12 best-selling war books like Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II) by Leokadia Schmidt

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Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

By: Leokadia Schmidt

4.38

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled …

If you liked the war plot in Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II) by Leokadia Schmidt , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Maine

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.40

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradi… read more

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"And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went."

-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine

"Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Ängsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war."

-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine

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2. Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

By: Anthony Galvin

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American… read more

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3. Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

By: Nancy Sprowell Geise

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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  • world war ii
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4. Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust

By: Rita Goldberg

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically,"… read more

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5. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

By: Olga Lengyel

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time.… read more

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6. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

By: Karen Abbott

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzl… read more

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7. 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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8. The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

By: Sara Leibovits

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the… read more

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9. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

By: Ariana Neumann

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more

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"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"

-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

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10. My March Through Hell: A Young Girl’s Terrifying Journey to Survival (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

By: Halina Kleiner

4.64

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

By: Nechama Birnbaum

4.56

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what i… read more

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  • history
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  • historical
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12. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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13. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

By: Judy Batalion

4.07

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… read more

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"The Nazis were particularly brutal with children, who represented the Jewish future. Boys and girls who were not useful for slave labor were some of the first Jews to be killed."

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

"An old Jewish joke went - A man asks whether his town is now in Soviet or Polish territory. He's told, "This year we're in Poland." "Thank goodness!", the man exclaims. "I simply could not take anoth…"

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

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14. The German Midwife

By: Mandy Robotham

4.23

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant ca… read more

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  • historical
  • war
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15. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

By: Otto Rosenberg

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more

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16. Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

By: Leokadia Schmidt

4.38

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled … read more

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17. Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir

By: Evelyn Joseph Grossman

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WW2 in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incred… read more

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18. First One In, Last One Out: Auschwitz Survivor 31321

By: Marilyn Shimon

4.41

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his sca… read more

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19. Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

By: Anna Salton Eisen

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From Anna Salton Eisen, a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for The 23rd A Holocaust Memoir , c… read more

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20. The Career Killer (DCI Mabey Book 1)

By: Ali Gunn

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

A public body dump, an invisible killer.When young women are murdered and their bodies posed like m… read more

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21. Holocaust Memories: Annihilation and Survival in Slovakia (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

By: Paul Davidovits

4.48

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

This Holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that su… read more

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14 Top history books like Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II) by Leokadia Schmidt

Transform Your Habits

Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

Anthony Galvin

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

Nancy Sprowell Geise

4.04

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

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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

Sara Leibovits

4.35

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5 Best audiobook books like 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

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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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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

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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

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