Best Holocaust Survivor Stories - April 2024

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• Manufacturer: Harper

Courage and Grace: A Jewish Family's Holocaust True Survival Story During WW2 (World War II Memoir)

If their secret is discoveredThey will not survive…While the Holocaust rages, two very young brothers, Joseph and Yitzhak, adopt false Christian identities and hide in the Aryan side of Polish cities and countryside.Their lives, as well as the lives of their parents, swing wildly between the terror of being apprehended by the cruel regime and collaborators of the Reich, to their desperate need to continue living "freely" outside the ghetto walls.They undergo an agonizing five and a half years, mostly in constant fear that their false identities will be exposed and their lives ended."Courage ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS
• ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS

First One In, Last One Out: Auschwitz Survivor 31321

While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts—until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects Murray Scheinberg’s stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Polish Jew was one of the first eight men to enter Auschwitz, as a political prisoner in 1940, and one of the last to escape Dachau. Rejected by... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M09JG3P
• ASIN: B01M09JG3P

When I Fall, I Shall Rise: A Holocaust Survivor Memoir

It all began in 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary. This is when Risa Shtauber’s life turned from an ordinary life to one of surviving unspeakable horrors. Risa was shipped together with many other Jews to the Oradea Ghetto and from there to the Plaszow Labor Camp and later to the Ober-Altstadt Labor camp. And even this was not enough… Risa was sent to the Auschwitz Death Camp to be slaughtered! But, she survived!Having survived, she met her husband – Mordechai Tzvi and they created a family which included 4 sons, 22 grandkids and 34 great-grandkids!Had anyone told Risa Shtauber duri... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07L2ZKQQR
• ASIN: B07L2ZKQQR

Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust.These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way to make it through the nightmare of war. Some made daring escapes into the unknown, others disguised their true identities, and many witnessed unimaginable horrors. But what they all shared was the unshakable belief in-- and hope for-- survival. Their legacy of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0439669960
• ASIN: 0439669960
• ISBN: 0439669960
• Brand: Zullo, Allan/ Bovsun, Mara
• Size: 5 1/4" x 7 5/8"
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.

• ASIN: 0897333764
• ASIN: 0897333764
• ISBN: 9780897333764
• Brand: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Publishers

Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45
• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler’s rise to power, the Blumenthal family—father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert—were trapped in Nazi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062489968
• ASIN: 0062489968
• ISBN: 0062489968
• Brand: GREENWILLOW
• Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.   Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00DUGZZ1U
• ASIN: B00DUGZZ1U
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults, readers learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil.The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable deci... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1933718579
• ASIN: 1933718579
• ISBN: 1933718579
• Brand: Tanglewood Press
• Manufacturer: Tanglewood

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor...   After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service in the Korean War. After numerous acts of heroism, including single-handedly defending a hill against enemy soldiers, rescuing a wounded comrade amid sniper fire, and commandeering a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425279766
• ASIN: 0425279766
• ISBN: 9780425279762
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

Auschwitz Escape - The Klara Wizel Story

At sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when she and her family are swept up with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews and forcibly transported to one of the world's most infamous concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau. There Klara comes face to face with one of history’s most infamous Nazi doctors, nicknamed The Great Selector and the Murderer in White, Josef Mengele. Klara watches in horror as Mengele sends her parents, her younger brother, and her older sister to the gas chamber, leaving Klara and her two remaining sisters to be hous... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00RKSLBYE
• ASIN: B00RKSLBYE

Among the Reeds: The true story of how a family survived the Holocaust

A young Jewish mother. A Nazi occupation bent on genocide. A heart-breaking decision that will tear a young family apart. Belgium, 1940. Melly Bottner is just eighteen with a three-week old newborn son when the Nazi occupation of Belgium begins. She and her young husband Genek live in fear as it becomes obvious that all Jews will soon be taken. Watching friends and neighbors disappear as the Germans carry out their shocking purge, the young family confronts an awful truth: if they are to survive, they must rip their own family into pieces.In this biography from Melly's point of view, author an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071G6Y11V
• ASIN: B071G6Y11V
• Manufacturer: Amsterdam Publishers

Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

Tells the stories of nine Jewish children who survived the

• UPC: 3364608
• Rating: 4.5

Survivors Club : The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

The unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael Bornstein's life as a four-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz during the

• UPC: 53863325
• Rating: 4.5

Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust - eBook

Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust.These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and

• UPC: 625869317
• Rating: 4.4

Faithful Friends : Holocaust Survivors' Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited for Their Return

What happened to the pets that were left behind in World War II Europe, when Jewish families were torn from their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps, forced to leave neighborhoods, livelihoods, possessions,

• UPC: 988142532
• Rating: 4.0

Shadow of His Hand : A Story Based on the Life of Holocaust Survivor Anita Dittman

The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anna's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong

• UPC: 2589527

Determined : The Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter

Includes chronology, copies of

• UPC: 53634481
• Rating: 4.0

Single Handed : The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin--Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient

From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After

• UPC: 48930601
• Rating: 5.0

The Boxer : The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft

Offers a graphic novel account of the life of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft, who was forced into life-and-death boxing matches by his SS captors, and later moved to the United States, where he became a

• UPC: 29453011
• Rating: 4.0

Survivors Club : The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

The unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved Michael Bornstein's life as a four-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz during the

• UPC: 463755350
• Rating: 4.0

DANIK! A Holocaust Survivor - The True Story of David Kalma (David Zaid) - eBook

David Zaid survived the extermination of Jews in Poland ordered by Adolph Hitler and went on to become a hero in the Israeli army. His voice is now stilled, but with this book he continues

• UPC: 999358356