Books similar like I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust

What is death all about?
What is life all about?

So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It was…

Buy this book on Amazon

Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

All But My Life

All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculou…

Buy this book on Amazon

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under …

Buy this book on Amazon

George: A Magpie Memoir

“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, a memoir of love, obsession , and feathers.

When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of …

Buy this book on Amazon

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

Buy this book on Amazon

Tangerine

Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tanger…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Buy this book on Amazon

No Rest for the Dead

When Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's Museum of Fine Arts, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin, his wife Rosemary Thomas is the prime suspect. Long s…

Buy this book on Amazon

Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determine…

Buy this book on Amazon

Red, White, and Whole

An #ownvoices novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother is diagnosed with leukemia.

Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only …

Buy this book on Amazon

Summer of My German Soldier

Buy this book on Amazon

Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II

Buy this book on Amazon

The Christmas Bus

The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there's a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This t…

Buy this book on Amazon

Someone Named Eva

In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other blond, blue-eyed children to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There she is trained to be a "proper Germ…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII …

Buy this book on Amazon

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

"Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father d…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Promise: A Sweeping Story of Friendship in WWII

Buy this book on Amazon

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family…

Buy this book on Amazon

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

Clara's War: A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival Under the Nazis

Buy this book on Amazon

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 gi…

Buy this book on Amazon

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most acclaimed figures, exploring the little-known details of Anne Frank's life before she went into hidi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Sky (Warriors: A Starless Clan #2)

Erin Hunter's #1 bestselling Warriors series continues! Discover more epic adventure in this second book in the Starless Clan arc.

Disaster has struck at the heart of RiverClan, leaving its warriors an…

Buy this book on Amazon