The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War28 reviews Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks, 1987 Mr. Gilbert really brings the tragedy home + How many people? + Outstanding chronology of Holocaust Martin Gilbert's the Holocaust is the most comprehinsive and in depth work I have read on this subject, and why it gets 5 stars is because of the very personal nature of this book. Mr. Gilbert reverts the numbers back into real people. When reading other books on the Holocaust I found myself ...             Smoke over Birkenau3 reviews Liana Millu, Lynne Sharon Schwartz Jewish Publication Society of America, 1991 shocking memory of holocost survivor. + A Powerful Story of the Holocaust by a Real Survivor! + Recommended Emotional Nonfictional Account of Italian Jew i guess i'm confused. i am sitting here with a copy of "smoke over birkenau" by seweryna szmaglewska, translated from the polish by jadwiga rynas. henry holt and company n.y. copyright 1947. first printing. Did she change her name?             Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed186 reviews Art Spiegelman Pantheon, 1993 Masterpiece! + Important Educational Information with Range, Good Creativity and Comic-Style Art + A stunning testament to survival, forgiveness, and the human spirit + Maus + Maus I and II             Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews6 reviews Ellen Levine Holiday House, 2002 Hope in the Darkness + Darkness Over Denmark + Excellent, insightful book + When a nation stands up against an evil regime + Courage of the Danes             Night (Oprah's Book Club)622 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Haunting and Unforgettable + I RECOMMEND IT. + Very moving, impactful, horrific...... Should be required reading for . . . for everyone who can read. Puts a face, a voice, a mind, a spirit to something that is so hard to comprehend that it often can feel more like an idea than a reality. A truly moving book. Also, I would recommend the PBS documentary made about Wiesel that was ...             The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and ...9 reviews Peter Duffy Harper Perennial, 2004 A powerful book + When you think the Jews didn't fight back.... + You MUST read this book! + Amazing, Powerful, Triumphant             To See You Again: A True Story of Love in A Time of War: A True Story of Love in a Time of War42 reviews Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel Dutton Adult, 1999 Absolutely marvellous and breathtaking + Nix the puppy love angle... + You couldn't make it up if you tried + WOW! + Saw the Schimmels at my school             The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945101 reviews Wladyslaw Szpilman Picador, 2002 Incredible story! + Incredible journey! + Survivor Literature + Gripping account, timeless + Uplifting!             Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story26 reviews Ann Kirschner Free Press, 2006 EXCELLENT. + Truly stellar + simply fascinating + Moving and well-documented + A gift to mankind.... individually few would be worthy             The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust16 reviews Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks, 2004 These people were saints + Remarkable stories of Holocaust heroes + Tales of Courage Martin Gilbert is the greatest historian on the subject of the holocaust out there, and is one of the most prolific historians of today. In The Righteous, Gilbert describes the many cases of righteous gentiles, throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, who risked their lives and all they had to save ...             Suite Française365 reviews Irene Nemirovsky Knopf, 2006 Put this at the top of your "To Read" list + left me hungry to read more "Suite Française" is one of the most amazing books I've read this year. The first part of the book, "Storm in June," depicts the lives of various characters as they struggle with the beginning of the Great War and the German invasion/occupation of Paris. All of the characters are equally ...             The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-19456 reviews Otto Friedrich Harper Perennial, 1994 Intensely Readable Synthesis of the Best Historical Accounts + Excellent Introduction to Auschwitz and the Final Solution + Easy Read. Very Informative. + The terrible scope of the horror             Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising3 reviews Israel Gutman Mariner Books, 1998 Concise and important work on a major historical theme! + Very interesting A to-the-point explanation of what happened and why. And more importantly, 'how' did a group of relatively unarmed, untrained captives lead a military revolt against the Nazi war machine?             The Book Thief384 reviews Markus Zusak Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006 Still haunting after over a year... + Five stars!!! + An awsome book!!! + One of the best books I've ever read             Thanks to My Mother21 reviews Schoschana Rabinovici Puffin, 2000 Another gem in Holocaust literature + shocking and enormously painful story of day to day courage to struggle to survive + Great Holocaust Read! + Rich, descriptive, engaging and powerful + Fast Shipping             Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941-1945 Dov Levin Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985             The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History)1 review Leni Yahil Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 Full of objective facts This is one of the best accounts of the Holocaust that I have read. It is completely objective, just leading the reader through the facts. Instead of taking the stance of "Hitler is evil and to blame for it all," the book shows the reader who all the players were, and how they were created. ...             A Jump for Life3 reviews Ruth Altbeker Cyprys Constable, 1997 A Fascinating Account by a Polish Jew Who Escaped From a Death Train + Wonderful woman, suspensful book + For those who love Glasgow Originally written in 1946, Cyprys' account is remarkably free of the Judeocentric, German-whitewashing, anti-Christian, and anti-Polish tendencies of today. She devotes almost as much attention to German crimes against Poles as to those against Jews. Furthermore, Cyprys makes it clear that the ...             Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz30 reviews Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 Testament to suvivors of horror + title is misleading, but content is excellent + Excellent book! + confusing the reader             Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death9 reviews Sharon Linnea Jewish Publication Society of America, 1993 History that is more exciting than the best-selling fiction + Amazing story of courage! + Fight for life + Should be on Everyones Must Read List