucci

4.06

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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16. Sálarhlekkir

By: Steindór Ívarsson

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Komið er að tímamótum í lífi Halldóru Hallbjargar Orradóttur þegar farið er að líða á ævikvöldið. H… read more

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17. Ik beloof je dat ik honderd word

By: Peter R. de Vries

4.22

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

In het laatste anderhalf jaar van zijn leven hield Peter R. de Vries in het geheim een logboek … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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18. Knap voor een dik meisje

By: Tatjana Almuli

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Tatjana is al haar hele leven dik. En krijgt dus al zo lang ze zich kan herinneren ongevraagd comme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Waarom je niet zomaar moet stemmen waar je ouders op stemmen

By: Titia Hoogendoorn

3.83

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Voor iedereen die meer over stemmen wil weten ‘Vouw het stembiljet weer netjes op (origami voor … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Morðin í Dillonshúsi - Örlagasaga mæðgnanna Sigríðar Ögmundsdóttur og Huldu Karenar Larsen by Sigríður Dúa Goldsworthy

20. Morðin í Dillonshúsi - Örlagasaga mæðgnanna Sigríðar Ögmundsdóttur og Huldu Karenar Larsen

By: Sigríður Dúa Goldsworthy

4.30

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Örlagasaga mæðgnanna Sigríðar Ögmundsdóttur og Huldu Karenar Larsen Fyrir 70 árum gerðist hræðil… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground

By: Justus Rosenberg

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Return To The Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis by Eric Lichtblau

22. Return To The Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis

By: Eric Lichtblau

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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23. Nu ik je zie

By: Merlijn Kamerling

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Tien jaar na de dood van Antonie Kamerling gaat zijn zoon Merlijn op zoek naar een completer beeld … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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24. A Song of Silence

By: Steve N. Lee

4.62

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

War thrust them together. Love will tear them apart. Inspired by a true story... When the Naz… read more

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25. The Girl From Terezin: A WW2 Holocaust Survival True Story

By: Hana Sternlicht

4.05

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

“We were finally standing at the train station in Mauthausen. In front of us, there was a notorious… read more

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  • war
Cover of The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve

26. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

By: Thomas Geve

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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27. Irena’s Vow

By: Dan Gordon

4.75

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

During the Holocaust, a twenty-one-year-old, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Polish, Catholic woman rescu… read more

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28. Hij noemde me Elly

By: Femmetje de Wind

4.51

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van Elly Vleeschhouwer-Blocq Tegen het steeds grimmiger de… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. De laatste getuige

By: Frank Krake

4.46

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

Liggend op het dak van een trein ontvlucht de twintigjarige Wim Aloserij in 1943 de verplichte Arbe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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30. We Are Only Ghosts

By: Jeffrey L. Richards

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1968: The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastr… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp by Stephen R. Matthews

31. The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

By: Stephen R. Matthews

3.82

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook

17 Top audiobook books like My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre

Transform Your Habits

Toen ik je zag

Isa Hoes

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Roxane van Iperen

4.37

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9 Top audiobook books like Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward

Transform Your Habits

Under the Lake

Stuart Woods

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

Elizabeth Berg

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

Transform Your Habits

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

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