Best Holocaust Memoirs and Fiction (semi-autobiographical or otherwise
Discover the best Holocaust memoirs and fiction, including powerful autobiographical books and semi-autobiographical stories. Explore gripping accounts of survival, resilience, and history.
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Life with a Star
by Jiřà Weil
Set during the Nazi occupation of Prague, Life with a Star records the day-to-day life of Josef Roubicek, an ex-bank clerk, who discovers that the …
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Burned Child Seeks the Fire
by Cordelia Edvardson
[A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story. Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, …
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See Under: LOVE
by David Grossman
Momik is the only child of two Holocaust survivors. Something in Momik pushes him into strange, perilous confrontations with the world of pain and love …
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Nightfather
by Carl Friedman
A young girl and her two brothers try to come to terms with their father, who feels compelled to recount his concentration camp experiences over …
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Götz and Meyer
by David Albahari
Imparting the story of the systematic 1942 execution of five thousand Belgrade concentration camp prisoners in a transport truck, a school teacher recreates historical events …
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The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
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Castles Burning
by Magda Denes
Magda's moving, unsparing, and often wickedly witty chronicle of the years her family spent hiding from the Nazis, told in the brave and unforgettable voice …
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Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi is widely considered to be one of the top classic books of all time. It is a work of …
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W, Or, The Memory of Childhood
by Georges Perec
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the …
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When Memory Comes
by Saul Friedländer
Four months before Hitler came to power, Pavel Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Pavel and his family …
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The Last of the Just
by André Schwarz-Bart
Traces a line of just men, personifying age-old Jewish martyrdom, to the last leader who confronts the Nazis. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, 1959.
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Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the …
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Bread for the Departed
by Bogdan Wojdowski
A World War II novel on the Warsaw Ghetto whose protagonists are Jewish children. They are called rats and spend their time smuggling food across …
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The Final Station
by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
A Polish writer reconstructs the infamoussquare in Warsaw which served as an assembly point forJews destined for the extermination camps. He ponderson the indifference of …
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Blood from the Sky
by Piotr Rawicz
"Rawicz extended the frontier of artistic expression, by giving the unbearable a bearable frame."--from the introduction With the publication of this paperback edition of Piotr …
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Auschwitz and After
by Charlotte Delbo
Delbo was arrested in 1942 for anti-German activity, and was one of 230 Frenchwomen sent to Auschwitz in January 1943. Only 49 survived.
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Tzili, the Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld
Tzili's simplicity and endurance become weapons of self-preservation as she learns to survive alone in the forest among the gentle peasants she fears.
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The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the …
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Fatelessness
by Imre Kertész
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on …