I'm looking for good books about the Holocaust. I just finished reading "Those Who Save Us" by Jenna Blum. I have also read the Diary of Anne Frank. If anyone knows of any good, fascinating, detailed books about the Holocaust, let me know. I will try to answer some of your questions in return. THANKS!!
2007-02-21 12:16:00 · 8 answers · asked by dinos_go_rawr_x3 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Check out:
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
2007-02-22 07:58:04 · answer #1 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some that get a bit more gorey than "The Hiding Place" or "The Diary of Ann Frank"
"Ellie, coming of Age ing the Holocaust" is a school book for 16 year olds
"Treblinka" was one of the concentration camps that had a mass prisoner break out
Look up your city's telephone directory for Jewish Societies and ask where the nearest Holocaust Museum is. It is a very sobering experience.
2007-02-21 12:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my hands-Irene gut Opydyke and THe Girl in the REd coat-roma Ligocka
the first book is amazing and it is about a righteous person during the holocaust who put her life on the line to save 16 jews and the second book is about a girl whose life was changed so much by the holocaust since she was jewish
2007-02-21 12:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want memoirs then
Five Chimneys is a great book, it was the first memoir out of the holocaust, and it was a woman writer about Auschwitz,
Night is also good
If you are looking for more academic books
I like "Bombing of Auschwitz" about the air bombing by the allies
or just "Auschwitz" is also pretty good
"The death of Hitler" is interesting and pretty academic.
"This way to the gas, ladies and Gentlemen" about the gas chambers.
" Ordinary Men" Police Battalion 101" about poles being killed
"Art from Ashes" is a book of short stories and poems coming out of the extermination camps.
2007-02-21 21:18:58 · answer #4 · answered by Hawaiisweetie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Number the Stars (which is NOT banned) is a really good one, I remember reading that in third grade. You can pick it up at Barnes and Nobel or Borders. Also if you go into a bookstore, most good employees could give you some good suggestions.
2007-02-21 12:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by Jduck26 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoyed reading Number The Stars when I was young. It's banned now I think (at least that's what my younger brother told me) It's about two friends living during that time, and one is a young jewish girl and she is protected by her friend's family.
2007-02-21 12:20:20 · answer #6 · answered by Blanca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"Schindler's List" by by Thomas Keneally
"The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom and Elizabeth and John Sherrill
2007-02-21 12:41:03 · answer #7 · answered by nanlwart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a copy of Das Mouse.
2007-02-21 12:19:06 · answer #8 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋