5 Best historical books like The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

Cover of The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

The Last Jew of Treblinka

By: Chil Rajchman

4.35

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b…

"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

If you liked the historical plot in The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman

1. Alicia: My Story

By: Alicia Appleman-Jurman

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Mass Market Paperback

WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD  •  Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism … read more

Similar categories in Alicia Appleman-Jurman's Alicia: My Story book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid

2. Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

By: Anna Reid

4.17

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise … read more

Similar categories in Anna Reid's Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots under every stone."

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

"At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed…"

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

"One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva: 28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya …"

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

Cover of Treblinka by Simone de Beauvoir, Terrence Des Pres, Jean-François Steiner

3. Treblinka

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Terrence Des Pres , Jean-François Steiner

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nearly a million Jews were consumed by the ovens of Treblinka before August 2, 1943. On that day 60… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's Treblinka book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren

4. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Michael B. Oren

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Eve… read more

Similar categories in Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

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

Similar categories in None's I Have Lived a Thousand Years book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

6. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germ… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan

7. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

By: Lila Perl , Marion Blumenthal Lazan

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan's acclaimed Holocaust memoir features … read more

Similar categories in Lila Perl's Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny

8. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

By: Gitta Sereny

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the exte… read more

Similar categories in Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of L'inferno di Treblinka by Vasily Grossman, Claudia Zonghetti

9. L'inferno di Treblinka

By: Vasily Grossman , Claudia Zonghetti

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

La piu terribile fabbrica della morte nazista nel folgorante, esemplare reportage - fondato su test… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Siege (The Siege, #1) by Helen Dunmore

10. The Siege (The Siege, #1)

By: Helen Dunmore

4.03

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore… read more

Similar categories in Helen Dunmore's The Siege (The Siege, #1) book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
"They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

"Andrei glances up. The angle of candlelight flushes his hollow, old man’s face with youth. He smiles at her. Although his eyes are only shadows in this light, she knows their exact colour. They are b…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

11. Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam

By: Cynthia Kadohata

4.08

Format: 176 pages,

CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS: a German shepherd trained to snif… read more

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Cover of The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

12. The Last Jew of Treblinka

By: Chil Rajchman

4.35

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more

Similar categories in Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

13. Anne Frank: Life and Legacy

By: Jemma J. Saunders

4.40

Format: 86 pages,

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14. SS General

By: Sven Hassel

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

The great Stalingrad novel--written by a German survivor. Sven Hassell and his diminishing band of … read more

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15. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers

By: None , Filip Müller , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and … read more

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16. 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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Cover of A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two by Michael G. Kramer

17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

18. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Cover of Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two by K.G.E. Konkel

19. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

Cover of The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough

20. The Demon Next Door

By: Bryan Burrough

3.33

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Burrough's The Demon Next Door book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Day War Came by Nicola Davies

21. The Day War Came

By: Nicola Davies

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately ho… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Davies's The Day War Came book and Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka

  • war

13 must-read history books like The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

Transform Your Habits

Alicia: My Story

Alicia Appleman-Jurman

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

Anna Reid

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Treblinka

Simone de Beauvoir , Terrence Des Pres , Jean-François Steiner

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren

4.61

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9 Top history books like Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

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Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Claudia Davila , Jessica Dee Humphreys , Michel Chikwanine

4.20

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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

Alistair Horne

4.29

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The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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