Other Holocaust Books

What I have found interesting so far is the number of times the names Anne, Anna, Annie, Hannah, or some version of those names comes up. This is in WWII books as a whole and not just those related to the Holocaust.

Bob

Potato7, totally agree, and Rena's Promise is one of my favourite books. Incredibly sad, but Rena and Danka come through it and manage to create lives. Rena's passed away a couple years ago, but Danka is still alive as far as I know.

I really wish they would make Rena's Promise into a movie, but only if they stick to the story and don't take creative licence to it and wreck it, like Hollywood does with so many wonderful stories.

"*"Rena's Promise" - Rena Kornreich-Gelissen (Two sisters manage to survive almost three years in Auschwitz; Rena follows through on a promise made to her parents that she will keep her sister alive)"

I finished it last week and I have to say that it's one of the best Holocaust memoirs I've come across. Incredibly bleak and disturbing, but an incredible story nonetheless. To have been at Auschwitz as long as Rena and Danka were (I'd never read a Shoah story from the perspective of someone from the very first Auschwitz transport) and survived all of that. A film adaptation needs to be done ASAP.

Don't eva let nobody tell you you ain't strong enough

Yes, Corrie ten Boom's book is good, too.

other good books are:

Three Against Hitler By Rudi Wobbe, a non fiction story of three friends who helped the underground spread the truth of what the Nazis were doing.

Behind The Bedroom Wall By Laura E. Williams, a fiction story about a Hitler Youth helping her parents hide a family of Jews.

Because of Romek : A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir By David Faber, a true story about Faber's life seeing his brother being murdered and being in the camps.

In 2002, My mother and I went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum which was both fascinating and spooking. It also, of course, makes you cry. Anyway in the museum there is a children's section talking about how Jewish children suffered through the holocaust and it had an exhibit for a child named Daniel. He is not real however but it shows you how he would have lived back then. They also wrote a book about his story called Daniel's Story which is very interesting. The author is Carol Matas.

Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold, a true story about Anne's friend Hannah Goslar who told her story to the author.

All the books I have listed are good and if you want to read a fictionalized account of France's occupation by the Nazis, may I suggest...

Suite Francaise By Irene Nemirovsky who experienced the occupation herself but didn't write about her own events.

Have fun reading!

Yes, the Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is great!
Anne Frank and Me is good as well, though it is not a very high level of reading, it is impacting. The last time I read it was at least four years ago, yet I still remember it clearly.

I would reccomend (although it is NOT a Holocaust book), Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang (translated from German, it is not hard to find). It is about a girl who lives with her family not too far from the Russian front, but on the German side. Her brother is a brain-washed Hitler Youth, but she is not near as enthusiastic. One day, nine (I think its nine), Russian POWS escape, eight being caught and shot but one left free. She finds this one wounded and ends up hiding him. I love this book: it is meant for young adults, but it can be read by adults as well. It has lovely character development, and it is very sad and very moving. It is NOT one of these books that romanticizes the War at all, but rather it shines a very different light than what is usually seen. i cannot say enough good about this book, other than GO OUT AND READ IT FOR YOURSELF!!!