12 must-read historical books like The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal

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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

By: Nina Siegal

4.33

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizen…

If you liked the historical plot in The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

By: Erica Fischer , Edna McCown

4.04

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Unique, moving, and true - this radiant love story is set against the horrific backdrop of World Wa… read more

Similar categories in Erica Fischer's Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"And you, my dearest, you are something unutterably familiar to me, you are really I myself! We are truly a wonderful idea. My life up until now was not lacking in love, God knows, but was empty of li…"

-Erica Fischer, Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

"In the name of all responsible gods, saints and mascots I pledge to obey the following ten points and hope that all responsible gods, saints and mascots will be merciful and help me to keep my word: …"

-Erica Fischer, Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

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2. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

By: Louise Erdrich

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

By: Tom Burgis

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more

Similar categories in Tom Burgis's The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

4. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel

By: None , David Floyd

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim

5. Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

By: Keiron Pim

4.40

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the Eur… read more

Similar categories in Keiron Pim's Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger

6. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more

Similar categories in Burkhard Bilger's Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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7. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

8. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

Similar categories in Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

10. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Cover of My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar

11. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

By: Hannah Pick-Goslar

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Pick-Goslar's My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

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

12. 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

Similar categories in József Debreczeni's Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

13. The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal

By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne… read more

Similar categories in Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl's The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich

14. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

By: Volker Ullrich

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more

Similar categories in Volker Ullrich's Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal

15. The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

By: Nina Siegal

4.33

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizen… read more

Similar categories in Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • diary
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • 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

16. 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

Similar categories in Judy Rakowsky's Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

17. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

18. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

19. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • historical
Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer

21. Magical Meet Cute

By: Jean Meltzer

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem? Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also us… read more

Similar categories in Jean Meltzer's Magical Meet Cute book and Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

  • jewish

16 Top history books like The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal

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Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

Erica Fischer , Edna McCown

4.04

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Louise Erdrich

4.00

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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Keiron Pim

4.40

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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

Burkhard Bilger

4.09

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Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Kantika

Elizabeth Graver

4.08

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Emmanuel Acho

4.53

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We Must Not Think of Ourselves

Lauren Grodstein

4.08

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