The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
By: Lucy Adlington
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching …
Want to Read $ 14.99"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que contaba era la amistad y la lealtad. Recuperar las posesiones no tenía tanto que ver con volver a poseerlas como con restablecer cierta vida de hogar tras la realidad distorsionada de los campos de concentración."-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que contaba era la amistad y la lealtad. Recuperar las posesiones no tenía tanto que ver con volver a poseerlas como con restablecer cierta vida de hogar tras la realidad distorsionada de los campos de concentración."-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
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1. The Cost of Courage
By: Charles Kaiser
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked tog… read more
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- history
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2. The Librarian of Auschwitz
By: None , None
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of… read more
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3. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- historical
- adult
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
4. Auschwitz Lullaby
By: Mario Escobar
4.23
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of polic… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- adult
- holocaust
- audiobook
"Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things t…"-Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby
5. The Paris Daughter
By: Kristin Harmel
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- adult
- audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter
6. 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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- biography
- history
- memoir
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
7. The Woman with the Blue Star
By: Pam Jenoff
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship… read more
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- holocaust
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8. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
By: Lucy Adlington
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- adult
- holocaust
- audiobook
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
9. Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
By: Heather Morris
4.37
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A promise to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive. From international … read more
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- adult
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"Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear."-Heather Morris, Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
10. The Lost Book of Bonn
By: Brianna Labuskes
3.95
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more
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- historical
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- adult
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11. The Librarian of Burned Books
By: Brianna Labuskes
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWI… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- adult
- audiobook
"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?"-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"The men who sough violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
12. 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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- biography
- history
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- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
13. Code Name Sapphire
By: Pam Jenoff
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of b… read more
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- historical
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- audiobook
14. The Librarian Spy
By: Madeline Martin
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A moving novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II.Ava thought … read more
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- historical
- war
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- audiobook
"I don't think I take compliments very well, Ava admitted sheepishly. "Most women don't. We always think we're not good enough." She lifted her shoulder, and the resignation behind it told Ava that ev…"-Madeline Martin, The Librarian Spy
15. Canary Girls
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more
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16. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
By: Roxane van Iperen
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper … read more
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- history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
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- holocaust
- audiobook
"But, above all, the people I met there had an urgent message for me: tell this story, because it is different from the many stories the world knows. The Jews did not go to their deaths willingly -- i…"-Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
17. Eu sunt 70072. Fetița care a supraviețuit „Îngerului Morții”
By: Lidia Maksymowicz
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
„De la ultima noastră întâlnire îmi amintesc ochii ei. Mă privește cu dragoste, cu disperare. Îmi ț… read more
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18. The Nazis Knew My Name
By: Magda Hellinger
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped ) memoir by a Holoca… read more
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- history
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
19. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
20. We Must Not Think of Ourselves
By: Lauren Grodstein
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more
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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves
21. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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- historical
- war
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- adult
- audiobook
22. The Keeper of Hidden Books
By: Madeline Martin
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- adult
- holocaust
- audiobook
23. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
By: Tova Friedman
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her … read more
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- history
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
24. Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
By: Heather Morris
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, o… read more
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- historical
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- world war ii
- adult
- holocaust
- audiobook
"I'd thought you'd given up on me."-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
"His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it."-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
"Did I tell you about Cilka?" "No, Lale, you didn't. Who was Cilka?" "She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person."-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
"It's time to live now, Cilka," he says. "Without fear, and with the miracle of love." "Is that a poem?" she asks him, smiling through her tears. "It is the beginning of one."-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
25. 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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- history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
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26. A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
By: Dita Kraus
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz Born in … read more
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- world war ii
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27. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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- historical
- adult
- audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
28. The German Wife
By: Kelly Rimmer
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspir… read more
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- historical
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- world war ii
- adult
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29. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
By: Elizabeth White
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more
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- biography
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- memoir
- historical
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
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"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
30. Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
By: Keren Blankfeld
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of D… read more
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- historical
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
31. It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
By: Rueben George
4.34
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARDA personal account of one man’s confrontati… read more
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- history
- audiobook
