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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
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Ralph Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 872,874 ratings
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 584,975 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.47 avg rating — 334,808 ratings
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Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
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4.46 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Surviving The Forest
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Adiva Geffen (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 4,924 ratings
score: 400,
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Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
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Karen Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 9,808 ratings
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Sophie’s Choice
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4.17 avg rating — 92,318 ratings
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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Ariana Neumann (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 7,030 ratings
score: 300,
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If This Is a Man • The Truce
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4.54 avg rating — 20,784 ratings
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
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4.42 avg rating — 151,970 ratings
score: 280,
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Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
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4.02 avg rating — 947 ratings
score: 273,
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Portico d'Ottavia 13: Una casa del ghetto nel lungo inverno del '43
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3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 200,
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All My Love, Detrick (All My Love, Detrick, #1)
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Roberta Kagan (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,446 ratings
score: 200,
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Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
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3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
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Kristen R. Ghodsee (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 199,
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You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2)
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Roberta Kagan (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 5,060 ratings
score: 198,
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The Voyage
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Roberta Kagan (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
score: 196,
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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4.25 avg rating — 14,842 ratings
score: 195,
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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
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4.28 avg rating — 5,687 ratings
score: 195,
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A Flicker of Light
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Roberta Kagan (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
score: 194,
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
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4.48 avg rating — 6,786 ratings
score: 194,
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The Man Across the River
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Zvi Wiesenfeld (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 193,
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Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child
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Margareta Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 191,
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The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir
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4.17 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
score: 191,
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Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart
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4.47 avg rating — 376 ratings
score: 191,
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 75,684 ratings
score: 189,
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
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4.38 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
score: 189,
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Mendelevski's Box: A heartwarming and heartbreaking Jewish survivor's journey
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Roger Swindells (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
score: 188,
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A Thread of Grace
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 14,815 ratings
score: 186,
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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4.38 avg rating — 57,824 ratings
score: 183,
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 37,993 ratings
score: 181,
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A Quiet Genocide. The Untold Holocaust of Disabled Children in WW2 Germany
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Glenn Bryant (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 180,
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A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America
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4.19 avg rating — 393 ratings
score: 179,
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Wolf: A Story of Hate
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4.55 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 177,
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See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy!: War memories
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4.22 avg rating — 138 ratings
score: 175,
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Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs
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4.51 avg rating — 3,670 ratings
score: 173,
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Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
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4.38 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
score: 170,
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Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII #4)
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Barbara Gilford (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 137 ratings
score: 170,
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Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust
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Tammy Bottner (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
score: 166,
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Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength
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Adena Bernstein Astrowsky (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 301 ratings
score: 166,
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The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs
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4.49 avg rating — 406 ratings
score: 165,
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Separated Together
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4.47 avg rating — 376 ratings
score: 164,
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THE ORPHANS OF DACHAU
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise
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4.60 avg rating — 408 ratings
score: 160,
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Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero
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4.64 avg rating — 645 ratings
score: 156,
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The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 100,
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My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust, a True Story
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4.30 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Ragdolls
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4.46 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Assault
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3.73 avg rating — 17,895 ratings
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Keeping My Hope
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Christopher Huh (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien
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Tema N. Merback (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Escape, Evasion and Revenge: The True Story of a German-Jewish RAF Pilot Who Bombed Berlin and Became a POW
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Marc H. Stevens (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Risking Exposure
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Jeanne Moran (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Escape Velocity: A Post-Apocalyptic Passover Haggadah
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Stanley Aaron Lebovic (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
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Daniel S. Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Mengele: The Complete Story
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Gerald Posner (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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Complicity (The CCCCC Conspirators Code #1)
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A Small Country about to Vanish
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Victoria Avilan (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
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Jud Nirenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
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4.41 avg rating — 19,154 ratings
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Precious Jewels
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Dale Martellino (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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I Was Hannah
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Sedonia Jacobs (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
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Patricia Posner (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,792 ratings
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The Things We Cannot Say
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Kelly Rimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 196,685 ratings
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The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
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3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Yellow Bird Sings
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Jennifer Rosner (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 14,169 ratings
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Hunger Winter: A World War II Novel
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Rob Currie (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 423 ratings
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler
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3.97 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
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Joshua M. Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
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Witness For My Father: A World War II Story Of Loss, Hope, and Discovery
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4.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Saboteur
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Andrew Gross (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,568 ratings
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Daniel's Story
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Carol Matas (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 3,639 ratings
score: 99,
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Far to Go
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3.79 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
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Nicholas Best (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Black is a Color
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Stanley Aaron Lebovic (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.12 avg rating — 3,562 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.16 avg rating — 47,838 ratings
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My Forty Years as a Diplomat by Feng-Shan Ho
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2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Color of Light
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Helen Maryles Shankman (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 444 ratings
score: 98,
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The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures
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4.26 avg rating — 3,541 ratings
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My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
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4.23 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Things We Couldn't Say
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4.34 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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The Story Keeper
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Fred Feldman (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 98,
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
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4.33 avg rating — 504 ratings
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And the Morrow is Theirs: The Autobiography of Sue Ryder
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
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3.62 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
score: 97,
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Hidden in the Shadows (Untold WW2 Stories)
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Imogen Matthews (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
score: 97,
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Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco
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Karen Levi (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
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4.71 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
score: 96,
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Skeletons at the Feast
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Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,501 ratings
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
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The Knife-Edge Path
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3.75 avg rating — 274 ratings
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If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died
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Emanuel Rosen (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 259 ratings
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One-way Ticket from Westerbork
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