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I welcome any suggest readings. I am interested in reading biographies or autobiogrsphies of those lives growing during the Holocaust.

Night by Eli Wiesel

Maus and Maus II -- They are graphic novels, though, but surprisingly well done.

I have a friend who is a Holocaust literature buff, so I can ask her and post again later. This is pretty much the extent of my knowledge (besides Diary of Anne Frank).

Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America is a true story. It was written by one of my college professors that was a child during the Holocaust and it is his family's story.

If you like fiction, I've heard The Book Thief is very good.

I'd also recommend Night.

Night should not be undertaken lightly. I cried in class while reading it. And became a Californian vegetarian (that is, I make an exception for In-n-Out).

Definitely Night and Diary of a Young Girl, like everyone has mentioned. Those are the best known.

Two others that I have read, that were both very good, but absolutely heart-wrenching are Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries and Survival in Auschwitz.

I have many more on my to-read list, so while I haven't read these ones myself, I thought they looked interesting:
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
The Seamstress
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
All But My Life: A Memoir

I'd highly recommend Maus! They are very insightful as to what went on during the holoaust. They are graphic novels that can be downloaded online.

Deborah wrote: "Night by Eli Wiesel

Maus and Maus II -- They are graphic novels, though, but surprisingly well done.

I have a friend who is a Holocaust literature buff, so I can ask her and post again later. Thi..."


Personally, Night is much better than Anne Frank. It's quite a good book!

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, even though it isn't really biographic.

Perhaps you'd like Liverpool Street by Anne Voorhoeve as well, although I don't know if there is an English translation of that one...

Cassey wrote: "Deborah wrote: "Night by Eli Wiesel

Maus and Maus II -- They are graphic novels, though, but surprisingly well done.

I have a friend who is a Holocaust literature buff, so I can ask her and post ..."

Haven't read Night, it sounds great but that is a fiction book whereas Anne Frank's Diary isn't so it's not so easy to say one is better than the other, I wouldn't have thought.

(I'd be betting Anne Frank is better)

catch 22

i know this isnt during the holocaust but between shades of grey is good ( not fifty shades of grey)
Between Shades of Gray

the book thief is a great read, that is told in an interesting perspective. i'd recommend it a lot. another that is very popular isThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas it has been told by a child, so therefore gives you an innocent account of what happened. although both are fiction, they give good detail and description into what happened.

Yas wrote: "Cassey wrote: "Deborah wrote: "Night by Eli Wiesel

Maus and Maus II -- They are graphic novels, though, but surprisingly well done.

I have a friend who is a Holocaust literature buff, so I can as..."

I just finished reading Night by Elie Wiesel for a school project. It was very good, in my opinion better than Anne Frank. But I guess you'd have to read it for yourself

When I had to read Night by Weisel in school,l I had to read another book with it. I don't think it's a completely autobiographical book but there are stories in it of when the author was in a concentration camp. It's called Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel. Just like Night, it was incredible. It really got into the mind of the victims of the Holocaust. Both books are incredible.

They you go. Man's Search for Meaning.

Thank you!!!