11 Best biography books like Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Anna Salton Eisen

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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…

If you liked the biography plot in Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Anna Salton Eisen , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. After Long Silence

By: Helen Fremont

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is." Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman… read more

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2. The Wolf Hunt

By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more

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3. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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4. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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5. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

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"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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7. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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8. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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9. A Web of Secrets

By: Roberta Kagan

4.52

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

A Web of Secrets brings Roberta Kagan’s riveting historical WW2 series: Jews, The Third Reich, and … read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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10. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir

By: Colton Haynes

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. The Turtle House

By: Amanda Churchill

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more

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  • world war ii
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12. The Polish Nurse: A WW2 Historical Fiction Novel (World War II Brave Women Fiction Book 1)

By: Leah Moyes

4.48

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

She has a secret. Keeping it will mean the difference between life and death.1941, Poland. Though w… read more

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  • world war ii
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13. When Forever Ends (The Blood Sisters, #3)

By: Roberta Kagan

4.39

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world filled with danger, heartbreak, and impossible choices, the blood sisters must navigate … read more

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  • world war ii
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14. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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15. Good Town

By: Mary Louise Wells

4.60

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nazi Germany, a pious man makes a decision to protect his family, but at what cost? Josef Hau… read more

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  • world war ii
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16. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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17. The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

By: Sara Ackerman

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark … read more

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18. The Children's Dream (Auschwitz Twins #1)

By: Roberta Kagan

4.13

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes Dreams Come True... And so do nightmares. When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to hav… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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19. Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art

By: Deborah Reed

4.24

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life—her family, her art, and the long-bur… read more

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20. What Remains

By: Wendy Walker

3.57

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

She saved his life. Now he‘ll never let her go. Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. … read more

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21. The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

By: George Lucius Salton

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of G… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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22. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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23. A Long Way to Auschwitz: A True Jewish Holocaust Survival Story of Cruelty, Courage, and Luck

By: Simon H. Kohavi

4.70

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

His road leads to the place of nightmares. But will that stop be his last?Hungary, 1939. Like most … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters

24. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

By: Oksana Masters

4.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, ag… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"For me, forgiveness is about personal healing."

-Eva Mozes Kor, I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

"If humans can do the worst acts, we can also do the best."

-Eva Mozes Kor, I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

"It is not so easy to move on when your sleep is full of nightmarish memories."

-Eva Mozes Kor, I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

"I think if we earn to respect one another in the first place, this will prevent many terrible things from happening. Respecting people does not mean you have to agree with them on everything. But you…"

-Eva Mozes Kor, I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

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26. Beyond the Tracks

By: Michael Reit

4.43

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 1938. Germany is a terrifying place. When people start disappearing in nightly raids,… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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27. The Prison Minyan

By: Jonathan Stone

4.31

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more

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28. The Stolen Child

By: Roberta Kagan

4.37

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Hide Karl in plain sight. That was the idea. It was meant to be foolproof. Who would think of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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29. My Son's Secret

By: Roberta Kagan

4.34

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

My beautiful boy... Created in love… born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories ab… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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30. White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

By: Joe Moore

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
Cover of The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir by Salton George

31. The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir

By: Salton George

4.88

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A National Jewish Book Awards FinalistThe 23rd A Holocaust Memoir is the prequel to Pillar of A D… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

Sara Leibovits

4.35

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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Transform Your Habits

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Esau McCaulley

4.62

Transform Your Habits

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

Leokadia Schmidt

4.38

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Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.61

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Viola Shipman

3.85

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Garth Stein

5.00

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Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

3.97

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