11 Top memoir books like What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets by Mel Laytner

Cover of What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets by Mel Laytner

What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

By: Mel Laytner

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from …

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Cover of The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman, David Kinney

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

By: Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg—Hitler’s “chief philosopher” and … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story by Nancy Sprowell Geise

2. Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

By: Nancy Sprowell Geise

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath

3. Regretting Motherhood

By: Orna Donath

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger

4. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

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

5. Death of a Poison Pen (Hamish Macbeth, #19)

By: M.C. Beaton

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A POISON PEN: A Hamish Macbeth My… read more

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6. On Power

By: Robert A. Caro

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Audible Audio

From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time National Book Award winner Robert A. Caro: a short… read more

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7. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

By: Andrew Brown , Shlomo Venezia , Umberto Gentiloni Silveri , Marcello Pezzetti , Simone Veil , None , None

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged … read more

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8. The Devil Finds Work

By: James Baldwin

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

James Baldwin At The Movies... Provocative, timeless, brilliant. Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford'… read more

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Cover of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again by Justin Brierley

9. The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again

By: Justin Brierley

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation? Justin Brierley is convinced that in … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of 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

10. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Sara Leibovits

11. 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
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni

12. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Dating Mr. Darcy (Love Manor, #1) by Kate O'Keeffe

13. Dating Mr. Darcy (Love Manor, #1)

By: Kate O'Keeffe

3.79

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it a truth universally known that a girl must compete on reality TV to win a modern-day Mr. Darc… read more

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Cover of The Polish Nurse: A WW2 Historical Fiction Novel (World War II Brave Women Fiction Book 1) by Leah Moyes

14. 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
  • historical
Cover of Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy by Tania Crasnianski

15. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

By: Tania Crasnianski

3.85

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Borm… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of I Have to Save Them by Ellie Midwood

16. I Have to Save Them

By: Ellie Midwood

4.46

Format: 296 pages, ebook

Auschwitz, 1942: Her entire body trembles as she stands in the infirmary and realises the horrifyin… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • holocaust
Cover of The Officer of Dachau by Dorit Journo

17. The Officer of Dachau

By: Dorit Journo

4.35

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

She made a courageous choice in times of unparalleled turmoil. Could her family survive its consequ… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Auschwitz Prisoner 31119: The Shocking True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor by Yitzchak Borowsky

18. Auschwitz Prisoner 31119: The Shocking True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor

By: Yitzchak Borowsky

3.88

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz?Poland, 1943. Dark s… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

19. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

By: Sarah Rose

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have…"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

20. 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
Cover of The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories) by Oren Schneider

21. The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

By: Oren Schneider

4.49

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, pl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II) by Nanette Blitz Konig

22. Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II)

By: Nanette Blitz Konig

4.41

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.In these compelling, award-winning, Hol… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen

23. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust by Harry Lenga

24. The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust

By: Harry Lenga

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heat… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets by Mel Laytner

25. What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

By: Mel Laytner

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Auschwitz Photograph: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel by Julie Tulba

26. The Auschwitz Photograph: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel

By: Julie Tulba

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

A snapshot in time holds secrets waiting to be revealed. Berlin, 1938. Samuel Weiss and Max von Ho… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
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Cover of The Last Boy in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (World War II True Story Book 1) by Moshe Bomberg

27. The Last Boy in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (World War II True Story Book 1)

By: Moshe Bomberg

4.45

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

He will stay in Auschwitz to the bitter end if it means his brother might survive.Poland, 1940. Mos… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII by Sophie Poldermans

28. Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII

By: Sophie Poldermans

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity by Daniel Bowman Jr.

29. On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity

By: Daniel Bowman Jr.

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Nearly everyone knows someone on the autism spectrum, whether it's a niece or nephew, a student… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Bad storytelling is bad theology."

-Daniel Bowman Jr., On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity

Cover of The Neighbor from Bergen Belsen: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (World War II True Story Book 4) by Yaakov Barzilai

30. The Neighbor from Bergen Belsen: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (World War II True Story Book 4)

By: Yaakov Barzilai

3.87

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving story, wrapped in humor, about love, loss, and hope in one of history’s darkest hours.1933… read more

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Cover of From Auschwitz with Love: The Inspiring Memoir of Two Sisters' Survival, Devotion and Triumph as told by Manci Grunberger Beran & Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein by Daniel Seymour

31. From Auschwitz with Love: The Inspiring Memoir of Two Sisters' Survival, Devotion and Triumph as told by Manci Grunberger Beran & Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein

By: Daniel Seymour

4.30

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia. Two young girls, Manci and Ruth Grunberger, are growing up in a loving Je… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

18 best-selling history books like What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets by Mel Laytner

Transform Your Habits

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

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

Nancy Sprowell Geise

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

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 Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

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