12 Top history books like The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister, Denise George, Carolyn Tomlin

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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

By: Nonna Bannister , Denise George , Carolyn Tomlin

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young gir…

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1. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

By: Jennifer Armstrong , Irene Gut Opdyke

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies."

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

"In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance."

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

"If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl,…"

-Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

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2. The Bloodletter's Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia

By: Linda Lafferty

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak... In 1… read more

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  • historical
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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
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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4. The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt

By: Hannelore Brenner , J.E. Wood , S. Frisch

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near… read more

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  • historical
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

5. I Have Lived a Thousand Years

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just… read more

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

6. By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

By: Max Eisen

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir b… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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7. The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

By: Nonna Bannister , Denise George , Carolyn Tomlin

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young gir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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8. The Bleeding Sky

By: Louis Brandsdorfer

3.99

Format: None pages,

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • holocaust

9. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor , Lisa Rojany Buccieri

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older siste… read more

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10. Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories

By: Anthony S. Pitch , Michael Berenbaum

4.21

Format: 160 pages,

In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, "If… read more

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11. Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-1948

By: Aranka Siegal

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Because she is Jewish, 14 year-old Piri has been held prisoner in Nazi concentration camps for two … read more

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12. Growing Up Amish

By: Ira Wagler

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Ira Wagler was born in 1961, the ninth of a Canadian Amish couple's eleven children. At seventeen, … read more

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13. All But My Life: A Memoir

By: Gerda Weissmann Klein

4.03

Format: None pages,

All But My Life: A Memoir All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six… read more

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14. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

By: Olga Lengyel

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time.… read more

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15. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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16. The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

By: Faris Cassell

4.19

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam

17. 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

By: Heather Dune Macadam

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A PEN America Literary Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee An Amazon Best of the Yea… read more

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  • biography
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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel

18. Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

By: Renia Spiegel

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"The past isn’t long gone; it’s present in our hearts, our actions, and the lessons we teach our children."

-Renia Spiegel, Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

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19. 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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  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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20. Będziesz tego żałować

By: Alicja Sinicka

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Uciekała przed niebezpieczeństwem. Azyl okazał się pułapką. Po brutalnym ataku na jej najlepszą … read more

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21. Hiding in Plain Sight: My Holocaust Story of Survival

By: Beatrice Sonders

4.21

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

After decades of concealing the full account of her experiences, Holocaust survivor Beatrice Sonder… read more

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  • world war ii
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  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

11 Top historical books like The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister, Denise George, Carolyn Tomlin

Transform Your Habits

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Jennifer Armstrong , Irene Gut Opdyke

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Bloodletter's Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia

Linda Lafferty

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

Patricia Posner

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt

Hannelore Brenner , J.E. Wood , S. Frisch

4.71

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10 must-read history books like The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell

Transform Your Habits

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Jimmy Carter

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz

Laurence Rees

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion

Susan Ronald

3.51

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

None

3.93

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