7 Top biography memoir books like I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer

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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir of family, the Holocaust, and the search for truth Esther Safran Foer grew up …

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Cover of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis

1. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

By: Daniel Gordis

4.31

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by M.K. Czerwiec

2. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

By: M.K. Czerwiec

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Remember—as hard as this seems to you now, it's nothing compared to what our patients are facing."

-M.K. Czerwiec, Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Cover of Day by Elie Wiesel, Anne Borchardt

3. Day

By: Elie Wiesel , Anne Borchardt

3.79

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Bo… read more

Similar categories in Elie Wiesel's Day book and Esther Safran Foer's I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"I was lying. I would have to lie. A lot. She was ill. It's all right to lie to sick people."

-Elie Wiesel, Day

"I thought he was talking about my grandmother. I didn't want to see her. I knew she had died - of thirst, maybe - and I was afraid she wouldn't be as I remembered her. I was afraid she wouldn't have …"

-Elie Wiesel, Day

"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And…"

-Elie Wiesel, Day

Cover of The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders by Stella Sands

4. The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

By: Stella Sands

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular tel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

5. Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching fo… read more

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6. The Dark Flood Rises

By: Margaret Drabble

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has… read more

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Cover of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar

7. My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

By: Ariel Sabar

4.24

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent."

-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

"If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most."

-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

"Language lives. It inhales culture and history. It sprouts new limbs, sloughs off old ones. It goes through cycles of rapid growth, unremarkable periods of stable maturity, decay, and sometimes, as w…"

-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

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8. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

Cover of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

9. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

Similar categories in Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present book and Esther Safran Foer's I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

  • history
  • jewish
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Cover of Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby

10. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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11. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer by Holly Marie

12. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Tova Friedman

13. 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
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca  Frankel

14. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

15. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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16. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir of family, the Holocaust, and the search for truth Esther Safran Foer grew up … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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17. An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville

By: Reza Aslan

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Thousand Wasted Sundays by Victoria Vanstone

18. A Thousand Wasted Sundays

By: Victoria Vanstone

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A hilarious and heartfelt memoir about partying, parenting and sobriety A party girl with a soc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris by Heather Dune Macadam

19. Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris

By: Heather Dune Macadam

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the p… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II by Judy Rakowsky

20. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II

By: Judy Rakowsky

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

21. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

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  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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