8 best-selling biography books like My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List by Rena Finder

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My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

By: Rena Finder

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schin…

"Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its allies. The Holocaust should never be forgotten and should never happen again."

-Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

"Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its allies. The Holocaust should never be forgotten and should never happen again."

-Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

"Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its allies. The Holocaust should never be forgotten and should never happen again."

-Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

If you liked the biography plot in My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List by Rena Finder , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust

By: Lois Metzger , Lola Rein Kaufman

4.04

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding. At first, L… read more

Similar categories in Lois Metzger's The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust book and Rena Finder's My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? by Bonnie Bader, Nancy Harrison, Elizabeth Wolf

2. Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

By: Bonnie Bader , Nancy Harrison , Elizabeth Wolf

4.00

Format: None pages,

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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3. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

By: Allan Zullo

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different ch… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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4. Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

By: Marcel Prins , Peter Henk Steenhuis , Watkinson Laura

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent… read more

Similar categories in Marcel Prins's Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival book and Rena Finder's My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

  • history
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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5. Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, … read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • holocaust

6. Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust

By: Elly Berkovits Gross

3.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Elly was just 15 years old, she, her mother and brother were deported by cattle car to the Aus… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

7. Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust

By: Todd Hasak-Lowy , None

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Resilience shines throughout a boy's firsthand, present-tense account of life in the Terezin concen… read more

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8. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By: Alan Gratz

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Irela… read more

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9. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
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10. Stolen Girl

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces a… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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11. Lifeboat 12

By: Susan Hood

4.19

Format: 337 pages, Unknown Binding

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects h… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
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12. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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13. Traitors Among Us

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

World War II may be over. But two sisters are far from safe. Inspired by true events, this is th… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
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14. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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15. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacua… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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16. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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17. Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America

By: Ruth Gruener

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents we… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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18. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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19. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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20. Ground Zero

By: Alan Gratz

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?"

-Alan Gratz, Ground Zero

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21. My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

By: Rena Finder

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schin… read more

Similar categories in Rena Finder's My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List book and Rena Finder's My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its al…"

-Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

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22. The War Below

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now, Luka has smuggl… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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23. Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

By: Renee Hartman

4.01

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn ever… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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24. Making Bombs for Hitler

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is n… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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25. Resistance

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
"In the knowing, there was peace."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

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26. Winterkill

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
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27. We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

By: Deborah Hopkinson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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28. Don't Tell the Nazis

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.28

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Krystia’s family is hiding Jews from the invading Nazis, but the risks are immense. How much will s… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
"I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me "subhuman." But I could control how I treated others."

-Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

"When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being c…"

-Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

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29. Trapped in Hitler's Web

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler and Stolen Girl) delivers a gripping sto… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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30. A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp

By: Jack Fairweather

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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31. The Dressmaker’s Daughter

By: Edith “Ditta” Lowy

4.08

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A young Jewish girl has been protected because her mother works as an expert seamstress for the Naz… read more

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11 best-selling history books like My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List by Rena Finder

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The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust

Lois Metzger , Lola Rein Kaufman

4.04

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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Bonnie Bader , Nancy Harrison , Elizabeth Wolf

4.00

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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

Allan Zullo

4.23

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Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

Marcel Prins , Peter Henk Steenhuis , Watkinson Laura

3.77

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Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

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The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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Gordon Korman

4.31

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Alan Gratz

4.15

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