10 must-read nonfiction books like The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield

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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

By: Jeremy Dronfield

4.45

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a fath…

"The Stair of Death was the epitome of SS thinking — why install a more efficient mechanical conveyor when criminal and Jewish labour was so cheap and the process so satisfyingly punishing?"

-Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Lynchings in Duluth

By: Michael W. Fedo

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

By: Witold Pilecki , Jarek Garlinski , Michael Schudrich

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschw… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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3. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

By: Patricia Posner

4.25

Format: 159 pages,

The Pharmacist of Auschwitzis the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical sal… read more

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

4. The Librarian of Auschwitz

By: None , None

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of… read more

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5. A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz

By: Göran Rosenberg , None

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Ausch… read more

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6. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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8. Auschwitz Lullaby

By: Mario Escobar

4.23

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of polic… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things t…"

-Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

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9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

By: Heather Morris

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

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10. The Violinist of Auschwitz

By: Ellie Midwood

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1943: In the depths of hell, can hope rise? And can love triumph over hatred? Based o… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Midwood's The Violinist of Auschwitz book and Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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11. Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

By: Heather Morris

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A promise to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive. From international … read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear."

-Heather Morris, Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

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12. The Twins of Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and h… read more

Similar categories in Eva Mozes Kor's The Twins of Auschwitz book and Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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13. The Brothers of Auschwitz

By: Malka Adler

4.10

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary novel of hope and heartbreak, this is a story about a family separated by the Holo… read more

Similar categories in Malka Adler's The Brothers of Auschwitz book and Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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14. Daughter of the Reich

By: Louise Fein

4.29

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible lov… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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15. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls

By: Luca Crippa

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everythi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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16. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir

By: Tova Friedman

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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17. Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

By: Heather Morris

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, o… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"I'd thought you'd given up on me."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"Did I tell you about Cilka?" "No, Lale, you didn't. Who was Cilka?" "She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"It's time to live now, Cilka," he says. "Without fear, and with the miracle of love." "Is that a poem?" she asks him, smiling through her tears. "It is the beginning of one."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

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18. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

By: Jeremy Dronfield

4.45

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a fath… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival book and Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"The Stair of Death was the epitome of SS thinking — why install a more efficient mechanical conveyor when criminal and Jewish labour was so cheap and the process so satisfyingly punishing?"

-Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

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19. Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp

By: Eddy de Wind

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Written in Auschwitz itself and translated for the first time ever into English, this one-of-a-kind… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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20. The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek: A Holocaust Story of Music and Survival in a Nazi Death Camp

By: Nicola Pittam

3.65

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

'A moving and uplifting story of one woman’s fight against the Nazis through her love of music. It … read more

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21. Into the Storm

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.59

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Surviving the storm is only the beginning…It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya… read more

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Mario Escobar

4.23

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4.31

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Ellie Midwood

4.48

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