The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident32 reviews
Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 1987

Night and Dawn

+ Night is moving
+ Life after Death.
+ The Night Trilogy-Elie Wiesel
+ Well written
  
  











  



  
Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz37 reviews
Olga Lengyel

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1995

"Life" in Auschwitz; Nazi Genocidal Ambitions beyond Jews and Gypsies

+ Invaluable heartbreaking truth!
+ Like watching a car wreck when you know you shouldn't gawk
+ Everyone should read this
+ heartbreaking tale that needed to be told
  
  











  



  
After Long Silence68 reviews
Helen Fremont

Delta, 2000

An amazing story of discovery

+ A Different Perspective
+ The Perfect Gift for Friends
+ A daughter's discovery of her Jewish identity
  
  











  



  
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version16 reviews
A. Anatoli (Kuznetsov)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970

Tragic

+ Excellent - leaves a lasting impression
+ exceptional
+ A truthful, harrowing story
+ True or False? You Decide
  
  











  



  
In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust10 reviews
Eugene L. Pogany

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001

I've met the author!

+ Wonderful and Amazing story
+ In My Brothers Image
+ In My Brother's Image
+ Quick read, hits on many themes with us today.
  
  











  



  
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs22 reviews
Elie Wiesel

Knopf, 1995

disagree with "mediocre" label

+ Cascading Memories
+ Memoirs of a a gadol b'Israel
+ My own small word
+ 6 stars?
  
  











  



  
Testament: At the Creation of the State of Israel4 reviews
Aaron Levin

Artisan, 1998

Highly recommended reading for students of Israeli history

+ very informative book about Israel
+ This is The Testament

Testament: At The Creation Of The State Of Israel looks back along 50 years of history to the founding of the modern state of Israel as told by those who were there and eyewitness participants. An informative introduction by Simon Peers is followed by photographic portraits, informative profiles, ...
  
  











  



  
Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community10 reviews
Theo Richmond

Vintage, 1996

Crowning achievement

+ A Journey into the Past
+ Read It
+ Well worth reading
+ THIS IS A MUST!
  
  











  



  
Journey Back from Hell2 reviews
Anton Gill

Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2000

Goes beyond the camps

+ WOW

The thing that sets this book apart from the others is the fact that it goes beyond the horrors of the concentration camps and follows the survivors as they figure out how to live normal lives after the holocaust. The end of the war was the beginning of new challenges, loves, heartbreaks, and, ...
  
  











  



  
Rena's Promise43 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam

Beacon Press, 1996

Excellent reading!

+ Amazing Rena and amazing struggle to live
+ Unbelievable but True
+ Courageous but a dead giveaway
+ Best memoir
  
  











  



  
If This Is a Man and The Truce (Penguin Modern Classics)11 reviews
Primo Levi

Viking Pr, 1979

The key book of the twentieth century

+ facing the truth
+ A Best Book, a Must Read
+ The most penetrating book I've read about the holocaust
+ If you are a man
  
  











  



  
Alicia122 reviews
Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Bantam, 1989

An irrepressible spirit of survival

+ Thank you for sharing the tragic story of heroic struggle to live
+ Determined to survive and succeed...
+ Irrefutable Eye Witness to the Holocaust
+ Alicia
  
  











  



  
Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust2 reviews
Gay Block, Malka Drucker

Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1992

A beautiful photo-interview essay on altruism...

+ True stories of moral courage and goodness

This book is wonderfully formatted, arranged by geographic area of Europe. Each interview starts with black and white photos a person who helped Jews and other persecuted people during WWII. A personal narrative of that time in their lives follows, and each interview closes with a color photo of ...
  
  











  



  
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)39 reviews
Simon Wiesenthal

Schocken, 1998

Is forgiveness possible when God takes a leave?

+ Required Reading For All Humans
+ The Sunflower, Pain and Forgiveness, Past and Present
+ Great
+ Can repentant perpetrators of atrocities be forgiven?
  
  











  



  
Auschwitz: A History in Photographs3 reviews

Indiana University Press, 1993

A great picture novel that helped me learn more.

+ A Testament To The Memory Of The Innocents Who Were Murdered
+ Excellent Pictorial Account

I'm still yet a child, and still yet to grow, but I will never grow out of the rememberence of the Holocaust. It was a time in our worlds history that we should never forget. This book helps reminds us of it and gives us a better view and perspective of what happen and to never take advantage of ...
  
  











  



  
Auschwitz and After3 reviews
Charlotte Delbo

Yale University Press, 1997

If you read no other book on the Holocaust, read this one.

+ Delbo and the survivors
+ Amazing account

The other two reviews are so insightful and accurate, in my opinion, I should have little to add. Yet, after reading "Auschwitz and After", I felt I had to express something of how the book made me understand and grow. As a convert to Judaism (born in 1951, I was on the pathway my whole life, ...
  
  











  



  
Liberation 19452 reviews

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995

The Holocaust in pictures

+ Liberation 1945

This book is for those who want to remember and revere the memories of 6 million Jewish civilians murdered for their faith, alone, along with at least 500,000 Roma victims, and countless political and other Nazi prisoners. There is enough evidence in this book alone to convince even the most craven ...
  
  











  



  
The Holocaust Kingdom: A Memoir3 reviews
Alexander Donat

Holocaust Pubns, 2000

A Tragic Story

+ The Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising, Clarification of Oft-Quoted Polish Remarks, etc.
+ The Holocaust Kingdom

I have read dozens of holocaust books over the years, mostly non-fiction accounts. I must say this book, more than most, really brought home to me what it must have been like to endure the horror of living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Some of the scenes Donat describes, I literally had to put the book ...
  
  











  



  
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account49 reviews

Arcade Publishing, 1993

Gripping Horrific Account of Life in the Auschwitz Death Camp

+ Bone-chilling account of Aushwitz-Birkenau
+ Great description of events!!

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written (1960) a graphic, gruesome, first-hand account of his time working as a doctor in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Due to his previous medical training in medicine and pathology, Dr. Nyiszli was spared by the hideously inhuman Dr. Josef Mengele, to be the medical ...
  
  











  



  
Schindler's List102 reviews
Thomas Keneally

Touchstone, 1993

Phenomenal!

+ Even More Compelling & Incredible Than The Movie
+ Vivid, detailed and important. One of my most favorite book... ever...
+ an amazing record
+ Who Would Dare to Do What He Did? [41]