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Novels about surviving the Jewish Holocaust of WWII.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

Heather Morris - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The #1 International Bestseller This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov...
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We Were the Lucky Ones

Georgia Hunter - Viking
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. . . . A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment." - Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris WifeNAMED...
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Eli's Promise: A Novel

Ronald H. Balson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"National Jewish Book Award winter Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli's Promise, a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents. Readers will not be able to put this book down, but will turn the pages compulsively with heart in throat,...
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Sarah's Key

Tatiana de Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris,...
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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph:...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind."Beautifully...
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The Book of Lost Names

Kristin Harmel - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the international bestselling author of the "epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale"...
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The Good Doctor of Warsaw

Elisabeth Gifford
Format: Hardcover

Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination.Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under...
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The Courier

K. O. Dahl - Orenda Books
Format: Paperback

The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller ... NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The Courier is a stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi noir ... Ola Dahl ratchets...
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The Last Checkmate: A Novel

Gabriella Saab - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life,...
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Schindler's list

Thomas Keneally

Oskar Schindler risks his life to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on a true story, the book was adapted by Steven Spielberg into one of the most important and powerful war films of all time.
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A Mad Desire to Dance

Elie Wiesel - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man's attempt to reclaim happiness.Doriel, a European expatriate living...
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